← 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 - 26Julia Balbilla0 decades
- 27Gaius Licinius Mucianus0 decades
- 28Oppiannot measured-
- 29Antonius Diogenes0 decades
- 30Thallus22 decades
- 31Pseudo-Longinus0 decades
- 32
Aelianus Tacticus0 decades - 33
Dionysius Periegetes8 decades - 34
Kundakunda3 decades - 35
Mi Heng0 decades - 36Hālanot measured-
- 37Granius Licinianus0 decades
- 38Chen Lin1 decades
- 39Terentianus12 decades
- 40
Ma Rong0 decades - 41Hyginus Gromaticus0 decades
- 42Aristo of Pella0 decades
- 43Aelius Theon0 decades
- 44Remmius Palaemon0 decades
- 45Fabius Rusticus1 decades
- 46Zhi Qian0 decades
- 47Philippus of Thessalonica0 decades
- 48Liu Zhennot measured-
- 49Lucius Ampelius0 decades
- 50
Cao E0 decades - 51Kapilar1 decades
- 52Ruan Yu0 decades
- 53Ying Chang0 decades
- 54Philip of Gortyna0 decades
- 55Aulus Claudius Charax0 decades
- 56Apiciusnot measured-
- 57Fan Jian0 decades
- 58Flavius Caper0 decades
- 59Siculus Flaccus0 decades
- 60Ying Shao0 decades
- 61Handan Chun0 decades
- 62Zhang Zhi0 decades
- 63Aelius Dionysius0 decades
- 64Septimius Serenus0 decades
- 65Lucius Ulpius Marcellusnot measured-
- 66Amyntianus0 decades
- 67Flavius Hyrcanusnot measured-
- 68Ploutarchos the Youngernot measured-
- 69Flavius Simonides Agrippanot measured-
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.