Gallus (cognomen)

Meanings of the word

• Gallus referred to an inhabitant of Gaul, to a Celtic-speaking person, or to a person perceived as ethnically or culturally Celtic.
• The Galli were the priests of Cybele, whom the Romans found notable for their self-castration as an act of religious devotion.
• Gallus was also the word for rooster, and later through a pun became a symbol of France.

  People named Gallus

• Aelius Gallus, successor of Cornelius Gallus as prefect of Egypt and commander of disastrous Roman expedition in Arabia
• Cestius Gallus, Roman legate
• Constantius Gallus, member of the Constantinian dynasty and Caesar of the Roman Empire
• Gaius Asinius Gallus, Roman consul
• Cornelius Gallus, first Roman governor of Egypt, writer of elegiac verse
• Lucius Afinius Gallus, Roman consul
• Quintus Roscius Gallus, Roman actor
• Trebonianus Gallus, Roman emperor