Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 2 Arts and letters 338 Politics and public life 27 Business and finance 15 Technology 2 Sport 22

Read by age Any age Before thirty 19 In their thirties 60 In their forties 77 In their fifties 68 In their sixties 50 Seventy and beyond 61

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

Barack Obama has shown us how to be a politician guided by intelligence, integrity, and compassion.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗

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