Last of the Romans

• Gaius Cassius Longinus (d. 42 BC), so called by Brutus and by the ancient historian Aulus Cremutius Cordus.
• Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4), one of the last great orators and writers of the Roman Republic.
• Valentinian I (321–375), the last Western Emperor to campaign extensively on both sides of the Rhine and Danube frontiers.{{cite web |url=https://rear-view-mirror.com/2015/10/31/valentinian-i-the-last-of-the-triumphant-roman-emperors-in-the-west/ |title=Valentinian I: The last of the triumphant Roman emperors in the west.|date=31 October 2015|access-date=25 February 2019}}
• Valens (328–378), "the Last True Roman" {{cite book| title=Conquest of a Continent |last=Grant |first=Madison |location=Paris |publisher=Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group |year=2013 |page=46|isbn=9781909606012}} Eastern Emperor (and brother of Valentinian I) who led his army to a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of Adrianople.
• Stilicho, a powerful Vandalic-Roman general in the early 5th century.{{cite book |url=http://www.bartleby.com/81/9958.html |title=Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |first=E. Cobham |last=Brewer|year=1898}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.danielang.net/2016/06/22/gibbon-part-4/|title=Gibbon, Part 4: Theodosius and the Last Roman General|first=Daniel|last=Ang|date=22 June 2016|access-date=25 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412184300/https://www.danielang.net/2016/06/22/gibbon-part-4/|archive-date=12 April 2021}}
• Flavius Aetius (396?–454), a general in the late Western Roman Empire who defended Gaul against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Catalaunian Fields near Châlons, in 451. So called by Procopius.
• Count Boniface (died 432), a general in the late Western Roman Empire. Rival of Flavius Aëtius. So called by Procopius.
• Galla Placidia (388-450), empress consort to Constantius III and mother of Valentinian III, she was "the last Roman empress"{{cite book |title=Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress|first=Hagith |last=Sivan |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0195379136}} and de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire from 425 to 437.
• Majorian (420–461), 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.{{cite thesis |degree=BA |url=http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=146334 |title=The Last Romans: Emperor Majorian and the Fall of Rome |first=Janus |last=de Vries |date= |publisher=University College Tilburg}}
• Ambrosius Aurelianus (5th century), a Romano-British military commander against the Anglo-Saxon invasion. So called by Gildas.{{cite web|url=http://www.britannia.com/history/ebk/articles/ambros02.html|title=Britannia EBK Articles: Generations of Ambrosius Part 1|website=Britannia.com|access-date=25 February 2019}}
• Romulus Augustulus (deposed 476), the last reigning Western Roman Emperor.{{cite book|last=Murdoch|first=Adrian|year=2006|title=The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West}}
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–525?), 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; also a canonized saint.{{cite web|url=http://www.hottopos.com/convenit5/01.htm|title=Boethius and the Middle Ages|website=Hottopos.com|access-date=25 February 2019}}
• Gildas (fl. early 6th century), Romano-British clergyman, writer and saint.{{cite book| title=Le De Excidio Britanniae de Gildas |last=Kerlouégan |first=François |location=Paris |publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne |year=1987 |page=579}}
• Justinian I "the Great" (482?–565), second of the Justinian Dynasty, and probably the last Byzantine emperor to speak Latin as a first language.{{cite book |title=The Inheritance of Rome |first=Chris |last=Wickham |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2009 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780670020980/page/90 90] |isbn=978-0-670-02098-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780670020980/page/90 }}
• Flavius Belisarius (505?–565), a widely acclaimed general of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian, known for his reconquest of portions of the Western Empire.{{cite web|url=https://tredition.com/book-of-the-month/book-of-the-month-january-2018-us/|title="Book of the Month" January 2018|first=Nadine|last=Otto|date=2 January 2018|website=Tredition.com|access-date=25 February 2019}}{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Ian |date=2009 |title=Belisarius: The Last Roman General|location=South Yorkshire |publisher=Pen & Sword Military |isbn=9781844158331}}
• Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 580), Roman statesman and writer.{{cite web|url=https://cems.ceu.edu/events/2011-05-12/last-romans-cassiodorus-between-rome-ravenna-and-constantinople|title=The Last of the Romans: Cassiodorus between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople - Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies|website=Cems.ceu.edu|access-date=25 February 2019}}
• Gregory the Great (540?–604), an influential Pope and native to Rome.{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2003/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20031025_scienze-storiche_en.html |title=Message for the 14th centenary of the death of Pope St Gregory the Great |publisher=The Vatican |date=22 October 2003}}
• Desiderius of Cahors (580?–655), Gallo-Roman aristocrat, bishop, and saint.{{cite book |title=Desiderius of Cahors: Last of the Romans (part of "Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" conference proceedings)|first=Ralph W. |last=Mathisen |publisher=De Gruyter |year=2013 |page=455 |isbn=978-3110260779}}

• Saint Eulogius of Córdoba (800–859), is known as the Last Hispano-Roman. His family was of the senatorial class and held land in Córdoba (Corduba) from Roman times.

• Abu al-Qasim ibn Qasi (died 1151) was a Sufi, a rebel leader against the Almoravid dynasty in Al-Garb Al-Andalus and governor of Silves for the Almohads. He was of native Iberian stock, rūmī al-aṣl in the words of Ibn al-Abbār.

• William Congreve, called "Ultimus Romanorum" by Alexander Pope.{{Cite book |last=Spence |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TRAAAAAYAAJ&q=ultimus |title=Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time |date=1820 |publisher=W.H. Carpenter |isbn=978-0-598-90357-0 |language=en}}
• Samuel Johnson, called "Ultimus Romanorum" by Thomas Carlyle.{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091-h.htm |title=On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History |first=Thomas |last=Carlyle|year=1840}}
• H. H. Asquith, "last of the Romans" was used on numerous occasions for him after his fall from power in 1916.{{cite book |title=The Decline of Power, 1915-1964.|first=Robert |last=Blake |publisher=Faber Finds |year=2013 |page=132 |isbn=9780571296262}}

In the United States, "last of the Romans" was used on numerous occasions during the early 19th century as an epithet for the political leaders and statesmen who participated in the American Revolution by signing the United States Declaration of Independence, taking part in the American Revolutionary War, or established the United States Constitution.{{cite book|author1-link=Elizabeth Fox-Genovese|author2-link=Eugene Genovese|author1=Elizabeth Fox-Genovese|author2=Eugene D. Genovese|title=The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iaSeHEByLnUC&pg=PA278|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=278|isbn=9780521850650}}

• Fall of the Western Roman Empire
• Succession of the Roman Empire
• Fall of Constantinople
• Succession to the Byzantine Empire
• Legacy of the Roman Empire

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