One early arrival, Wang An , the founder of Wang Laboratories , became a household name.
The story resonated in post-independent Africa, and the character became a household name in the continent.
Noe Hernandez became a household name in Mexico after winning his silver medal in Sydney.
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Blahnik has been designing shoes since 1971, but became a household name when Carrie Bradshaw swooned over his gravity-defying stilettos.
Gen Petraeus became a household name in January 2007, when Mr Bush named him overall commander of US forces in Iraq.
So wrote Pauline Phillips, a California housewife who became a household name across the nation as the cheeky syndicated columnist Dear Abby.
Her father first found fame in the late 1970s with his own form of stand-up comedy and became a household name in Britain with his own series.
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The wines they created in the mid-to-late 1990s won international attention and acclaim, though it would be a while before Malbec became a household name.
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In 2003, he became a household name in Brazil when he was appointed by then President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the Supreme Court.
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Thaksin became a household name in the U.K. in 2004 after he was rumored to be interested in buying a stake in Liverpool soccer club.
Even Nigel Short became a household name on the strength of completely failing to beat Garry Kasparov at that least glamorous of all sports, chess, in 1993.
He said without the change of venue many people would not have been able to see the magician who became a household name due to his television work.
Many of the signatories know Mr Kelly from his early days as an actor, before he became a household name as co-presenter of TV show Game For A Laugh.
The 55-year-old comedienne became a household name with her BBC sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and has gone on to create sitcom Dinner Ladies and West End Musical Acorn Antiques.
The Tennessee native quietly retired in late November after 25 years in which he became a household name in his adopted state as host of "California's Gold" and other televised travelogues on KCET.
He became a household name when his satirical show - likened to Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in the US - began to be broadcast three times a week on one of Egypt's independent satellite stations.
Virtually unknown to the public before the Persian Gulf War, Schwarzkopf became a household name while he oversaw the buildup of 700, 000 coalition troops, including more than 540, 000 U.S. forces, after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Roubini became a household business guru name after prophesying the global economic crash of 2008 long before anyone else was willing to do so.
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Later, when Steve Jobs became even more of a household name, I did end up buying an iPod and later a Mac Mini.
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