Probably I would have the following over for a type of cocktail party along the way an English tea would be run and the following would be invited:
Winston Churchill
Vladimer Ilych Lenin
Sir Richard Burton (The Explorer not the actor)
Charlemange
Sandra Bernhardt (The French Actress not the comedienne)
Mata Hari
Ray Bradbury
Hmm... I'd have to take this opportunity to gather some of the mathematical minds I admire the most (assuming they could all speak English):
Leonhard Euler.
Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Euclid.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
Pierre de Fermat.
David Hilbert.
It would have to be coffee and cake and the discussion wouldn't have to be entirely mathematical, although it would probably lean that way.
I didn't use up the entire 7 spaces allocated, as I would also like to meet Nichiren Daishonin to chant with him. This would be at a separate time from the maths party, if that is permissible.
Abraham Lincoln - Just to hear his thoughts
Thomas Jefferson - to see what the world has come to and his comments
my Father - reflections of an alcoholic whom has passed away
My Papaw- just coz I need comforted
Jim Croce - just to FEEL the music
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
George Washington (and Martha)
Humphrey Bogart
Hey...music & movies are history too!
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
Cleopatra III
Frederick Douglass
Joseph Louis Barrow
"Sex is like eating and eating is like sex" It would be Casanova, the menu would be his and mine favorite , Oysters { obvious reasons } & macaroni sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln (To discuss the state of our nation and how to make it better)
Theodore Roosevelt
Sir Richard Burton (The explorer, not the actor)
Cetewayo (Chief of the Zulu's)
Mohammed Achmed -the Mahdi (leader of the dervishes) ( Discussing Africa's past, present and future)
Paul Cruger (leader of the Boer uprising)
Omar Bradley
Heinz Guderian
Winston Churchill (Reminisce about military tactics and WWII)
Irwin Rommel
George Patton
And yes, I know this is more than 5-7 people!
Socrates - Because he said this:
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over their teachers.
430 BC
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Because I don't think anyone else has ever stood up for their beliefs in a more courageous way. The idea of non-violent civil disobedience makes him one of the most admirable men of all times.
Douglas Adams - Because he was very wise and hilarious.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Cleopatra VII - Because she was the last and most famous pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, spoke 5 languages and dated Julius Caesar.
Gaius Valerius Catullus - Because I want him to write poetry about me. His poems about Lesbia are just about the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
Pablo Escobar
Che Guevara
Martin Luther King Jr
Gandhi
Jesus
Jesus
Richard Dawkins
Neil Peart (totally subjective)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Christopher Hitchens
Socrates
Jimi Hendrix
James Hetfield
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan
Cliff Burton
Jimmy Page
John Bonham
Adolf Hitler - would love to know what made him write Mein Kampf
Queen Elizabeth I - need to understand why she killed her cousin Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Quant - Fashion Tips !
Elvis Presley - why the man who was Mr Rock n Roll self destructed
Robin Hood - Dunno why he just intrigues my mind
Marie Antoinette
Marquis De Sade
Jack London
Jesus Christ
Napoleon Bonapart
H. G. Wells
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
William Gibson
Jules Verne
All authors of science fiction and fact with the exception of Gibson who created the genre Cyberpunk and the word Cyberspace. And be at a resturaunt in an informal setting in a private room having dinner followed by dessert, and cognac and cigars to sit and discuss the things they have written that have come to pass and to see what other things may follow from what they have seen or come from their writings.
Thomas Jefferson
Syd Barrett
Jim Morrison
Leonardo DaVinci
Ernest Hemingway
Marilyn Monroe
Princess Diana
If I Can Only Have 7 But So Many Others. Would Also Like To Ask Adolf Hitler WTF Was He Thinking!
I'd invite
Sapho
Mary W. Shelley
And some real pirates to feel comfortable.
We'd have a buffé with food from different eras so that they could pick what they liked best.
We'd talk about life and death and science and sex, women always end up talking about sex or sexuality. We can't help it.
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Thomas More (Morus)
Jean D'Arc
Nostradamus
Cleopatra
Alexander the Great
Emily Brontë
"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
I'd have to go with:
long-time dead:
Paul
Josephus
Valentinius
Origen
St. Augustine
somewhat more recent:
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
J.R.R. Tolkien
C. S. Lewis
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Socrates
Jesus
Leonardo Da vinci
Che Chevarra
Kahlil Gibran
Simone de Beauvoir
Billy Holiday
Buddy Holly
Nancy Sinatra
Kathryn Hepburn
Susan Anderson
Henry VIII
Alexander the Great
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.
i think i would like to have coffee with elvis just because i feel like he would be a really down to earth guy.
Thomas A Kempis - I'd like to ask him why he returned to the Catholic Church, after declaring himself an athiest.
Eizabeth I of England, Benjamin Franklin,
and Sir Winston Churchill - I'd like their takes on the state of things in the world today.
Henry VIII - I'd like to play some of his musical works under his directio, to see what interpretation he really wanted
Benedict Arnold - I'd like to see what his true intentions were when the British took Ticonderoga
Paul Revere's wife - I want to know what she thought of his gallavanting over the countryside at all hours of the night.
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster