Do you have a favorite living public figure/celebrity?

[DGuller]

Nate Silver.

[crazy canuck]

I mean besides RG3 

Enjoy him while he lasts.

No shit.  Keeps playing the way he is, I give him 5 seasons before he's tossed onto the pile of perpetually injured QBs, with Vick and McNair.

Of course that the same logic was used by Dallas when they traded Steve Nash  - no way can he keep up that kind of play style - only to see him go on to win back to back MVPs and continue to play long after most of the people they kept retired.

[Sheilbh]

Different sorts of things for different professions/celebrities.

I respect Peter Tatchell a lot.  He's a hard-left gay and human rights activists who has, amongst other things, twice been beaten up while trying to perform a citizens arrest on Robert Mugabe for crimes against humanity and once been beaten up by Russian police for trying to lead a gay pride march in Moscow.

He is, generally, very committed to his causes and even when I disagree I have to respect him and I like his confrontational style.

I like Evan Davies a lot.  He's a very good interviewer on the BBC but seems less interested in the theatrics and self-aggrandising of, say, Paxman and Humphreys.  He's probably the friendliest and deadliest of the lot.

Salman Rushdie.  I wish Iris Murdoch was alive so I could admire her

I love Mark Rylance for being first artistic director of the Globe and helping establish it and make it credible.  I love him more than any other actor I've ever seen perform.  But I kind of hate that he legitimises the 'Shakespeare didn't write the plays' nonsense

[derspiess]

Of course that the same logic was used by Dallas when they traded Steve Nash  - no way can he keep up that kind of play style - only to see him go on to win back to back MVPs and continue to play long after most of the people they kept retired.

How many times did Steve Nash get laid out by a 250lb. linebacker? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5dbvar6Do

[Lettow77]

 I find Al Stewart to be a very beautiful person.

[11B4V]

After great lamenting and soul searching....I must confess my fav public figure to be






























http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6bnUVbUWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvuwzE6NX0

[Josquius]

A favourite celebrity and a person I admire/respect would be different people..

[Brazen]

I'd like Stephen Fry to be my GBF (sorry Mart). Not only is he witty and interesting in his own right, he has done a lot to reintroduce more intelligent programming to television after years of dumbing down.

[Octavian]

I'd like Stephen Fry to be my GBF (sorry Mart). Not only is he witty and interesting in his own right, he has done a lot to reintroduce more intelligent programming to television after years of dumbing down.

Gross Big Friend?

[derspiess]

I'd like Stephen Fry to be my GBF (sorry Mart). Not only is he witty and interesting in his own right, he has done a lot to reintroduce more intelligent programming to television after years of dumbing down.

I hear his voice probably every day.  My 1-year old is seriously into Pocoyo.

[Valmy]

I'd like Stephen Fry to be my GBF (sorry Mart).

Sorry he is already serving that role for Hugh Laurie.  Only so much Fry to go around.

[Sheilbh]

Along the lines of Stephen Fry: Mark Gatiss

[Legbiter]

None I can think of.

[dps]

I'd like Stephen Fry to be my GBF (sorry Mart).

Sorry he is already serving that role for Hugh Laurie.  Only so much Fry to go around.

I don't know;  he's a bit heavy-set. 

[Jaron]

I don't know if he has regained or anything, but I do recall he'd lost quite a bit of weight.