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Which living person do you most admire, and why?

406 answers answered between 1985 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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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.

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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
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Tommy Hilfiger American fashion designer
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 source ↗
Bobbi Brown
My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2024 source ↗

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