[General] Can you please check if these sentences are correct or not?

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Eureka

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[FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕]Hi! teachers.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕](Q1) My first question is whether of not those two sentences below are gramatically correct. If both of them are gramatically correct, then which one is more commonly used among native speakers?[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕]The poorest are worst hit in a recession.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕]The poorest are hit the worst in a recession.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=바탕][FONT=&#48148](Q2) [/FONT][FONT=&#48148][FONT=&#48148]Jerry Yang[/FONT][FONT=&#48148] has become a name after the runaway success of Yahoo!. [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=바탕]I'm also wondering if 'name' in the sentence above means a famons person, which is my second question. I think native speakers usually say 'big name' in order to refer to a famous person, but I'm curious if just 'name' alone can be used for a' famous person'.
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Thank you for your help in advance. :)

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[FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕][/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕]The poorest are worst hit in a recession.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&#48148][FONT=바탕]The poorest are hit the worst in a recession.[/FONT][/FONT]
To me, the first suggests that the worst suffering of the poorest occurs during a recession; the second suggest that nobody is hit harder than the poorest.
 

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5jj has given a good answer to Q1, so I'll only address Q2.

It is more common to refer to someone well-known as 'a household name'.
 
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