← 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 - 26
Johannes de Sacrobosco0 decades - 27
Yang Hui5 decades - 28
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazinot measured- - 29Maximus Planudes5 decades
- 30
Zhu Shijie5 decades - 31
Caesar of Heisterbach1 decades - 32
Shlomo ben Aderetnot measured- - 33
Ahmad al-Buni0 decades - 34Bartholomew Anglicus0 decades
- 35
Henry of Ghent8 decades - 36
Vitello14 decades - 37Trần Thái Tôngnot measured-
- 38Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushinot measured-
- 39Robert of Chester1 decades
- 40Boetius of Dacia0 decades
- 41
Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisīnot measured- - 42Sadr al-Din al-Qunawinot measured-
- 43Ibn Sab'in0 decades
- 44
William of Auvergne10 decades - 45
Robert Kilwardby0 decades - 46
Yonah Gerondi18 decades - 47
Odo of Châteauroux17 decades - 48
Jacobus de Cessolis0 decades - 49
Jordanus de Nemore0 decades - 50Étienne Tempier0 decades
- 51Li Ye1 decades
- 52
An Hyang0 decades - 53
Matthew of Aquasparta0 decades - 54
Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti0 decades - 55Ibn Kammuna0 decades
- 56Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibīnot measured-
- 57
Alexander of Villedieu0 decades - 58William of Saint-Amour0 decades
- 59Nikephoros Choumnos0 decades
- 60Al-Shahrazurinot measured-
- 61
Hovhannes Erznkatsinot measured- - 62Adam Marsh5 decades
- 63Najm al-Din Razi0 decades
- 64Afdal al-Din Kashani0 decades
- 65
Bernard de Gordon0 decades - 66
Vital du Four0 decades - 67John of Paris14 decades
- 68William of Sherwood0 decades
- 69
Zhen Dexiunot measured- - 70
Xu Heng2 decades - 71
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Giovanni Parenti0 decades - 72John of la Rochelle8 decades
- 73Hillel ben Samuel0 decades
- 74
Guillaume de Bray0 decades - 75
Odofredus1 decades - 76Richard Rufus of Cornwall0 decades
- 77
Thomas Gallus0 decades - 78
Bi Bi Monajemeh Nishaburinot measured- - 79Aziz ad-Din Nasafinot measured-
- 80
Esayi Nchʻetsʻinot measured- - 81
Peter of Benevento0 decades - 82
Alam al-Din al-Hanafinot measured- - 83Isaac ben Joseph ibn Pulgarnot measured-
- 84Gerard of Abbeville12 decades
- 85Isaac ibn Latifnot measured-
- 86John Pediasimos0 decades
- 87Badr ad-Dīn ibn Māliknot measured-
- 88Giles of Lessinesnot measured-
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.