Jekyll, who died in 1937, was the sister-in-law of the famous gardener Gertrude Jekyll, and famed in social circles for her abilities as hostess.
(The role, written for Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, is famed in opera circles as the highest and perhaps most difficult ever composed, with its light, fast coloratura singing and large intervals between consecutive pitches).
The defence is headed by Ed Chernoff, whose team intriguingly includes Michael Flanagan, one of LA's top drink-driving defenders who is famed, in legal circles, for his ability to pick holes in the evidence of police blood analysts.
His most obvious successor (Mr Benmosche is 68 years old and was diagnosed in 2010 with an unspecified cancer) is Peter Hancock, who now heads the general-insurance division but is famed in financial circles for having pioneered credit derivatives at J.P. Morgan two decades ago.
Already an icon in architectural circles, famed Catalan artist Antoni Gaudí may soon be receiving a new accolade: sainthood.
The members of Occupy Wall Street's famed drum circle were not so lucky.
This isn't the first time vandals have targeted the park's half-dozen inanimate figures, a tradition that dates back even further than its famed drum circle.
Meanwhile, a magnetometer survey carried out by the University of Birmingham's Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project revealed another henge less than a kilometre (0.6 mi) away from the famed stone circle.
You cannot buy a car, or fill it with petrol, or undergo certain kinds of surgery, or drill for oil, without benefiting in some respect from virtual reality, the phenomenon for which he is famed and, in certain circles, practically deified.
