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Someone (pronoun) Some person. “Can someone help me, please?” 
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Someone (noun) A partially specified but unnamed person. “Do you need a gift for that special someone?” 
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Someone (noun) an important person “He thinks he has become someone.” 
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Somebody (pronoun) Some unspecified person. “Somebody has to clean this mess up.” 
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Somebody (noun) A recognised or important person, a celebrity. “I’m tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.” 
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Someone (pronoun) an unknown or unspecified person; some person “someone from the audience shouted out” “there’s someone at the door” 
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Someone (pronoun) a person of importance or authority “a small-time lawyer keen to be someone” 
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Somebody (pronoun) some person; someone. 
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Somebody (pronoun) a person of importance or authority “nobodies who want to become somebodies” “I’d like to be somebody” 
 
					