Famous People Who Met and Knew One Another .

[BAYLOR]

Thought out History and in all walks of life.

 

[Toby Frost]

Unusual ones? Well, Mervyn Peake co-wrote a book with famously camp wit-about-town Quentin Crisp, who became famous when John Hurt portrayed him in the 1970s. I suppose this feels weird since Peake feels like a man of the 50s, while Crisp came to prominence much later.

George Orwell knew HG Wells and was taught at school by Aldous Huxley. There's a letter from Huxley to Orwell effectively saying "Congratulations on your dystopia, but mine is even worse". Orwell also nearly had a fight with a drunken Earnest Hemmingway, which makes more sense given that they were both on the anti-fascist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Most times had a literary "scene" so you can expect a lot of artists to know each other through that (even those who wouldn't own up to it). There are certain moments, like the Spanish Civil War, that seem to squash different artists together with a common cause. Also you get talented people who lived in chaotic times that allowed them to run into all kinds of people, like the composer Joseph Bologne.

 

[Harpo]

Composers:
Haydn taught Beethoven, and was friends with Mozart.

 

[BAYLOR]

Composers:
Haydn taught Beethoven, and was friends with Mozart.

Beethoven as a young . man actually met Mozart . It seemed Beethoven wanted him be his teacher.

 

[BAYLOR]

Actor /comedian and tv host Groucho Marx and renowned poet T S Elliot .Two men who greatly admired each and couldn't have been more different.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Stan Laurel shared a cabin with Charlie Chaplin on a voyage to the USA

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Rick James and Neil Young were in a Toronto band, the Mynah Birds, together, which is quite boggling considering the distance between "Super Freak" and "Like A Hurricane".

I find it weird that 60s scandaleer Mandy Rice Davies was a friend of Margaret and Dennis Thatcher, and they took family holidays together.

I suppose it's well known that Prince and Little Richard were friends, were both Jehovah's Witnesses and would go out witnessing together. They never knocked on my door though.

Einstein was a good friend of "Spit the Dog" ventrilopuppeteer Bob Carolgees, and so on

 

[BAYLOR]

Mark Twain knew Nikola Tesla

 

[Harpo]

Bob Carolgees was six when Einstein died

 

[BAYLOR]

Bill Clinton met John F Kennedy .

 

[Harpo]

Actor /comedian and tv host Groucho Marx and renowned poet T S Elliot .Two men who greatly admired each and couldn't have been more different.

In his later years, Groucho often invited his neighbour Alice Cooper round to watch TV. Alice Cooper also met Salvador Dali, who once drew Harpo Marx, whose brother Groucho completes an interesting circle

 

[Harpo]

The Patron Saint of all of this is of course Kevin Bacon, as it’s literally named after him.

 

[BAYLOR]

Bertrand Russel once met Lenin
Lenin also knew Armand Hammer

 

[BAYLOR]

Richard Nixon was friends with Jackie Gleason.

 

[BAYLOR]

Malcom X knew Red Foxx

 

[BAYLOR]

Einstein visited Churchill at Chartwell in 1933

 

[BAYLOR]

Mark Twain met Ambrose Bierce in San Francisco in 1868

 

[Harpo]

Mark Twain met Ambrose Bierce in San Francisco in 1868

Ambrose Bierce was friends with journalist Blanche Partington, who was friends with author Jack London, who was friends with poet George Sterling, who was a protégé of Ambrose Bierce.

 

[BAYLOR]

Ambrose Bierce was friends with journalist Blanche Partington, who was friends with author Jack London, who was friends with poet George Sterling, who was a protégé of Ambrose Bierce.

Bierce also knew H L Mencken.

 

[Harpo]

Mark Twain knew Nikola Tesla

Mark Twain was also friends with Helen Keller