She's become something of a 'local celebrity'. [=someone who everyone in the area knows or recognizes]
a 'celebrity' chef [=a chef who is famous]
The actress lived a life of 'celebrity'.
(..) And that's all for the number seven bus? There'll be another one along shortly. Now, because I had been a football star and war hero and national celebrity and a shrimping boat captain and a college graduate, the city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. (..)1994 Forrest Gump
(..) in a million years or something. Somebody said world peace was in our hands, but all I did was play ping-pong. When I got home, I was a national celebrity, famouser even than Captain Kangaroo. Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. - Forrest Gump, John Lennon. - Welcome home. In the land of China, (..)1994 Forrest Gump