Which GM's have you met in person?

I only remember these three but I think I met a few more:

1. Eugene Torre -- played several casual games with him at a dinner party in Quezon City, Philippines when he was in his early-20s and a new grandmaster (1970s)
2. Yasser Seirawan -- watched friend play him in a simul and then chatted with him after the simul somewhere in the Chicago area (1990s)
3. John Federowicz -- played him in a simul at the Elmhurst, Illinois Public Library (2000s)

I have a story:

My uncle Rigo played Serbian GM Svetozar Gligoric in the 70's in California. I'm not sure what year, but it was At the West Covina CC in early 70's I believe.  At the end of the simul, he autographed his leatherette chessboard. A beautiful board with reddish-brown and vanilla-creamish colored squares. My uncle put it away neatly rolled in a storage shelf in Mexico (he's a professor at University of Durango) knowing that one day it will make a great gift. Well that board came to me in 2006 as a wedding gift.

Sometimes I bring it with me to the club and people tell me it's neat and they want it. But I absolutely cannot part with it. And Gligoric is dead now so the board is priceless. 

My uncle had also told me that Gligoric was a very busy man around that time that he visited California. He gave numerous simuls in clubs all over the state. He didn't win against him, but he was happy to shake the hand of a legendary Grandmaster. 

Leonid Gofstein (of blessed memory. I knew him and we had many exchanges)

Ronen Har Zvi (Knew him since he was 13. Tons of interaction)

Ilan Manor (Was in the same club I started to play in)

Gad Rechlis (Was many times in my house, and vice versa)

Victor Michelavski (played him officially)

Ram Soffer (was my piano student)

Alexandre Dgebuadze (played him officially)

Dejan Bojkov (met him on a train, had a very long conversation with him and kept in touch later)

Maxim Rodshtein (played him officially and won - but he was only rated 2100 and aged 10 at the time...)

Tamir Nabati (same as above - except that I lost, and he was already about 13 yo)

As for myself, I've met and played these three:

Ukrainian GM Eduard Gufeld- Simul and lectures at his Gufeld Chess Academy in Hollywood, Ca. in late 90's.

Armenian GM Varuzhan Akobian- Simul and lecture at Santa Monica Bay CC, Ca. 2007.

And most recently, IM Jack Peters- (He beat M. Tal in the Lone Pine tournaments of the 70's) Arcadia CC, Ca. 2016 Simul and lecture.

Nigel Short. Knew him when he was a snotty 13 year old playing Board 1 for Bolton Chess club. I was 18 playing Board 1 for Wythenshawe Chess Club. I got a draw against him in 1975 in a simultaneous. He had poor personal skills  back then too. ! lol

Correction on my above post: IM Jack Peters beat Tal in Long Beach, 1988. 

78 moves in a Sicilian Scheveningen.

In those days he went by the name John A Peters, not Jack.

Igor Smirnov,SL Narayanan,GN Gopal,David Alberto,Olexander Bortnyk,Tukeiv Adam and two more whose names I don't remember correctly :)

I just became aware I left somebody out: IM Tim Taylor!  And I totally met him by accident.

In Feb. of 2012 when I was attending Bartending School, there was a McDonald's next door, and I saw him entering. I approached, introduced myself, shook his hand and we made a little chatter. At the end he was nice enough to give me his business card and told me he was available for one-on-one lessons. He said to me he recently had a dispute with the Metropolitan CC in Downtown, Los Angeles over an appearance fee and the TD banned him! Overall a nice, kind of charming guy. It made me little sad when I saw him walk away. By the way he was dressed, it made me believe like perhaps he was struggling to make ends meet. He said to me he was going into the McDonald's to review some lines in the King's gambit. And I said goodbye. I told myself That was  a little odd. I mean what IM does that?

I've met quite a few.  I'm sure I am forgetting some more.

Arnold Denker

Bent Larsen

Ron Henley

John Fedorowicz

Nick DeFirmian

Magnus Carlsen, asked him for his autograph

Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal, he gives free chess lessons to the kids in my club (including me).

Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen, he lives 3 minutes away.

Does future GM's like me count cause I am 24/7 with myself.

Met a few at the London Chess Classic a few years back. I talked to Kasparov and Carlsen, as well as seeing Polgar and Anand.

Jesse kraai

Irina krush

a Filipino guy but i forgot his name 

Alex lenderman

Sergey erenborug

soon to meet Nazi and Maurice in 29 days 

Danny Rensch 

maybe more, but i probably forgot

Danny is not a GM