celebrity vs personage

celebrity and personage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
celebrity	Yes	No	No	No
personage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, personage is a hypernym of celebrity; that is, personage is a word with a broader meaning than celebrity:

celebrity: a widely known person
personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Other hypernyms of celebrity include important person, influential person.

celebrity (noun)	personage (noun)
a widely known person	another word for person; a person not meriting identification
the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed	a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events