personage

plural personages

1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.

   The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.

   2014, Lonely Planet, Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to do & the Perfect Day to do Them, →ISBN

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   I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.

   1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230

2. A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
3. The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
4. Character represented; external appearance; persona.

   But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon, What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i