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Ali Jaber

He became a household name due to the widespread popularity of the show in the region.

Ashish Kumar Ballal

Ballal became a household name in India when he saved two tie-breaker goals in the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games final against South Korea.


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A Little Bit of Soap

It made Cliff Foenander a household name in South Asia: Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, played the number one hit across the Indian subcontinent.

Amalgamates

The Mates became an a cappella household name with their rendition of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror, with soloist Amy Birnbaum, on the 1996 release Hat Sale! Get Mama!.

American Cocker Spaniel

In 1952, an American Cocker Spaniel became a household name when United States Senator Richard Nixon made his Checkers speech on 23 September.

Aniekan Udofia

Udofia became a household name in the visual hip-hop scene by designing sports wear for companies like AND1 and Native Tongue.

April Grace

In 2001, she was seen as a TV reporter determined to become a household name in ABC's summer series The Beast, set in the world of a 24-hour cable news television station.

Arnold Ridley

However, he only became a household name after he was cast as Private Charles Godfrey, the gentle platoon medic in the British sitcom, Dad's Army (1968–77).

Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz

He would go on to become a household name throughout 2005 and 2006 with notable title defenses over Jeremy Horn, Randy Couture, and Renato Sobral.

Dalu Krishnadas

Dalu Krishnadas became a household name after his appearance in the controversial South Indian TV reality show Malayalee House.

Edward Webb and Sons

By the 1890s Webb and Sons had been appointed seedsmen to Queen Victoria, and had become a household name around the UK.

Fredrik Lindström

In the 2000s, Lindström has become a household name in Sweden through his documentary series Värsta språket about the Swedish language on Sveriges Television.

Grant Kenny

He also became a household name in Australia due to his sponsorship deals with Kelloggs Nutri-Grain, and appeared in television commercials for the cereal.

Helen Alexander

She is still today a "household name" in the west of Scotland; in the mountain glens and moors of Ayrshire and Galloway and the Pentlands, chapbooks still tell her marvellous story of courage and devoutness.

House of Windsor

High anti-German sentiment amongst the people of the British Empire during World War I reached a peak in March 1917, when the Gotha G.IV, a heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel, began bombing London directly and became a household name.

Ishia Bennison

In 1985 Bennison became a household name whilst playing Guizin Osman, the long-suffering wife of the womanising Turkish Cypriot, Mehmet (Haluk Bilginer), in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

John Seymour Lucas

However, the end of Pax Britannica and the rise of Modernism left these twin pillars of John Seymour Lucas oeuvre slightly marooned and he is less than a household name today.

Kary Osmond

Kary became a household name in 2009 when she was selected as the host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s daytime cooking show, Best Recipes Ever.

Mac Yasuda

He started off running an English language school in Kobe, Japan, in the 1970s and eventually became one of the largest vintage guitar dealers/collectors in the United States and an executive in the organization of Akira Tsumura, the heir to the Japanese Tsumura Corporation built on their bath salt "basukurin" which is a household name over there and who was disgraced in an abuse of corporate office scandal in 1997.

Martina Aitolehti

In 2004, Aitolehti became a household name and a tabloid celebrity because of her alleged secret affair with the famed Finnish soccer player Alexei Eremenko, who was in a relationship with another woman at the time.

Munna Bajrangi

In 1996, Mukhtar was elected from Mau, and the gang, with its arsenal of AK-47 and other weapons, became a household name in the districts of Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Jaunpur.

Myrna Dell

She later became a household name in television appearing on such programs as Gang Busters, Lux Video Theatre, Crusader, Dragnet, The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Maverick, Pete and Gladys, Batman, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, and The Texan.

Nuria Bages

Active in Mexican television since the early 1980s, Bages became a household name after winning the role of Silvina in the long-running sitcom Dr. Cándido Pérez, opposite Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.

Peter Gordeno

Born to an Italian American father and Scottish/Burmese mother, Gordeno was known primarily for his work with composer and arranger John Barry, but also became a household name in the 1970s due to his appearances as a submarine captain and combat pilot Peter Carlin in the Gerry Anderson television programme UFO.

Scali, McCabe, Sloves

Their ads for Perdue Farms ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken") made Frank Perdue a household name and were named in the top 100 ad campaigns by Advertising Age.

Slim Whitman

The TV albums briefly made Whitman a household name in America for the first time in his career, resulting in everything from a first-time appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson to Whitman being parodied in a comic skit on SCTV with him (played by Joe Flaherty) starring in the Che-like male lead in an Evita-like Broadway musical on the life of Indira Gandhi.

The Moses Expedition

Being a household name in Europe but not yet in the United States, a group of New York Times bestselling authors such as Brad Thor, Matthew Pearl, Javier Sierra, Stephen Coonts, Steve Berry and Katherine Neville among others backed The Moses Expedition with quotes.

Upasana Singh

Upasana became a household name with her current stint as the desperate "Bua" (paternal aunt) in the hit TV show Comedy Nights with Kapil, particularly for her trademark dialogue "Bittu, Kaun hai ye aadmi?" (Bittu, who is this man?).

Vaishali Thakkar

She started her career with Gujarati plays and then moved on to doing the long-running series, Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka, followed by a stint in the TRP-tripping show Baa Bahoo Aur Baby on Star Plus channel where her screen role as Pravina made her a household name.

Wendy Craig

From the mid-1950s Craig appeared in British films such as The Servant (1963) and The Nanny (1965) with Bette Davis, but it was her appearances in British sitcoms of the late 1960s and 1970s which led to her becoming a household name, usually playing a scatty middle class housewife.