1st-century births

4th Pope of the Catholic Church

religious figure of the Christian faith

Apostle of Jesus Christ

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania (modern Spain), best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1,561 epigrams written by him have survived, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.

5th Pope of the Catholic Church from c. 99 to c. 107

pope

Deacon, martyr, and saint

Chinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)

religious figure of the Christian faith

Valeria Messalina (; ) was the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius. She was a paternal cousin of Emperor Nero, a second cousin of Emperor Caligula, and a great-grandniece of Emperor Augustus. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she allegedly conspired against her husband and was executed on the discovery of the plot. Her notorious reputation may have resulted from political bias, but works of art and literature have perpetuated it into modern times.

Christian saint

early Christian missionary and church leader

daughter of Roman Emperor Claudius and wife of Emperor Nero

Parthian king 51-ca. 78 CE

1st century AD Roman Stoic philosopher

Parthian king

Parthian king

1st century AD King of Armenia

Thecla (, ) was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.

ruler of the Parthian Empire ?–80/81

Roman Empress as the wife of Emperor Trajan

Christian martyr

1st century AD Parthian prince

Roman Empress as the fourth and last wife of Caligula

Syrian bishop and saint

1st/2nd century AD Greek physician

ancient Greek astronomer

thumbnail|''Locusta testing in Nero's presence the poison prepared for Britannicus'', painting by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, 1876

Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus

father of emperor Trajan

Sporus (died 69 AD) was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero castrated and married during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died under uncertain circumstances the previous year, possibly during childbirth or after being assaulted by Nero.

Roman governor and general

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor

1st century Roman grammarian and critic

King of the Nabataean Kingdom (ruled AD 70-106)

Prosdocimus (Prosdecimus) of Padua (, ) (d. November 7, ca. 100 AD) is venerated as the first bishop of Padua.

Roman client ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom

active 80-110

Roman senator and consul (died 118 AD)

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman statesman, soldier, consul and governor

eldest son of the future Roman Emperor Claudius

2nd century Praetorian Prefect and imperial military advisor

father of emperor Hadrian

thumb|upright|Targum from the 11th century Onkelos ( ʾunqəlōs), possibly identical to Aquila of Sinope, was a Roman national who converted to Judaism in Tannaic times ( 35–120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the Targum Onkelos ( 110 CE).

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and governor

Sanatruk (Latinized as Sanatruces) was a member of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia who succeeded Tiridates I of Armenia as King of Armenia at the end of the 1st century. He was also King of Osroene (reigned 91–109), a historic kingdom located in Mesopotamia.

1st century Roman poet and satirist

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman senator, consul and general

Roman governor of Judaea from AD 85 to 89

2nd century Roman martyr and German saint

1st century Briton king

Melankomas, or Melancomas (), meaning 'One with the Black Hair,' was an Ancient Greek boxer from Caria and victor in the 207th Olympiad (49 AD.).

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman praetorian prefect

Catholic saint

Roman consul in 95 and 129 AD

Roman consul in 94 and 125 AD

conspirator against Roman emperors Nerva and Trajan

1st century Chinese general

courtier to Roman emperor Nero

Jewish sage 1st and 2nd centuries CE