The phrase "a recognizable figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is easily identified or known by many people.
Example: "The artist created a sculpture of a recognizable figure from history, capturing the essence of their character."
Alternatives: "an identifiable person" or "a well-known figure."
Her subsequent televised Congressional testimony in February suddenly made her a recognizable figure.
Tall and reed-thin, Mr. Seeger was a recognizable figure for generations of listeners.
The gift received national attention, ostensibly because it was named after such a recognizable figure.
A sixty-three-year-old with a graying ponytail, Ritterman was a recognizable figure in town, but he wasn't a natural politician.
With his colorful wardrobe, he's a recognizable figure around campus, and he participates actively in student life, often cooking pasta dinners for freshmen in the Experimental Study Group.
In an interview with The New York Times in April, Mr. Bay said he was a recognizable figure when he travels the world.
To demonstrate this ability, we positioned fluorescently labeled endothelial and fibroblast cells in a recognizable pattern (Figure 4).
But as embodied by the French actor Daniel Auteuil in "Sade," Benoît Jacquot's smart, cool-headed costume drama, the marquis is a disturbingly recognizable figure: a sly, charming, ruthlessly arrogant bon vivant with a scary current of rage zipping like a live wire under his reptilian surface.
But there is a case to be made that the first woman to get this close to the presidency would probably look a lot like Clinton: a nationally recognizable figure with an extensive résumé and close proximity to power.
During the 40 years Mr. Buck ran his school, he was an eminently recognizable figure: an elegantly turned out, borzoi-thin man of 145 pounds, he commanded the leashes of a half-dozen or more dogs at a time — a good 500 pounds of dog in all — which fanned out before him like the spokes of a wheel.
It is not until the final chapters -- after the stories about Yasir and Ed and Rudy, past the recounting of a career that has made him a more recognizable figure on the streets of New York than Michael Bloomberg himself (I am not kidding about that) -- that "Al on America" addresses some of the entanglements that explain why it is that he remains on the margins of American politics.
