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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

407 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 3 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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Rafael Nadal Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
Max Whitlock English artistic gymnast
Usain Bolt for his attitude, the amount of confidence he’s got, the way he delivers every time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2016 source ↗
Laura Kenny English cyclist
Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
Simone Biles United States artistic gymnast
My parents: they raised me to be the best I can be.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
Jonnie Peacock British athlete
David Beckham. He was my idol growing up and I met him in 2000, just before the England game against Romania.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2018 source ↗
Johanna Konta British tennis player
My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗

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