public figure

1. 1.

   a well-known or notable person

   “they studied all the great names in the history of France”

   “she is an important figure in modern music”

   Synonymsnamefigure

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about public figure

What does public figure mean?

public figure means "a well-known or notable person".

What is another word for public figure?

Close synonyms include name, figure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public figure a common word?

public figure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.