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 Terry Wogan said elsewhere, not written here
The present Lady Wogan, for putting up with me for 46 years of marriage. The woman's a saint.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2011 source ↗

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Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Just look at a Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you’ll see that one of the outstanding characteristics of each one of these is how they have poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their being so utterly selfless.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Big Narstie British entertainer
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗
Ray Mears British woodsman and TV presenter
My wife, Ruth, because she holds the fort, making it possible for me to do what I do.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗

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