prominent figures
Well-known important people
Prominent figures are people who stand out in public awareness—leaders, celebrities, experts, or others who command attention in their fields.
The phrase appears often in news and historical writing: Prominent figures in the civil rights movement gathered at the memorial.
It suggests importance and visibility without specifying the source of that prominence.
- world leadersThose governing nations
- Albert EinsteinRenowned twentieth-century physicist
- Barack ObamaForty-fourth US president
- fame and fortuneCelebrity paired with wealth
- Napoleon BonaparteFrench military dictator
Alan Turing · Angela Merkel · Audrey Hepburn · Stephen Hawking · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Beyoncé · larger than life · Marilyn Monroe · Martin Luther King Jr. · Leonardo da Vinci · Marie Curie · Frida Kahlo · Rosalind Franklin · Mahatma Gandhi · movers and shakers · Cesar Chavez · Rosa Parks
- influential citizensleaders, politicians, community leaders, civic leaders, dignitaries
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
prominent figuresunknowns
Undetermined quantities
nonentities · no-names · ordinary people · everyday people · invisible people
prominent figurescommon people
Non-elite members of society
nobodies · ordinary citizens · the masses · rank and file · small fry