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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Annie Lennox - she's a private woman with integrity.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

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Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
there are really very many. Again, as a child, it was obviously those scientists which had lived in the past that had made such an important mark in science history.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1996, 1996 source ↗
Kevin Rowland British singer
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

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