subcelebrity

plural subcelebrities

1. uncountableThe state or quality of being somewhat known but not enough to be considered truly famous.

   Himself almost unknown, Gay yet held a curious subcelebrity with not a few men who had won distinction in widely diverging lines.

   1908 August, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, “The Torch”, in Out West

2. countableA person who is somewhat known but not famous enough to be considered a true celebrity.

   So Angela was relegated to the netherworld of D.C. subcelebrities — not quite interesting enough to be famous but just famous enough to be interesting.

   1912, Beth Harbison, When in Doubt, Add Butter, St. Martin's Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 62