He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2002.
Basquiat started out as a graffiti artist before finding fame as a contemporary artist.
Mr. Nicklaus owed his initial success as a designer to his fame as a golfer.
He gained fame as the investment banker who took Yahoo (YHOO) and Amgen (AMGN) public.
Mormon art produced one camp genius, the mid-twentieth-century painter Arnold Friberg he won non-Mormon fame as Cecil B.
He rose to fame as the charismatic young co-founder of one of the first personal computer companies, Apple.
The heavy-metal shock rocker and founder of White Zombie found new fame as the writer-director of slasher films.
Farewell My Concubine saw him rise to international fame as the film was a worldwide art house success.
Born John Barry Prendergast in 1933, the York-born musician first found fame as leader of the John Barry Seven.
Jobs first rose to fame as the smooth-talking young co-founder of one of the first personal computer companies, Apple.
Charlotte, who rose to fame as a classical artist, said she wanted to protect her children from media attention.
He attained fame as a symbol of triumph over adversity when he competed in the London Olympics last year.
Mr Estrada, a tough-talking, hard-drinking populist, won fame as a movie star who played gun-toting defenders of the people.
Wootton Bassett gained fame as its residents stood quietly showing respect for fallen servicemen whose bodies were driven through the town.
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For a young group of painters later to achieve fame as the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, the summer of love came in 1857.
Her rags-to-riches-to-exile journey begins in the humility of her youth as a poor girl who gains fame as a beauty pageant winner.
Scientists enjoy their 15 minutes of fame as much as everybody else.
The game will feature new storylines where the player will be able to rise to fame as an acrobat, singer, magician or a DJ.
Heston found fame as an actor starring in such films as El Cid, Planet of the Apes and as Moses in The Ten Commandments.
Fiskars has gained a tiny measure of global fame as the home of some of the most famous scissors designers in the world.
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As well as her athletics career, Hancock has also enjoyed some television fame as one of the participants in last year's BBC television series Beyond Boundaries.
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Mrs Palin, 45, shot to fame as John McCain's Republican running mate in the election of November 2008, becoming a lightning rod for praise and criticism alike.
The campaign culminated in the release of a few records, many composed by Chip Davis, who later gained fame as the founder of the instrumental group Mannheim Steamroller.
So did the fact that Mrs Arroyo had been trained as an economist, whereas Mr Estrada's main qualification for the presidency was his fame as a film actor.
It was there where she "unexpectedly" sprang to fame as a model after following her friends' suggestions that she enter a competition held by lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur.
The duo rose to fame as teenage actors on BBC children's show Byker Grove before a stint as pop singers, using the names of their TV characters, PJ and Duncan.
Stewart Brand, the 78-year-old technologist who came to fame as editor of "The Whole Earth Catalog, " introduced an ambitious plan to recreate extinct species, using DNA from museum specimens.
Two of her heroines were Marie Curie, a pioneer in the study of radioactivity, and Alma Mahler, who gained rather more notorious fame as a result of her love affairs.
Ephron, who died of leukemia last summer at age 71, gained fame as the writer of films such as "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle, " which both also starred Hanks.
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