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Hedy Lamarr would have got into wikipedia for the patent even without her movie career.

You're right. Arnold is not a good example. Tell me why Robert Leonard , Hedy Lamarr, and John Wilkes Booth are not good examples.

I agree with everything you wrote in post #3. But to me, BOTH the part of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) you quoted AND your photograph from CGEL do not seem to back up your point at all. I asked about this on post #40, and neither you nor anyone else responded. I was...

That's definitely worthy of inclusion in the list and my pressing the like icon on your post

I think that the best examples so far are Robert Leonard, John Wilkes Booth, Thomas Young, Benjamin Franklin, and Hedy Lamarr. Each of the two causes of fame for those five people are so extraordinarily unrelated to each other. There are A LOT of famous people who are famous for two different...

Yeah I suppose that is arguable. Arnold also achieved fame as a top notch bodybuilder. I suppose Arnold probably would not have been able to have his acting career without his bodybuilding. I think that Arnold was probably cast partly because of his muscles.

I think that Hedy Lamarr would have at least got onto wikipedia with her patent even if not for her career as an actress . I will leave her on the list. By famous, I don't mean a household name that everyone knows. I just mean some media attention .

Here are the people I would include on this list so far: Robert Leonard Arnold Schwarzenegger Ronald Reagan John Wilkes Booth Linus Pauling Thomas Young Samuel Morse Benjamin Franklin Hedy Lamarr Florence Nightingale ____________________________________________________________- All ten of...

I asked AI about this, and AI said that Samuel Morse was famous as an artist BEFORE he invented Morse Code. So Samuel Morse is worthy of inclusion on this thread.

I agree with you that Florence Nightingale is worthy of inclusion on this thread. Would Da Vinci have become famous if he was not an artist? Here is what AI said: No, Leonardo da Vinci likely would not be a household name today if he were not an artist. While he was a brilliant polymath...

My sentiments exactly

Translation: He does space stuff, and he does space stuff.

I asked AI about this, and AI told me about Hedy Lamar. Hedy Lamar is definitely a good answer. Hedy Lamar was a famous movie star in the 1940s in America. She also co-patented the frequency hopping spread spectrum technology intended to stop torpedoes from being jammed, which later paved the...

Thomas Young is a great answer. This is the type of answer I was hoping for when I created this thread. Yes, either one of those things would be noteworthy for Thomas Young by itself. Thomas Young is a strong competitor to Robert Leonard and John Wilkes Booth. Leonardo da Vinci might very...

I don't think that Sir Brian May fits the ground rules of the question of the OP because nobody gets famous just for getting a PhD. This thread is about people who are famous for two different things in which each individual thing would make the person famous alone. Nobody gets famous just for...