"This may be my claim to fame," Walker told Golfweek.
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Bertrand is excited about the business' new claim to fame.
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Dead Horse Bay has one other dubious claim to fame.
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But that's not Loma Linda's only wellness claim to fame.
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Meanwhile, other once-celebrated commodities have lost their claim to fame.
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North Korea has no other claim to fame except its nastiness.
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CK: Yes that was my … Exactly, my claim to fame. Okay.
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His claim to fame: influential analyses of overspending in American medicine.
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The city's claim to fame, which was a vampire movie. Right.
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We of course start by watching her claim to fame, Legally Blonde.
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Every big-name celebrity makeup artist has a signature claim to fame.
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Nirenberg's big claim to fame is cracking the brain's code for vision.
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Trump's primary claim to fame is as a Manhattan real-estate developer.
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GS: CR's foray into fintech is, of course, your claim to fame.
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That's what their claim to fame is the importance of social identity.
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KS: What was your big claim to fame of clicking here, really?
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Her early claim to fame was in being a celebrity little sister.
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Its one claim to fame is the first onscreen appearance of Boba Fett.
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Its free tattoo-removal service has become the organisation's biggest claim to fame.
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The desk's claim to fame is how well its features have been integrated.
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Instead, Victor Cafe's claim to fame is its appearances in the "Rocky" franchise.
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The company's claim to fame is its hybridization of dress and running shoes.
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House of Marley's big claim to fame is its attempt at sustainable construction.
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Mr. Khashoggi's first claim to fame was his acquaintance with Osama bin Laden.
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Along the way, Morrow said, he came to learn Knowles' claim to fame.
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Gone are the days of the Jackson 5, its greatest claim to fame.
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"I'm just a regular person, I've got no claim to fame," she said.
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Sunway TaihuLight's other claim to fame: Its chips are also made in China.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio – David Butler found his claim to fame at 91 years old.
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Cardi B's first claim to fame was as a no-holds-barred truth-teller.
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Zelda Maps' current claim to fame is obtaining the location of every single one.
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Coming from humble beginnings in South Wales, it's not a bad claim to fame.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Keenan is the daughter of Cynthia Rowley, the fashion designer.
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The city's claim to fame is its past role as hosting a plant for Nokia.
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Another claim to fame for NXP is the co-creation of NFC, along with Sony.
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However, the 2017 moon does have one unique claim to fame: It's a minimoon. Space.
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Claim to fame: Billingsley has appeared in numerous films and television shows over the years.
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One big claim to fame is that the tablet grows the more your child does.
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When questioned by the outlet, Brennan backed off on Summerhill's bullet-studded claim to fame.
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While that's a fine declaration, perhaps its biggest claim to fame is its well-crafted interior.
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That claim to fame belongs to a series of "speed" switches made by Chinese company Kailh.
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But Jones' biggest claim to fame is undoubtedly the Roomba, which Jones is credited for inventing.
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That last claim to fame is how she introduced herself on-set, recalled her Halloweentown colleagues.
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Also, what's up with these bogus accusations that Hadid's only "claim to fame" are her parents?
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Get Me has the claim to fame of being Austin's oldest alternative to Uber and Lyft.
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After all, it's not every day a fashion brand earns a 100th-birthday claim to fame.
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Durban's claim to fame is hot curry, a spicier, punchier version of the North Indian original.
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In 1971, George Lucas launched his production company, Lucasfilm, and with it, his claim to fame.
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"They were one of those kinds of 'claim to fame' types of pieces," Ms. Cox said.
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But none of that is his claim to fame, and none of it explains that nickname.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Buckley is making waves with her flame-red hair and powerful voice.
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"My claim to fame is that I have 100-plus copies of 'Little Women,'" she said.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Garner is an artist whose work interrogates society's relationship to black bodies.
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Oddly, a dude whose claim to fame is losing a Senate race is the hottest early name.
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Video: Real Engineering/YouTube Fixing this critical problem would prove to be Shilling's greatest claim to fame.
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Matthew has reached sustained winds of 145 mph, but that's not its only notable claim to fame.
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Mastery of social media to advance his career was Jane's father Rogelio's self-declared claim to fame.
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After all, the Ray J sex tape from 2007 was the reality star's original claim to fame.
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Its claim to fame: U2 played on it when they performed a private party at the home.
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Claim to fame: Baxter was a founding member of Steely Dan and later joined the Doobie Brothers.
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Cincinnati's food claim-to-fame is Skyline Chili, which serves a unique combination of chili and spaghetti.
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But Toaster's claim to fame comes from a 2013 incident when he was attacked by a raccoon.
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Her mother Malena Ernman has a claim to fame of her own: she's a Swedish opera singer.
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The Sonos Beam's other claim to fame is built-in support for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
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However, this claim to fame would attract a devastating terrorist attack above the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland.
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A claim to fame is that milk chocolate is said to have been invented there in 1875.
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But wonder was all he could do, since dancing for Cunningham was his main claim to fame.
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The artist's claim to fame bridges many talents, but she's best known for fashioning astonishing baked goods.
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So he settled on the start to summer, the season that earned Coney Island its claim to fame.
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But one of the experts he cited is Richard Charnin, whose claim to fame is JFK conspiracy theories.
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Charlotte's claim to fame over the past year has been that she never loses on pay-per-view.
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The waiters knew to push their claim to fame: barbecue spaghetti, basically a sweet and meaty pasta Bolognese.
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But Dalio also has a lesser-known claim to fame: He helped facilitate McDonald's now-iconic chicken McNuggets.
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But Top Pot's heart-stopping, dense, old-fashioned doughnuts are also a claim to fame for the chain.
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The Bellagio fountain in Las Vegas was WET's first major project and arguably its biggest claim to fame.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Boateng is a young actress who uses the theater to dissect race and politics.
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The city's claim to fame in other seasons is as an industrial hub and Spain's largest fishing port.
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The family spoke to Buzzfeed about their Boston terrier, a rescue named Oliver, and his newfound claim to fame.
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Johnny Knoxville, whose claim to fame includes inflicting pain onto his groin area, gave two answers: Deadwood and Jeopardy.
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As well as being Switzerland's most decorated coach, Rappan holds a unique claim to fame among the football annals.
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Her other claim to fame, however, is making an attempt on the life of pop art pioneer Andy Warhol.
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Ethereum's claim to fame is that it is also a platform for "smart contracts"—business rules encapsulated in software.
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The company's main claim to fame so far is the unnamed aircraft that will be doing the heavy lifting.
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This was his claim to fame before he began to collaborate with his longtime, now ex-, partner, Marina Abramović.
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Misfit's claim to fame was the attractive Shine fitness tracker, which required no charging and was easy to accessorize.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - To bacon and tragic Shakespearean princes, Denmark can add a new claim to fame: wind power.
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Claim to Fame Mr. O'Neal is a photographer and self-described "artist-activist" who documents environmental and cultural changes.
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Claim to fame: Ostrum appeared in the 1971 classic"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" as protagonist Charlie Bucket.
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But his distinctive sound on the chromatic harmonica was Mr. Thielemans's primary claim to fame and, especially, to fortune.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Bikoff is an interior designer who founded her firm, named after her, three years ago.
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" Claim to Fame Matt FX is a prodigal music supervisor for Comedy Central's "Broad City" and Hulu's "Difficult People.
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But The Babadook's true claim to fame and continued relevance stems from its antagonist's emergence as a queer icon.
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That clunky claim to fame has lured many a start-up to the Innovation District in its revitalized downtown.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Dapperton is a musician, songwriter, producer and designer known for his youthful, '90s-inflected videos.
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Claim to fame: Despite his young age, Mr. Wolff is already a seasoned actor and a first-time director.
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From then on I had a claim to fame and in retrospect, it was a bit out of line.
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For Occidental, or Oxy as it is known, Mr. Obama has long been its little-known claim to fame.
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"Its biggest claim to fame is as the birthplace of cricket's most sought-after trophy — The Ashes," said Airbnb.
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"My earthly claim to fame is being the mother of Vernon Ochs' sons — all good Christian men," Nola says proudly.
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First, even though Wolverine's claim to fame is his deadly claws and his love of killing, there's rarely any blood.
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Its claim to fame is the ability to manage content wherever it lives, whether in the cloud or on-premises.
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While the Echo's claim to fame is Alexa's extensive number of skills, a robust search engine powers the Google Home.
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Either way, EET 83309 now has the very sweet claim to fame of being far blingier than its meteorite cousins.
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"I've never gambled in my life," Donald Trump bragged in 1987, when building casinos was his main claim to fame.
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We're not sure which is the cooler claim to fame: looking like an Olympic athlete or looking like Zac Efron.
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Firebase's claim to fame is realtime communication, making it perfect for chat services and other "live," interactive apps and websites.
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It's the typical self-deprecating humor that Sheeran has made his claim to fame on — and the fans loved it.
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His real claim to fame, though, was this video of his signature salting technique that went viral in January 280.
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Claim to fame: Lawrence played the irritating, bacon-loving Beans in Disney's "Even Stevens," which ran from 2001 to 2003.
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The restaurant's claim to fame is its invention of the slider, a miniature hamburger that it's still known for today.
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"Maybe that's our claim to fame, that we're the only guys that didn't go when everyone else did," Matt says.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Khan is an astrologer and tarot reader with a YouTube channel that has about 115,000 subscribers.
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The town's claim to fame is hitting the highest-ever temperature in Queensland, of 49.5 degrees Celsius (121.1 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Claim to Fame Mr. Greer's eclectic creative practice threads the needle through film, collage painting, clothing design and embroidered appliqué.
