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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.

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  1. 1Pope Boniface VIIIPope Boniface VIII1235–1303 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures21 decades
  2. 2Pope Celestine VPope Celestine V1215–1296 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  3. 3Pope Gregory IXPope Gregory IX1170–1241 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  4. 4Pope Gregory XPope Gregory X1210–1276 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope Innocent IVPope Innocent IVdied 1254 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  6. 6Pope Adrian VPope Adrian V1205–1276 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  7. 7Pope Celestine IVPope Celestine IVdied 1241 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  8. 8Pope Benedict XIPope Benedict XI1240–1304 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Nicholas IIIPope Nicholas III1215–1280 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures3 decades
  10. 10Pope Alexander IVPope Alexander IV1200–1261 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures13 decades
  11. 11Jacobus da VaragineJacobus da Varagine1228–1298 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Pope Honorius IVPope Honorius IV1210–1287 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Nicholas VNicholas V1260–1333 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured—

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.