Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jo Brand said elsewhere, not written here
All women who slog their guts out every day, quietly getting on with bringing up their families.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

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Olly Alexander English singer and actor
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 March 2025 source ↗
It’s a tie between Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., Wole Soyinka, and Oprah Winfrey. All are fearless, all know themselves, all have examined themselves, and all are comfortable with what they have seen.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗

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