← Fame through time100-199
The 2nd century
Whose working lives fell in the 2nd 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 2nd century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Antoninus Pius22 decades - 2
Macrinus22 decades - 3
Cao Cao8 decades - 4
Pertinax22 decades - 5
Didius Julianus10 decades - 6
Lucius Verus22 decades - 7
Cassius Dio10 decades - 8
Caiaphas22 decades - 9
Faustina the Younger0 decades - 10
Pescennius Niger10 decades - 11
Clodius Albinus9 decades - 12
Dong Zhuo2 decades - 13
Herodes Atticus21 decades - 14
Yuan Shao3 decades - 15Avidius Cassius12 decades
- 16
Sun Jiannot measured- - 17
Yuan Shu1 decades - 18Prince of Hongnongnot measured-
- 19Tiberius Julius Alexander0 decades
- 20
Liu Biao1 decades - 21
He Jin5 decades - 22Gan Ying0 decades
- 23
Lucius Aelius0 decades - 24
Lusius Quietus0 decades - 25
Wang Yun3 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.