personage

noun

Etymology: From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage; by surface analysis, person + -age (compare French suffix -age).

1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.

   “I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.”

   “The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.”

2. A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
3. The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
4. Character represented; external appearance; persona.

   “But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon, What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?”