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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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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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Anne Enright Novelist and short-story writer
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗
Big Narstie British entertainer
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗
Mel Giedroyc British actress and comedian
Probably my husband. In a world of bullshitters, he steers a tremendously honest course.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2015 source ↗
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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