Famous Romans

It is difficult to summarise even a simple list of “famous romans”. Clearly a couple of thousand years of history just in ancient times were sufficient to yield many names. To make things easier for myself I have limited the list of famous romans to those which popped off the top of my head as the ones most likely to be famous. If you think of others which have a right to be in the list and which rightfully deserve the word “famous” as well as being regarded as “romans” please let me know.

Famous Romans

So here it is a list of famous Romans and links to source information about why they are famous…

• Romulus and Remus
• Scaevola & Cincinnatus
• The Gracchi brothers
• General Scipio
• Julius Caesar
• Mark Anthony
• Cicero
• Emperors: Octavian – Augustus
• Nero
• Hadrian
• Writers such as Virgil
• Horace

Clearly the list can be much much longer… send us your thoughts!