Celebrity

Various celebrities, from top, left to right: Lionel Messi • Katy Perry • Selena Gomez • Kylie Jenner • Kendall Jenner • Dwayne Johnson

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A celebrity is a person who is well known and gets lots of public attention, or attention from other people. A person whom the public knows such as a person in government might be well known but not a celebrity unless something else makes them interesting to other people.

Usually, a person becomes a celebrity from entertainment such as someone who is in movies, someone who sings or raps songs, or someone who plays a sport. Some celebrities are not famous because of something they have done. They are famous most often because of which family they are a member of and/or how they are talked about by the media. These people are often called "famous for being famous".^[source?]