Hmmm... cool question. I think I would take Dame Juliana Berners, author of A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, the earliest literature on fishing for sport. It was written in 1496 and predates Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. (1653)
It would be cool to show them how much fishing has evolved.
Or I would take Langston Hughes
Or maybe Angelina Jolie