Dacians - Famous Individuals

Famous Individuals

See also: List of Dacian kings, Burebista, and Decebalus

This is a list of several important Dacian individuals or those of partly Dacian origin.

• Zalmoxis, a semi-legendary social and religious reformer, eventually deified by the Getae and Dacians and regarded as the only true god.
• Zoltes
• Burebista was a king of Dacia, 70 BC - 44 BC, who united under his rule Thracians in a large territory, from today's Moravia in the West, to the Southern Bug river (Ukraine) in the East, and from the Northern Carpathian Mountains to Southern Dionysopolis. The Greeks considered him the first and greatest king of Thrace.
• Decebalus, a king of Dacia who was ultimately defeated by the forces of Trajan.
• Diegis was a Dacian chief, general and brother of Decebalus, and his representative at the peace negotiations held with Domitian (89 C.E.)
• Galerius, Roman Emperor who affirmed his Dacian roots to such an extent that "he had avowed himself the enemy of the Roman name; and he proposed that the empire should be called, not the Roman, but the Dacian empire"
• Flavius Aetius, often called "the last of the Romans", Dacian and Roman origin