← 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
Luciannot measured- - 2
Suetonius22 decades - 3
Apuleius22 decades - 4
Longinusnot measured- - 5
Arrian22 decades - 6
Appian22 decades - 7Tatian22 decades
- 8
Justinnot measured- - 9
Aśvaghoṣa0 decades - 10Sextus Julius Africanus0 decades
- 11
Aulus Gellius22 decades - 12
Melito of Sardis6 decades - 13
Emperor Ling of Han0 decades - 14
Pausaniasnot measured- - 15Marcus Cornelius Fronto0 decades
- 16
Lucius Annaeus Florus0 decades - 17
Hegesippus22 decades - 18
Aelius Aristides6 decades - 19
Gaiusnot measured- - 20
Quadratus of Athens0 decades - 21
Polyaenusnot measured- - 22
Kong Rong0 decades - 23Charitonnot measured-
- 24
Hermasnot measured- - 25
Babrius21 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.