name dropper

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

name dropper
    n 1: someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "name dropper":
      Brahmin, adventurer, bourgeois gentilhomme, egghead, elitist,
      highbrow, mandarin, newly-rich, nouveau riche, nouveau roturier,
      parvenu, pig in clover, prig, snob, social climber, sprout,
      status seeker, tufthunter, upstart, would-be gentleman