Mr Estrada, a tough-talking, hard-drinking populist, won fame as a movie star who played gun-toting defenders of the people.
It's easy to see why these dramaturgically shaky operas don't get performed much, but both have plenty of the melodic invention that won fame for their creators.
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New York Republican Gubernatorial candidate John Faso has an uphill battle against New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who won fame by portraying himself as the scourge of evildoers on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms.
This year's nobel laureate for economics, Edmund S. Phelps, a professor at Columbia, won academic fame for studying the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, ultimately concluding that there really isn't one.
Leroy won instant fame after writing two novels based on a horrific childhood: Leroy claimed to be a former cross-dressing teenage prostitute from Appalachia who had worked truck stops in West Virginia.
The former Royal Marine won international fame in 1997 when he was rescued after surviving on "sheer determination, a little water and a little chocolate" for five days in the upturned hull of his boat in the Southern Ocean during the Vendee Globe race.
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Zeddie Little's life changed soon after he was dubbed " ridiculously photogenic guy" in a photo that won its widest fame on Reddit.
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Mormon art produced one camp genius, the mid-twentieth-century painter Arnold Friberg he won non-Mormon fame as Cecil B.
Charlie Beljan, he of panic attack fame when he won at Disney, felt his heart race when he realized he would play with Mickelson and Els.
Hall of Fame coach John Thompson won the award three times at Georgetown, including the first one presented in 1979-80.
Taylor had extraordinary grace, fame and wealth, and won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work.
Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who won the first World Cup in 1996 with Cigar, said he hopes Royal Delta "breaks well and has a clean trip, " from the No. 8 post.
Two decades ago, the Jays were the toast of baseball, with a roster of All-Stars put together by Hall of Fame general manager Pat Gillick that won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993.
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But he first achieved fame performing works by Chopin, having won the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1960, and familiarity with these pieces has not dimmed their allure for him.
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Over the years, current Hall of Famers Phil Mickelson, Nick Price, Sandy Lyle and Greg Norman as well as a Hall of Fame lock, Tiger Woods, have won the event at TPC, where the tournament moved in 1982.
According to Albert "Buz" McKim of the Nascar Hall of Fame, the pole winner at Daytona has won the race only 17% of the time.
But athletes are starting to push back, contending that they work too hard to have their fame tarnished by the claims that they were won through chemistry rather than through personal achievement.
The Steelers were 11-28-3 during his tenure and he was replaced in 1969 by Chuck Noll, a Hall of Fame coach who held the job for 23 years and won four Super Bowls.
Reed, Bradley, Monroe, Walt Frazier, Jerry Lucas and Dave DeBuscherre all were elected to the Hall of Fame as players, and Jackson made it as a coach who won a record 11 titles.
Jackson's own vocal performances were mainly scattered over singles, although some have been collected into albums, including a 2011 reissue of his FAME recordings, "Don't Count Me Out, " which won critical acclaim.
Only 46 pitchers in baseball history have won 250 or more games and 33 of them have a plaque hanging in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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When the Ancient Games were revived as the Modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896, local hero Spiridon Louis won the marathon -- as he should have -- to bring his country international recognition and fame.
Cash, who had won practically every existing country music award, in 1992 was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"I rode the Grand National 15 times and won it twice, " said Carl Llewellyn, who was inducted into the Grand National Legends Hall of Fame this year.
They won an American Lifetime Achievement Award, a Brit Award and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
West Auckland's claim to fame is that they represented Great Britain in the inaugural 'World Cup' competition in 1909 and won it.
Hall of Fame pitchers Carl Hubbell (1933, 1936) and Hal Newhouser (1944, 1945) each won the award twice. 10 pitchers had achieved this honor as a member of an American League ball club, while eight had done so for a National League ball club.
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