Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Famous

Famous , adjective

[Latin famosus, from fama fame: compare French fameux. See Fame.]

Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Famous for a scolding tongue. — Shakespeare