Brutus is a Roman cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii family, especially in the Roman Republic. The plural of Brutus is Bruti, and the vocative form is Brute, as immortalized in the quotation "Et tu, Brute?".
Ancient Romans with this name
Notable ancient Romans with this cognomen include:
Other people and things called Brutus
- Brutus (Cicero), a history of Roman oratory by Cicero, named after Caesar's assassin
- Brutus of Troy who, according to legend, founded Britain
- Brutus Greenshield, legendary king of the Britons
- Brutus de Villeroi, 19th century French engineer
- Brutus (schooner of war), a ship in the Texas Navy
- Bluto (sometimes known as "Brutus"), a cartoon character from "Popeye"
- Brutus, a Czech rock band
- Brutus Buckeye, the mascot of The Ohio State University
- Brutus, New York, a town in Cayuga County, New York, in the USA
- Brutus Jeans, maker of denim apparel in the 1970s and '80s
- Brutus (Canadian band), a 1970s Canadian band
- Joel Brutus (born 1974), a Haitian judoka
- "Junius Brutus", the pen name of the author Charles Blount
- "Brutus" , the pen name of Robert Yates
- Brutus (1862v1884), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
- Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, ring name of American professional wrestler Edward Leslie (born 1957)
- Roman Czerniawski (1910–1985), a World War II double agent code-named BRUTUS.
- Brutus, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
- Brutus, name of the evil robot army commander in the webcomic Anema: Age of the Robots
Other Uses
- The House of Brutii is a playable faction in the video game Rome:Total War.
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