50 Top 5 Dream Dinner Party Invitee List

1. My list
Daniel Day Lewis, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sofia Coppola (or Marilyn Monroe), Shakespeare and Gautama Buddha.

2. Adrienne McQueen
Jared Leto, Julian Assange, Sandra Bullock, Alex Proyas and Oliver Stone.

3. @MarionSchrader
Nelson Mandela, Juri Gagarin, Lucy Lawless and my grand-grandparents.

4. Steven de Knight (creator of Spartacus)
Einstein, Jesus, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and Spartacus. With Spartacus I’d find out his real name so people would stop fucking asking me.

5. Samik Barman
Hugh Jackman, Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Edward Snowden and Barack Obama.

6. Evan Morgan
Ernest Hemingway, Anne Rice, Spartacus, Edgar Alan Poe and Hannibal.

7. Dan Steckel
Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, James Dean, and my late parents.

8. Wayne Mullins James Dean
Jack Kerouac, Gillian Anderson, Ayrton Senna and Russel Brand.

9. Tamar Halpern
Vivian Leigh, Buster Keaton, Robert Mitchum, Marion Cotillard and Zhang Yimou.

10. JJ Marrs
Adam and Eve (to get the real story, whomever they may be), James Dean and his mother Mildred Dean (she died when he was 9, and made him a tortured artist, so I would like to see them bonding in the afterlife), and Don Knotts because he was so damn wonderful.

‏11. ‪@danjwater
Frank Sinatra, Cicero, Achilles, Rachel Weisz, and Marie Antoinette.

12. Thomas Thatcher
Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il and a translator…

13. Maura Fielding
Prince Harry, Kanye West, Ken Jennings, Tyler Perry, and Lucille Ball.

14. ‪@PevensieServant
Walt Disney, Audrey Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Tierney and Abraham Lincoln.

15. Yshaia N Bob Morris
(I would have my Dad’s father who worked in the movie business. I never got meet him because he died before I was born, but I’d love to hear his stories.) Next would be Stan Lee, Dan Brown, Leonard Nemoy and Gene Roddenberry.

16. Davidson Lord
Juliet Obaka my ex, Elohor Ayormanor my current date, my luvly Sister, and my best friends Akpovine And Ojevwe.

17. @sufferings
Howard Stern, Kanye West, Jennifer Lawrence, Jerry Seinfeld and Mona Lisa.

18. David Birk
BB King, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Buddy Guy, and Ty Tabor.

19. Davido Da’Vinci Kal-el Agih
Viva Bianca, Bill gates, Donald Trump, Kim kardashian and Oprah. (I’m not sure how well I’d do in this company, but flattered all the same.)

20. Thomas Thatcher
3 Justin Biebers and Jedward (I’ll throw in Julia Roberts who is on my shortlist but didn’t quite make it to my top 5).

21. Jason Cothrum
John F. Kennedy, Johnny Cash, Robert Duval, Peter Dinklage and Julius Caesar.

22. Mark Finnegan
Diego Maradona, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Barack Obama and The Queen.

23. Philip Gray
Nelson Mandela, Angelina Jolie, Robert de Niro, Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman

24. @Eh_Double
Stan Lee, Richard Hammon, Robert Downey Jr., Conan O’Brien and Anna Kendrick.

25. Jimi Corbett
Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Pope John, Gandhi and John Lennon.

26. John Esford
Benjamin Franklin, Groucho Marx, Hunter S. Thompson, John Waters and Wallace Shawn.

27. @jordanhalpern
Clint Mansell, Brian Eno, Vutch Vig, Thomas Aquinas and Jesus Christ.

28. Wendall N Shannon Dayley
Ghenghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Michel Nostradamus and Ivan the Terrible.

29. Rein Rebane
Morgan Freeman, Daniel Tammet, Charlie Sheen, Kylie Minogue, Ban Ki-Moon.

30. Jeffrey Thoman
John Williams, Hugh Laurie, Malala Yousafzai, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bear McCreary.

31. Jean Carlo
Miranda Emily Haines from Metric, Freddie Mercury, Sylvester Stalone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ryan Giggs.

32. Steve Oliver
Viva Bianca, my father Robert, God, Bryan Cranston and The Devil
(I thought long and hard about keeping this one on or not since my name appears at numero uno position (awkward), but the whole God, B Cranston and The Devil combo was too good to miss!)

33. Samik Barman
Hugh Jackman, Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Edward Snowden and Barak Obama

34. Hooly LikeiSaid
Rob Tapert, Princess Diana, Walt Disney, Ruth Ginsburg, Leonardo da Vinci

35. Scott Mara
President Lincoln, Pope John Paul, Mick Jagger, John Kennedy and Princess Diana.

36. Jay Harris
His Holiness Pope Francis, And his Holiness The Dalai Lama (because I would love to see the insight they both have on life.) President Barack Obama (so that I could pick his brain and give him simple ideas on how to better serve the people). Vladimir Putin (so I could once and for all make him see that equality belongs to everyone and that the Gay Community can co-exist in his country). And finally, i would have Jesus Christ. Only so that I could ask him to take me home and away from the pains and sufferings of this world.

37. Milad Kamgar
Sean Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, Fidel Castro, Russell Brand, Maria Sharapova.

38. Mark Connor
Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Bill Gates and Barack Obama.

39. Renee Tondre-Garza
The Dalai Lama, Johnny Depp, Kidd Rock, Troy Polamolu and Chief Wilma Mankiller.

40. Eric Ndregjoni
Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson and Eric Bana.

‏‪41. @derrecknoteric
Stan Lee, Bruce Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Maya Angelou, and Anne Frank.

42. Matt Niswonger
Jim Morrison, Carl Sagan, George Washington, Julius Caesar, and Bill Clinton. And of course you would be the hostess for this dinner party… Watch out for Bill he tends to get a little touchy feely! LOL

43. Al Fuller
Lady Gaga, Queen Elizabeth II, Colin Firth, Keith Urban, and Mark Harmon.

44. Jodi Roberts
Ilithya, Spartacus, Gannicus, Crixus, Agron and all my rebel family from The Red Serpents page and Spartacus Da Ja Vu page. (I think that’s more than 5 Jodi, but since you’re Sparty bias – I’ll give it to you.)

45. Franck Bataillé
John Hannah (only if he promises to say swear words all meal long), Charlton Heston (only if he promises to leave his rifle home), Andy Whitfield (missed everyday…), Denzel Washington and Jim Carrey (to add a bit of fun). I have to say sorry, Bianca. Its no a ladies dinner, but you could always join me later on, once I’m done with my guests.

46. Andrew Hoeft
Ben Franklin, Mark Messier, Britney Spears, Betty Page and General Patton!

47. Jakob Leurs
I probably would invite my best friends – I can’t see them that often these days since I moved away to study.

48. @clee_fray
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Die Antwoord, Diana Vreeland, Mary Queen of Scots and Kate Moss.

49. Tracy Merrifield
Simone de Beauvouir, Joss Whedon, Nikki Giovanni, Bob Dylan and Rachel Maddow.

50. David Silos
Moses, Chopin, the maker of the Walking Dead, Forest Forest Gump and George Washington. Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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