← Fame through time1200-1299
The 13th century
Whose working lives fell in the 13th 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 13th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Francis of Assisi22 decades - 2
Thomas Aquinas22 decades - 3
Marco Polo22 decades - 4
Rumi22 decades - 5
Kublai Khan19 decades - 6
John, King of England3 decades - 7
Osman I0 decades - 8
Fibonacci22 decades - 9
Edward I of England10 decades - 10
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 11
Louis IX of France12 decades - 12
Anthony of Padua22 decades - 13
Ögedei Khan0 decades - 14
Pope Boniface VIII21 decades - 15
Pope Celestine V0 decades - 16
Henry III of England5 decades - 17
Philip II of France0 decades - 18
Albertus Magnus22 decades - 19
Ibn Arabi5 decades - 20
Snorri Sturluson13 decades - 21
Alexander Nevsky17 decades - 22
Saint Dominic17 decades - 23
Roger Bacon22 decades - 24
Batu Khan2 decades - 25
Meister Eckhart12 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.