You can refer to the most powerful, rich, or talented people within a particular group, place, or society as the elite.
双语例句
例： a government comprised mainly of the elite.
主要由精英组成的政府。
例： We have a political elite in this country.
我们国家有一群政治精英。
例： the governing elite of the 18th-century Dutch republic.
18世纪荷兰共和国的执政精英。