The phrase "personally familiar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a level of acquaintance or knowledge about someone or something on a personal level.
Example: "I am personally familiar with the challenges faced by small business owners."
Alternatives: "intimately acquainted" or "well acquainted."
The aim of this study was to investigate whether aging affects the neural networks underlying personal familiarity when perceiving personally familiar versus unfamiliar faces and places.
Famous person faces and personally familiar faces share the availability of background information to form the experience of recognizing a familiar individual.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural network associated with personal familiarity during the perception of personally familiar faces and places.
The coordinates found by Cloutier et al. [5] are close to an anterior paracingulate activation described by Gobbini et al. [4] for perceiving personally familiar versus famous persons.
Halperin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, was personally familiar with government surveillance.
These symptoms might sound personally familiar, or you may have noticed them in friends.
Americans — at least, the ones that I am personally familiar with — are not at all cross.
I'm afraid I can't help you there, unfortunately, because I'm not personally familiar with the experience of dog-ownership guilt.
WHEN did it become axiomatic that to care about people in economic distress you have to be personally familiar with it?
"I am not personally familiar with this car, but I knew of its existence," Mr. Mullin said in an e-mail.
SOTOMAYOR: I've obviously examined by referencing cases some of the procedures involved in military law, but I'm not personally familiar with military law.
