List of Roman women

Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC)

Distinguished women of the [Roman Republic] (509 - 27 BC)

• Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens
• * Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC
• Aemilia Tertia, wife of Scipio Africanus Major and mother of Cornelia Africana, noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War. Her date of birth, marriage, and death are all unknown. Her husband's birth and death dates are also not known precisely, but approximated.
• Cornelia Africana, virtually deified by Roman women as a model of feminine virtues and Stoicism, but never officially deified. The first Roman woman, whose approximate birth year and whose year of death is known, thanks to a law she had passed to allow her granddaughter to inherit.
• Licinia, the name of the women of the gens Licinius. Notable members include
• * Licinia, a woman killed by her relatives in 142 BC for murdering her husband;
• Murcia, the name of the women of the gens Murcius.
• * Licia, a woman killed by her relatives in 142 BC for murdering her husband. Both Licinania and Murcia appealed for a trial, and before they could come to trial, they were tried by their relatives and executed. This was a major scandal in the censorship of Lucius Mummius Achaius and Scipio Aemilianus.
• Pomponia , daughter, niece, wife, and mother of consuls; born a plebeian noblewoman but married to a patrician. Mother of Scipio Africanus Major and Scipio Asiaticus. She was reportedly very religious and devout, but nothing else is known of her including the year of her marriage or death.
• Publilia, the name of a woman of the gens Publilius. She was killed in 154 BC for poisoning her husband, the consul of the preceding year.

  Distinguished women of the [Julio-Claudian dynasty] (c. 27 BC - 68 AD)

• Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus, granddaughter of Augustus, mother of emperor Caligula and Agrippina the Younger
• Agrippina the Younger, niece and wife of emperor Claudius, mother of emperor Nero; held up as a bad example.
• Aurelia Cotta, Mother of Julius Caesar
• Antonia Major, grandmother of Emperor Nero
• Antonia Minor, mother of Emperor Claudius and Germanicus, favorite niece of Augustus Caesar, considered a role model for women in the Roman Empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren.
• Atia Balba Caesonia, mother of Augustus and Octavia Minor
• Claudia Pulchra, wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus
• Claudia Marcella, nieces of Caesar Augustus
• Domitia Lepida the Elder, aunt of Emperor Nero
• Domitia Lepida the Younger, sister of the following, Mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina
• Domitia Longina, wife of Emperor Domitian
• Domitia Lucilla Minor, mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
• Domitia Paulina, Aelia Domitia Paulina, Julia Serviana Paulina, female relatives of Emperor Hadrian
• Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus
• Julia Livia, granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius
• Livia Drusilla, wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero, mother of the Emperor Tiberius, and then wife of Augustus Caesar. The first woman to be officially deified.
• Livilla, granddaughter of Livia
• Marcia, sister of the consul Quintus Marcius Rex, wife of Gaius Julius Caesar II, paternal grandmother of Julius Caesar
• Messalina, Emperor Claudius' wife, notorious for her promiscuity.
• Octavia Minor, sister of Caesar Augustus and fourth wife of Marcus Antonius
• Plautia Urgulanilla, Emperor Claudius' first wife
• Scribonia, second wife of Augustus and mother of his only legitimate child
• Vipsania Agrippina, first wife of Tiberius and the only one he loved
• Vipsania Julia, granddaughter of Augustus

  Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire

• Claudia Metrodora, Greco-Roman public benefactor, lived on Kos
• Lucilla, Roman Empress, failed in her coup attempt on brother Commodus
• Aquilia Severa, Vestal Virgin and wife of Elagabalus
• Clodia, Catullus's Lesbia
• Domitia Decidiana - wife of Roman General Gnaeus Julius Agricola and mother-in-law to historian Tacitus.
• Galla Placidia,
• Julia Avita Mamaea, mother of emperor Alexander Severus.
• Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus
• Julia Maesa, grandmother of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus
• Pomponia Graecina, possibly the saint Lucina, a descendant of Vipsania
• Saint Procula wife of Pontius Pilate
• Servilia, mother of Brutus and lover of Julius Caesar
• Ulpia Severina, wife of emperor Aurelian. There's evidence to suppose that, after Aurelian's death, she ruled the Roman Empire for a short period of time, until the new emperor, Marcus Claudius Tacitus was chosen by the Senate. This is the only moment before Rome's conversion to Christianity that the ruler was a woman, a handful of women would rule as Empress in their own right from the 5th century onwards, such as Pulcheria