← Fame through time400-499
The 5th century
Whose working lives fell in the 5th 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 5th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Pope Leo I2 decades - 2
Romulus Augustulus14 decades - 3
Theodoric the Great12 decades - 4
Alaric I0 decades - 5
Saint Patrick22 decades - 6
Pope Gelasius I0 decades - 7
Odoacer22 decades - 8
Theodosius II22 decades - 9
Honoriusnot measured- - 10
Julius Nepos5 decades - 11
Cyril of Alexandria22 decades - 12
Valentinian III22 decades - 13
Arcadius22 decades - 14
Pope Innocent I0 decades - 15
Flavius Aetius0 decades - 16
Majorian20 decades - 17
Justin I4 decades - 18
Nestorius22 decades - 19
Anastasius I Dicorusnot measured- - 20
Pope Hormisdas1 decades - 21
Pope Zosimus3 decades - 22
Pope Hilarius0 decades - 23
Marciannot measured- - 24
Gaiseric14 decades - 25
Childeric 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.