very important person

He had become a very important person just then, had Anton, the “bound out.”

The sutler, in those days, was a very important person in the estimation of the soldiers of a frontier post.

Mrs. Evans was a very important person in the play; I don't suppose that things could have gone on without her.

The Minister of Justice was a very important person, for he was a personal friend of half the monarchs of Europe.

After them rides a very important person, the city marshal, on horseback.