Usually members of the more prominent families would be taken.

The family was one of the city's most prominent families.

His mother was a member of a prominent local family.

Then he married a local girl from another prominent family.

They have at least one prominent family in their corner.

His prominent family had a long tradition of public service.

She comes from a prominent intellectual family in the country.

In the past, society was a more or less fixed body of prominent families.

Although middle class, he comes from a prominent intellectual family.

According to legend, he came from a prominent local family.