"The Last of the Romans" is a term that has been applied to various people:

• Gaius Asinius Pollio, one of the last great orators and writers of the Roman Republic, is sometimes referred to as such.
• In the case of the Western Roman Empire, the rival generals Flavius Aetius and Bonifacius are both referred to as such.
• Valens, called "the last true Roman."
• Syagrius, the last Roman commander in Gaul.
• Ambrosius Aurelianus, a Romano-British military commander against the Saxons, was referred to by contemporary sources as the "last Roman in Britain."
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, one of the last great philosophers of Rome.
• Justinian has been given an A&E tv biography entitled Justinian: Last of the Romans (1997).

In a more literal sense, it could also refer to: Gaius Asinius Pollio ( 76/75 BC-AD 5) was a Roman orator, poet and historian. ... See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century) The Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) was the representative government of Rome and its territories from 510 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, sometimes placed at 44 BC (the year of Caesars appointment as perpetual... The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian. ... Flavius Aetius or simply Aetius, (circa 396 - 454), was a Roman general of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. ... Count Boniface (in Latin, Comes Bonifacius) (d. ... Solidus minted by Valens in ca. ... Syagrius (died 487) was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gallias, who had preserved a rump state around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the western empire. ... Gaul (from Latin Gallia, c. ... Ambrosius Aurelianus (incorrectly referred to in the Historia Regum Britanniae as Aurelius Ambrosius ) was a leader of the Romano-British, who won important battles against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas and to the legends preserved in the Historia Britonum. ... The term Romano-British describes the Romanised culture of Britain under the rule of the Roman Empire, when Roman and Christian culture had extensively entered into the life of the native Brythonic, Pictish and perhaps Gaelic -speaking peoples of Britain. ... This article is about the Saxons, a Germanic people. ... Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (AD 480 - 524 or 525) was a Christian philosopher of the 6th century. ... Justinian may refer to: Justinian I, a Roman Emperor; Justinian II, a Byzantine Emperor; Justinian, a storeship sent to the convict settlement at New South Wales in 1790. ...

• Romulus Augustus, the last de facto Western Roman Emperor.
• Julius Nepos, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor.
• Constantine XI Paleologus, the last Eastern Roman Emperor.

A different list, "Last of the Romans," was offered in E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [1]: Romulus Augustus Flavius Romulus Augustus (460s/470s – after 511), often called Romulus Augustulus, was the last of the Western Roman Emperors. ... The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western half of the Roman Empire after its division by Diocletian. ... Julius Nepos on a coin. ... This is a list of Byzantine Emperors. ...

• Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the murderers of Caesar. (B.C. 85-42.)
• Gaius Cassius Longinus, so called by Brutus. (Died. B.C. 42.)
• Stilicho, the Roman general under Theodosius.
• Aetius, a general who defended the Gauls against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Catalaunian Fields near Chálons, in 451. So called by Procopius.
• François Joseph Terasse Desbillons; so called from the elegance and purity of his Latin (1751-1789).
• Alexander Pope called William Congreve Ultimus Romanorum. (1670-1729.)