Rufus (Roman cognomen)

Rufus (/ˈruːfəs/) is one of the most common of the ancient Roman cognomina.[1]

List of Rufi

  • Quintus Marcius Rufus, an officer of Marcus Licinius Crassus during the Third Servile War in 71 BC
  • Annius Rufus, Prefect of Judea in 12 AD
  • Calvisius Rufus, governor of Britain in the 3rd century AD
  • Curtius Rufus, 1st-century Roman politician (possibly the same as Quintus Curtius Rufus)
  • Faenius Rufus (died 65), Roman senator and praefectus annonae, 55–62 AD
  • Gaius Asinius Rufus (ca 110 – aft. 136), Roman Senator
  • Lucius Passienus Rufus, consul in 4 BC
  • Lucius Varius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC
  • Lucius Vibullius Rufus, 1st- and 2nd-century Greek aristocrat
  • Lucius Virginius Rufus, politician and general of the 1st century
  • Marcus Caelius Rufus, politician of the 1st century BC
  • Marcus Cluvius Rufus, 1st-century consul, senator, governor, and historian
  • Marcus Junius Rufus, 1st-century Roman politician
  • Marcus Minucius Rufus (consul 221 BC)
  • Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus (c. 104/3 - 26 BC), Roman politician, and consul in 53 BC
  • Musonius Rufus, Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century
  • Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus, 2nd century Greek aristocrat
  • Publius Rutilius Rufus, politician, general and historian of the 2nd century BC
  • Publius Sulpicius Rufus, politician and general of the 2nd century BC
  • Quintus Minucius Rufus, 2nd- and 3rd-century BC Roman politician and consul 197 BC
  • Quintus Pompeius Rufus (consul 88 BC) (died 88 BC), Roman politician
  • Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 127) (c. 90 – aft. 132 AD), Roman politician
  • Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 182), Roman politician
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian of the 1st century|1st or 2nd century
  • Rufus (consul 457), consul in 457 AD
  • Quintus Salvidienus Rufus, 1st-century BC Roman general
  • Servius Sulpicius Rufus, orator of the 1st century BC
  • Valgius Rufus, poet of the 1st century BC

References

  1. ^ D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero: Epistulae ad Familiares (Cambridge University Press, 1977), vol. 2, p. 500.
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