Last of the Romans

List of people described as the "Last of the Romans"

• Gaius Cassius Longinus, so called by Brutus and by the ancient historian Aulus Cremutius Cordus.
• Gaius Asinius Pollio, one of the last great orators and writers of the Roman Republic.
• Valentinian I, the last Western Emperor to campaign extensively on both sides of the Rhine and Danube frontiers.
• Valens, "the Last True Roman" Eastern Emperor who led his army to a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of Adrianople.
• Stilicho, a powerful Vandalic-Roman general in the early 5th century. Also called "the last of the Roman generals" in Chapter XXX of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• Flavius Aëtius, a general in the late Western Roman Empire who defended the Gauls against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Catalaunian Fields near Châlons, in 451. So called by Procopius.
• Count Boniface, a general in the late Western Roman Empire. Rival of Flavius Aëtius. So called by Procopius.
• Galla Placidia, empress consort to Constantius III and mother of Valentinian III, she was "the last Roman empress" and de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire from 425-437.
• Majorian, Roman Emperor between 457 and 461. He was the last emperor universally recognized as the de facto ruler of the entire western empire, briefly reconquering most of the lost territories in Gaul and Hispania.
• Ambrosius Aurelianus, a Romano-British military commander against the Anglo-Saxon invasion. So called by Gildas.
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, one of the last great philosophers of Rome. He was regarded as last of the Romans and first of the medieval scholastics by Martin Grabmann.
• Gildas, Romano-British clergyman and writer.
• Justinian I "the Great", second of the Justinian Dynasty, and probably the last Byzantine emperor to speak Latin as a first language.
• Flavius Belisarius, a widely acclaimed general of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian, known for his reconquest of portions of the Western Empire.
• Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, Roman statesman and writer.
• Gregory the Great, an influential Pope and native to Rome.
• Desiderius of Cahors, Gallo-Roman aristocrat and bishop.

  In England

• William Congreve, called "Ultimus Romanorum" by Alexander Pope.
• Samuel Johnson, called "Ultimus Romanorum" by Thomas Carlyle.
• H. H. Asquith, "last of the Romans" was used on numerous occasions for him after his fall from power in 1916.

  In the United States

List of rulers who, in a more literal sense, also could be described as "Last of the Romans"

• Romulus Augustulus, the last de facto Western Roman Emperor.
• Julius Nepos, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor.
• Ovida the last Roman commander in Illyricum, defeated and killed by Odoacer.
• Syagrius, the last Roman commander in Gaul before the invasion of the Franks.
• Constantine VI, last emperor to be recognized universally as Roman Emperor during his own time
• Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last Prince of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, the last post-Roman successor state to fall in the West.
• Constantine XI Paleologus, the last Eastern Roman Emperor.
• David II Komnenos, final emperor of Trebizond and de facto final Roman Emperor after Constantine XI.