1200–1299
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Giles of Rome1243–1316 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics8 decades - 2
Odo of Châteauroux1190–1273 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics17 decades - 3
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Vital du Four1260–1327 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics0 decades - 4JOJohn of la Rochelle1190–1245 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics8 decades
- 5
Thomas Gallus1190–1246 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics0 decades - 6
Guillaume de Bray1201–1282 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics0 decades - 7GOGerard of Abbeville1225–1272 · 🇫🇷 France · Academics12 decades
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.