a leading light

an important and respected person in a group or organization (often + in ) A leading light in the art and ballet world, he was a close friend of Princess Diana. (often + of ) Jeffries, at 23 a leading light of the campaign, was the first to speak.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Atif	-	Arabic
Semyon	sye-MYON, see-MYON	Russian
Maja (2)	MIE-ah (German, Polish)	Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovak
Dorofey	-	Russian
Dietrich	DEET-rikh	German
Gwendolen	GWEN-də-lin (English)	Welsh