I'm not to sure that the people whom I admire most are also the people whom I would most like to meet, I tend to be quite argumentative, if not misguided, in my attitude towards many accepted 'Holy Cows'!!
I tend to believe that I have an inquiring mind, for 'inquiring' most people usually read 'nosy'.
Amongst those I admire are Newton,Galileo and Einstein, mainly for their understanding of calculus and higher math, subjects that I fear will always elude me!