Michelle Visage: 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 Michelle Visage said elsewhere, not written here

Madonna, she is a trailblazer. She changed the face of pop music for women. She did so much for the Aids movement, encouraging people to vote and the voices of LGBTQIA+ people. Fashion icon, music icon – she deserves all the credit.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2024 source ↗

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John Simpson English journalist

The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

Just look at a Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you’ll see that one of the outstanding characteristics of each one of these is how they have poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their being so utterly selfless.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Reece Shearsmith British actor, comedian and writer

There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

Renée Zellweger

Jimmy Carter. Michelle Obama. Barack Obama. Geoffrey Canada. Tank Man. Marian Wright Edelman. Madeleine Albright. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Norman Lear. Malala Yousafzai. Beyoncé Knowles.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