local celebrity
noun
: someone whom everyone in the area knows or recognizes
She's become something of a local celebrity.
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The station's weather forecaster, a local celebrity named Frank Benny, won't be coming into work today.
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Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
These days, Voorhees continues to attend fan conventions and events, and enjoys his status as a local celebrity on Martha's Vineyard, where he's currently retired.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 June 2025
State of play: Which local celebrity would make for the perfect lookalike extravaganza?
—Troy Smith, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
Fans celebrate Monty and Rose, the piping plovers who aided conservation and brought Chicagoans together
In a win for endangered piping plovers, the Great Lakes has record breeding season
2023: Legacy lives on
A local celebrity appeared at Montrose Beach.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
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Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
These days, Voorhees continues to attend fan conventions and events, and enjoys his status as a local celebrity on Martha's Vineyard, where he's currently retired.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 June 2025
State of play: Which local celebrity would make for the perfect lookalike extravaganza?
—Troy Smith, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
Fans celebrate Monty and Rose, the piping plovers who aided conservation and brought Chicagoans together
In a win for endangered piping plovers, the Great Lakes has record breeding season
2023: Legacy lives on
A local celebrity appeared at Montrose Beach.
—Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
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“Local celebrity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/local%20celebrity. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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