Susan Greenfield: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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 Susan Greenfield said elsewhere, not written here

An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗

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Cerys Matthews Welsh singer-songwriter

President Jimmy Carter, for his single-handedness in working to eradicate the guinea worm.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

Malala Yousafzai Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace

Women in leadership positions in every field who are using their advantages to inspire younger women.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 September 2010 source ↗

Kelis Rogers American singer