← 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
Cimabue22 decades - 2
Duccio18 decades - 3
Matthew Paris22 decades - 4
Giovanni Pisano22 decades - 5
Pietro Cavallini22 decades - 6
Araniko0 decades - 7
Nicola Pisano8 decades - 8
Zhao Mengfu0 decades - 9Guan Daoshengnot measured-
- 10
Muqinot measured- - 11
Liang Kai0 decades - 12
Berlinghiero Berlinghieri2 decades - 13
Emperor Zhangzong of Jinnot measured- - 14
Xia Gui0 decades - 15
Giunta Pisano22 decades - 16
Bonaventura Berlinghieri0 decades - 17
Jacopo Torriti11 decades - 18
Coppo di Marcovaldo0 decades - 19
Qian Xuan0 decades - 20
Guido of Siena0 decades - 21
Buonamico Buffalmacco0 decades - 22
Chen Rong0 decades - 23
Maso di Banco0 decades - 24
Naumburg Master0 decades - 25
Gaddo Gaddi1 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.