← 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
Saint Nicholas22 decades - 2
Caracalla22 decades - 3
Diocletian22 decades - 4
Elagabalus22 decades - 5
Aurelian22 decades - 6
Origen22 decades - 7
Severus Alexander22 decades - 8
Plotinus22 decades - 9
Arius22 decades - 10
Anthony the Great0 decades - 11
Saint Valentine21 decades - 12
Decius22 decades - 13
Maximinus Thrax0 decades - 14
Philip the Arab0 decades - 15
Saint Sebastian22 decades - 16
Pope Fabian0 decades - 17
Constantius Chlorus18 decades - 18
Gordian III16 decades - 19
Gallienus22 decades - 20
Saint Lawrence22 decades - 21
Claudius Gothicus8 decades - 22
Pope Callixtus I0 decades - 23
Zenobia22 decades - 24
Pope Urban I0 decades - 25
Zhuge Liang10 decades - 26
Agatha of Sicily0 decades - 27
Pope Pontian0 decades - 28
Pope Sixtus II0 decades - 29
Pope Zephyrinus0 decades - 30
Maximian22 decades - 31
Pope Dionysius0 decades - 32
Liciniusnot measured- - 33
Pope Cornelius2 decades - 34
Saint Cecilia22 decades - 35
Pupienus11 decades - 36
Trebonianus Gallus0 decades - 37
Aemilianusnot measured- - 38
Ardashir I0 decades - 39
Galerius22 decades - 40
Carusnot measured- - 41
Cypriannot measured- - 42
Quintillus4 decades - 43
Getanot measured- - 44
Pope Anterus0 decades - 45
Pope Caius0 decades - 46
Hippolytus of Rome2 decades - 47
Pope Lucius I0 decades - 48
Pope Marcellinus0 decades - 49
Mahavatar Babaji0 decades - 50
Diophantus22 decades - 51
Florianus10 decades - 52
Carinus22 decades - 53
Balbinus18 decades - 54Himikonot measured-
- 55
Julia Domna22 decades - 56
Helenanot measured- - 57
Valeriannot measured- - 58
Saint Maurice14 decades - 59
Cao Pi2 decades - 60
Sun Quan2 decades - 61
Diogenes Laërtius7 decades - 62
Pope Marcellus I0 decades - 63
Iamblichus22 decades - 64
Gregory the Illuminator9 decades - 65
Sextus Empiricus22 decades - 66
Lactantius22 decades - 67
Numerian14 decades - 68
Chandragupta I0 decades - 69
Diadumenian0 decades - 70
Cao Zhi7 decades - 71
Celsusnot measured- - 72
Saint Florian0 decades - 73
Maninot measured- - 74
Gordian II0 decades - 75
Sima Yi2 decades - 76
Zhang Fei2 decades - 77
Emperor Xian of Han0 decades - 78Athenaeus22 decades
- 79
Paul of Thebes0 decades - 80
Liu Shannot measured- - 81
Emperor Wu of Jin0 decades - 82
Hua Tuo1 decades - 83
Postumusnot measured- - 84Novatian22 decades
- 85
Sun Cenot measured- - 86
Ulpian22 decades - 87
Odaenathus1 decades - 88
Artabanus IV of Parthianot measured- - 89
Claudius Aelianus0 decades - 90
Pope Alexander I of Alexandrianot measured- - 91
Zhao Yun1 decades - 92
Tetricus I0 decades - 93
Zhou Yu2 decades - 94
Tiridates III of Armenia0 decades - 95Ammonius Saccas9 decades
- 96
Bahram I0 decades - 97
Herodian22 decades - 98
Denisnot measured- - 99
Volusianus10 decades - 100
Hormizd I0 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.