Renown is fame. The word may also refer to:
- HMS Renown, the name of multiple ships in the Royal Navy
- Models of bus manufactured by Associated Equipment Company
- AEC Renown (3-axle)
- AEC Renown - low-height double-decker bus built in 1960s
- Renown (German Barque)
- Renown (company), Japanese clothing brand
- Renown Coaches an operator of buses in East Sussex, England
- Renown Pictures, a British film company. Their most famous release is probably the 1951 Scrooge.
- Renown, a chain of hospitals in Reno, Nevada
Famous quotes containing the word renown:
“Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness than others. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)