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Unlike groundhogs, which make their predictions in the shadows, Mr. Fybish was not bashful about brandishing his claim to fame.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Kwong is a model, landscape designer and fashion cross-pollinator, helping brands become more environmentally friendly.
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But with Romney's claim to fame forgotten, his Republican friends accused Obama of plotting a "government takeover" of health care.
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Although it offers plenty of tasty menu items, like omelets, crepes, and burgers, IHOP's claim to fame is its iconic pancakes.
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Marshall's claim to fame: He authored Virginia's own anti-trans "bathroom bill" — one that's even stricter than North Carolina's infamous HB2.
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Huawei's new flagship smartphone for 2016 is here, and its big claim to fame is a pair of Leica-certified cameras.
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Until recently, the species' claim to fame was its habit of dragging tasty rodent and bird cadavers underground (thus the name).
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Its biggest claim to fame was the visit of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" in 1745: it was notable only for its normalcy.
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One of Washington, DC's oldest and most historic restaurants is Old Ebbitt Grill, and its seafood is its claim to fame.
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"Living in England was the thing to do for the rich Persians, their claim to fame," Abdoh said in an interview.
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The Tupelo, Mississippi, native made her claim to fame by launching her immensely popular televised ministry "Paula White Today," in 2001.
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Its claim to fame is that it works with most modern day browsers without requiring people to download a special app.
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Columbus's claim to fame — other than being Vice President Mike Pence's hometown — is that it's an unlikely haven for modernist architecture.
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Mr. Durst, although the offspring of a well-known Manhattan real estate family, does not have a similar claim to fame.
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The site's claim to fame is that users can post almost anything — even if the content is racist — without being sanctioned.
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Though GoldFusion is its rightful claim to fame, the Reign shirt still scores highly in other areas like fit and comfort.
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Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, and Gwilym Lee co-star alongside Malek, taking a deep dive on the band's claim to fame.
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Its claim to fame is in the nylon- and boar- bristle combo, which is designed to boost both hair growth and shine.
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Remember that&aposs when she really cut her teeth, her claim to fame was 2000, I went back and watched that today.
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Some are respecting the "hustle" it takes to land a big beauty deal, while others can't forget her original claim to fame.
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South by Southwest Interactive's claim to fame includes being the place where companies like Meerkat, Foursquare and Twitter have gotten their start.
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Reality TV may be Lauren Conrad's claim to fame, but that doesn't mean she wants her son to follow in her footsteps.
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The original G-Ro's claim to fame were its massive wheels designed to lift over curbs and offer a smooth, steady ride.
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My claim to fame is I always do my own driving... I keep putting it out there, and they never ask me.
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His real claim to fame came from the hundreds of online essays he published, with a focus on go-to-market strategies.
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Astounding's major claim to fame was that it specialized in "hard science fiction," which was rigorously based on extrapolations from actual science.
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Farage's big claim to fame: he was one of the key proponents of Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union.
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And our claim to fame was, back in 2017 for the holiday season, Oprah put it on one of her favorite things.
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But Barnum's true claim to fame was helping make the circus an explosively popular form of entertainment with his iconic Ringling Bros.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Sawayama is a model and musician whose catchy pop anthems examine millennial relationships with social media and technology.
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Until their highly publicized detention, the Garratts' only claim to fame was owning Dandong's top-rated destination on TripAdvisor: Peter's Coffee House.
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A handsome young man with a close-cropped beard, Wani differed from many militants because his claim to fame was social media.
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But Lachey's main claim to fame now is that he won the second-ever season of "Dancing with the Stars" in 2006.
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Oppo's new smartphone, the Reno Ace, has a simple claim to fame: it charges from 0-100 percent battery in 22 minutes.
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This claim to fame is the first thing mentioned in his Twitter bio and it earns a prominent mention in his resume.
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They hired an activist whose main claim to fame was staging demonstrations targeting some of the pillars of mainstream American Jewish life.
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I had been following Calloway since 230, back when her claim to fame was not Mason jars and salad, but a book deal.
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The former secretary of state needled the Donald's business record, hitting on well-reported incidents and turning his claim to fame against him.
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The Home Alone effect Despite the many new features in his life, Culkin's claim to fame from Home Alone will always remain relevant.
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But for all the hype — and the original TV show's claim to fame — Baywatch doesn't glorify any body types as better than others.
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Claim to fame: Henn was discovered by "Aliens" casting agents in the school cafeteria of a US Air Force Base, according to People.
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The phone's biggest claim to fame is its GPS, which is supposed to be very reliable and precise, as well as its modularity.
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He is a candidate whose claim to fame is his lack of association with (and stunning lack of preparation for) conventional governance. Mrs.
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Karen Hoydic is a 53-year-old mother of three and accountant from Lawrenceville, GA. But that is not her claim to fame.
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Its claim to fame is that it was designed to work with cloud computing, something that didn't really exist when Java was invented.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Harrison is an actress, comedy writer and screwball performer who doesn't take her rising profile in Hollywood too seriously.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Mohammed is a designer and the creative director of Khiry, a luxury jewelry line inspired by the African diaspora.
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Claim to fame: Gashi is a rising rapper and singer who has collaborated with DJ Snake, French Montana and other big industry names.
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Claim to Fame: Zsela Thompson is a rising singer and songwriter of melodic, folksy ballads popular with the bicoastal art and fashion scene.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Singh is an outspoken human rights activist and upper-crust gallery owner who sees no distinction between the two.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Gorman is a poet, author and activist who is the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
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Winnipeg's claim to fame is that it is a key railway and transportation hub connecting the eastern and western parts of the country.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Varona is a photographer who has toured with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and rap today.
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The G3PRO's other claim to fame is its adjustable arm with four angles that extend your reach to difficult areas like hip flexors.
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King's claim to fame is starring as the piercer who faux-punctured a then-unknown Alicia Silverstone in Aerosmith's 22 "Cryin'" music video.
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The exact spot is currently marked with a plaque, a map, and the EU flag, while multiple signs highlight Westerngrund's claim to fame.
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It was Rhombus' claim to fame, and it put Alexandra on the cover of Wired, albeit looking considerably more dapper than she did today.
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Sanders denounced super PACs and corporate donations; his claim to fame was that his average donation amounted to $27 (it actually fluctuated a bit).
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The 33-year-old's initial claim to fame was The Amanda Show, followed by her roles in movies like She's The Man and Hairspray.
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The rear camera has a 643-megapixel sensor, but it's the front-facing 264-megapixel imager that is the F226 Plus' claim to fame.
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Her claim to fame has been a commitment to reforming the financial sector, primarily in response to the fallout from the 28503 great recession.
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But Emeryville has a better claim to fame; its many shoppers are served by some of the best-paid retail staff in the country.
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Towed along on their journey is Auld Nancy's grandniece, Pansy, whose chief claim to fame is that she is roundly despised by almost everyone.
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Living In 8 Photos View Slide Show ' The neighborhood of Marine Park, a compact enclave in southeast Brooklyn, has a major claim to fame.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Crane is a young designer devoted to a fabric that rarely gets love from his fellow Brooklyn cool kids: linen.
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Claim to Fame: Sunni Colón is a singer-songwriter with a '70s funk-meets-disco sound, and a crooning voice akin to Frank Ocean's.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Traore is a private chef and occasional model who is about to open his first pop-up restaurant in Manhattan.
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He moved his operation to its current four-story location in 2013 after diversifying into other merchandise, but fur remains his claim to fame.
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Instead, its biggest claim to fame prior to MoviePass was acquiring Zone Technologies, the creator of the controversial RedZone navigation mobile app, in 2016.
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His main claim to fame came in 2008, a year in which he got a $100 million bonus as an oil trader at Citi.
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Her claim to fame prior to latching herself onto the Trump campaign was being on Donald Trump's reality show and being fired by him.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Cohen is a standup comedian known for her self-deprecating humor about being a woman dating in New York City.
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Yabe got interested in uneven textures by studying Enkū (1632-1695), an Edo period monk, whose claim to fame is carving 120,000 wooden statues.
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He's the winemaker behind Carriel dels Vilars, a natural wine label whose claim to fame is that absolutely nothing is added to the wine.
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Its claim to fame is a potent blend of green tea, ginseng, and vitamin B to help stimulate the skin for a plump, hydrated look.
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The Camera The Pixel's main claim to fame (and one that Google enlists the help of many A-list celebs to endorse) is its camera.
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But seafood's claim to fame is its omega-23 fatty acids, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), all of which are beneficial to health.
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The rest of LG's Friends lineup is a series of more conventional accessories, whose claim to fame is simply an automated sync with the G25.
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In Brussels, his current claim to fame is a lawsuit against the European Commission, objecting to the migrant relocation quotas approved in September last year.
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Kasabian, formed in Leicester in 1997, represents the city's musical claim to fame these days, although the 1970s crooner Engelbert Humperdinck was also from Leicester.
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Before the referendum, Clacton's claim to fame was a spectacular, weekend-long riot between rival gangs of Mods and Rockers over Easter weekend of 1964.
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Caroline Calloway is seen as one of the first social media influencers, paving the way for others on Instagram to make their claim to fame.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Ullman founded a super PAC called One Vote at a Time in 2016, after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla.
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Claim to Fame: Not many 21-year-olds can lay claim to having contacts for Jaden Smith, Stephen Curry and Elon Musk in their smartphones.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Fumudoh is a saucy and sarcastic comedian known for her barbed satire of race, politics and the pitfalls of young adulthood.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Towley is known for her hypnotic and improvisational hip-hop dance moves that dart, jiggle and bounce with prima ballerina grace.
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THEN: Howie Dorough's biggest claim to fame in the Backstreet Boys is producing a fart that made its way into the 2000 song "The Call."
