Anyone at all - dead, alive or fictional.
I'm going to go with...
Virginia Woolf
Rosa Luxembourg
Marie Marvingt
Alfonsina Strada
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babbage
Aubrey Beardsley
John Everett Millais
Richard Feynman
Moses ben Maimon
I would just invite my friends much more fun.
Einstein, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson, Benny Hill, Bill Maher, Freddie Mercury, Humphrey Bogart, Alexander the Great, Issac Newton, and Justin Wilson.
Bob Marley
Chris Hitchens
Jesus of Nazareth
Ghandi
Carlos Castaneda
W.E.B Dubois
Prince (the musician)
Marcus Garvey
Confucius
Jimi Hendricks.
If one wasnt available, I would ask Timothy Leary.
I don't think I could stand 10 people, but. Rimbaud, Bruce Lee, Patton, Silvia plath, hank Williams, mother Teresa, napoleon, Oscar Wilde, Crowley, ted bundy and gengis Kahn. How's that for being ecclectic?
wait.....I want to replace the two old guys from the Muppets with Wile E Coyote and Neil Degrasse Tyson. Maybe with Mr Tyson and Mr Wolowitz they can show Wile E Coyote a way to get the Road Runner.
My 2 kids, Einstein, Francis Bacon, Douglas Adams, Robin Williams, Tim Minchin, Carl Sagan, Dick Smith,Hypatia. This is looking like a sausage fest, I was trying to get it gender balanced for the orgy after. Sadly it shows that through out history, men have dominated the sciences. I know there have been women in the field, but Marie Curie bores me.
Mine would include
Socrates
Pliney
Machiavelli
Newton
T.Jefferson
Gertrude Stein
Marie Curie
Heisenbberg
Dirac
Dali
H.Miller
Bernie Sander
Maybe Charlie Babbit and Raymond.
My ideal dinner party is just a gathering of friends that happens in the kitchen, with food, and possibly drink, but MUCH conversation.
Dream guests?
Kristine Hart... just a few more hugs and maybe a kiss, please?
Albert Einstein
Michelle and Barack Obama
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz
Sophie Germain
Kurt Gödel (could you please explain that, slowly?)
Rosa Parks
Oprah Winfrey
Oh, I have a few more...
My original list included 'Isoroku Yamamoto (what was the reason for NOT invading?)' and when I thought about it, I'd want my best friend there...
Wittgenstein, Socrates, Frege, Leibniz, Russel, Tolkien, Marx, Hypatia, Hume, Kant
wittgenstein would go off in a huff!
Maybe he’s mellowed. @jacpod
I never knew or was too young to know, many of the people on my list. And for those I did get to know alive for a while, I'd like to get to speak to them again. Ask why. Ask how. Get to understand them better.
Bill Hicks
Iain Banks
George Carlin
David Bowie
Frank Sinatra
Iggy Pop
Nye Bevan
Peter Sellars
Spike Milligan
Bluto, from "Animal House" - for the inevitable food fight.
Nice choices.
@Jnei Thank you kindly - comedy and shit kicking musicians seems a good combo to me, as a cultural heathen
@MarkRussell Plus a shit-kicking author and a shit-kicking politician!
@Jnei Oh, indeed! <3
I don't do dinner parties, and hate being invited to them as well. As for famous people, I'd rather remember them as they were portrayed in history, since few were pleasant to meet in real life.
I was thinking that when I saw several people include Churchill in their lists. Really not a very pleasant person [independent.co.uk]
Harold II, William the Conqueror, Emma of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, Edward the Confessor, Winston Churchill, David Hume, John Locke and James Mill.
Who are these people? Non-famous people-I don't even have 10 friends, lol. Famous people, Richard Dawkins only.