In no particular order ...Painters: Edvard Munch, Leonora Carrington, Chaim Soutine, Remedios Varo, Elaine de Kooning (THE better of the two de Koonings), Kay Sage, Vincent Van Gogh (and not because he has been swept up and replicated ad nauseum by the market place), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Max Ernst.Philosophers I would love to meet include William James, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Nietzsche (though his writings are, no doubt, much more interesting than he would be in person given his general attitude towards women), Helene Cixous, and Clarice Lispector.I would also like to have tea with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and I would invite Akira Kurusawa along. We would have ocha and anko on the top of Mt. Fuji.There are others, but this is enough for now. And the caveat i have to add here is that "meeting" might simply consist of "watching unobserved" as Gyges was able to do when he donned that ring and became invisible. This way I could observe without becoming entangled in the volatile temperaments of some of the folks mentioned above.