← 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
Caracalla22 decades - 2Himikonot measured-
- 3
Sun Quan2 decades - 4
Chandragupta I0 decades - 5
Diadumenian0 decades - 6
Cao Zhi7 decades - 7
Emperor Xian of Han0 decades - 8
Artabanus IV of Parthianot measured- - 9
Zhou Yu2 decades - 10
Tiridates III of Armenia0 decades - 11
Bahram I0 decades - 12
Hormizd I0 decades - 13
Cao Rui0 decades - 14
Saloninus7 decades - 15
Bahram II0 decades - 16Cao Huan0 decades
- 17
Vaballathus0 decades - 18
Allectus21 decades - 19
Huvishka10 decades - 20
Silbannacus0 decades - 21Adhur Narsehnot measured-
- 22
Lady Zhen0 decades - 23
Vasudeva I0 decades - 24
Vologases VI of Parthianot measured- - 25
Valerian II0 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.