← 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
Diocletian22 decades - 2
Elagabalus22 decades - 3
Aurelian22 decades - 4
Severus Alexander22 decades - 5
Decius22 decades - 6
Maximinus Thrax0 decades - 7
Philip the Arab0 decades - 8
Constantius Chlorus18 decades - 9
Gordian III16 decades - 10
Gallienus22 decades - 11
Claudius Gothicus8 decades - 12
Zhuge Liang10 decades - 13
Maximian22 decades - 14
Liciniusnot measured- - 15
Pupienus11 decades - 16
Trebonianus Gallus0 decades - 17
Aemilianusnot measured- - 18
Ardashir I0 decades - 19
Galerius22 decades - 20
Quintillus4 decades - 21
Carinus22 decades - 22
Balbinus18 decades - 23
Helenanot measured- - 24
Valeriannot measured- - 25
Numerian14 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.