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 Steve Jones said elsewhere, not written here
In 2010 there are slim pickings.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 July 2010 source ↗

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Samantha Morton British actress
Harry apart, Michael Fassbender, because his acting is beyond my comprehension and I find him absolutely fearless and inspirational.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2012 source ↗
Brenda Blethyn British actress
An old tutor at Guildford School of Acting – Ian Ricketts. He is a wonderfully inspiring man.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 April 2012 source ↗
Zoe Ball British TV and radio personality
All the NHS workers, care home staff and teachers who are the real superheroes of 2020.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 2020 source ↗
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 ↗

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