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Claim to Fame Mr. Taylor is an interiors writer with a penchant for color who made a name for himself with the design blog, Bright.
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But it has still become an indelible part of the "Full House" world, as well as a San Francisco Victorian with a claim to fame.
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It's the first browser to become an OSHow's this for a claim to fame: This little web browser became the basis for a whole operating system.
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Considering the dog lens is part of Snapchat's claim to fame, you could say this feature is something the company should've embraced a long time ago.
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Claim to Fame: Mandla is the son of Stevie Wonder and is starting to make a name for himself as a singer, TV personality and actor.
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My claim to fame is I always do my own driving -- I was on 'Top Gear,' and I did [my lap] in a very good time.
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Grass, it turns out, is a fairly lucrative claim to fame, accounting for more than a billion dollars in economic activity each year in the state.
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The Russian's main claim to fame is a brief reign as Bellator heavyweight champion—an honor he earned by winning the organization's Season 7 heavyweight tournament.
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The 13.3-inch Spectre's big claim to fame here is its minuscule size and the amount of power its able to pack inside that tiny frame.
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There was also Tom O'Connor, 85, a retired cabby whose claim to fame was driving for 50 years in Manhattan and never receiving a traffic ticket.
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My claim to fame is I always do my own driving — I was on Top Gear, and I did [my lap] in a very good time.
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His largest claim to fame is that he helmed Marcel the Shell, the short film that gives voice (Jenny Slate's) to a tiny shell wearing shoes.
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Still, Trump's electoral college victory was tabula rasa for a man whose main claim to fame was being one of the country's most influential white nationalists.
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Claim to fame: Acting alongside his twin brother Cole, Dylan Sprouse starred in the Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" as Zack Martin.
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Shop bedding at Boll & Branch hereWhy you'll like it: Boll & Branch's claim to fame is the fact that three living US presidents sleep on its sheets.
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In other words, if Twitter is moving away from the short, pithy statements that were once its claim to fame, it's because we wouldn't stop talking.
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Claim to Fame: Mx. Adams, who identifies as gender nonconforming, is an artist who works as the creative director for SZA, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter.
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Also along for the adventure is James Murray (Angus Macfadyen), whose claim to fame is that he previously traveled with the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
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Nurmagomedov's opponent for the lightweight title will be a fighter whose claim to fame has been publicly feuding with the UFC, Felder's original opponent Al Iaquinta.
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But in 2019, it's past time for Mr. Biden to recognize that his so-called claim to fame was no more than a calculated political choice.
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Number of followers: 3.6 millionAge: 34Video type: Uhas' claim to fame may have been his brief stint on the reality show "Big Brother" back in 2013.
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Claim to Fame: Richie Merritt is the newly discovered breakout actor in "White Boy Rick," a crime drama film set in 1980s Detroit starring Matthew McConaughey.
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But in 2019, it's past time for Mr. Biden to recognize that his so-called claim to fame was no more than a calculated political choice.
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That claim to fame has been lost: The North African animal that may have inspired the sculptures of Anubis has been reclassified as the African wolf.
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Analogue spearheaded this approach with the help of Kevin "Kevtris" Horton, whose claim to fame among hobbyists is developing a mod to make the NES HDMI-capable.
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Tania's main claim to fame was starring alongside Sean Connery as Tilly Masterson -- one of the early Bond girls who didn't make it come the end credits.
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Theater professor Kyna Hamill set out to trace if Medford, Massachusetts, or Savannah, Georgia, was the Christmas carol's birthplace, as both used as their claim to fame.
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I've been involved with the royal family for a number of years, but my claim to fame is introducing Prince George to the world—and Princess Charlotte.
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What can I, a schmuck whose only other claim to fame is occasionally being mistaken for a more hunched Jack Penate (#indieamnsety), possibly offer Toronto's favored son?
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Alton Brown is one of the nerd kings of food and this book's claim to fame is right there on the front cover: This Time, It's Personal.
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The Islamic State's biggest claim to fame — its territorial empire in Iraq and Syria, or "caliphate" — has all but collapsed thanks to a US-led military campaign.
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Mr. Herz, who worked on other radio and theater productions as stage manager and casting director for Welles's Mercury Theater company, staked one additional claim to fame.
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Chrissy Teigen is already a successful model, TV star, author, and Twitter legend — but now she has yet another claim to fame to add to the list.
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And Wuzhen, whose claim to fame is being the birthplace of the 20th-century novelist Mao Dun, is seeking to be at the forefront of that change.
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Sarah Flint is a relatively small online-only shoe designer, but the brand's claim to fame is being the regularly cited favorite shoe brand of Meghan Markle.
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Since her initial claim to fame in 2007, Kim Kardashian has carried many titles, from reality TV show star to selfie queen to skincare and beauty mogul.
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Caroline Calloway is seen as one of the first social media influencers, paving the way for other Instagram influencers like her to make their claim to fame.
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Now Lives Tokyo Claim to Fame With more than 7.6 million followers on Instagram, Ms. Watanabe is one of the most popular social media celebrities in Japan.
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Her greatest claim to fame as a woman who has spent most of her career scouting talent is bringing the hair metal band Skid Row to Atlantic.
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Claim to Fame Kelvin Goncalves is a fashion retailer and designer behind Elkel, an upstart boutique that features up-and-coming designers with a distinctly queer sensibility.
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Management companies like Vivid and TalentX are stacked with teen clients whose claim to fame is millions of TikTok fans with supernatural cheekbones and a sellable personality.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Dunham is an emerging multimedia artist known for her fluid art installations as well as for her alter ego, QT, a pop singer.
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Name: Donte Colley Age: 22 Claim to fame: Mr. Colley, a Toronto native, began posting dance videos to Instagram in 2015, when he was in high school.
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Barry first made its claim to fame by taking a concept that was vaguely funny and making it indisputably hilarious — then transforming it into something unshakably dark.
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Rachel's claim to fame is that it lies just 30 miles north of Area 51, making it the closest possible gathering point for potential Area 51 raiders.
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Starry's claim to fame has long been the avoidance of such caps, something the company says shouldn't be a problem in the days and weeks to come.
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Claim to fame: Mr. DeSantis is one-third of the Manscapers, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn with an eclectic clientele drawn from the city's cultural fauna.
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Claim to fame: Naomi Mishkin is an artist and budding fashion designer, whose work frequently takes everyday objects and subverts them with a clever, feminist-skewed twist.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Starn is a hard-to-pin-down creative spirit who has been a child actress, a baker and, more recently, a fashion designer.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's biggest claim to fame is that it founded the Golden Globe Awards; its members are the voting body that determines the winners.
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Zac Efron never met Michael Jackson face-to-face, but he does have one pretty random claim to fame: he once made the singer cry over the telephone.
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Adidas' headquarters is stationed in Herzogenaurach, a town of 290,23 just outside of Nuremberg whose claim to fame is that it is home to both Adidas and Puma.
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New York City steakhouse Old Homestead, whose claim to fame is being over 100 years old, is hosting a mind-blowingly expensive Thanksgiving dinner this year, Gothamist reports.
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Jung Saem Mool, if you aren't familiar with her, is one of Korea's most revered professional makeup artists, and her claim to fame is the "transparent" makeup look.
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MakeApp's claim to fame, though, is that it can also digitally strip away your makeup and turn your perfectly-airbrushed selfies into something well, a lot less flattering.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Gyimah is a star volleyball player with the U.C.L.A. Bruins, as well as a rising hip-hop artist who performs under the name Kofi.
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Although most fans know him as a bartender and a reality star on Vanderpump Rules, it appears Tom Sandoval's first claim to fame was actually a music video.
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But Samsung's claim to fame seems to be that by waiting for the spec to actually be completed, it'll be better able to conform to the 43GPP's requirements.
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Former "Survivor" contestant Michael Skupin -- whose claim to fame on the show was falling in a fire pit -- has been charged with several counts of possessing child porn.
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Juanpa Zurita's claim to fame is his comedic sketches on Vine, but the Mexican vlogger still creates skits on YouTube with stars like Lele Pons and Hannah Stocking.
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CLAIM TO FAME A former Olympic snowboarder and professional rider for Burton, Mr. Andrew is an artist and unlikely fashion collaborator who goes by his alter ego, GucciGhost.
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I used to tell people that there were folks in the book that I am Facebook friends with, so that's a little bit of a claim to fame.
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Her claim to fame was a bad, snappish attitude, and molding that into the form of rap verses turned out not to be that much of a leap.
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Here I saw Schellenberg's claim to fame: the remains of another Roman villa, complete with a stone oven and views over Ruggell, the Rhine and the Swiss Alps.
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Still, along with the triple axel, Harding will always have this claim to fame: She is surely the only person ever to report being stalked by professional golfers.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Colombo is an art director, model casting director, fashion stylist and designer, whose work explores cultural and racial appropriation in fashion and the arts.
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Perhaps its biggest claim to fame in recent months was some unsolicited attention Time received from President Trump over the weekend about its "Person of the Year" issue.
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As you know ... Carlton's claim to fame on "Love Is Blind" is not telling Diamond he was bisexual until AFTER they got engaged, leading to an epic spat.
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The lawsuit also claims that Flywheel received proprietary information from Peloton via Michael Milken, whose claim to fame was pleading guilty to violating securities laws back in 1990.
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DSLR The Canon EOS Rebel SL3's claim to fame is that it's a small, lightweight DSLR at a mirrorless price that offers great image quality all-around.
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Claim to fame In 2014, Mr. Wolfond founded Good Thing, a design company that makes pared-down, utilitarian housewares that are as on-trend as they are affordable.
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Our political processes were so broken that a political novice with a checkered business history and claim to fame from reality television rode his way to the presidency.
