poster boy

noun

1. a person who appears on a poster
2. a person who typifies or represents a particular characteristic, cause, opinion, etc

   a poster girl for late motherhood

Example Sentences

It just came at a time when people were ready to say, “Yeah, this movie can be our poster boy.”

From The Daily Beast

They are trying to make him the poster boy for their anti-abortion, anti-same sex [marriage] agenda.

From The Daily Beast

Manning is too easy to turn into a poster boy, an easy icon, a cause.

From The Daily Beast

Evidently, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz in short order made himself into a poster boy for fettered capitalism.

From The Daily Beast

But in Wisconsin, native son and right-wing poster-boy Paul Ryan may have made the difference.

From The Daily Beast