← 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
Thomas Aquinas22 decades - 2
Fibonacci22 decades - 3
Ibn Arabi5 decades - 4
Roger Bacon22 decades - 5
Meister Eckhart12 decades - 6
Clare of Assisi22 decades - 7
Bonaventure11 decades - 8
Madhvacharya0 decades - 9
Dōgen2 decades - 10
Nahmanidesnot measured- - 11
Haji Bektash Veli0 decades - 12
Mechthild of Magdeburg14 decades - 13
Abraham Abulafia3 decades - 14
Michael Scot21 decades - 15
Brunetto Latini22 decades - 16
Raymond of Penyafort0 decades - 17
Dnyaneshwarnot measured- - 18
Pietro d'Abano0 decades - 19
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar0 decades - 20
Alexander of Hales19 decades - 21
Siger of Brabant7 decades - 22
Georgios Pachymeres0 decades - 23
Qin Jiushao5 decades - 24
Sultan Walad0 decades - 25
Giles of Rome8 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.