List of Famous people named Gaius

Here are some famous Gaiuses:

Gaius Appuleius Diocles

First Name Gaius
Born on January 1, 0104 (age 1920)
Born in Portugal, Viseu

Gaius Appuleius Diocles was a Roman charioteer who became one of the most celebrated athletes in ancient history. He is often cited as the highest-paid athlete of all time.

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Gaius Scribonius Curio

First Name Gaius
Born on January 1, -0090
Died on January 1, -0049 (aged 41)

Gaius Scribonius Curio was the son of Gaius Scribonius Curio, consul in 76 BC and censor in 61 BC. His political allegiances changed over the course of the 50s BC until his tribunate, when he sided with Julius Caesar after receiving a massive bribe. During the civil war, he sided with Caesar and led Caesarian troops to Sicily and then to Africa, where he was killed in battle.

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Gaius Marius

First Name Gaius
Died on January 13, -0086
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies. He was at the centre of a paradigmatic shift from the militia levies of the middle Republic to the professional soldiery of the late Republic; he also improved the pilum, a javelin, and made large-scale changes to the logistical structure of the Roman army.

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Gaius Gracchus

First Name Gaius
Born on November 30, -0155
Died on January 1, -0121 (aged 34)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman Popularis politician in the 2nd century BC and brother of the reformer Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. His election to the office of tribune in the years 123 BC and 122 BC and reformative policies while in office prompted a constitutional crisis and his death at the hands of the Roman Senate in 121 BC.

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Gaius Cassius Longinus

First Name Gaius
Born on November 30, -0083
Died on January 1, -0042 (aged 41)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Cassius Longinus, often referred to as simply Cassius, was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the conspiracy. He commanded troops with Brutus during the Battle of Philippi against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar's former supporters, and committed suicide after being defeated by Mark Antony.

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Gaius Caesar

First Name Gaius
Born on January 1, -0020
Died on February 21, 0004 (aged 24)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Caesar was consul in AD 1 and the grandson of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Although he was born to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, Augustus' only daughter, Gaius and his younger brother, Lucius Caesar, were raised by their grandfather as his adopted sons and joint-heirs to the empire. He would experience an accelerated political career befitting a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, with the Roman Senate allowing him to advance his career without first holding a quaestorship or praetorship, offices that ordinary senators were required to hold as part of the cursus honorum.

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Gaius Octavius

First Name Gaius
Born on January 1, -0100
Died on November 30, -0059 (aged 40)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Octavius was a Roman politician.

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Gaius Claudius Pulcher

First Name Gaius
Born on January 1, -0096
Died on January 1, -0100
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Gaius Fannius

First Name Gaius

Gaius Fannius Strabo was a Roman republican politician who was elected consul in 122 BC, and was one of the principal opponents of Gaius Gracchus. He was a member of the Scipionic Circle.

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Gaius Julius Caesar

First Name Gaius
Born on November 30, -0131
Died on January 1, -0085 (aged 46)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman senator, a supporter of his brother-in-law, Gaius Marius, and the father of Roman dictator Julius Caesar.

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