top banana vs personage

top banana and personage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
top banana	Yes	No	No	No
personage	Yes	No	No	No

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

top banana: the most important person in a group or undertaking
personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Other hypernyms of top banana include important person, influential person.

top banana (noun)	personage (noun)
the leading comedian in a burlesque show	another word for person; a person not meriting identification
the most important person in a group or undertaking	a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events