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" Excuse me, but this is the same man whose main claim to fame was to go on TV each week and snarl "You're fired!" to some hapless "apprentice.
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His minor claim to fame was arresting the mobster Vinny Asaro, the suspected mastermind of the 22014 Lufthansa heist depicted in "Goodfellas," for using a forged driver's license.
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Have you ever wanted to own the sweat-soaked game-worn shirt of a reliever whose sole claim to fame will be punching another, more talented baseball player?
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Her real claim to fame, though, was her role in the '60s television show The Avengers, which was actually the first British show to be aired on American television.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Bernstein is the founder of We Wore What, a popular fashion blog started four years ago while a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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"Being a world record holder is the only claim to fame I'll ever have – I've been showing everyone the pictures of the fish since I caught it," he said.
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Ms. Kano's biggest claim to fame is creating the wearable version of Kumamon, a red-cheeked bear that has become one of the most popular fantasy creatures in Japan.
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Reminiscent of Apple and Google and other giant tech behemoths, we never actually find out what their main claim to fame is, just that they're all-powerful, all-seeing.
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His claim to fame, in addition to having been Nasdaq's chairman in the early part of that decade, was paying brokers for the right to complete their trading orders.
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Claim to Fame Lil Freckles (her real name is Emma Carroll) is a pixie-faced rapper whose unapologetic and raunchy lyrics betray the high-low melodrama of millennial life.
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"Platters and Boards" by Shelly Westerhausen, $18.08If their claim to fame is making epic charcuterie boards and hosting the best dinner parties in town, they'll love this fun cookbook.
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This was in the '90s when all those brands came on the scene, like Frankie B, Earl Jean, True Religion, but my biggest claim to fame is Juicy Couture.
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A former publicist for Paramount Pictures, Ms. Gerstel said she had a claim to fame: she was Olive Oyl in the Paramount float in the 1980 Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Bellizzi is a stylist and costume designer who worked on the film "Good Time," transforming Robert Pattinson into Connie Nikas, who plays a con artist.
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Curry's value comes in many forms, but his claim to fame is the pull-up three, a trendsetting practice that elevated him, and his organization, to the NBA's penthouse.
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Slack's claim to fame is that within the chat app, you can access other apps to do tasks, such as add a new task on a to-do list.
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Amtorg's main claim to fame after World War II was as the place where the notorious F.B.I. turncoat Robert Hanssen went first to begin spying for the Soviet Union.
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Their fun fact — this was their claim to fame — is that they were the only landlocked county in America surrounded by just two adjacent counties, which is objectively hilarious.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Beydoun is a well-documented fashion plate and the force behind Super Yaya, a worldly label that is equal parts Supreme and Dakar street style.
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My claim to fame was that the musician Charlie Daniels, who sang "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," had a log cabin in the area - and I built his chimney.
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Food was Bourdain's passion and claim to fame ... and the 'Parts Unknown' host's condo has a full kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances ... decked out with white marble countertops.
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InnerVision CrystalsWhy we love it: This shop's claim to fame might have been its promotion with crystal aficionado Spencer Pratt, but that's not the only reason it's on our list.
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Artists such as Wiz Khalifa and DJ Khaled act as rap role-models to Owen, and maybe even part of the reason the young rapper earns his claim to fame.
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Luckily, it looks like that decision was remedied and the show has finally landed on Pop TV, which will lose its claim-to-fame TV comedy Schitt's Creek next year.
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The Governor of Louisiana recently visited Capitol Hill bearing some sorely needed good news: Louisiana, the incarceration capital of the world, is earnestly working to drop that claim to fame.
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The region's primary claim to fame is the prehistoric caves of Font de Gaume, Grotte de Rouffignac and Lascaux (Lascaux 237, the latest reproduction of the original, opens in December).
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Claim to Fame Mr. Cook is the musician behind Starchild & the New Romantic, a funk-inspired R&B solo act that got its name from a George Clinton alter ego.
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While eBay's claim to fame has been the online marketplace for used items, its push to change the rhetoric with a focus on brand new, brand name items is apparent.
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But his claim to fame during Golden State's four-season run of roaring success might be his role in helping the Warriors establish 29 passes as their nightly team goal.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Flemons is the founder of the unisex label Phlemuns, perhaps best known for creating the two-piece outfits for Solange Knowles's "Don't Touch My Hair" video.
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The Qualcomm-backed start-up's claim to fame is its tiny electrocardiogram, which tucks into a custom Apple Watch band and screens for atrial fibrillation, a leading cause of strokes.
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In 2009, a first location opened near the corner of 38th Street and Avenue of the Americas, an area whose claim to fame is being the city's unofficial bead district.
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Claim to Fame He is a founder of M Woods, a contemporary art museum in Beijing that focuses on internet-minded works from artists like He Xiangyu and Olafur Eliasson.
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Instead, at any time not occupied by its current claim to fame, "Lip Sync Battle," that channel seems to define men as being interested exclusively in law enforcement and incarceration.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Kevitch is the founder of Brighten, an app that allows users to send compliments to friends anonymously, as a kind of antidote to social media bullying.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Morales, better known by his stage name Wiki, is a gaptoothed rapper whose effusive verses chronicle the intricacies and exploits of growing up in New York.
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Claim to Fame A two-time All-American wrestler in high school, Mr. Geick is his college's star mat man, as well as being an aspiring poet and fiction writer.
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All this happened despite the fact that O'Rourke is a former member of Congress without a detailed platform, whose main claim to fame is losing a long-shot Senate race.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Hicks is a satirical illustrator with a royal pedigree and family connections, known for her watercolor-and-ink drawings that poke fun at fashion and pop culture.
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The Maverick X's main claim to fame is its design, which is meant to encourage, rather than restrict, the act of raising one's arms over one's head — something swimmers do often.
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Four years later, Chloe is looking a lot less skeptical — though it looks like she won't be able to shake off her claim to fame for a long time to come.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Kim Booster is a stand-up comedian and actor who currently stars in "Sunnyside," a sitcom created by Kal Penn about six immigrants pursuing the American dream.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Santos is a founder of Homepolish, a two-year-old start-up that offers personalized interior design services by the hour through its network of 500 designers.
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Rookie guitarist Mike Alvord cut his teeth with LA metallers Black Widow, whose main claim to fame was a spot on Metal Blade's Metal Massacre III comp with Slayer and Znowhite.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Mesnik-Greene is the founder of Lasting Smiles, an eco-friendly lip-balm company that raises funds for cleft-palate lip surgery for children in developing countries.
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To further milk this somewhat pathetic claim to fame, "Hamlet's Castle" doubles as the venue for the Shakespare Festival every year, where thespians can gather to bask in ole William's genius.
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Each member has a claim to fame: the first to help an adoptee find her biological mother, the first to identify a body, the first to find a killer's full name.
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That was the future Silicon Valley's greatest claim to fame in the 1920s, when it was a sleepy landscape of fruit orchards and farms far removed from the nation's industrial might.
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Name: Lauren Ash Age: 31 Claim to fame: Ms. Ash is the founder of Black Girl in Om, a wellness website focused on women of color, which she started in 2014.
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Its main claim to fame, though, is the quad rear camera with a 64-megapixel sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide sensor, and two 2-megapixel sensors to assist with depth.
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Instead, his main claim to fame is his ill-starred wedding night, during which unspecified "circumstances" in the "person" of his beautiful young wife, Effie Gray, repelled the religious-minded Ruskin.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Moon is something of a mad scientist of hair coloring, dyeing the heads of Kanye West, Miley Cyrus and Madonna in expressionistic rainbow hues that look painterly.
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His claim to fame is that as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court he defied a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama judicial building.
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I won't say much about the otherwise identical hardware on these two Samsung machines, since I think it's the Google-driven Android / Chrome OS combo software that's their key claim to fame.
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While extended bass is Beats' claim to fame, the Solo3's best feature may be the Apple-designed W1 chip inside of it, which is the same one that's inside the Airpods.
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Wolbachia had a recent claim to fame when scientists began using the bacterial strain to attack dengue- and Zika-carrying mosquitoes in an effort to curb the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.
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Its claim to fame would not be "being able to climb rocks", Marchionne told analysts on a conference call, adding the board had yet to decide whether to go down that road.
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Nestled in the center of Coeur d'Alene River Basin, Kellogg was once a mining boomtown, but today its claim to fame is that it's home to the nation's largest lead superfund site.
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The auction money isn't the point here Was Zimmerman ever going to get $65 million or more for an item whose sole claim to fame is shooting an unarmed 17-year-old?
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The segment, which involves a star asking James Corden for a ride and subsequently singing their own songs in the passenger seat, has quickly become the Late Late Show's claim to fame.
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That's according to Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga, whose claim to fame resided with its Facebook-based games like "'Farmville" before it transitioned to creating its own mobile gaming services and brands.
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Until the mining boom, its claim to fame was a late-1940s three-year strike by nearby ranch workers that became a pivotal moment in the assertion of Aboriginal rights in Australia.
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Yet if Posner's connection to economics has been his principal claim to fame, his most distinctive approach to economic thinking in the law captures the conundrum at the heart of his career.
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Claim to Fame: A multihyphenate artist and social ringleader, Ms. Escobar is the latest in a glamorous line of Warhol-like ambassadors to downtown New York's nexus of art and night life.
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Claim to Fame In 2016, Tommy Pico released his first novel, "IRL," an epic poem in the form of an extended text message that was awarded the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.
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Claim to Fame: First known as a surfer and skater with a daredevil streak, Mr. Mock became a catwalk regular last year when he modeled in shows for Louis Vuitton and Alyx.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Alondra is an art-book dealer and gallerist whose résumé includes stints cataloging illustrations for the painter Alex Katz and working closely with the print aficionado John McWhinnie.
