← 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 - 26
Gordian II0 decades - 27
Sima Yi2 decades - 28
Zhang Fei2 decades - 29
Postumusnot measured- - 30
Odaenathus1 decades - 31
Volusianus10 decades - 32
Herennius Etruscus0 decades - 33
Julia Avita Mamaea0 decades - 34Sri Gupta0 decades
- 35
Pang Tongnot measured- - 36
Emperor Hui of Jinnot measured- - 37
Sima Zhao0 decades - 38
Julia Soaemias0 decades - 39
Marcus Claudius Tacitus0 decades - 40
Jiang Wei2 decades - 41
Marcus Aurelius Marius0 decades - 42
Wang Bi7 decades - 43
Wei Yan2 decades - 44
Ulpia Severina0 decades - 45
Sun Hao1 decades - 46
Guo Jia0 decades - 47
Sima Shi0 decades - 48Empress Jia Nanfengnot measured-
- 49
Lu Su2 decades - 50Sun Liang0 decades
- 51
Zhong Hui0 decades - 52
Deng Ai0 decades - 53
Gaius Julius Verus Maximus0 decades - 54
Sima Lun0 decades - 55
Wang Ping8 decades - 56
Marcus Nonius Macrinusnot measured- - 57
Zhuge Zhannot measured- - 58
Philip IInot measured- - 59
Zhuge Jin0 decades - 60
Tao Kannot measured- - 61
Zhuge Dannot measured- - 62
Ingenuus8 decades - 63
Ma Su0 decades - 64
Fa Zheng0 decades - 65
Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheusnot measured- - 66
Jia Chong0 decades - 67
Guan Xing0 decades - 68
Jiang Wan0 decades - 69Lucius Aurellius Commodus Pompeianusnot measured-
- 70
Macrianus Majornot measured- - 71
Ma Liang0 decades - 72Gongsun Kang0 decades
- 73Mi Fang0 decades
- 74
Yang Xiu0 decades - 75
Regalianus0 decades - 76Man Chong0 decades
- 77Marius Maximus0 decades
- 78
Ding Feng0 decades - 79Afranius Hannibalianus0 decades
- 80Xiahou Xuan0 decades
- 81Julius Asclepiodotus0 decades
- 82Tian Yu1 decades
- 83Dong Cheng0 decades
- 84
Lu Kangnot measured- - 85Sima Fu0 decades
- 86
Jotapianusnot measured- - 87
Yang Hu4 decades - 88Chen Deng0 decades
- 89Sima Weinot measured-
- 90
Laelian0 decades - 91Liu Ba0 decades
- 92Sun Chennot measured-
- 93Sima Yongnot measured-
- 94Wu Zhi0 decades
- 95
He Yan1 decades - 96Licinianusnot measured-
- 97
Marcus Valerius Maximianus0 decades - 98Huang Quan0 decades
- 99Xu Sheng0 decades
- 100Jia Kui0 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.