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 Dustin Hoffman said elsewhere, not written here
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon
As a businesswoman, I admire Indra Nooyi, because of the way she is transforming Pepsi into a 'healthy' fast food organisation
Recorded Shweta Punj, Most Powerful Women in Business 2011, Business Today, 18 September 2011 source ↗
Reece Shearsmith British actor, comedian and writer
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗
Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
there are really very many. Again, as a child, it was obviously those scientists which had lived in the past that had made such an important mark in science history.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1996, 1996 source ↗
Belinda Carlisle American singer
Pamela Anderson, because I love her strength and honesty and vulnerability at the same time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

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