Current Status - Alive: Neil Gaiman, His Holiness The Dalai Lama (With all respect, not the first on my list but in no way anywhere near the bottom. Top 10, definitely.) Robert Rodriguez, Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Stephen Hawkings (but only if he can help me out...).Current Status - Dead: Johnny Cash, Stanley Kubrick, and when I'm at work, I fantasize about meeting the guy who invented the telephone, just so I can beat the shit out of him!