I think it's potentially normal you'd feel what you feel, but then not therapeutic just to feel it, your feelings toward him as an individual and your purpose for being in therapy are separate, maintaining/clarifying that separation is what's key as you don't want to allow those feelings to limit your ability to use therapy.

For example, your intimidation with him as a person may get in the way of your need to express yourself as a client, that is a transference, yes, that's material you would want to be working on and talking about.

I'm not necessarily relating in the academic sense, but I had gone to therapy with confused motivations for a long time, in terms of personal vs. professional relating to a therapist, what I learned from that experience is that you always have to bring the focus back to where you know the focus should be, it will save you a lot of frustration and possibly a lot of pain.

One question I would put forward is, how do you know about all of this T's accomplishments? Is he telling you about them? How is this information relevant to you seeing him for therapy?

As to how to bring it up, well, you brought it up in your post, right? Go with that.