local celebrity

noun

: someone whom everyone in the area knows or recognizes
She's become something of a local celebrity.

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With his work now held in major museum collections, from London’s Tate and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris to New York’s Guggenheim and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., Boafo has become something of a local celebrity in Accra. Victoria Woodcock, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025 Nuzum was a local celebrity, a university football star, born and raised in New Mexico. Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025 Jim Hollinger was a wealthy and celebrated businessman, and was married to a local celebrity. Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025 Visiting the bar is your best shot of spotting the local celebrity IRL. Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for local celebrity

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“Local celebrity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/local%20celebrity. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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