Well sure, it probably happens.
It happened to me once, and it was quite a strange situation. You see, I went to a different place to attend classes, so I was introduced to some new ppl over there. Two professors presented themselves 'n wanted to give a lecture by using a power point presentation. Before they opened the file though, I was watching at the desktop screen, with this picture:

Lol, I was like 'wtf, what's Haruhi doing in a place like this', 'cause those guys looked like...about 50 yrs old..ppl who seemed to be totally into their research 'n stuff; so it kinda freaked me out to think of one of them as a Haruhi-fan XD I can only think of the actual fan as a pervert tho...T_T
Conclusion: I suppose everyone could love SHnY? xD
Now my question to you is: If you felt like you wanted to contact that person, what did you do?