power elite (?.)

• Establishment
• aristocracy
• baron
• barons
• big gun
• big man
• big name
• bigwig
• brass
• brass hat
• bureaucracy
• celebrity
• cream
• dignitary
• dignity
• directorate
• elder
• elite
• establishment
• father
• figure
• great man
• hierarchy
• higher echelons
• higher-ups
• important person
• interests
• lion
• lords of creation
• magnate
• man of mark
• management
• ministry
• mogul
• nabob
• name
• nobility
• notability
• notable
• officialdom
• overlapping
• panjandrum
• person of renown
• personage
• personality
• pillar of society
• power
• power structure
• prelacy
• ruling circle
• ruling circles
• ruling class
• ruling classes
• sachem
• somebody
• something
• the Establishment
• the administration
• the authorities
• the best
• the best people
• the brass
• the great
• the ingroup
• the interests
• the people upstairs
• the power elite
• the power structure
• the top
• them
• they
• top brass
• top people
• tycoon
• upper class
• upper crust
• very important person
• worthy