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 Alfre Woodard said elsewhere, not written here
My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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Olly Alexander English singer and actor
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 March 2025 source ↗
Jane Goodall. I got the chance to meet her a few years ago, and it was the thrill of a lifetime. When I was little, I wanted to be her. I thought she had the coolest life in the world.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
Ed Harris American actor and director
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

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