← 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
Pope Leo I2 decades - 2
Romulus Augustulus14 decades - 3
Theodoric the Great12 decades - 4
Alaric I0 decades - 5
Saint Patrick22 decades - 6
Pope Gelasius I0 decades - 7
Odoacer22 decades - 8
Theodosius II22 decades - 9
Honoriusnot measured- - 10
Julius Nepos5 decades - 11
Cyril of Alexandria22 decades - 12
Valentinian III22 decades - 13
Arcadius22 decades - 14
Pope Innocent I0 decades - 15
Flavius Aetius0 decades - 16
Majorian20 decades - 17
Justin I4 decades - 18
Nestorius22 decades - 19
Anastasius I Dicorusnot measured- - 20
Pope Hormisdas1 decades - 21
Pope Zosimus3 decades - 22
Pope Hilarius0 decades - 23
Marciannot measured- - 24
Gaiseric14 decades - 25
Childeric I0 decades - 26
Pope Anastasius II0 decades - 27
Petronius Maximus2 decades - 28
Avitusnot measured- - 29
Pope Symmachus7 decades - 30
Proclusnot measured- - 31
Pope Simplicius0 decades - 32
Pope Sixtus III0 decades - 33
Genevievenot measured- - 34
Pope Celestine I0 decades
- 35
Anthemiusnot measured- - 36
Pope Felix III0 decades - 37
Theodoric I0 decades - 38
Galla Placidia19 decades - 39
Glycerius9 decades - 40
Chandragupta II10 decades - 41
Brigid of Kildare0 decades - 42
Libius Severus0 decades - 43
Simeon Stylites22 decades - 44
Constantius III0 decades - 45
Chlodio0 decades - 46Orestesnot measured-
- 47
Joannesnot measured- - 48
Zenonot measured- - 49
Syagrius18 decades - 50
Alaric II8 decades - 51
Bahram V0 decades - 52
Ricimer22 decades - 53
Mazdak18 decades - 54
Orosius22 decades - 55
Sidonius Apollinaris22 decades - 56
Macrobius22 decades - 57
Pulcheria22 decades - 58
Theodoret22 decades - 59
Wallianot measured- - 60
Yūryaku0 decades - 61
Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf0 decades - 62
Saint Remigius0 decades - 63
Pope Boniface I0 decades - 64
Cynric18 decades - 65
Kumaragupta I1 decades - 66
Buddhaghosa15 decades - 67
Euric21 decades - 68
Keitai0 decades - 69
Yazdegerd I0 decades - 70
Aelia Eudocia0 decades - 71
Athaulf3 decades - 72
Tao Yuanming10 decades - 73
Gwanggaeto the Great0 decades - 74
Theodoric IInot measured- - 75
Claudian22 decades - 76Socrates of Constantinople0 decades
- 77
Pope Theophilus of Alexandrianot measured- - 78
Isidore of Miletus0 decades - 79
Bledanot measured- - 80Damascius20 decades
- 81
Seinei0 decades - 82
Zu Chongzhi0 decades - 83
Priscusnot measured- - 84
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus0 decades - 85
Leo I the Thraciannot measured- - 86
Synesius of Cyrene0 decades - 87
Moses of Chorene11 decades - 88
Aspar21 decades - 89
Huneric7 decades - 90
Peter Chrysologus4 decades - 91Sozomen22 decades
- 92
Emperor Ankōnot measured- - 93
Justa Grata Honoria0 decades - 94
Eutyches22 decades - 95
Sabbas the Sanctified0 decades - 96Aegidiusnot measured-
- 97Rugila0 decades
- 98
Gundobad6 decades - 99
Pharamondnot measured- - 100
Egeria22 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.