Gnaeus

Gnaeus, also spelled Cnaeus, was a Roman praenomen derived from the Latin naevus, a birthmark. It was a common name borne by many individuals throughout Roman history, including:

Individuals

 * Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus, a consul of the Roman Empire in 37 AD
 * Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus (born 31 AD), member of the Arrius family of consular rank
 * Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes (died 1st-century BC), Roman politician who was elected consul in 71 BC
 * Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (disambiguation)
 * Gnaeus Claudius Severus (consul 167), a Roman senator and philosopher who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century
 * Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus (1st-century BC–1st-century AD), son of suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna
 * Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, a consul of the Roman Republic in 81 BC, with Marcus Tullius Decula
 * Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, a Roman politician involved in the First Punic War
 * Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (3rd-century–211 BC), Roman general and statesman
 * Gnaeus Domitius Afer (died 59), a Roman orator and advocate
 * Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC) (died 31 BC), general of the 1st century BC
 * Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32) (17 BC–40 AD), relative of emperors of the 1st century AD
 * Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (disambiguation), other individuals belonging to the Domitii Ahenobarbi
 * Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (7–67 AD), general of the 1st century AD
 * Gnaeus Egnatius (fl. second century BC), builder of Via Egnatia
 * Gnaeus Gellius (2nd century BC), the author of a history of Rome from the earliest epoch
 * Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93 AD), Gallo-Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain
 * Gnaeus Julius Verus, Roman general and senator of the mid-2nd century AD, eventually becoming governor of Britain
 * Gnaeus Lucretius, a Roman moneyer who minted denarii in Rome c. 136 BCE
 * Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, a Roman politician and general, consul in 105 BC
 * Gnaeus Manlius, a Roman Praetor who was involved in the Third Servile War with Gnaeus Tremellius Scrofa
 * Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus (died 5th-century BC), first of the patrician gens Manlia to obtain the consulship
 * Gnaeus Manlius Vulso (consul 189 BC), a Roman consul for the year 189 BC, together with Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
 * Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus (fl. 5th century BC), Roman general
 * Gnaeus Naevius (264–201 BC), Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period
 * Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC) (died 87 BC), Roman senator elected consul of the Roman Republic in 87 BC alongside Lucius Cornelius Cinna
 * Gnaeus Papirius Aelianus, a governor of Roman Britain between 145 and 147
 * Gnaeus Papirius Carbo (c. 130–82 BC), three-time consul of ancient Rome
 * Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey the Great) (75–45 BC), Roman politician and general from the late Republic (1st century BC)
 * Gnaeus Pompeius Longinus (died AD 105), Legate of the Judaea in the time of Domitian.
 * Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, or Pompey the Great, (106–48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, consul three times
 * Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (135 BC - 87 BC), Roman senator, promagistrate in Sicily, and consul
 * Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, 1st-century BC Roman historian of the Celtic tribe of the Vocontii in Gallia Narbonensis
 * Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus, the name of two Roman senators, father and son
 * Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul 203 BC), a Roman statesman who served as Roman consul in 203 BC
 * Gnaeus Servilius Geminus (3rd-century–216 BC), Roman consul during the Second Punic War