folk hero

noun

: a person who is greatly admired by many people of a particular kind or in a particular place

He has become a folk hero in his home state because of the work he has done to help poor children.

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Many have come to view Mangione as a sort of folk hero—expressing their outrage and frustration with the U.S.'s private health insurance industry. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025 When Murders Become Folk Heroes (Slate) by Elliott Gorn To the dismay of many, alleged murderer Luigi Mangione has become an instant folk hero. —

The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 24 Dec. 2024 He's become enough of a folk hero that some businesses are comfortable associating with him — or at least, with the memes about him. —

Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024 Aron, who has led the company through an epic series of ups and downs through a debt crisis, the catastrophe of Covid, the meme-stock and short-squeeze mania of 2020 and 2021, has largely been viewed as a folk hero. —

Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for folk hero