Gael Garcia Bernal

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

Mexican Actor

Murray Gell-Mann

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

American Physicist

Edmond About

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

French Novelist

Deborah Sampson

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

American Soldier

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

American Philosopher

Bobby Deol

I'm lucky to have such an illustrious family. We love each other and have immense respect for each other.

Indian Actor

Edmund Waller

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

English Poet

Sophocles

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Greek Poet

Aditi Rao Hydari

I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.

Indian Actress

Paul Pierce

American Athlete

Often describes people with lasting fame, but can also refer to memorable events or entities.

Not Always Alive

'Illustrious' carries a positive vibe, suggesting that the fame or quality is well-deserved and honorable.

Positive Connotation

Used for people or achievements that have made a significant impact on history or society.

Historical Significance

 conference in Seattle and a guy called Marc Andreessen was demonstrating his little browser for the World Wide Web and I saw it and I thought yep that's it and the very next year in 1984 we had the conference here in Edinburgh and I had no opposition and having Tim berners-lee as the keynote speaker so that puts me in pretty illustrious

The day I turned down...

 impeccable craftsmanship and an illustrious history but the prestige of these items can come at a high price other than money the worth of these daggers is often defined by the handle traditionally made from rhinoceros horn prized for the unique patina it exhibits

Knives of Honor PIPE...

 Absolutely, exquisitely minute, and yet we've discovered pretty much the full set. So, one of my most illustrious forebears at Manchester University, Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, once said, "All science is either physics