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 James Norton said elsewhere, not written here
Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

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John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
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 ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗

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