What is celebrity? What makes a person a celebrity?
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile in the media and is easily recognized. Some careers are associated with celebrity status, such as the top tier of the modelling, acting and sports industries. While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career, in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth (as in the case of a socialite); for their connection to a famous person (as in the case of a relative of a famous person, such as Chaz Bono); or even for their misdeeds (as in the case of a well-known criminal such as Ronnie Biggs). Celebrities may be known around the world (e.g., pop star Michael Jackson), within a specific country (e.g., a top Australian rugby player); or within a region (e.g., a local TV news anchor).
Early recorded instances of celebrity include the winners at the Olympic games in ancient Greece. Winners of the games promoted their fame by commissioning hymns praising their exploits. In ancient Rome portraits of powerful men appeared stamped on coins. Works of art bearing their likenesses further enhanced their fame. The renown of certain actors, such as Quintus Roscius Gallus, endured until the 19th century. Gladiators could also gain considerable fame as news of their victories spread by word of mouth
A local celebrity is a person well known in one locality but are little known elsewhere. A person might have celebrity status within a particular culture (such as Jesus) or might be unique to a particular diaspora.

English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as belonging to the A-List or state that a certain actor belongs to the B-List, the latter being a disparaging context. These informal rankings indicate a placing within a hierarchy. However, due to differing levels of celebrity in different regions, it is difficult to place people within one bracket. A Brazilian actor might be a B-list action film actor in the US, but an A-list star in Portugal. An objective method of placing celebrities from any country into categories from A-List to H-List based on their number of Google hits has been proposed
Family
Another example of celebrity is a family that has notable ancestors or is known for its wealth. In some cases, a well-known family is associated with a particular field. For example, the Kennedy family is associated with US politics; The House of Windsor with royalty; The Osbournes, Chaplin, and Barrymore families with entertainment. Other well-known families include the Hilton family, the Bush family, and the Jackson family, the Kardashian-Jenner family
Wealth
The top celebrity film actors, sports stars, and pop singers earn multi-million dollar salaries. For example, in 2010, Oprah Winfrey was ranked as the top earner in "Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities", with earnings of $315 million in the past year.[3] In 2010, golfer Tiger Woods was the fourth highest-earning celebrity, with an income of $105 million. In that same year, Forbes indicated that pop singer Lady Gaga earned $62 million
Restricted access
Access to celebrities is strictly controlled by their entourage of staff which includes publicists, agents, personal assistants, and bodyguards. Even journalists find it difficult to access celebrities for interviews:
You have to go through many hoops just to talk to a major celebrity. You have to get past three different sets of publicists: the publicist for the event, the publicist for the movie, and then the celebrity's personal publicist. They all have to approve you.
Celebrities often hire one or more bodyguards (or close protection officer)[5] to protect themselves and their families from threats ranging from the mundane (intrusive paparazzi photographers or autograph-seeking fans) to serious (assault, kidnapping, assassination, or stalking). The bodyguard travels with the celebrity during professional activities (movie shoots or concerts) and personal activities such as recreation and errands. Celebrities also typically have security staff at their home, to protect them from similar threats. The risk to celebrities' safety can be seen in some of the well-known attacks, such as the killing of John Lennon by an obsessed stalker.

The costs of bodyguards and house security can be very high. “Rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, admitted that he spends $20,000 a week on security at his Farmington, Connecticut, mansion.” CNN reports that "...Jackson's expenditures are in the lower end of what most high-profile individuals pay to protect themselves, their families and their property." [6] According to a security expert, the cost of security for a celebrity is as follows: "For one day, if you need one truck [e.g. a Suburban] with a driver and three security agents, you are looking at $4,000 a day, and use that four days a week, then you can easily see spending $20,000 a week."[7] "Britney Spears...spends nearly half a million dollars a year for security."[8] Security costs for families of celebrities run even higher: "If you are looking to protect a celebrity family like Brad [Pitt] and Angelina [Jolie]..., the price tag for job like that is going to be around $1 [million] to $1.4 million a year..." [8]

This is more than merely an academic question. its list of the top 100 celebrities in the world today, and its an interesting and intriguing list for anyone interested in the media and its effect on our society.
The criteria for the ranking on the list are interesting, for starters. We uses a complicated formula that takes earnings, press clippings, magazine covers, TV /radio appearances, and Internet Web hits all intro consideration. This combination of money and media begs the question of what exactly IS celebrity. Obviously, it has nothing at all to do with talent, intelligence, contributions to the world, or quality of character. It's all money and media.
And this special formula created makes for some interesting entries and placements on the list. Julia Roberts - only number 12 in terms of earnings with 50 million dollars - is nonetheless top of the celebrity list, based in large part on her seven magazine covers, ten thousand press clips, and forty-one thousand Internet hits. For the record, George Lucas (400 million dollars in earnings), Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, Michael Jordan, the Rolling Stones, Tiger Woods, the Backstreet Boys, Cher and Stephen Spielberg round out the Top 10.
There are a few actual authors in the list, which the English teacher in me finds interesting. Stephen King (65 million dollars in earnings), Tom Clancy (66 million), John Grisham ( 36 million) and Maya Angelou (3 million) may attest to the fact that our society can still read - and make a few authors quite rich.
There is also the usual mix of sports figures, movie stars, and even fashion designers (Georgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Bill Blass) on the list. It's interesting that neither the President of the United States nor anyone running for that office seems to qualify as a "celebrity" - although Elizabeth Dole (#65 on the list)) and George and Barbara Bush (#76) are included.
Oddly enough, there are some on the list who have absolutely no talent at all - Jim Carrey (#19), Howard Stern (#30), Rosie O'Donnell (#35), and Dr. Laura (#70).And - as is true with any list – thereare some whose presence here just mystifies me: Dale Earnhardt (#36), Roseanne (#74), Don Imus (#77), The Rock (#83).
Another interesting realization that's implied in this list is that being a celebrity is big business - literally. Tiger Woods, for example, ( number 7 on the list, with 47 million dollars in earnings) is more a corporation than an individual. I mean, he makes more money than thousands of businesses. Everything from security to accounting to travel arrangements to publicity is no doubt as important to the Tiger Woods corporation as it is to Dole pineapple or Wheaties. We seem to be witnessing celebrities turning from merely famous people into huge corporate enterprises, capable of earning tens - or hundreds - of millions of dollars. They are commodities, much like winter wheat or pork bellies. Actually, some are more like wheat and some are more like pork bellies, but I digress that published the results tell us a great deal about ourselves, whom we consider celebrities,
In Uganda the print media does it all, today it decides who are a celebrities and tomorrow who are no longer celebrities.

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