The gens Memmia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Memmius Gallus, praetor in 173 BC. From the period of the Jugurthine War to the age of Augustus they contributed numerous tribunes to the Republic.
The poet Vergilius linked the family of the Memmii with the Trojan hero Mnestheus. This late tradition demonstrates that by the end of the Republic, the gens had become a conspicuous branch of the Roman nobility.
The main praenomina of the Memmii were Gaius, Lucius, Quintus, and Publius. There is also at least one example of Titus.
This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
Gaius Memmius C. f. Quirinus, aedile prior to 216 BC, was the first to exhibit the Cerealia at Rome.
Gaius Memmius, praetor in 172 BC, obtained Sicily as his province.
Lucius Memmius Gallus, appears on a coin.
Gaius Memmius C. f., appears on a coin of the Republican period, depicting the head of Ceres on the obverse, and a captive bearing a trophy on the reverse.
Titus Memmius, commissioner sent by the senate to hear the complaints of the Achaeans and Macedonians against the Roman magistrates, in 170 BC.
Quintus Memmius, legate sent by the senate to the Jews circa 164 BC.
Gaius Memmius, nicknamed Mordax, was tribunus plebis in 111 BC. A candidate for the consulship in 100, he was bludgeoned to death by the supporters of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus and Gaius Servilius Glaucia.
Lucius Memmius, an eminent orator, and a supporter of Gaius Marius during the time of the first and second civil wars between the parties of Marius and Sulla.
Gaius Memmius, married a sister of Gnaeus Pompeius, under whom he served in Sicily and Hispania.
Publius Memmius, a witness for the defense at the trial of Aulus Caecina in 69 BC.
Gaius Memmius L. f. Gemellus, an eloquent speaker and poet, was tribunus plebis in 66 BC. He was the first husband of Fausta Cornelia.
Gaius C. f. L. n. Memmius, tribune of the plebs in 54 BC, prosecuted various officials for corruption; he was consul suffectus in 34 BC, and exhibited games in honour of Venus Genetrix.
Publius Memmius P. f. Regulus, consul suffectus ex Kal. Oct. in AD 31, and subsequently governor of Macedonia, was the first husband of Lollia Paullina, afterwards the empress of Caligula, who compelled them to divorce so that he could marry her.
Lucius Memmius Pollio, consul suffectus in AD 49.
Gaius Memmius Regulus, probably the son of Publius Regulus and Lollia Paullina, was consul in AD 63.
Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, consul in AD 485.
