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Which living person do you most admire, and why?

426 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 3 Arts and letters 348 Politics and public life 28 Business and finance 18 Technology 5 Sport 24
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
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
Recorded David Sheff, Playboy Interview, February 1985 source ↗

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