← 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
Nestorius22 decades - 2
Simeon Stylites22 decades - 3
Orosius22 decades - 4
Sidonius Apollinaris22 decades - 5
Macrobius22 decades - 6
Buddhaghosa15 decades - 7
Tao Yuanming10 decades - 8
Claudian22 decades - 9Socrates of Constantinople0 decades
- 10
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus0 decades - 11
Moses of Chorene11 decades - 12Sozomen22 decades
- 13
Egeria22 decades - 14Quintus Smyrnaeus0 decades
- 15
Stobaeus22 decades - 16Dares Phrygius10 decades
- 17
Hesychius of Alexandria0 decades - 18
Tao Hongjing6 decades - 19Shen Yuenot measured-
- 20
Xie Lingyun5 decades - 21Fan Yenot measured-
- 22
Jacob of Serugh0 decades - 23Julius Firmicus Maternus1 decades
- 24Zosimusnot measured-
- 25Pei Songzhinot 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.