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 George Takei said elsewhere, not written here
Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗

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Audra McDonald Singer and actor
Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗
Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I think that Jay Powell in when, when the epidemic broke out, I think he acted in March of 2020 and I think if he'd waited two or three weeks, it would have been a disaster. Once the dominoes start toppling, they just start toppling and, and, and, and that line is shorter than anybody thinks, and it topples faster. And I think he did exactly the right thing, and he, he did it even stronger than Volker did. You know, I mean, he, he and Volker are my heroes at the Fed.
Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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