# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carinus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:44:45.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carinus"
name: "Carinus"
slug: "carinus"
description: "A Roman emperor whose reputation was written by the man who defeated him. Carinus ruled the western Empire for two years before Diocletian took power — and every surviving account of his reign comes from Diocletian's propaganda machine."
tagline: "Roman emperor from 283 to 285"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Montemartini_-_Carino_1030439.JPG"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "250"
deathDate: "285"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.32
  momentum:             0.2879137798306389
  historical:           22.481104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carinus"
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    title: "Carinus"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinus"
    title: "Carinus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارینوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carinus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carin"
    title: "Carin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marcus Aurelius Carinus was named Caesar by his father, the Emperor Carus, in late 282, then elevated to Augustus and made co-emperor of the western Empire in early 283. He held power until 285, when he died. The official histories that survive paint him as dissolute and incompetent, but those accounts passed through a single filter: Diocletian, the opponent who won. What Carinus actually did, stripped of his successor's spin, remains harder to see.