The phrase "is reputed for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a reputation or recognition that somebody or something has, usually of a positive nature. For example: The teacher is reputed for his fairness and willingness to help students.
The museum, in the same building, is reputed for its gallery of modern paintings.
Abou Zeid is reputed for being a "hostage banker" who — according to legend — has hidden £14m in the desert, all of it money raised from kidnap ransoms.
It is reputed for being difficult to pass on, and he said that he thought it might end up a boring race for the fans.
The latter is reputed for its strict water quality assessment.
Moreover, TiO2 is considerably available, inexpensive, non-toxic, and it is reputed for its high chemical stability [3].
Analyst Ang Lay Pheng notes: "The Kwek family, which controls the group, is one of the most prominent families in Singapore and is reputed for its business acumen.
June 566 Istanbul, Turkey Theodosius Of Alexandria, (flourished 6th century died June 566, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Tur.]), patriarch of Alexandria (535 566), theologian, and leader of the Monophysites in Egypt and Syria, who were reputed for their asceticism and also for their mystical prayer.
Pomegranates, which contain high levels of antioxidants, have been reputed for millennia to have therapeutic properties, and recent medical studies convinced the Resnicks that the fruit could be the next big thing.
According to many medical books, the roots of Rubia plants being reputed for their satisfactory efficacy were wildly used for the treatment of cancers, tuberculosis, rheumatism, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, epistaxis, contusion and menoxenia in the Chinese traditional medicine [3, 4].
Artificial neural networks (ANN) are reputed for their capability to learn and generalize complex engineering phenomena and were therefore adopted to cope with the highly nonlinear relationship between the before-RPC spot speeds, the geometric characteristics, and spot speeds on the RPC.
He's reputed for cruel and sparring challenges in minimalism; I once heard him give a talk in which he said nobody would call his games "beautiful".
