Dead:
C.S. Lewis
Herge
Roald Dahl

Alive:
Ted Dekker
Philip Yancey
Hayao Miyazaki (would have to be via a translator)

alive:

noel fielding
jullian barrat
dennis scott(she is just so funny, on winners and losers and spicks and specks)

Dead:
1. Jesus and his disciples
2. William Tyndale
3. C.S. Lewis

Alive:
1. johobbit and ramagut (with them together, so I'll write them as one)
2. Terri Irwin
3. Andrew Adamson

Dead:
1. C.S.Lewis (hmmmm....I'm not the first....or the second
2. Leskov
3. Fred Astaire

Um...I don't know...let me think...

Dead:
1. C.S Lewis
2. Gregory Peck
3. Oswald Chambers

Alive:
1.Eric Ludy
2.Leslie Ludy
3.Kirk Cameron

yup, that's it

Dead:
1. Jesus and his disciples...

Jesus isn't dead...

For me:

1. CS Lewis
2. Louisa May Alcott
3. ?

I wouldn't want to have dinner with dead people. They'd just sit around the dinner table rotting and would probably be very smelly.

But if I had to choose...

Carl Sagan
Aristotle
Leonardo da Vinci

James Randi
Stephen Hawking
Joe Anderson

Fred and George are two of Rowling's greatest characters, and the boys really brought them to life.
3. My closest NarniaWeb friends.

Are we eating with these people all at once or separately one at a time? Because that distinctly changes my answer. For example, inviting Amy Poehler, C.S. Lewis, and Nelson Mandela all to a small dinner party with myself would be a decidedly awkward affair--none of them have a nationality or field of interest in common. Separately, they would all be phenomenal dinner guests.

Just on a whim, these are the people I'd ask

Dead:
C.S. Lewis
Sacagawea
Henriette d'Angeville

Alive:
Bear Grylls
Erik Weihenmayer
Greg Benson (Mediocre Films)

alive
1. Justin Bieber(sorry for being a fangurl here)
2. Emma Watson
3. Shirley Temple

dead
1. Walt Disney
2. Abe Lincoln
3. Patrick Swayze

Hmm..

Dead:
1.Paul or Moses (can't decide which...)
2.Uncle Gary (my husband's Uncle, he always sounded cool).
3.Jesus (even though, I know He isn't dead, His human self would be nice to meet).

Alive:
1. One of our astronauts who came home on the last shuttle mission.
2. President Obama
3. John Piper

Oh this is easy...

C.S. Lewis
The Apostle Paul
Jimi Hendrix

(All dead btw )

One of our astronauts who came home on the last shuttle mission.

I'd have to suggest Mike Fincke or Greg Chamitoff. They're both really funny and personable, not to say that the other astronauts aren't, but after watching NASA tv for a while and seeing Mike Fincke floating around the ISS and being a ham I think he'd be quite cool to hang out with.

Jimi Hendrix

Until he lit his guitar on fire on your dining room table in the middle of dinner.