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

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Neil Young. Not in that order.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗

I most admire Steve Sondheim, who is not alive anymore. But his words and music keep him alive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2025 source ↗

Monica Ali British writer, novelist

Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2011 source ↗

Patrisse Khan-Cullors American artist and activist

My mother, because she is vivacious, amazing, brilliant, giving, strong and powerful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 March 2018 source ↗

Not receiving a dukedom.

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

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