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garlicroastedpotato t1_j8aw3k6 wrote

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They're all famous though. In modern times. If you're famous enough to have a Wikipedia entry about you, you're famous.

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JermuHH t1_j8lydzv wrote

There are possibility of wikipedia pages for literally anything as long as you have sources and they have any significance in anywhere whatsoever. Would you consider someone really not well known who has some significance in small subculture and isn't known outside small group of people a celebrity?

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garlicroastedpotato t1_j8njn8v wrote

Yes. Like I don't know any of the people who compete in horse jumping and I suspect most of the world doesn't. But they're all famous. Someone like David Chalmbers is a complete and total rockstar in philosophy... but broadly the world doesn't know who he is.

The term celebrity simply refers to being known. Sometimes the word is modified "local celebrity" to refer to people who are well known only in your town or city.

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