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But the shock seems to have prodded regional tourism authorities to come around to the view of locals, who have long regarded the island's mountainous interior as its singular claim to fame.
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However, the school's pivotal role in a 2628 Supreme Court decision that gave students the right to vote where they attend school is its important but less well-known claim to fame.
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One of Warner Brothers' biggest stars, de Havilland had scored an Oscar nomination for her role in Gone with the Wind, but her biggest claim to fame was her relationship with Errol Flynn.
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The show's real claim to fame, however, is the song "Sugar, Sugar," which was created for the show and was released in 1969 as if Archie and friends were really the band responsible.
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" The Wall Street Journal recently reduced the 2150-year-old representative to someone "whose claim to fame is winning one election, looking cool on Instagram, and proposing ways to spend other people's money.
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The site's claim to fame ended up not just being tied to the guild's in-game success, but because it was the place to go for that most precious of MMO resources: knowledge.
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His retirement from politics came after he lost the 2016 gubernatorial primary against Rosselló, then a political newcomer whose main claim to fame was that his father was once governor of Puerto Rico.
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In contrast, if a commentator's only claim to fame is a pretty face, quick wit, and overenthusiastic use of the retweet button, they should think twice about the position of influence they seek.
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Claim to Fame: Bunny Michael (whose legal name is Melisa Rincón) is a gender-nonbinary artist and rapper who is perhaps best known for posting "Me and My Higher Self" memes on Instagram.
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Claim to Fame: A former backup singer for Solange Knowles and Lykke Li, Ms. Tolkin is a nascent pop star and fashion plate who evokes early Madonna and the effervescent melodies of Robyn.
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Claim to Fame: For Ms. Sachs, navigating the art world comes naturally: Her father is the artist and designer Rolf Sachs, and her grandfather was Gunter Sachs, the late Swiss photographer and collector.
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Frei's previous claim to fame was rehabilitating the executive and managerial team at Uber Technologies in the wake of a series of fiascos that ultimately brought down the company's chief executive, Travis Kalanick.
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The refreshed SX12 has an additional claim to fame: while future releases may reclaim the title this year, the Vaio is currently the lightest laptop you can buy with a hexa-core chip.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Van Hagen is a dashing, shaggy-haired art adviser and curator known for his gilded touch and a roaming exhibition called "What's Up," which showcases 50 young contemporary artists.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Smith is a baker and an artist, known for her work as the pastry chef at New York hot spots like Café Henrie, El Rey Coffee Bar and Luncheonette.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Dimayuga is the executive chef of Mission Chinese Food New York, the cool temple of Sichuan cuisine on the Lower East Side known for its ferocious, tongue-numbing fare.
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It hosts the Senior Little League Baseball Eastern Regional Tournament every year, its main claim to fame, and is in the midst of refurbishing and repurposing its historic port on the Delaware River.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Gilford is a photographer and filmmaker who honed his plasticized vision of popular culture after studying under Barbara Kruger as an art student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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But while the stars of the major European leagues, no matter what their origins, can stake a claim to fame and fortune, some of the Wild Boars cannot even count on a permanent home.
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Bregoli's initial claim to fame is squarely in the tradition of '90s talk shows featuring out-of-control teens acting out for those who tuned into Jenny Jones, Phil Donahue, and Sally Jesse Raphael.
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Kallstadt's claim to fame is its local delicacy, Saumagen, stuffed pig's stomach -- former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's favorite food -- and its local vintage, a fine dry Riesling, often served at royal banquets across Europe.
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Aside from its artistic prowess, the Chin Men theater has another claim to fame: it was once the weekend haunt of a teenage Ang Lee, and often shows the famed director's movies for free.
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Before Kaplan came along, the home's biggest claim to fame was that the silent movie actor John Barrymore, a Stetson family friend and notorious alcoholic, would come there to dry out before film shoots.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Gates is a model and the host of "States of Undress," a travel series on the new cable channel Viceland that explores the societal impact of fashion in various countries.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Ali has a namesake line of unisex jewelry that evokes early 2000s hip-hop with its street-wear-inspired use of hardware staples like chains, dog tags and safety pins.
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Claim to Fame: Once best known as the drummer for M.I.A., Ms. Gandhi made headlines in 2015 when she ran the London Marathon without a tampon, in a defiant act known as free-bleeding.
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Australians are not used to being overshadowed by their smaller neighbor, whose primary claim to fame until now has been "Lord of the Rings," and which they tend to view as quiet and provincial.
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Its main claim to fame in World War II was that one of its crew members was a member of the Coast Guard, Victor Mature, the Hollywood heartthrob remembered for loincloths-and-leotards poses.
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CLAIM TO FAME Mr. Carrots was the creative force behind Peas & Carrots International, a street wear brand in Los Angeles that he founded with his friends Joshton Peas and Casey Veggies, a breakout rapper.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Vreeland, the great-granddaughter of Diana Vreeland, the storied Vogue editor, is a singer-songwriter and multi-hyphenate fashion darling, so on-trend that she even has a fan site.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Baginskiy is a luxury hatmaker for today's "It" girls and Instagram stars, best known for his hard-brimmed baker boy caps in wool felts, nubby tweeds and other handcrafted materials.
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Bowen's claim to fame, aside from his podcast Las Culturistas which he hosts with fellow comedian Matt Rogers and, of course, his appearances on Refinery29's After After Party, are his lip-sync impersonations.
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Mr. Falcone made his initial claim to fame in 2008 when he earned billions for himself, Harbert and other investors by betting against the subprime mortgage market on the eve of the financial crisis.
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In addition to offering some of the most Instagrammable bath and body creations known to humankind, Lush's second biggest claim to fame is its long-standing commitment to fighting animal testing in the beauty industry.
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In a sketch called "Queers in History," Escola struts jauntily across the stage wearing a newsboy cap and underwear, pretending to be P. Fancifeather, a man whose claim to fame is swimming the Atlantic Ocean.
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Meanwhile, Qualcomm's claim to fame is that it essentially pioneered CDMA—a type of wireless communication network—in the 1990s and has since made its bread and butter by charging royalties on its 130,000 patents.
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Her previous claim to fame is arguably a photo that went viral of her 2-year-old daughter throwing a tantrum on the Oval Office floor in front of former President Barack Obama in 2015.
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But this was no average senior portrait — no, the up-and-coming makeup artist's claim to fame was that he brought his own photography props to ensure that his highlight would pop off the page.
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It hasn't been a formal repertory company staffed with actors for about a decade, and its biggest claim to fame, "Line," the longest running play in New York, has been on hiatus since the spring.
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Vicente Zambada-Niebla's central claim to fame is that he is the scion of Ismael Zambada Garciá, Mr. Guzmán's longtime deputy who took over a faction of the Sinaloa cartel after Mr. Guzman was arrested.
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Polls show the race nearly deadlocked against Democrat Doug Jones, a former prosecutor whose claim to fame is obtaining a conviction for members of the Ku Klux Klan who bombed a black church in 1963.
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OTHER CLAIM TO FAME Jennifer Lawrence wore one of the store's vintage chokers when she appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to promote the 2016 "X-Men: Apocalypse" and has worn other pieces.
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Now, after nailing her role as a stripper in Hustlers and teasing the May release of Swimming Lessons, the actress has yet another new claim to fame as the ambassador for CoverGirl's Clean Fresh collection.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Zeinali is a pop-obsessed videographer beloved by the likes of Petra Collins, Selena Gomez and Paris Hilton for his comical internet fashion clips done in his signature mash-up style.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Markowitz is a full-time Snapchat filmmaker who has carved out a social media niche creating youth-oriented videos for celebrities and brands like Coca-Cola, Jolly Rancher and Shaquille O'Neal.
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But the national tide of women running for elected office — a reaction to the presidency of Donald Trump — has even reached this sparsely populated area of America whose lone claim to fame is legalized prostitution.
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Dr. NakaMats is an eccentric Japanese inventor and self-professed polymath whose biggest single claim to fame is for licensing the floppy disk to IBM corporation in the 1970s (though IBM disputes details of the story).
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But besides making Trolls music, dabbling in fashion, and photo bombing his wife on the red carpet, Timberlake has a claim to fame that really takes off on social media each spring as April fades away.
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And Ethereum, whose claim to fame is to enable "smart contracts", has recovered after one of these self-executing business agreements, a venture fund called the DAO, went terribly wrong (although other crises have erupted since).
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He's a 22019-year-old straight white guy whose claim to fame is winning a few elections in a state that Trump won handily in 2016 and that has a population of just over 1 million.
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He's a 53-year-old straight white guy whose claim to fame is winning a few elections in a state that Trump won handily in 2016 and that has a population of just over 2018 million.
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The achievements of the woman with the longest undefeated streak in WWE history were pushed aside by the mere presence of another woman who's primary claim to fame is being formerly undefeated in a different universe.
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Claim to fame: Best known for her lead role as Read more:Where are they now: What all your favorite '90s stars are doing todayTHEN AND NOW: Here's what all your favorite '90s singers are doing today
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Aashika Bhatia's claim to fame is a handful of popular roles as a child actress, but she's moved that following at age 19 over to TikTok, where she shares videos of herself dancing and lip-syncing.
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Irka Mateo is a Dominican mother of two whose claim to fame is a homemade drink that has cured, by her estimates, 58 cases of anemia, the common disorder that leaves blood cells short on oxygen.
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Since his death, however, he has earned a more macabre claim to fame, with his remains at the center of a disagreement between two Roman Catholic dioceses, each of whom want the honor of interring them.
