The subject of fan interest can be narrowly defined, focused on something like an individual celebrity, or more widely defined, encompassing entire hobbies, genres or fashions.

After the flight, Gagarin became a worldwide celebrity, touring widely abroad.

Alexander is a figure of outstanding celebrity and the dramatic episode with the Gordian Knot remains widely known.

Earhart was a widely known international celebrity during her lifetime.

A teen idol is a celebrity who is widely idolized by teenagers ; he or she is often young but not necessarily teenaged.

In the 1960s, they were widely seen as prosperous and charming celebrity nightclub owners and were part of the Swinging London scene.

Best known for her work in the United Kingdom, she is remembered in the United States for a television advert that presented her as a celebrity, even though she was not widely known in the US at the time the advert was produced ( see below ).

Beyond its surface plot of confused identity and tormented lust, the film is a mordant comment on Hollywood mores and the pitfalls of celebrity and near-celebrity, in much the same vein as two other more widely publicized American films released that same year, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Joseph Mankiewicz's All About Eve.

The incident was widely reported in the newspapers furthering his celebrity, but the story redacted the important detail that Wigfall had not spoken to Beauregard in two days.

He was widely considered to be an excellent centre of great physical power, and achieved a measure of celebrity in his time.

A superstar is a widely acclaimed celebrity.

Not widely known by the general public, Baylos was a favourite of many " celebrity " comedians in New York City.

He quickly became one of the most popular dogs around and was a widely known celebrity in the 1920s.

Since its inception, the brand has been widely received by the celebrity community, and as a result, it uses celebrity models for most of their advertising campaigns.

Straczynski had long participated in many online forums since the 1980s, and is widely credited as being the first notable artist and celebrity to interact with fans online, even before the advent of the world wide web.

She became a writer and, later, a senior editor of the widely circulated TV Guide magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, where she wrote celebrity profiles, political columns and editorials.

8 years have passed, all their friends and family have happy lives ( Motomura and Nigiri have gotten married and Futana is a celebrity playboy ), the Shimeru clan have spread throughout the world, and their condition is now widely known and accepted.

He was widely credited, and publicly denounced, for launching ( or buying ) her career as a celebrity, for not long after their marriage, she made her breakthrough as the Dubonnet Girl, appearing in print and television commercials for the apéritif wines, which a company he owned distributed.

Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.

The postwar period coincided with the rise of the radio disc jockey as a celebrity separate from the radio station, also known as a " radio personality ".

Bias is also known to exist in sports broadcasting ; in the United States, broadcasters tend to favor teams on the East Coast, teams in major markets, older and more established teams and leagues, teams based in their respective country ( in international sport ) and teams that include high-profile celebrity athletes.

However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

He won election as the Kings County District Attorney in 1939 and his prosecution of the organized crime syndicate known as Murder, Inc. made him a national celebrity.

Carmen initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883 ; thereafter it rapidly acquired celebrity at home and abroad, and continues to be one of the most frequently performed operas ; the " toreador's song " from Act 2 is among the best known of all operatic arias.

VH1 has created an entire block of shows dedicated to celebrity reality, known as " Celebreality ".

Music writers have also applied the term, wrongly in the context of this article, to bands or vocal groups that sold huge numbers of albums, headlined massive concerts or have a high celebrity or media status, regardless of the previous ( or even subsequently acquired ) fame of their individual members, such as the band Led Zeppelin, wherein only Jimmy Page was well known at the time the group formed.

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support — Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads.

He owes his wide celebrity to the Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes ( 1595 – 1619 ), better known as the Guerras civiles de Granada, which purports to be a chronicle based on an Arabic original ascribed to a certain Aben-Hamin.

Despite these problems, Fernando remained an accessible and popular celebrity, known for signing many autographs.

When Indiana claimed official statehood in 1816, Decatur's name was as well known and revered as any star or celebrity today, thus when the town of Decatur was founded in 1836 it took its name in honor of the war hero.

When Indiana officially became a state in 1816, Bainbridge's name was as well known and revered then as any celebrity today.

* B. Scott-American internet celebrity who is best known for his YouTube blogs and later website Lovebscott. com.

For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell .< ref > Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande ( 1927 ) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.

When Scottish Courage ended its contract with Dee it claimed that John Smith's was now so famous it no longer needed a celebrity to endorse it, as Dee was replaced in 1998 by a cardboard cut-out known as the " No Nonsense Man ".

The team fielded cars at Le Mans, Daytona, and Sebring endurance races, but is best known for Garner's celebrity status raising publicity in early off-road motor-sports events.

Wright was a minor media personality, and his marriage to Joy Beverley of the Beverley Sisters ( at a time long before the era of footballers being known for having celebrity girlfriends ) in July 1958, by which time Wright was 34, was one of the most successful showbiz marriages.

The anchors gained great celebrity, and surveys showed them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, or the Beatles.

On Saturday Night Live, Kazurinsky played various characters and was known for his celebrity impersonations.

Aimee Semple McPherson ( October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944 ), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles, California evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s.

He is also well known as an author, syndicated radio commentator for the Sportsnet Radio Network, creator of the Rock ' em Sock ' em Hockey video series, and celebrity endorser.

Their seclusion for that period in the papal library has given celebrity to many names that would have been known only in the verification of the discoveries of Eustachius.