← Fame through time300-399
The 4th century
Whose working lives fell in the 4th 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 4th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Hypatia22 decades - 2
Athanasius of Alexandria3 decades - 3
Catherine of Alexandria17 decades - 4
Mary of Egypt15 decades - 5
Pachomius the Great0 decades - 6
Pappus of Alexandria0 decades - 7
Onuphrius9 decades - 8
John the Dwarf0 decades - 9
Macarius of Alexandria0 decades - 10
Poemen4 decades - 11
Amunnot measured- - 12
Serapion of Thmuis0 decades - 13
Pambo9 decades - 14Pope Timothy I of Alexandrianot measured-
- 15Abadiu of Antinoenot measured-
- 16Cassien d'Autunnot measured-
- 17Paul of Tammahnot measured-
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.