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.

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Dolores Huerta.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗

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David Byrne
Aung San Suu Kyi, Caetano Veloso, Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, Ford Wheeler, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning. My late father.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2014 source ↗
Dawn O’Porter
My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗
Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗

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