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Claim to Fame: The second son of Snoop Dogg, Mr. Broadus stepped away from a promising football career (he was a wide receiver for the University of California Los Angeles' Bruins) to pursue work in fashion.
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Until recently, the town's biggest claim to fame — beyond its significant Native American history — was a Swiss-made tram that is said to have the steepest vertical lift for a four-passenger gondola in North America.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Pendleton is an artist and rising art world star whose work has been included in the Venice Biennale and acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Tate Modern.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Sanchez first made a name for herself on Instagram, where she showcased fashion images from the '90s and early 2000s alongside selfies and mirror pics where her own style is on display.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Benz is a creative director at Montauk's sceney Surf Lodge and a founder of the digital black book Cinq, which allows users to exchange contact-details cards and connect with contacts nearby.
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But her biggest claim to fame was her book "The Love Boats," which inspired three television movies: "The Love Boat" in 1976 and "The Love Boat II" and "The New Love Boat," both in early 1977.
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That's because the website is part of an ongoing culture war between politicized factions of well-known sci-fi and fantasy authors and their fans, by someone whose claim to fame is writing viral supernatural-tinged erotica.
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Some other specs: Aside from its unbearably long name, the LG V53 ThinQ 25G's claim to fame is a new biometric security measure called Hand ID, which reads the veins in your hand to authenticate your identity.
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Known for starting the Great Wall and burying scholars alive, he has a new claim to fame: the central bank has drawn on his construction of a national road system to help explain its new monetary system.
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He was a well-regarded doctor who even attended to the Queen when she gave birth, but his claim to fame more than a century later is his discovery during a deadly outbreak of cholera in 1854.
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For goofs, Turo is now renting out the car of Erlich Bachman, the pseudo-successful entrepreneur character whose one claim to fame prior to the events of the show is a decent exit for his startup Aviato.
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A claim to fame for the school is that, in 1908, it was one of the first to serve lunch to its students, according to a site study by AKRF, an environmental, planning and engineering consulting firm.
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There's a pool with a swim up bar, a jerk chicken shack, a French cafe, Italian restaurant, a Caribbean place, and a sushi restaurant with its main claim to fame being that it was on the sand.
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Punta del Este also has another claim to fame: For decades, wealthy Argentines and others have moved money out of their country and into real estate in Punta del Este to hide it from the tax authorities.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Smit-McPhee, who is in the next "X Men" movie, and has appeared in a short film for the fashion label Kenzo, is a rising star who has drawn strength from physical pain.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, an adviser to Mr. Trump on the coronavirus, has a new claim to fame: Doughnuts adorned with his image have become a top seller at a shop in Rochester, N.Y., the Democrat & Chronicle reports.
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Claim to Fame In addition to being a straight-A student and a linebacker for his college football team, Mr. Turner is a budding filmmaker with a knack for making homespun content that ricochets across the web.
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She even went against her own claim to fame and suggested people record the Bachelor premiere and watch it during halftime or after the Alabama-Clemson championship game, when they aired on the same night — she's that dedicated.
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Meryl Streep has her unparalleled acting chops, Channing Tatum has his lascivious dance moves, Kim K has her controversial, barely-clothed selfies, and of course, Zac Efron has his claim to fame: a set of impossibly chiseled abs.
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Volmink holds a public health degree from Harvard and a doctorate in cardiovascular medicine from Oxford, and his claim to fame in academia is his leadership role with Cochrane, an organization that reviews clinical trial results for doctors.
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Huntington's new claim to fame is that it's the subject of Heroin(e), an Oscar-nominated documentary short that follows a fire chief, a realtor, and a judge who came together to start the county's drug court program.
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"The beginning of our drive reminded me of our honeymoon, when we road-tripped up the New England coast, stopping in small towns and taking part in whatever happened to be that city's claim to fame," she recalled.
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A freshman House Republican known for his bill to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and allegedly intimidating former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is seeking a new claim to fame: the party's leading voice on addressing climate change. Rep.
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Claim to Fame Last week made official what art world insiders have suspected for years: The tireless but glamorous Ms. Fremont does much of the heavy lifting at the Art Production Fund, the NoHo-based public art organization.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Greco is the star and on-camera personality of "Danielle Live!" and "VFiles Shopping Network," online shows created by VFiles, the trendy SoHo streetwear boutique where Ms. Greco also happens to be a buyer.
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Shop Crane & Canopy hereWhy you'll like it: Crane & Canopy's claim to fame is a clever duvet design that makes it look like you spent 20 minutes making your bed, thanks to some strategically-placed color blocking and piping.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Nirui is a self-described "luxury remixer" known for putting a D.I.Y. spin on designer labels, like a tank top made from Gucci garment bags and an asthma inhaler bedazzled with the Dior logo.
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But Mr. Ramírez, a former leader of the North Valley drug cartel, had another claim to fame, he told jurors on Monday: He was the primary supplier to Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican kingpin known as El Chapo.
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Tubize's greatest claim to fame in soccer is as the hometown of Eden Hazard — the Chelsea star grew up just a few streets away — and its second is as the site of the Belgian soccer federation's training base.
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Claim to Fame: Mx. Schafer, who prefers that nongendered courtesy title, is an artist, designer and model who has appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue and in runway shows for Mansur Gavriel, Versus Versace and Helmut Lang.
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Name: Jessica Dore Age: 33 Claim to fame: Ms. Dore posts 280-word doses of therapy to her nearly 97,000 followers on Twitter and sometimes a bit larger of a dose to her over 29,000 followers on Instagram.
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NAME Tyler John Davies AGE 27 HOMETOWN Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland NOW LIVES Birmingham, England CLAIM TO FAME Winner of the 2019 Young Talent Competition at the Salon de la Haute Horlogerie, held in January in Geneva.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Harris starred in "Castle Rock," a horror series produced by Stephen King for Hulu, and "When They See Us," a Netflix mini-series about the 1989 Central Park Five case, created by Ava DuVernay.
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Now the 22013-odd residents of the central Alberta village — 239 miles northeast of Edmonton — have a new claim to fame that's no less quirky: it may have been home of the largest recycling scam in Canadian history.
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Now the 300-odd residents of the central Alberta village — 50 miles northeast of Edmonton — have a new claim to fame that's no less quirky: it may have been home of the largest recycling scam in Canadian history.
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Although Tartini was the first to play a violin fashioned by Antonio Stradivari himself, his true claim to fame is his famous Violin Sonata in G minor, also known as the Le trille du diable, or The Devil's Trill.
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Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has a new claim to fame: This large bay has been revealed as the lightning capital of the world, with storms lighting up the skies almost 163 nights each year, according to a NASA study.
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Its other claim to fame is that it was the first e-commerce startup in India to reach a $1 billion valuation, as recently as 143 — a marker of how rapidly investors' estimation of the company has ratcheted up.
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There's Maquel, a 23-year-old wedding photographer; Tia, a 26-year-old whose claim to fame is that she's from a town in Arkansas called Weiner; and Nysha, a 30-year-old nurse who is obsessed with blood.
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Previously known as the starting point of the Pony Express and the place where Jesse James died and Eminem was born, St. Joseph, Missouri now has a new claim to fame, as the home the future of fast food.
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But the city's present claim to fame is Pic, a Michelin three-star-rated restaurant run by Anne-Sophie Pic, France's most celebrated female chef, where we once had my mother-in-law's birthday, over seared fresh foie gras.
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Mr. Sanders, on the other hand, is a sort of anti-Clinton — a political maverick from lily-white Vermont whose main claim to fame has been his insistence on calling himself an independent, a socialist, anything but a Democrat.
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A decade ago, I had a world-class pizza at a restaurant called Milk and Honey in the small inland town of Mullumbimby (its biggest claim to fame at the time being that it's the hometown of Iggy Azalea).
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Lumumba-Kasongo, whose stage name is Sammus, is a rapper and music producer whose references include first-person video gaming, awkward breakups in the age of shared Netflix accounts, and the politics of black feminism.
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Sketch comedy is a little out of fashion right now (in fashion: lecturey talk shows), so "Baroness" feels especially distinctive, but its real claim to fame should be its pacing, and how quickly it moves from segment to segment.
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The town's other claim to fame is that it purports to be the setting of the fictional village in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," and trinkets for feminists and film buffs alike abound in the gift shops.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Wilson is a budding folk-pop musician and baby-faced model who appears on the most recent cover of Candy magazine, as well as in advertisements for the skimpy men's underwear brand 2(x)ist.
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Hanson Robotics, the company that developed the robot, hails it as "the most beautiful and celebrated robot," a claim to fame that surely ensures our non-human counterparts will be just as sexually objectified as their blood and flesh foremothers.
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The Science Behind Pixar Exhibition is the newest show at the California Science Center, a family-friendly science museum and aquarium in Los Angeles whose main claim to fame is that it houses the taxidermied corpse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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It's by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let's be honest, its big claim to fame is hosting and serving downloaded movies.
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In fact, his most memorable claim to fame on the Trump campaign may be that he's the only person to have left the campaign under totally normal circumstances, resigning after an ill-advised tweet that celebrated the firing of Corey Lewandowski.
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"My ultimate claim to fame in life will be that I was once in a band with the legend Ken Bone and that we spent two summers cruising around our hometown picking up chicks — me failing and him succeeding," he said.
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Kirkland, Washington, the home of the 1982 Little League World Series champions, now has another claim to fame: it is the third city in the US to play host to Google's fleet of self-driving vehicles, joining Austin and Mountain View.
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In November Mr Xi met Francis Fukuyama, an American political scientist whose claim to fame is a thesis that would seem to run against everything Mr Xi wants to protect: that the march to liberal democracy is an unstoppable one.
