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The 1st millennium BC

Whose working lives fell in the 1st millennium BC. 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 millennium BC, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Cleopatra69 BC-30 BC · Egypt · Historical Figures22 decades
  2. 2Caesarion47 BC-30 BC · Egypt · Historical Figures19 decades
  3. 3Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator62 BC-47 BC · Egypt · Historical Figures0 decades
  4. 4Cleopatra Selene II40 BC-5 BC · Egypt · Historical Figures0 decades
  5. 5Apollonius of Rhodes295 BC-215 BC · Egypt · Writers8 decades
  6. 6Alexander Heliosborn 40 BC · Egypt · Historical Figures0 decades
  7. 7Cleopatra Thea164 BC-121 BC · Egypt0 decades
  8. 8Arsinoe IV of Egypt68 BC-41 BC · Egyptnot measured-
  9. 9Alexandros II Zabinas200 BC-123 BC · Egypt · Historical Figuresnot measured-
  10. 10Cleopatra IV of Egypt138 BC-112 BC · Egyptnot measured-
  11. 11Didymus Chalcenterus63 BC-10 · Egypt · Writers0 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.