Who Was Alive

Paul the Apostle

Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65)

Born c. AD 5 · died AD 64–67

Who was alive at the same time as Paul the Apostle?

  1. Strabo
  2. Augustus
  3. Titus Livius
  4. Ovid
  5. Tiberius
  6. Claudius
  7. Galba
  8. Saint Peter
  9. Paul the Apostle
  10. Vespasian
  11. Mark the Evangelist
  12. Linus
  13. Caligula
  14. Pliny the Elder
  15. Anacletus
  16. Josephus
  17. Nero
  18. Titus
  19. Plutarch
  20. Epictetus
  21. Domitian
  22. Tacitus
  23. Trajan
  24. Pliny the Younger
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Born during Paul the Apostle’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan and Vespasian.

Not quite contemporaries: Horace died 9 years before Paul the Apostle was born, Hadrian was born 9 years after Paul the Apostle died and Vitruvius died 14 years before Paul the Apostle was born.

Compare

All 24 contemporaries we track

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Plutarch AD 40–50 – c. AD 120
  4. Saint Peter BC – AD 64–68
  5. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  8. Titus Livius BC – AD 17
  9. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  10. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  11. Epictetus c. AD 50 – AD 125–138
  12. Strabo c. 63 BC – AD 21–24
  13. Trajan AD 53 – AD 115–119
  14. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  15. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  16. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – AD 112–114
  18. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  19. Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  20. Mark the Evangelist AD 9–20 – AD 68
  21. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  22. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  23. Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  24. Martial AD 38–41 – AD 104