List of Roman generals
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Roman generals were often career
Roman Army
. This page encompasses men whom history remembers for their accomplishments commanding Roman armies on land and sea.
A
- Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 67 BC)[1]
- Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC)[2]
- Titus Aebutius Elva[3]
- Aegidius
- Lucius Aemilius Barbula
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)
- Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus
- Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (praetor 56 BC)
- Marcus Antonius (orator)[4]
- Gaius Antonius[5]
- Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)
- Marcus Antonius Creticus[6]
- Mark Antony
- Manius Aquillius (consul 129 BC)
- Arrian
- Lucius Artorius Castus
- Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)
- Aulus Atilius Calatinus[7]
- Marcus Atilius Regulus[8]
- Publius Attius Varus[9]
- Aureolus[10]
- Graltinus Maximus Aurelius
B
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) – defeated the Garamantes
- Barbatio
- Belisarius
- Lucilius Bassus
- Publius Ventidius Bassus
- Bonifacius
- Bonosus (usurper)
- Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus – commanded Caesar's fleet in the war against the Veneti
- Iberia
- Marcus Junius Brutus
C
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus[11]
- Aulus Caecina Alienus
- Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
- Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 67 BC)
- Gaius Carrinas (praetor 82 BC)
- Gaius Carrinas (consul 43 BC)
- Gaius Cassius Longinus
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
- Gaius Julius Civilis
Statue possibly depicting Scipio Aemilianus - Appius Claudius Caudex
- Marcus Claudius Marcellus
- Gaius Claudius Nero
- Claudius Pompeianus
- Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 249 BC)
- Lucius Clodius Macer
- Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
- Gaius Marcius Coriolanus
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna
- Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
- Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther
- Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus
- Scipio Aemilianus
- Scipio Africanus
- Scipio Asiaticus
- Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica[12]
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D
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- Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
- First Samnite War
- Publius Decius Mus (consul 312 BC)
- Dexippus
- Aulus Didius Gallus
- Titus Didius
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC)
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 122 BC)
- Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus
- Nero Claudius Drusus
- Drusus Julius Caesar
- Gaius Duilius
F
Flavius Aetius
- Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus[13]
- Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus[14]
- Fabius Valens
- Gaius Flaminius
- Gaius Flavius Fimbria
- Quintus Fufius Calenus
- Fullofaudes
- Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)
Image of Marcus Furius Camillus arriving in Rome. - Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 237 BC)
- Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BC)
- Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
- Marcus Furius Camillus
- Flavius Aetius
- Cornelius Fuscus
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- Aulus Gabinius[15]
- Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
- Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor 54 BC)
- Cestius Gallus
- Lucius Gellius
- Lucius Gellius Publicola
- Germanicus
- Gundobad
- Gaius Salvius Liberalis
H
- Mauri
J
- Lucius Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar
- Lucius Junius Brutus founder of Roman republic
L
- Titus Labienus
- Gaius Laelius
- Titus Larcius
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 6)
- Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
Image of Lucullus - Litorius
- Lucullus
- Mucianus
- Quintus Ligarius
- Marcus Livius Salinator
- Marcus Lollius
- Quintus Lollius Urbicus
- Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter
- Lucius Pinarius
- Gaius Lutatius Catulus
- Quintus Lutatius Catulus
M
- Gnaeus Mallius Maximus
- Titus Manlius Torquatus (consul 347 BC)
- Titus Manlius Torquatus (235 BC)
- Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus
- Gaius Marcius Rutilus
- Marcius Turbo
- Gaius Marius
- Gaius Marius the Younger
- Lucius Mummius Achaicus
- Marcus Valerius Maximianus
N
- Alexandrian War
- Gaius Norbanus Flaccus
- Gaius Norbanus
O
- Gaius Octavius – put down a slave rebellion at Thurii•
- Gnaeus Octavius
- Odaenathus
- Lucius Opimius
- Publius Ostorius Scapula – responsible for the defeat and capture of Caratacus
P
- Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
- Lucius Papirius Cursor
- Tiberius Claudius Paulinus
- Marcus Perperna Vento
- Marcus Perperna
- Quintus Petillius Cerialis
- Publius Petronius Turpilianus
- Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 15 BC)
- Aulus Plautius[16]
- Gnaeus Pompeius
- Pompey
Bust depicting Primus - Sextus Pompeius
- Pompeius Strabo
- Pomponius Secundus
- Marcus Popillius Laenas
- Marcus Popillius Laenas (consul 173 BC)
- Lucius Postumius Albinus
- Marcus Antonius Primus
- Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 283 BC)
- Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus
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Q
- Lusius Quietus
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus – dictator
- Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus
- Quintus Aemilius
- Quintus Pedius
R
- Ricimer
- Marcus Roscius Coelius
- Publius Rutilius Lupus (consul 90 BC)
- Publius Rutilius Rufus
S
- Quintus Salvidienus Rufus
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (consul 76 BC)
- Gaius Scribonius Curio (praetor 49 BC)
- Sejanus
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 215 BC)
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 177 BC)
- Tiberius Sempronius Longus (consul 194 BC)
- Tiberius Sempronius Longus (consul 218 BC)
- Marcus Sergius
- Quintus Sertorius
- Gaius Servilius Ahala
- Quintus Servilius Caepio (consul 106 BC)
Ivory carving depicting Stilicho - Quintus Servilius Caepio (quaestor 103 BC)
- Sextus Julius Severus
- Lucius Cornelius Sisenna
- Lucius Flavius Silva
- Gaius Sosius
- Staurakios[17]
- Stilicho
- Gaius Suetonius Paulinus[18]
- Publius Cornelius Sulla
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
- Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus[19]
- Servius Sulpicius Galba (consul 144 BC)
- Publius Sulpicius Rufus
- Syagrius
- Scipio
- Sextus Calpurnius Classicus (senator and general of Hadrian)
T
U
- Jewish revolt against Gallus (Constantius Gallus)
V
Bust of Agrippa - Marcus Valerius Corvus[21]
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul)
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus
- Publius Valerius Laevinus
- Marcus Valerius Laevinus
- Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
- Flavius Valila Theodosius
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa[22]
Notes
- ^ command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Antiochus the Great at the Battle of Thermopylae
- ^ Battle of Lake Regillus, Roman victory over the Latin League
- ^ Roman Senate voted him a naval triumph
- ^ entrusted with the defence of Illyricum against the Pompeians
- ^ ordered to clear the Mediterranean Sea of piracy, but instead, plundered the provinces he was supposed to protect
- ^ first to lead an army outside of the Italian mainland
- Battle of Tunis
- Gaius Scribonius Curio
- ^ one of the so-called Thirty Tyrants
- Macedonianthrone
- ^ defeated the Lusitanians at Ilipa, and subjugated the Boii
- ^ hero of the Samnite Wars
- ^ instigated his "Fabian strategy" against Hannibal
- Ptolemy XII of Egypt
- ^ led the Roman conquest of Britain
- Thessalonica
- ^ defeated the rebellion of Boudica
- ^ led Roman Army in the Second Macedonian War
- ^ defeated the Bessi in Thrace
- Marsians
- ^ next Roman general to cross the Rhine after Julius Caesar