Famous People with Name Gaius

Gaius            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Gaius: was a celebrated Roman jurist. Scholars know very little of his personal life. It is impossible to discover even his full name, Gaius or Caius being merely his personal name (praenomen). As with his name it is difficult to ascertain the span of his life, but it is safe to assume he lived from A.D. 110 to at least A.D. 179, since he wrote on legislation passed within that time.From internal evidence in his works it may be gathered that he flourished in the reigns of the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. His works were thus composed between the years 130 and 180. Most academics hold the view that Gaius lived in some provincial town, and hence we find no contemporary notices of his life or works. It has also been theorised that he was a Roman who left for a career in the provinces, or that he was in fact the jurist Sextus Pomponius writing under another name. After his death, however, his writings were recognized as of great authority, and the emperor Theodosius II named him in the Law of Citations

Gaius Samuel Turner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gaius Samuel Turner: was a businessman and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Albert County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1879 to 1892 as a Liberal-Conservative.