That's the new favourite moniker for fashion designer – a title awarded to Donatella Versace, Alber Elbaz at Lanvin and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and Fendi.
In 1895 she became prima ballerina assoluta, a title awarded by the Imperial Ballet to only one other dancer, the Italian Pierina Legnani.
After becoming an "international grandmaster," the highest title awarded in chess, when he was 25, he decided to quit chess entirely and to return to M.I.T.
Mr. Havlicek was the event's defending celebrity champion, a title awarded for the number of bluefish and striped bass caught.
Maurice Ashley of Queens, the only African-American to achieve the rank of grandmaster, the highest title awarded by the World Chess Federation, went a step further.
The monarch is known as the "defender of the faith", ironically a papal title awarded to Henry VIII shortly before his break with Rome.
In Formula One, teams have two main goals: winning the constructors' title, awarded to the team that scores the most total points, and winning the drivers' title, which goes to the driver with the most points.
Political pressure has been mounting for the title awarded to Sir Fred in 2004 for "services to banking" to be withdrawn over his role in the subsequent collapse of RBS.
It's a Bollywood-style singing and trivia competition, with the title awarded annually to two of the city's roughly four thousand workers, most of whom come from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka.
Finegold, 40, was named an international master 20 years ago, and it seemed only a matter of time before he would become a grandmaster, the highest title awarded by the game's governing body, the World Chess Federation.
