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 Philip Treacy said elsewhere, not written here
The Queen, because she's kept hats alive in the imagination of people all over the world.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2014 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 ↗
Judy Murray Scottish tennis coach
Billie Jean King. She’s the reason tennis is such an equal sport in terms of opportunity for women.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 December 2020 source ↗

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