famed

famed

is a literary word meaning ‘made famous’, and is found (for example) in Shakespeare and Byron, often followed by for (the cause of the fame):

• The English, for example, were famed for their assumptions of innate superiority —J. Wormald, 1991

• Many in and after the Second World War were to ponder the strange, radical genius of famed humility of social origin and ambiguous political stance —G. Watson, 1991

• Once famed as ‘Baghdad by the Bay’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment, San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities —Daily Telegraph, 1992

• We're a small club from a small town that's probably more famed for marriages than football —Daily Record, 2007.

It is not a mere synonym of famous, although it is often found with that meaning, especially in newspaper writing:

• In the cemetery where tens of thousands of soldiers lay, he [Abraham Lincoln] delivered his famed address championing ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ —Observer, 2004.