How to use "famous" in a sentence

Aspen is famous for its mountains and the countryside around it

One of them, Butch Cassidy, was very famous

The Gallery is part of Horseshoe Canyon, and it's famous for the huge rock paintings which cover its walls

I was famous because I was the writer of a book called The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths

Ned Land, the famous whale killer, was also on the ship

It had pictures by famous painters on the walls and glass cases with beautiful shells from the sea.

He's not famous and he's angry about that."

The waters off the coast of Norway were famous for this

But because my medal was a more famous medal than theirs, it was more important to Jenny and her friends.

So we went with Mr Felder, and I found myself acting in a film about the jungle - with Raquel Welch, the famous film star! 'Is that really Raquel Welch?' I asked Mr Felder

Today he is probably the most famous killer in the world, Jack the Ripper

A recent suspect is the famous artist Walter Sickert, known as the British Impressionist

He wanted money, he wanted to be famous, and he wanted respect.

For the first thirty minutes, they chose the illusion of a big nightclub with a famous band playing

She loved to meet people who were rich and famous

Her name was Caroline de Winter and she had been famous for her beauty

Sinatra was in town, at Caesar's Palace, perhaps for the last time, and even at eighty years of age, he generated more excitement in Vegas than any other famous name

The famous Pennsylvania Alexander's had always been prominently associated with the struggle for minority civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, the crusade against capital punishment, and social idealisms of every variety

What would the elder Alexander's, the famous statesmen, think if they knew he'd soiled his hands with blood? As for the fact that it was sometimes his job to order other men to kill, he supposed his family would understand

A second writer, a surly fellow, believed that he would soon be a famous director and informed us of this at every opportunity

We won the arbitration, and the writer has not, in the intervening twenty-odd years, become a famous director or, as far as I know, a director of any status.

He was quite famous for his scrambled eggs

The man at the ticket office of the theatre said, 'Oh, you're the famous acrobats from the Himalaya Mountains

I thought of those famous words from the Bible: 'The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children.' The fatal similarity between two daughters of one father had caused all this suffering.

Her most famous book is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

"We have a lot of statues of famous men

Let's have a statue of this famous woman!" they said.

One of the most famous fighters for girls' education today is Malala Yousafzai

Malala became famous, both in Pakistan and around the world, as a fighter for girls' education

Harriet Tubman led the way for another famous fighter for human rights, Rosa Parks

She is famous because she did not stand up! When Rosa was a young woman, in many places in the USA, black people - who were called "coloureds" at that time - and white people could not sit together.

The most famous is a woman called Emmeline Pankhurst

In 1903, she helped to start the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which became famous

In 1913, a suffragette called Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at a famous horse race

The most famous one was called "Freedom or Death"

She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, the famous university in Paris

Simone de Beauvoir wrote her most famous work, Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex), in 1949

In it, she said, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." With this famous sentence, Simone was the first thinker to write about sex and gender

In the Arab world, Nawal El Saadawi is very famous

The MeToo movement talks about famous men who have hurt or harassed women

She was one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known.

Lise was very famous late in her life, but she was not given the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Rosalind is most famous for her work on DNA while at King's College, London.

She is most famous for discovering a medicine for malaria, which has saved millions of lives.

In England, she became famous as an intelligent and beautiful American woman

Thanks to Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the name of Bandaranaike became very famous

One famous woman who was at the London Olympics in 1948 was Fanny Blankers-Koen, an athlete from the Netherlands

At the same time, famous men in the film business, like Harvey Weinstein, were accused of harassing and assaulting women - and men in TV and politics have also been accused of these crimes

In 2018, a very famous man in American TV, Bill Cosby, was convicted of sexual assault and was sent to prison for three to ten years.

Many famous women said "Me Too" - Hollywood actors like Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Lawrence and Uma Thurman have all said it