0 a famous person who is often written about in newspapers and magazines or is often on television or the radio
This account, then, is the public face of an influential and much respected public figure, an institutional big-man.
Second, the lawyer's basic accountability as a public figure served as recourse for both sides if the deal did not go well.
Yet for such an intensely public figure this is somehow fitting.
It is difficult to imagine a public figure who would promote immorality, laziness, and selfishness as desirable virtues.
He was at once a public figure and a highly private person who struggled with the relation between subjectivity and the collective.
Actually, this is an account of the libel of a public figure.
It referred to the process by which one achieved recognition as a public figure; in the context of authorship, it was the act by which a writer became an author.
He attained great eminence as a public figure.
