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 Cuba Gooding Jr said elsewhere, not written here
President Obama: he was the first to accomplish something so great in our country as an African American.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2012 source ↗

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Shirley Hughes English illustrator and author
My sons for their bravery, and my daughter and daughters-in-law for being working mothers and always being able to make me laugh.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2012 source ↗
Pedro Almodóvar Film director
Dr. Pedro Cavadas, a pioneer in face transplants and a specialist in the transplant of severed members. This surgeon from Valencia devotes his summer breaks to travel to Africa and tend to children who have been castrated in tribal conflicts.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗
Martha Stewart
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

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