Afranius

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Afranius (or feminine Afrania) was the name of several people in ancient Rome:

• Lucius Afranius (poet), a Roman comic poet
• Lucius Afranius, consul in 60 BC
• Gaia Afrania, female jurist of the 1st century BC who was the initial subject of a ban on women arguing cases; possibly sister of the preceding
• Sextus Afranius Burrus, tutor and advisor of the emperor Nero
• Spurius Afranius, minted denarii c. 150 BC
• Publius Afranius Potitus, executed by Caligula
• Afranius Dexter, suffect consul in 98 AD
• Afrania gens, the family to which these people probably belonged (not everyone with the name "Afranius" was actually part of this gens)