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Ally is running on an anti-cult platform, which not only leverages her claim to fame but is tailor-made for our increasingly tribal times; after all, what are our current political parties if not a couple of giant cults?
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"The real story, she told me, is she took a series of meetings with literary professionals who informed her that no one would buy a memoir from a girl with no claim to fame and no fan base," Beach wrote.
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Many of DeLonge's posts involve linking to and/or quote-tweeting leading Trumpspiracist Louise Mensch, whose claim to fame involves calling people who make fun of her online "Russian Agents," plus having been right about a Trump thing one time.
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She wasn't a populist crusader or a pro-business acolyte; she was, instead, a moderate whose claim to fame, at that point, was having served as an inspiration for the television show "Borgen," a fictional series about a Danish politician.
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But not just any salad: Caesar's, a Tijuana institution since 1927, is purported to be where the Caesar salad was invented, and between that claim to fame and its location at the heart of Revolución, it sees its share of tourists.
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Cameron, a glimmering cherub who seemingly manifested from some dark spell involving a cow and a husk of corn, was an absolute delight in her first mainstream gig (the actress's claim to fame is starring in Disney's sitcom Liv and Maddie).
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Vulcan's pre-Star Trek claim to fame was its 9-in-a-line grain elevators, and while it was once the largest grain-exporting site west of Winnipeg, it is now a typical rural community in need of tourism dollars.
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Claim to Fame: After making her mark on Mexican telenovelas including "Siempre Tuya Acapulco" and "Tanto Amor," Ms. Barrera stars in "Vida," a Latinx drama series on Starz about two Mexican-American sisters who run a bar in Los Angeles.
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Ravndahl is an artist (her claim to fame is that Lil' Kim stole one of her images and a lawsuit soon followed), but she also has a brutally silly way of describing beauty products she loves, hates, and feels lukewarm about.
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Writes Beach: The real story, she told me, is she took a series of meetings with literary professionals who informed her that no one would buy a memoir from a girl with no claim to fame and no fan base.
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But the Japanese group's claim to fame, published in Nature Photonics, is that they did their experiment in a tiny satellite known as a microsatellite—a cube that weighs about 100 pounds, somewhere between the size of a microwave and a refrigerator.
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Even more problematically, those chargers aren't materially worse than the AirPower pad will be at charging a phone or headphones — AirPower's claim to fame is some fancy charge indicators on an iPhone and some convenience in the form of its beam-forming tech.
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And then of course, his most recent claim to fame are his two original songs for Call Me by Your Name, "Visions of Gideon" and "Mystery of Love" (there's also a remix of his 2010 song "Futile Devices" featured in the movie).
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With what he's calling the most progressive platform in party history as his claim to fame, Sanders did all he could to direct his loyalists into Clinton's camp -- even ending the roll call vote by asking for Clinton to be nominated by acclimation.
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Actor Bruce Willis is known for iconic roles in movies like "Die Hard," but soon, he might have another claim to fame — smashing the record for the most expensive property sold on a luxurious island in Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean.
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The disappearance of the once-famous arch left the stretch of coast with little claim to fame, though the archway is preserved in countless photos and videos, as well as an episode of HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones," according to Time.
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This month the event got a new claim to fame, or infamy: According to The Wall Street Journal, a pornographic-film star was paid $262,203 before the 220 election to conceal a past relationship with President Trump that began at the tournament.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Drew is an art curator, writer and social activist, who spent three years as the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was "responsible for building an imprint within the social sphere," she said.
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Claim to Fame Though he just graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in September, Mr. Mitchell, a photographer and video director, has already worked with acclaimed talents including the cerebral rapper Kevin Abstract and Marc Jacobs.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Glynn is a book editor at Hanover Square Press and a social fixture in the party scene in Montauk, N.Y. His memoir, "Out East," which chronicles his coming-of-age in a summer share, was published on May 14.
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But her most durable claim to fame was as the inspiration for "Forbidden Broadway," which formally opened in 1982 and developed a cult following as it re-emerged for decades in various incarnations in New York and other cities around the world.
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Claim to fame: Ms. Sablone is a goofy-footed competitive skateboarder who has won seven X-Games medals and clinched a spot on the first USA Skateboarding National Team (skateboarding debuts as an Olympic sport at the 2020 summer Games in Tokyo).
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She wasn't expecting them, after years of playing folk songs in New York and opening for her friends' band AJR, a sort of Vampire Weekend-aspiring trio of brothers with a small claim to fame thanks to a lead single that sampled SpongeBob Squarepants.
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When the Black Lives Matter activist, Ruby, gets assigned a room with a little Southern gal named Beth-Ann — whose claim to fame is sporting a Confederate flag bikini on Instagram — it's clear that TDT are pitting them against one another for onscreen drama purposes.
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Claim to Fame: Ms. Reik is the self-taught designer behind Marei 1998, an ultra-luxe fashion line based in Tel Aviv that includes Carolyn Bessette-esque silk sheath dresses and fur-trimmed robes that nod to the romantic Art Deco period of the 1930s.
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BALTIMORE — The stunning victory by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, over the University of Virginia on Friday night — the biggest upset ever in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament — catapulted a school whose competitive claim to fame had long been chess into sports history.
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Claim to Fame Whether he's starring as the face of Versus Versace, appearing in the music video for "Raf" by ASAP Mob or rapping under the name Judah Stax, Mr. Lang is a mercurial performer who is up for any role that comes his way.
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Perhaps his main claim to fame is his durability: Mr. Kolb has served 17 years in the State Assembly, about half that time as the leader for the influence-free Republican minority, acting as an articulate, if toothless, foil to the overwhelming Democratic majority.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Tierney is a self-taught photographer and videographer who has toured with Niall Horan (a former member of One Direction) and Hailee Steinfeld, and has photographed top music acts including Drake, the Weeknd, Demi Lovato, Kendrick Lamar and the 1975.
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"The real choice in this primary is between insider Leah Vukmir whose claim to fame is, 'I vote yes when I'm told,' or a conservative political outsider, businessman and Marine in Kevin Nicholson," Nicholson spokeswoman Ronica Cleary said in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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But Montgomery's main claim to fame these days is its covered bridges: in the 1940s there were 13 of them in town, and today Montgomery still boasts six — more than any other town in the US. Today, Montgomery is a vacation hotspot, as many people summer there.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Belaga is a wildly expressionistic and improvisational cellist who sees no need for a conductor, regardless of whether he is playing at National Sawdust in Brooklyn or the Brutally Early Club, a saloon-style gathering organized by the art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Her claim to fame remains her challenge of New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for the 22012 gubernatorial race, where she claimed a surprising 22016 percent of the vote, despite being an unknown Fordham law professor going up against the state's most powerful politician.
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"Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, and Johnny Lee Miller used to come to our meetings and sit in the back as part of their research," says Colin Nelson, whose claim to fame is that he booted a football into McGregor's face in the opening five-a-side scene.
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With a median household income around $31,000 and the poverty level hovering at 29 percent, the city's major claim to fame comes from someone who grew up here, left, and never really looked back: Lucille Ball, the comic doyenne who knew a joke when she saw one.
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Name: Daphne Javitch Age: 40 Claim to fame: Ms. Javitch, a private nutrition and lifestyle coach, runs Doing Well on Instagram, a profile that gives advice on reframing negative self-talk, suggestions on what supplements to take and guidance on how to reduce one's stress level.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Brown is a new-media wunderkind, having helped found NYU Local, a student-run news blog while he was an undergraduate at New York University and, more recently, Scroll Kit, a visual online editor for stories, which was sold to WordPress in 2014.
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Claim to Fame A year after graduating from art school, Ms. Ahlbom is a rising photographer and multidisciplinary artist who has shot "It kid" actors like Jack Kilmer and Lukas Ionesco, exhibited with the Still House Group and recently dipped her toe into the fashion world.
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I found a teaching job at a small community college in Washington State, and we settled into the rural town of Soap Lake, a place whose claim to fame was a whimsical plan to build the world's largest lava lamp on the shores of its mineral lake.
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Vinpok's claim to fame with the Bolt-S is that it's the first cable to support the 87 watts that Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar's charger supplies, which may or may not be true, depending on whether or not it hits the market before the MagC.
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Fabray also had another strange claim to fame: Her skin color was deemed the perfect tone for color television, and as a result, in the 1940s, she worked as a model for NBC's demonstration of color TV. Her first husband, David Tebet, was a vice president for NBC.
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The Outer Worlds opens up on Edgewater, a craphole of a town whose claim to fame is the Saltuna Cannery, the main source of employment in a town run by the corporation Spacer's Choice, one of a handful of mega corps that generally run things in The Outer Worlds.
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Most of the other Housewives, especially Moore, have made fun of Whitfield, laughing at her lack of recognition outside of RHOA; her biggest claim to fame from the show being her iconic Season 2 quip, "Who gon' check me, boo?" and a line of T-shirts bearing the quote.
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They include his youngest daughter, Katerina Tikhonova; the sister and, it is thought, grandmother of his current alleged girlfriend, rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva; and Alisa Kharcheva, a woman whose main claim to fame is her near-naked appearance in an infamous "We Love You" pinup calendar dedicated to Putin.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Harris is an actor and playwright most comfortable off script, starring in largely improvised scenes in a short film directed by James Franco for his "Rebel" art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and "Weightless," an upcoming movie from Terrence Malick.
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"How do you dispose of a single mother when that's your claim to fame in your campaign?" she asked in her thick Maine accent over pumpkin spice lattes at a Starbucks here, as her son, who turned 13 on Tuesday, sat eating a cookie just out of earshot.
