← 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
Anthony the Great0 decades - 2
Cao Pi2 decades - 3
Diogenes Laërtius7 decades - 4
Lactantius22 decades - 5Athenaeus22 decades
- 6
Ulpian22 decades - 7
Claudius Aelianus0 decades - 8
Herodian22 decades - 9Philostratusnot measured-
- 10Bhāsa0 decades
- 11
Hosius of Corduba0 decades - 12
Lady Sun6 decades - 13
Gregory Thaumaturgus16 decades - 14
Ruan Ji6 decades - 15
Longusnot measured- - 16
Arnobiusnot measured- - 17Chen Shou7 decades
- 18
Cai Yannot measured- - 19Marcus Minucius Felix0 decades
- 20
Victorinus of Pettau0 decades - 21Cao Maonot measured-
- 22
Heliodorus of Emesa0 decades - 23Phlegon of Tralles0 decades
- 24Wang Can0 decades
- 25
Ilango Adigal0 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.