← 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.
- 1
Avitusnot measured- - 2
Genevievenot measured- - 3
Syagrius18 decades - 4
Saint Remigius0 decades - 5Gennadius of Massilia0 decades
- 6
Corentin of Quimper0 decades - 7
Vedast17 decades - 8
Winwaloe1 decades - 9
Melainenot measured- - 10
Marcellus of Paris7 decades - 11
Prætextatus0 decades - 12
Saint Gwenhaelnot measured- - 13Eugendus0 decades
- 14
Paternus of Avranches0 decades - 15
Volusianus of Tours0 decades - 16
Sylvius of Toulousenot measured- - 17Patiens of Lyon0 decades
- 18Eustochiusnot measured-
- 19Leontius of Fréjusnot 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.