Ancient Roman equites

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal () family of the Roman

Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

4th-century Roman historian and soldier

Roman general, statesman and military reformer (157-86 BC)

Appian of Alexandria (; ; ; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.

Roman political advisor (d. 8 BC)

Lucius Aelius Sejanus ( – 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (), was a Roman soldier and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Of the Equites class by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, the imperial bodyguard, of which he was commander from AD 14 until his execution for treason in AD 31.

The ' (; , though sometimes referred to as "knights" in English) constituted the second of the property/social-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian order was known as an ' ().

Roman general and usurper (c. 130–175)

Roman banker, writer and philosopher (c.110 BC – 32 BC)

father of the Roman emperor Vitellius

Prefect of the Praetorian Guard (21 BC - 38 AD)

Roman governor and general

suffect consul in 45 BC

Roman official, soldier and praetorian prefect (190-243)

1st century AD Roman procurator of Iudaea

father of Roman Emperor Vespasian

Syrian-born Roman nobleman and politician (c. 165 – c. 215)

Roman equestrian during the reign of Augustus

2nd century Roman jurist

1st century Roman senator and general

Mamurra () was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.

Roman writer and supporter of Julius Caesar

ancient Roman Procurator

Roman general and consul 186 AD

1st-century Roman banker

2nd/3rd century Syrian-born Roman nobleman

3rd century Roman general and Praetorian Prefect

Roman consul and praetorian prefect (died c.286)

praetorian prefect during the year of Four Emperors

Praetorian prefect

first Equestrian of Ancient Rome to teach rhetoric

politician

1st century AD procurator of Roman Britain

first husband of later Roman empress Poppaea Sabina

procurator of Roman Britain

politician (0100-0100)

2nd century governor of Egypt and praetorian prefect

2nd-century Roman jurist-consultant and writer

1st century AD Roman equite, quaestor

Roman general, senator and consul (c.134–c.176)

Roman eques, governor and praetorian prefect (died 168)