These are historic personages.

Look at this lady, Raoul, she is an historic personage; it was to visit her King Henry IV.

As Smith wrote in a letter to Dobie, "Ehrenberg had a regrettable tendency to write florid speeches and put them into the mouths of historic personages".

To the outside world, Pol Pot is a historic personage, one of the ogres of the 20th Century, and his fall from power is an event of note.

Ceramic polychrome figurines of historic or legendary personages are popular, as are little animals, with the panda the most sought after.

Song's hero is Arabo, a famed fedayee with an influential group, who isn't presented as a historic personage, but rather a symbol of the liberation movement.

The Aviator's Wife will revolve around the historic personage of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"We have all assumed the roles of historic personages," he said.

Richard Crookback, Duke of Gloucester, does not appear in the telefilm but is replaced by a different famous historic personage, Richard, Earl of Warwick.

Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration, they might well have been actual historic personages.