← 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
Albertus Magnus22 decades - 2
Nasir al-Din al-Tusinot measured- - 3
Ibn al-Baitar0 decades - 4
Guo Shoujing0 decades - 5
Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt6 decades - 6
Guido Bonatti22 decades - 7
Theodoric of Freiberg11 decades - 8Nikephoros Blemmydes0 decades
- 9Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharīnot measured-
- 10
Salvino D'Armate0 decades - 11
Campanus of Novara0 decades - 12
Abu al-Abbas al-Nabatinot measured- - 13Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandīnot measured-
- 14
Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urdinot measured- - 15Ahmad al-Tifashi0 decades
- 16Grigorios Choniadesnot measured-
- 17Muhyi al-Dīn al-Maghribīnot measured-
- 18
Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Murrakushinot measured- - 19
Najm ad-Din al-Tufinot measured- - 20Ibn al‐Ha'im al‐Ishbilinot measured-
- 21Alessandro della Spina0 decades
- 22
Al-Ashraf Umar IInot measured- - 23Muhammad al-Riqutinot measured-
- 24Ibn al‐Raqqamnot measured-
- 25Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohennot measured-
- 26
Isaac Israeli ben Josephnot measured- - 27Zulema the Astrologernot measured-
- 28
Giovanni da Carignano0 decades - 29Andalò del Negro0 decades
- 30
Raḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-Sāʻātīnot measured- - 31Hindushah Nakhjavaninot measured-
- 32
Isaac ibn Sidnot measured- - 33Joseph Naḥmiasnot 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.