Lorraine Pascale: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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 Lorraine Pascale said elsewhere, not written here

Oprah – she's achieved so much.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2014 source ↗

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Shirley Hughes English illustrator and author

My sons for their bravery, and my daughter and daughters-in-law for being working mothers and always being able to make me laugh.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2012 source ↗

Susan Greenfield British scientist

An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗

Judy Murray Scottish tennis coach