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When Caroline Kennedy faintly hinted that she was interested in Hillary Clinton's vacant senate seat she got pounded as a political novice and dilettante using her famed name to vault over a pack of far more worthy, seasoned, and political dues paying elected officials to get the seat.

Instead, they stand alongside ill-famed names like Stephen McNallen and his Asatru Folk Assembly, Jack Donovan and The Wolves of Vinland, and countless others who intertwine hate with Paganism.

That big weekend showing for "Shutter Island" was also a standout performance for another famed movie name: the director Martin Scorsese, who had the best box-office opening of his long career.

But he had to do far more than hack at waste at Jaguar, which by the early 1990's was little more than a famed brand name with a waning reputation.

Before becoming a full time advocate for affordable housing, Stanley was renowned for twenty-five yeass as the owner and operator of Jespersen's Pastry Shop in Scarsdale Village, where his famed chocolate pastry, named for Sarah Bernhardt, brought joy to countless fans.

Missoni, who was 58 when the plane went missing, was the son of Ottavio Missoni, the man who started a small Italian knitwear shop in 1953 and turned it into a hugely successful name famed for its multicoloured zigzags and other striking patterns.

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In the 1950s, the charity St Dunstan's was a household name famed for its work with blind former military personnel.

On March 1, the famed Ahwahnee — a name affixed to countless trail guides and family memories — will become the Majestic Yosemite Hotel.

Mika Salmi — The founder and ex-CEO of Atom Entertainment and now, following Viacom's acquisition of Atom this year, president of global digital media for MTV Networks, brings a welcome entrepreneurial perspective to a roster of famed cable-TV brand names, including MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and TV Land.

The list of about 100 names includes famed fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, a longtime friend and recent campaign contributor; pop singer Helen Reddy and her then-husband and manager, Jeff Wald; Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and David Karrr, a politically connected Renaissance man later named in published reports as a source for the KGB.