← 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
Augustine of Hippo16 decades - 2
Constantine the Great22 decades - 3
Hypatia22 decades - 4
Jeromenot measured- - 5
Saint George22 decades - 6
John Chrysostom22 decades - 7
Theodosius I10 decades - 8
Ambrosenot measured- - 9
Athanasius of Alexandria3 decades - 10
Martin of Tours22 decades - 11
Basil of Caesarea5 decades - 12
Saint Lucy3 decades - 13
Eusebiusnot measured- - 14
Pope Sylvester I0 decades - 15
Constantius II18 decades - 16
Catherine of Alexandria17 decades - 17
Valentinian I11 decades - 18
Saint Barbara12 decades - 19
Gregory of Nazianzus18 decades - 20
Agnes of Rome0 decades - 21
Pope Damasus I0 decades - 22
Valensnot measured- - 23
Pope Julius I0 decades - 24
Gregory of Nyssa22 decades - 25
Pope Miltiades0 decades - 26
Pope Liberius11 decades - 27
Saint Blaise1 decades - 28
Maxentius22 decades - 29
Gratian22 decades - 30
Saint Monica18 decades - 31
Pope Mark0 decades - 32
Ephrem the Syrian6 decades - 33
Ammianus Marcellinus22 decades - 34
Margaret the Virgin3 decades - 35
Samudragupta13 decades - 36
Magnus Maximus4 decades - 37
Stilicho22 decades - 38
Juliannot measured- - 39
Shapur II6 decades - 40
Valentinian II21 decades - 41
Hilary of Poitiers20 decades - 42
Pope Eusebius0 decades - 43
Constansnot measured- - 44
Mesrop Mashtots0 decades - 45
Pope Anastasius I0 decades - 46
Faxian8 decades - 47
Pelagiusnot measured- - 48
Januarius22 decades - 49
Mary of Egypt15 decades - 50
Magnentius22 decades - 51
Epiphanius of Salamisnot measured- - 52
Ulfilas19 decades - 53
John Cassian7 decades - 54
Cyril of Jerusalem22 decades - 55
Saint Pantaleon0 decades - 56
Nintoku4 decades - 57
Philomena21 decades - 58
Evagrius Ponticus2 decades - 59
Vincent of Saragossa0 decades - 60
Moses the Black0 decades - 61
Saint Nino0 decades - 62
Vasubandhu13 decades - 63
Demetrius of Thessaloniki0 decades - 64
Pope Siricius5 decades - 65
Kumārajīva1 decades - 66
Saint Alban19 decades - 67
Pachomius the Great0 decades - 68
Saint Marinus0 decades - 69
Pancras of Rome0 decades - 70
Eugeniusnot measured- - 71
Crispusnot measured- - 72
Ausonius22 decades - 73
Macarius of Egypt0 decades - 74
Vitusnot measured- - 75
Narsehnot measured- - 76
Aelia Eudoxia0 decades - 77
Saint Spyridon0 decades
- 78
Maronnot measured- - 79
Pappus of Alexandria0 decades - 80
Ermanaric3 decades - 81Eusebius of Nicomedia16 decades
- 82
Libanius22 decades - 83
Prudentiusnot measured- - 84
Martianus Capella22 decades - 85
Constantius Gallus0 decades - 86
Expeditus0 decades - 87
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus0 decades - 88
Wang Xizhi6 decades - 89
Eutropiusnot measured- - 90
Anastasia of Sirmium0 decades - 91
Athanaric12 decades - 92
Christina of Bolsena0 decades - 93
Richū0 decades - 94
Hormizd II0 decades - 95
Maximinus II0 decades - 96
Euphemianot measured- - 97Theodore of Mopsuestia22 decades
- 98
Flavia Maxima Fausta0 decades - 99
Jovian22 decades - 100
Didymus the Blind2 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.