Due to the public's overwhelming interest in her, Sarah Bernhardt is widely considered to be the world's first celebrity, and is still revered today.
While philanthropists, politicians, and other public figures were the best-known New Yorkers in the 1870s, by the 1890s, the new elite were people celebrated for their gossip value. Film historian Richard Schickel cites the beginning of the modern celebrity system to the period between 1895 to 1920.
First on our list is David Attenborough. The English natural historian and TV producer will turn 97 years old this year. Also a TV host, he's famous for narrating the BBC series Planet Earth.
1. Tony Blackburn. Tony Blackburn was the first celebrity to win the show back in 2002.
According to tradition, in 534 or 535 BC, Thespis astounded audiences by leaping on to the back of a wooden cart and reciting poetry as if he was the characters whose lines he was reading. In doing so he became the world's first actor, and it is from him that we get the world thespian.
History. The term originates from an analysis of the media-dominated world called The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America (1961), by historian and social theorist Daniel J. Boorstin. In it, he defined the celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness".
Long before Hollywood actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn became iconic stars, popular female opera singers of the early to mid-19th century were among the first American celebrities.
The answer is Florence Annie Bridgwood—more commonly referred to as “Flo” Lawrence, or the “Biograph Girl.” Today, her name is one of the most recognizable in film history, but during most of her life spent in the limelight of fame, no one actually knew what to call her.
Julia Roberts and Clint Eastwood are both among some of the celebrities who have notably turned down the opportunity to get a place on the Walk of Fame. Bruce Springsteen accepted his Walk of Fame honor, but then famously never showed up to his ceremony.
The first motion picture film is believed to be Louis Le Prince's Roundhay Garden Scene. This film was recorded in Leeds in England in 1888. It is approximately 2 seconds long and shows some of Louis Le Prince's family members walking around a garden.
The mother of Jesus, Mary is venerated by both Christians and Muslims, and is probably the most famous woman in history.
Who were the early celebrities? In what is now Europe, some of the earliest known celebrities were politicians, performers, and athletes. Several key figures in Plato's Symposium were Athenian celebrities: the politician Alcibiades, the playwright Aristophanes, and the philosopher Socrates.
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson, also named 'The Rock', is one of the most famous person in the world. Dwayne was a WWE wrestler and is one of the best professional wrestlers in the world to date. The American actor switched to acting from being a professional wrestler in 1995.
Oscar Wilde: the first modern celebrity and the first victim of modern celebrity status. Oscar Wilde was, perhaps, the inventor of modern celebrity, culminating in his celebrated downfall.
Aneta Florczyk
She's won the competition more than any other woman in history, according to Guinness World Records. In addition to this world record, Florczyk also holds a Guinness World Record in lifting up adult men overhead (that would be 12 men in two minutes).
Not only was French and Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but she also won the award twice (and is the only woman to do that, too). Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium, which became monumental in research for cancer treatment and cures.
Female celebrities with "F" names include Farrah Fawcett, Florence Nightingale, Fergie, Frida Kahlo, Faith Hill, Fiona Apple and Florence Pugh.
Dubbed "The Most Interesting Woman in the World" by Outside magazine, Kellee Edwards, host of Mysterious Islands on the Travel Channel, is a licensed pilot and expert scuba diver who flies herself to remote islands for high-adrenaline adventures.
We know believing that is easier said than done, so we collected the following stories of famous celebrities who definitely never gave up, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Stephen King, and J.K. Rowling, for starters. All these folks are now household names, but they didn't become one easily.