Caelius

The name Caelius (sometimes spelled Coelius) is an ancient Roman nomen and may refer to:

• Caelius Vibenna (8th century BC), a noble Etruscan
• Gaius Coelius Caldus or Caelius (2nd–1st century BC), a consul of the Roman Republic
• Marcus Caelius Rufus (1st century BC), an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic
• Marcus Caelius (45 BC–9 AD), a senior centurion of the Imperial Roman army
• Marcus Roscius Caelius (1st century AD), a Roman military officer
• Balbinus or Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (178–238), Roman Emperor
• Lactantius or Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (250–325), an early Christian author
• Caelius Aconius Probianus (fl. 461-471), a politician of the Western Roman Empire
• Caelius Sedulius (5th century AD), a Christian poet
• Caelius Aurelianus (5th century AD), a Roman physician and writer
• Caelius Rhodiginus (1469–1525), a Venetian writer and professor
• Caelius Calcagninus (1479-1541), an Italian humanist and scientist
• Caelius Secundus Curio (1503–1569), an Italian humanist, editor and historian

Political

• Caelius, a codename used in letters between Cicero and Atticus, concerning a plot in the Roman Civil War

Other uses

• Collis Caelius, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, Italy
• Psychonotis caelius or the small green banded blue, a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae

See also

• Caelia gens, a plebeian family at Rome