2 lists, 1 if

Hi everyone. 

 

I'm trying to create such an IF command, that if a certain cell is empty, nothing happens, if it has lets say "1" a certain list prepaired earlier appears, if "2" a different list appears. When attempting to perform the command =IF(A1="";"";IF(A1=1;list1;list2)). I don't have to consider other possibilities other than these 3. When I imput this formula, if A1 is empty, no list appears, which is good, but if I imput an other value (correct for the formula or not) it immediatly creates "list2"

 

Additional question, is it possible, to create a counter of amount of appearences in the program. Lets say the above formula, or corrected by you, works. I'll have a few people listed and because depending on the date and localization that the person appears/will appear, can I set a counter, that will not print, but count the amount of dates "John" or "Sally" appeare in the calendar, even thos, the information is being sent from a list? 

 

Thanks