People

Kabir

Indian mystic poet

Medieval influential

210

Ibn Battuta

Greatest medieval traveler

Medieval influential

141

Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Medieval influential

138

Pope Urban II

Launched the First Crusade

Medieval influential

136

Marco Polo

Explorer

Medieval influential

118

Maimonides

Jewish philosopher

Medieval influential

117

Richard the Lionheart

English king, Crusader

Medieval influential

110

Genghis Khan

Mongol Empire founder

Medieval influential

105

Rumi

Sufi poet and mystic

Medieval influential

84

Omar Khayyam

Poet, mathematician, astronomer

Medieval influential

83

Hafez

Persian poet

Medieval influential

70

Roger Bacon

Early advocate of scientific method

Medieval influential

65

Dante Alighieri

Divine Comedy

Medieval influential

60

Charlemagne

Holy Roman Emperor

Medieval influential

56

Thomas Aquinas

Catholic philosopher and theologian

Medieval influential

54

Saladin

Sultan, recaptured Jerusalem

Medieval influential

51

Muhammad

Prophet of Islam

Medieval influential

47

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Persian polymath, Canon of Medicine

Medieval influential

37

Li Bai

Chinese poet

Medieval influential

27

Du Fu

Chinese poet

Medieval influential

23