folk hero

In the process, she became something of a folk hero.

Make off with half a billion dollars and you'll probably end up as some kind of folk hero.

The local people consider him as a popular folk hero.

"No one here tonight has any desire to become a folk hero."

She said the composer had become something of a folk hero at the school.

She is considered to be a folk hero in the Philippines.

To the wider public, who knew little of his legal work, Hand was by then a folk hero.

His stand has made him a folk hero among the 60,000 Muslim residents.

They had already made him a folk hero, and his legend was about to grow.

The Met fans began to treat him like a folk hero.