influential person
Noun
Meaning
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
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The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.
It sets such unrealistic standards for others; it also holds a lot more weight coming from an influential person so please, add a disclaimer, say something to acknowledge the disparity here at least,” someone else wrote.
Inquiries revealed that PK Halder had actually paid the money on behalf of a politically influential person.