Bryan Ferry: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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 Bryan Ferry said elsewhere, not written here

Richard Hamilton – as my teacher at college, he greatly influenced my ways of seeing art and the world.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

Terry Gilliam American-born British filmmaker

Maggie, my wife – for putting up with me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2012 source ↗

Cuba Gooding Jr American actor

President Obama: he was the first to accomplish something so great in our country as an African American.

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

Emilia Fox English actress and presenter

Dawn French, because I am sitting next to her and she says if I don’t say her, she will hurt me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗

Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer

Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗

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