List of celebrities
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A celebrity
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...

is a person who is widely-recognized in a given society
Society
A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...

 and commands a degree of public and media attention. The word is derived from the Latin celebritas, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of Notability
Notability
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction...

, although the word Notable is mistakened to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...

, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily synonymize them as a celebrity.

The following are lists of celebrities.
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