← 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
Proclusnot measured- - 2
Mazdak18 decades - 3Damascius20 decades
- 4
Zu Chongzhi0 decades - 5
Synesius of Cyrene0 decades - 6
Eutyches22 decades - 7
Severus of Antioch4 decades - 8
Wunot measured- - 9Ammonius Hermiae0 decades
- 10
Peter the Iberian0 decades - 11Sengzhao6 decades
- 12Marinus of Neapolis0 decades
- 13Sosipatra0 decades
- 14Aeneas of Gaza0 decades
- 15Isidore of Alexandria0 decades
- 16Hierocles of Alexandria0 decades
- 17
Yeznik of Kolbnot measured- - 18Julian of Eclanum0 decades
- 19Sallustiusnot measured-
- 20Victorius of Aquitaine0 decades
- 21
Asclepius of Tralles0 decades - 22Fan Zhen0 decades
- 23Domninus of Larissa0 decades
- 24Theodora of Emesanot measured-
- 25Sallustius of Emesanot measured-
- 26Pamprepius0 decades
- 27Heliodorus of Alexandria0 decades
- 28Mardonio1 decades
- 29Hermiasnot measured-
- 30Antoninusnot measured-
- 31Bodhirucinot measured-
- 32He Chengtian0 decades
- 33Apollinarisnot 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.