The national icon won global recognition for his quartet of glorious goals against England.
Several have won global recognition: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, a performance artist who reads poetry to corpses, was featured at the 2006 Venice Biennale.
As Indigenous Australians have fought for land rights and legal equality since the 1970s, so too their traditional art has won global recognition.
In 2004, he was picked to lead the I.M.F. after winning global recognition during an eight-year run supervising Spain's growth burst as the country's economy minister.
In the 30 years since its publication, at the dawn of the Troubles, northern Irish poets seem to have swept all before them: as well as Heaney, writers such as Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Ciaran Carson, to name just a few, have won global recognition and made Ulster seem the place it is happening in poetry.
Prof Berwick has won global recognition for his work on making hospitals safer.
The work of the Innovation Unit has won global recognition.
Its economy is one of the fastest growing in the world and the country has won global recognition in achieving Millennium Development Goals, with many achieved several years before the 2015 deadline.
Already famous within Korea as the opulent stamping grounds of this nation's nouveau riche, the district now wants to seize the "Gangnam Style" craze as a chance to win the global recognition that it believes it deserves as a center of fashion, entertainment and, self-professedly, conspicuous consumption.
Britain lost a tiebreaker at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, where Norway won the silver medal and its players earned global recognition for wearing flamboyant pants during games.
