Lollianus (sometimes rendered in English as Lollian) is a Roman personal name which can refer to many figures of classical antiquity, including:

• Lollianus (sometimes called Lollianus Spurius), a general proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in Gaul and very soon murdered; he is one of the "Thirty Tyrants" whose lives are briefly sketched in the Historia Augusta. He is the most important of those sharing the name.
• Lollianus Avitus, consul in 144, reported by the Historia Augusta (Pert. i.5) to have given Pertinax his first career break.
• Q. Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus, consul in 355, who appears in the letters of St. Athanasius
• St. Lollianus, one of the Seven Martyrs of Samosata , crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperor Maximian in AD 297 for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.
• The author of the Phoinikika (Phoenician Tales);
• Q. Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus, son of Lollianus Avitus: according to the Historia Augusta (Pert. vii.7) he dared criticize Pertinax, and got away with it;
• An orator and philosopher P. Hordeonius Lollianus ;
• Lollianus Titianus, a man ordered to arm gladiators at Capua in the last days of Didius Julianus, if we are to believe the Historia Augusta (Did.Jul. viii.3);
• A man sentenced to death by the emperor Valentinian, ostensibly for authoring a book on black magic.

External links

• Historia Augusta biographical sketch of the pretender Lollianus
• Seven Martyrs at Samosata, from Butler's Lives of the Saints