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Claim to fame: Mr. Bembury is a cult designer of opulent fashion sneakers, first at Yeezy, where he designed combat and lace-up boots for Seasons 3 and 4, and now at Versace, where his futuristic, almost Japanime-inspired designs have earned praise from tastemakers, art stars and sneakerheads.
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The signature bun with barbecued pork, the restaurant's claim to fame, is baked with a rich, buttery pineapple-shaped crust that complements the savory smokiness of the meat and has a pleasing croissant-like texture—"So it doesn't stick to your tongue," the chef likes to tell his patrons.
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Graphcore's big claim to fame has been the development of what it calls its Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) hardware and corresponding Poplar software, designed specifically for the kind of simultaneous, intensive calculations demanded of AI applications (which are designed based on how humans think, in "parallel" processing mode).
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That first Saturday in June, more than 200 people gathered to hear Levant and Rebel contributors, like Katie Hopkins (a UK media personality), Sheila Gunn Reid (the Rebel's Alberta bureau chief), and Lindsay Shepherd (a recent Laurier graduate whose claim to fame is dismissing trans people), preach about their conservative beliefs.
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There are no historical artifacts from the film; many of the filming locations burned down (one was a case of arson) or collapsed (thanks to an influx of tourists), none of the actors appear, and the major claim to fame — that the lake lift scene was filmed there — is likely untrue.
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Besides the design refresh and a slightly more powerful V-12 under the hood, the GTC4Lusso's big claim to fame is four-wheel steering — the rear wheels can turn slightly to aid in handling, which, when paired with the all-wheel drive, accounts for the "4" in the car's name.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Munz is the founder of the Fashion Foundation, a nonprofit that solicits excess samples from fashion houses and designers, sells them online and at a store in Farmingdale, N.Y., and uses the proceeds to buy school supplies for underprivileged students in the New York City area.
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The nonprofit art bookstore Printed Matter has been around since 1976, when a group of artists, publishers and writers (including Sol LeWitt, Lucy R. Lippard and Ingrid Sischy) opened its first iteration on Lispenard Street in TriBeCa; its claim to fame was turning book publishing into its own form of art.
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Up Next Joshua Kissi Age 28 Hometown The Bronx Now Lives In his parents' six-bedroom house in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Claim to Fame Mr. Kissi is a founder of the men's lifestyle blog Street Etiquette, a style journal that started in 2008 and focuses on fashion-forward black men.
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As he told the Hollywood Reporter, he planned to get back to the approach the network had abandoned in the wake of Battlestar's end and veer away from allowing cheesy movies like Sharknado to be its claim to fame (even if the network wasn't going to stop making Sharknado sequels, either).
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That, and a little jolt into the spotlight via reality TV. In 2011, former model Draya Michele was cast for the debut season of Basketball Wives LA, Shaunie O'Neal's Los Angeles off-shoot of the Miami series that followed a group of women whose claim to fame were their relationships with famous athletes.
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The VR-1HD is a mixing deck with a difference: it does a few familiar audio modulation bits, like adding reverb or music jingles, but its claim to fame is the ability to also manage up to three cameras on the fly, allowing you to put out professional-looking, multicamera live broadcasts.
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And in February, Trump appointed tax lawyer Charles Rettig as head of the agency—a move nonprofit news service DCReport called tantamount to "making El Chapo head of the DEA" because his claim to fame was defending people in court accused of doing some of the very same things Trump's family did.
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Sometimes you want to see Soulja Boy deck Chris Brown even though Chris Brown is a categorically terrible human and yet Soulja Boy's only claim to fame is jizzing on a woman's back while she's asleep—and you know the only possible victory here goes to whichever trash TV station hosts the fight.
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Claim to Fame The former star of MTV's "Hard Times of R J Berger," which ran for two seasons starting in 2010, Mr. Iacono continues to pursue acting while also moonlighting as a club promoter, hosting a Wednesday-night party at the Rumpus Room on the Lower East Side, which draws a fashionable gay crowd.
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Reminder: Henry Ellenson is in the NBA A symbol of Detroit's rough future: Henry Ellenson, whose claim to fame (in my mind) over the past two seasons has been 1.) exaggerated standing ovations for teammates, with a dry towel around his neck, from the end of the bench, and 2.) an unusual, comically high dribble.
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Claim to Fame: Some designers learn their trade at F.I.T. (the Fashion Institute of Technology); Dan Snyder got his experience at the F.B.I. In the late 2000s, as an intelligence contractor at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., he was chafing at the baggy olive suits that G-men were expected to wear.
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Yankees 2, Twins 1 Jaime Garcia was a Minnesota Twin for less than a week in July, an eye blink in the context of a baseball season, and his claim to fame in that brief period was being the winning pitcher in the only game his new club won in a 10-day period.
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While Intuit provides a set of services and software to professional accountants, perhaps its biggest claim to fame is that it helped build and popularise a movement in "DIY accounting" and related software: a set of easy-to-use online tools that ordinary people can use to manage their money, file their taxes and more.
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Of course, the decline of unions and the middle class they helped build has been bemoaned by politicians so many times at this point that the fight against the plight has been just as normalized as the plight itself—Warren's initial claim to fame, her book The Two-Income Trap, hit shelves 16 years ago.
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Claim to fame: Using text messages as his medium, Mr. Grebet is an Ivorian digital artist who has created more than 365 free emojis that portray contemporary African life, including a zebra-striped plastic teakettle sold in Senegalese markets, hair braids and a shekere, a West African percussion instrument made with a dried gourd.
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HISIERRA co-founder Mike Greenfield, who chose to enter cannabis packaging after 30 years in more mainstream bag-making (his claim to fame: the Subway sandwich carrier bag), said he decided to look beyond plastic cannabis 'barrier bags' after clients complained that there were no available products with both high performance and a low eco-footprint.
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Former world number one Mats Wilander has described 18-year-old Shapovalov as a combination of Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, high praise indeed for a young man whose only claim to fame was being disqualified from Canada's Davis Cup tie with Britain after he accidentally struck the chair umpire with the ball in a fit of anger.
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Since I have a deep-seated fear of developing iPhone claw hand and a long history of dropping my phone and shattering screens (my claim to fame is that Bella Hadid and I go to the same screen repair place), I needed to find something that allowed me to hold my phone with my fingers but wasn't totally lame.
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For a Welsh-born director, Gareth Evans has an odd claim to fame: through a series of movies made in Indonesia, he brought the martial art pencak silat to Westerners' attention, made a star out of martial artist Iko Uwais, and built a name for himself through brutal, precise action sequences and a memorable approach to violence.
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Claim to Fame: Mr. Carlson is a former member of the United States national rowing team and the entrepreneur behind a budding rowing brand — first with a coffee-table book, "Rowing Blazers," which chronicles the esoteric history of the colorful blazers worn by elite rowing clubs, and now with an upscale fashion label of the same name.
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" Fund-raising is also off to a fervent start in several other races, including in Mr. Reed's district, where the Republican has already raised more than $1 million this year to gird against a diverse Democratic field that currently includes John G. Hertzler, whose primary claim to fame is playing a Klingon general in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Kahlon began his national political career in 2003 as a member of Netanyahu's Likud party but his biggest claim to fame came in 2012 as Communications Minister when he led a reform that opened the mobile phone market to competition, leading to a steep drop in costs for consumers as well as a plunge in profits for operators.
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The town's newer claim to fame is the gripping 303 documentary, Heroin(e), the story of three Huntington women: fire chief Jan Rader, realtor Necia Freeman, and Judge Patricia Keller, who in 2009 started the county's drug court, a treatment program that offers people arrested on drug-related charges the chance to have their arrests wiped away, if they can stay off drugs.
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Theranos's claim to fame was that with just a few drops of blood taken from a finger prick — instead of several vials drawn from a big, scary needle — its proprietary lab device, the Edison, could run a battery of blood tests at a fraction of the going rate and return results directly to the consumer within hours instead of days.
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He could still hit the long ball—he had 46 in 1998 for the Blue Jays (while also striking out 159 times), and wound up with 462 in his career—but his true claim to fame would come in 2005, when he published the autobiography Juiced, which exposed the widespread use of steroids in the major leagues, most notably by Canseco himself.
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This stylistic whiplash is typical of Gugino's career: She followed up the 403 Pauly Shore comedy "Son in Law" with "Of Mice and Men" at Rochester's Geva Theater, then in 2004 she made her Broadway debut with Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" — at a time when her main claim to fame was playing the mom in the "Spy Kids" franchise.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Dalbesio is a "fuller-figured" model and contemporary artist who has gained fans with her feminist take on self-expression, whether posing in a Calvin Klein underwear campaign, shooting a self-portrait for Playboy, performing nearly naked in the Chelsea Art Walk, or curating a critically acclaimed all-female show at the 2016 Spring/Break art fair.
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Since 2016, Puebla has seen the opening of the International Museum of the Baroque, set in a curvilinear concrete building designed by Toyo Ito, and a dozen or so hotels and restaurants, almost all of which serve Puebla's culinary claim to fame — mole poblano, a thick, earthy-sweet sauce of chiles, herbs and chocolate thought to have been invented by a group of 218th-century nuns.
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The record itself wasn't the sort of thing that most labels would have picked up again after years in the dust-covered attic, but each of the band's members had an interesting claim to fame: Kriss Roebling's ancestors built the Brooklyn Bridge; Peter Swann went on to be a Supreme Court Justice for the state of Arizona; Peter Zusi moved to the UK and became a Professor of Slavic Studies at University College London.
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Get the entire country to focus, for one brief moment, on the charade that is our political system, the outrage that the person who should be president is instead on a book tour explaining to all of us what went so horribly wrong, and that even in this moment she can still be targeted in a high-profile way by someone whose main claim to fame is raising prices on lifesaving drugs.
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