← Fame through time1-99
The 1st century
Whose working lives fell in the 1st century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1st century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Caligula22 decades - 2
Trajan22 decades - 3
Claudiusnot measured- - 4
Pontius Pilate22 decades - 5
Vespasian22 decades - 6
Titusnot measured- - 7
Domitian22 decades - 8
Galba22 decades - 9
Nerva22 decades - 10
Otho22 decades - 11
Vitellius22 decades - 12
Herod Antipas22 decades - 13
Germanicus22 decades - 14
Agrippina the Younger0 decades - 15
Messalinanot measured- - 16
Agrippina the Elder0 decades - 17
Gaius Caesar9 decades - 18
Gnaeus Julius Agricola0 decades - 19
Sejanus22 decades - 20
Herod Agrippa II2 decades - 21
Drusus Julius Caesar0 decades - 22
Lucius Caesar15 decades - 23
Ptolemy of Mauretania0 decades - 24
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo0 decades - 25
Julia the Younger0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.