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 Stuart Broad said elsewhere, not written here
Sienna Miller. For obvious reasons!

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2013 source ↗

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Corinne Bailey Rae
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist
The Buddhist monk Tapa Snim I met in Burma in 2007, all of whose earthly possessions he carried in a small bundle slung on one shoulder.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2013 source ↗
Steve Buscemi
Gabby Giffords. She’s a survivor of gun violence and a relentless champion of sensible gun safety measures.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗
Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016
Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗

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