I wasn't very involved with any members nor PC in general when I first joined, but when I started actually moving out of the ROM Hacking section and meeting people, I came to admire a few. At that time, I'd say Forever, Toujours and Shining Raichu were all people whom I really looked up to. Nica was basically because she was such a likeable person (and still is!) with a constantly positive attitude, and she was just a generally happy person. Toujours and Andy were pretty much because of their quality posts and activity, which was something I really aspired to be at the time. I kinda went in the opposite direction though, and left PC for a while. I'd probably have had more people to look up to, if I hadn't restricted myself to the IRC so much, but I ended up returning to PC again at the end of December.
And that was when I met AlexOzzyCake. He was the one who actually got me active here on PC, and without him, there'd probably have been a big part of my life I would've missed out on. He's Probably the person I admire the most out of all I've ever met here on PC. He's one of those people who it's really easy to make friends with, he's such an optimistic and happy person, and he has pretty much all the qualities to what makes a great friend. If you want a list of adjectives to describe how great of a person he is, just go to his promotion thread, and Nick listed a few of them ;) And that's pretty much why I admired him so much back then, and I still do so!