Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - famously

1. You use famously to refer to a fact that is well known, usually because it is remarkable or extreme. Authors are famously ignorant about the realities of publishing... ADV: usu ADV adj, also ADV with v 2. If you get on or get along famously with someone, you are very friendly with each other and enjoy meeting and being together. (INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) I got on famously with Leary from the first time we met. ADV: ADV after v