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.

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Gloria Steinem.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

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Archie Panjabi British actress
Mathew Varghese, an orthopaedic surgeon who runs India’s only polio ward in Delhi. He provides reconstructive surgery to help survivors walk.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗
Laura Kenny English cyclist
Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
Antonio Banderas
Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 September 2010 source ↗

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