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.

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Recorded Reece Shearsmith said elsewhere, not written here
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.

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

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Meg Rosoff American novelist
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗
David Shrigley British visual artist
Peter Tatchell is a person very worthy of admiration, but few ever seem to acknowledge him as such.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2013 source ↗
Dawn O’Porter
My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗

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