← Fame through time200-299
The 3rd century
Whose working lives fell in the 3rd 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 3rd century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Origen22 decades - 2
Plotinus22 decades - 3
Arius22 decades - 4
Hippolytus of Rome2 decades - 5
Diophantus22 decades - 6
Julia Domna22 decades - 7
Iamblichus22 decades - 8
Sextus Empiricus22 decades - 9
Celsusnot measured- - 10
Maninot measured- - 11Novatian22 decades
- 12
Sun Cenot measured- - 13Ammonius Saccas9 decades
- 14
Porphyrynot measured- - 15
Zosimos of Panopolis0 decades - 16
Liu Hui7 decades - 17
Alexandros of Aphrodisiasnot measured- - 18
Cassius Longinus18 decades - 19Sabellius22 decades
- 20Numenius of Apamea0 decades
- 21
Aryadeva6 decades - 22
Maximus of Tyre3 decades - 23
Diogenes of Oenoanda0 decades - 24
Guo Xiang5 decades - 25Amelius19 decades
- 26Heracleon19 decades
- 27
Wang Sunot measured- - 28Origen the Pagan0 decades
- 29Sopater of Apamea0 decades
- 30
Aristocles of Messene0 decades - 31Sporus of Nicaea0 decades
- 32Firmiliannot measured-
- 33Pomponius Porphyrion0 decades
- 34
Xiang Xiu0 decades - 35Pierius11 decades
- 36
Aedesius of Alexandrianot measured- - 37Cronius the Pythagoreannot measured-
- 38Xun Cannot 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.