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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
Saint Pelagia0 decades - 2
Prosper of Aquitaine3 decades - 3
Philoxenus of Mabbug0 decades - 4Caelestius8 decades
- 5Philip of Side0 decades
- 6Julian of Halicarnassus0 decades
- 7Fulgentius Ferrandus0 decades
- 8Joannes Maxentius0 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.