If you could interview someone (past or present) one on one who would it be and why? I'd choose to interview Eric Lander but who would you choose to...

There are any
number of people I would love to interview.  I would love to interview just about any major
figure from history.  I would love to interview many people who had a hand in changing various
sports that I am very interested in.  I would love to interview people who lived on the island
where I grew up during the earliest days of contact with Europeans and Americans.

However, if I had to pick, I think that I would combine personal and professional
interest and interview as many Japanese soldiers as I could who occupied my fathers hometown
during World War II.  This would be of great interest to me professionally as a history
teacher.  It would be of great personal interest because my father was 5 when the Japanese
invaded the Philippines and he doesnt know much about how things were from an adult point of
view.  He has often talked about wishing that he could find Japanese people who occupied the
town and talk to them about how things were.  This way, I could have an interview that was
interesting to me both personally and professionally.