← 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
Francis of Assisi22 decades - 2
Rumi22 decades - 3
Snorri Sturluson13 decades - 4
Saadi Shirazi0 decades - 5
Alfonso X of Castile1 decades - 6
Ramon Llull3 decades - 7
Shams Tabrizi0 decades - 8
Yunus Emre3 decades - 9
Saint Sava0 decades - 10
Ibn Taymiyyah2 decades - 11
Nichiren15 decades - 12
Gertrude the Great6 decades - 13
Guido Cavalcanti22 decades - 14
Shota Rustaveli0 decades - 15
Manfred, King of Sicilynot measured- - 16
Jayadeva20 decades - 17
Francesca da Rimini22 decades - 18
Jacopone da Todi22 decades - 19
Amir Khusrow0 decades - 20
Baba Farid5 decades - 21
Go-Toba2 decades - 22
Theobald I of Navarre0 decades - 23
Nizamuddin Auliya0 decades - 24
Marguerite Porete4 decades - 25
Guido Guinizelli22 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.