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 Lauren Bacall said elsewhere, not written here
No one I can think of offhand.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗

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Anna Paquin New Zealand actress
I am really loving the badass co-captain of the US soccer team, Megan Rapinoe. She is exceptionally hard-working and talented, and stands up for what she believes.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2019 source ↗
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

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