leading light
Noun
Meaning
a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
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he was host to a large gathering of luminaries
By the 1970s, Seymour had written several other books and was a leading light of the self-sufficiency movement, mostly due to The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency.
I think restaurants are the leading light for that, and I hope we can still capture that post-Covid.
Sure, he knew this man was a special case, a leading light of sorts who blighted the criminal underworld with his amazing skills.
Sunday's talks came from a retired expert on insurance scams, and from Lilo Picornell, a leading light in the field of forensic linguistics - a subject that will, I'm sure, soon feature in a good many crime novels.
An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s.