One more try....

Just a nice dinner:

Men:

Abraham Lincoln (Lawyer)
Thomas Jefferson (Farmer)
Thurgood Marshall (Lawyer)
Billy Shakespeare (Actor)
Sam Clemens (ex-riverboat pilot)

Women:

Boudicca (Queen)
Grace O'Malley (Queen)
Elizabeth I (Queen)
Maeve (Queen)
My wife
My mother

Other folks I like to have:

Ada Byron Lovelace (poet's daughter)
Grace Hopper (sailor)
Geoff Chaucer (tale teller)
Archimedes (mathematician)
Isaac Newton (mathematician)
Chuck Dodgson (logician)
Galileo Galilei (astronomer)
Hans Guedarian (general)
George Patton (general)
Jan van Steenhyus (painter)
Thomas Merton (thinker)
O'Carolan (musician)
Red Skelton (actor)

and a whole raft of others....