← 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 - 26
Zakariya al-Qazwini0 decades - 27
Zhang Sanfengnot measured- - 28
Adam de la Halle4 decades - 29
Gottfried von Strassburg22 decades - 30
Henry IIInot measured- - 31
Ata-Malik Juvayni0 decades - 32
Henry of Germanynot measured- - 33Rutebeuf22 decades
- 34
Juntoku0 decades - 35
Safi-ad-din Ardabilinot measured- - 36
Minamoto no Sanetomo0 decades - 37
Robert de Boron16 decades - 38
Hadewijch4 decades - 39
Busiri0 decades - 40
Ulrich von Liechtenstein20 decades - 41Ibn Khallikan13 decades
- 42
Mechtilde10 decades - 43
Thomas of Celano15 decades - 44
Bele Regis Notariusnot measured- - 45Bar Hebraeus9 decades
- 46Minhaj-i-Siraj0 decades
- 47
Enzio of Sardinia0 decades - 48
Jean Bodel19 decades - 49
Giacomo da Lentini14 decades - 50
Jean de Joinville0 decades - 51
Ibn al-Farid2 decades - 52William of Moerbeke5 decades
- 53
Jean de Meun18 decades - 54
Guillaume de Lorris22 decades - 55
Jordan of Saxony0 decades - 56
Song Cinot measured- - 57Ibn Manzur0 decades
- 58
Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendalnot measured- - 59
William II of Villehardouin0 decades - 60Qol Ghalinot measured-
- 61
Munetaka-shinnōnot measured- - 62
Trần Nhân Tông0 decades - 63
Dino Compagni22 decades - 64Layamon22 decades
- 65
Eike von Repgow19 decades - 66
Kambar7 decades - 67
Guillaume de Sonnac1 decades - 68
Der von Kürenberg3 decades - 69
Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salamnot measured- - 70
Eleanor de Montfort0 decades - 71
Roger of Howden4 decades - 72
John the Victoriousnot measured- - 73
Sordello de Mantouenot measured- - 74
Henryk IV Probus, Duke of Wrocławnot measured- - 75
Konrad von Würzburg22 decades - 76
Salimbene di Adam0 decades - 77Janabai0 decades
- 78
Hayton of Corycusnot measured- - 79Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedelnot measured-
- 80
Ibn Said al-Maghribi0 decades - 81
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqinot measured- - 82
Guy de Montfort, Count of Nolanot measured- - 83
Henry of Latvia0 decades - 84
Beatrice of Nazareth0 decades
- 85
Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos0 decades - 86Ibn al-Adim0 decades
- 87
Yehuda Alharizi19 decades - 88Zhao Rukuonot measured-
- 89Wang Shifu6 decades
- 90
Thomas the Rhymer19 decades - 91Robert de Clari15 decades
- 92
Gonzalo de Berceo0 decades - 93
Thomas of Cantimpré1 decades - 94
Kirakos Gandzaketsi0 decades - 95
Elias of Cortona0 decades - 96
Brother Leo13 decades - 97Go-Fukakusa-in no Nijōnot measured-
- 98Sturla Þórðarson0 decades
- 99
Heinrich Frauenlob22 decades - 100
Guan Hanqing9 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.