And while the rest of the list is littered with famous corporate names such as Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Jack Welch and Richard Branson, the majority is made up of people known little to the wider public but revered throughout the business world.
Amazon is famous for coming up with thrifty, highly automated offerings that transform entire industries.
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Patients who shop around often do so on the basis of intangibles like whether a hospital is affiliated with a famous university or pro sports team.
One of the things Mitt Romney is famous for, along with inventing Obamacare and paying taxes at a very low rate, is driving to Canada with his pet dog strapped to the top of the car.
Ireland is littered with at least 40, 000 neolithic monuments and the most famous is Newgrange, a massive burial cairn and World Heritage Site that breathes with the visions of the ancients and happens to be 5000 years old.
One of the things Ruckus is most famous for is that our smart radios can deal with interference really well.
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The artist is famous for not parting easily with his favorite originals.
Yes, the famous list is there, with rankings, stories and much more.
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Even though one of the walls of the Madison Avenue store is hung with photographs of famous perfumers he's worked with the same way a restaurant or deli might display 8-by-10 autographed glossies of movie stars he counts only one man who actually possessed a supernatural sense of smell.
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The artist known for working with chainsaws, neon lights and AK-47s is perhaps most famous for flanking his charred Ferrari 355 Spider with birch trunks and installing it inside a mirrored cube.
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He is young and charismatic with a famous girlfriend in former No. 1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki.
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Downstairs, waiting patiently in the bar which is lined with many photographs of famous faces, are three former entertainers.
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He is also famous for his mind games with other managers during Premier League campaigns, using the headlines to psych out opponents.
Steve Jobs is famous for hitting the computer market with stuff it didn't see coming, whether it's a smart phone with no buttons or a metal-clad home computer.
And, like Jack Welch, the boss of General Electric, Sir Martin is famous for dressing down subordinates, with phone calls at 2 am and e-mails fired off at all hours.
England is world-famous for its afternoon tea, in which the beverage is served with finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours.
But with the sort of mean software development teams Google is famous for, Microsoft needs to get on the defensive in order to maintain its lead with enterprise customers.
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George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.
The collection includes the famous Ruby Dagger, which is inlaid with nearly 2, 400 precious stones and may have been worn by the Emperor Jahangir himself.
While "gets, " as they're known, garner big buzz for the interviewer, program and host network alike, the fight for the famous is a scrape for scraps compared with a decade ago.
Candace Bushnell, lauded authoress of six New York Times bestsellers is most famous for the creation of a character nearly twenty years ago is back this summer with the release of the second of two prequels of that same iconic character, Summer In The City: A Carrie Diaries Novel.
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Google is famous for trying to stump potential job recruits with brainteasers.
The hulking Churchill Downs with its famous twin spires is still imposing, but is showing its age.
Of course, in France there is no Thanksgiving, and Chablis is most famous there as the wine of choice with seafood.
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Dino and Toni is famous for its pasta alla gricia (pasta with cured pork and cheese), if you get past the mighty antipasti.
What this list shows is how the fascination with fame and the famous continues and newer ways of showcasing them are being invented all the time.
So the vacuum is filled with talk about the private lives of famous people.
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Herb Jeffries, who later became famous with the Ellington band (and is still going strong at 99), is heard on three tracks.
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