← 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
Ammianus Marcellinus22 decades - 2
Margaret the Virgin3 decades - 3
Faxian8 decades - 4
Epiphanius of Salamisnot measured- - 5
Ulfilas19 decades - 6
Evagrius Ponticus2 decades - 7
Kumārajīva1 decades - 8
Pachomius the Great0 decades - 9
Ausonius22 decades - 10
Libanius22 decades - 11
Prudentiusnot measured- - 12
Martianus Capella22 decades - 13
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus0 decades - 14
Eutropiusnot measured- - 15
Didymus the Blind2 decades - 16
Aurelius Victor22 decades - 17
Tyrannius Rufinus0 decades - 18
Sulpicius Severus22 decades - 19Priscillian22 decades
- 20Apollinaris of Laodicea0 decades
- 21
Aphrahat6 decades - 22
Aelius Donatus0 decades - 23
Eunapius22 decades - 24
Gaius Julius Solinus0 decades - 25
Eusebius of Vercelli1 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.