WordNet
n. a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events [syn: important person, personage]
Usage examples of "influential person".
They have calculated everything and only want a millionaire or an influential person to realize their idea to reform the world and make it happy or to amass fabulous riches.
If I had to name the single most influential person in my life it would have to be Wonder Woman.
At this time, he was by far the most influential person of the state.
He did, indeed, suggest that some more influential person should be asked to assume the charge.
Damn some influential person to hell in Mosphei' and it was, situationally at least, polite conversation.
Bradley had chosen this man for his confidences from the first, chiefly because he could be sure that here was one influential person of proved humanitythe father of other humans.
Bradley had chosen this man for his confidences from the first, chiefly because he could be sure that here was one influential person of proved humanity -- the father of other humans.