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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. 1Pope Leo I390-461 · Italy · Religious Figures2 decades
  2. 2Saint Patrick400-500 · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Pope Gelasius Idied 496 · Religious Figures0 decades
  4. 4Pope Innocent I400-417 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope Hormisdas450-523 · Italy · Religious Figures1 decades
  6. 6Pope Zosimus400-418 · Italy · Religious Figures3 decades
  7. 7Pope Hilarius415-468 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  8. 8Pope Anastasius IIdied 498 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Symmachus460-514 · Italy · Religious Figures7 decades
  10. 10Pope Simplicius420-483 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Sixtus III390-440 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Genevieve423-502 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  13. 13Pope Celestine I400-432 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Pope Felix III440-492 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  15. 15Glycerius430-480 · Religious Figures9 decades
  16. 16Brigid of Kildare451-525 · Religious Figures0 decades
  17. 17Theodoret393-457 · Religious Figures22 decades
  18. 18Saint Remigius437-533 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  19. 19Pope Boniface I370-422 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  20. 20Peter Chrysologus380-450 · Religious Figures4 decades
  21. 21Sabbas the Sanctified439-532 · Religious Figures0 decades
  22. 22Germanus of Auxerre378-448 · Religious Figures0 decades
  23. 23Euthymius the Great377-473 · Religious Figures0 decades
  24. 24Daniel the Stylite409-490 · Religious Figures0 decades
  25. 25Proclus of Constantinople390-446 · Religious Figures0 decades
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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.