Friday night's Nordic state dinner will be crawling with celebrities — here's a look at who will be hobnobbing with the leaders of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland:
- Aziz Ansari
- Connie Britton
- Bobbi Brown of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
- Common (identified as "Mr. Common" by the White House)
- Billy Eichner
- Tracee Ellis Ross
- Will Ferrell
- Miranda Kerr (guest of Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel)
- Joel Kinnaman
- David Letterman
- Demi Lovato (she's performing)
- Janelle Monae
- Alonzo Mourning (former NBA star and frequent Obama golfing partner; guest of Tracy Mourning)
- Al Roker
- Pauletta Washington
- Allison Williams
- Bellamy Young
- Ed Weeks (guest of Bellamy Young)
- Kyle MacLachlan (guest of wife and entertainment executive Desiree Gruber)
- Diane Warren (Oscar-nominated songwriter, nominated most recently with Lady Gaga for the anti-campus sexual assault song "Til It Happens to You")
There are also a number of media guests, including Fox News' Bret Baier; Jackie Calmes of the New York Times; NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt; NPR's Scott Horsley; Athena Jones of CNN; Jeffrey Mason of Reuters; ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir; Sunlen Serfaty of CNN; and Scott Wilson of the Washington Post.
By comparison, here's the much thinner celebrity guest list for Canada's state dinner earlier this year.