# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaius-valgius-rufus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:57.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaius-valgius-rufus"
name: "Gaius Valgius Rufus"
slug: "gaius-valgius-rufus"
description: "Gaius Valgius Rufus was a Roman senator, and a contemporary of Horace and Maecenas. He succeeded Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus as suffect consul upon the latter's death in 12 BC. Rufus is best known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of great things in epic writing. The author of the panegyric on Messalla Corvinus compared Rufus as the equal of Homer."
tagline: "Latin poet"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-65"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.75
  momentum:             8.18181818181818
  historical:           11.605436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гай Валгій Руф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гай Валгий Руф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Gaius Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Βάλγιος Ρούφος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayo_Valgio_Rufo"
    title: "Cayo Valgio Rufo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B8%D5%BD_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A3%D5%AB%D5%B8%D5%BD_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%83%D5%B8%D5%BD"
    title: "Գայոս Վալգիոս Ռուփոս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgio_Rufo"
    title: "Valgio Rufo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Gaius Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgius_Rufus"
    title: "Valgius Rufus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_V%C3%A1lgio_Rufo"
    title: "Caio Válgio Rufo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%84"
    title: "Гай Вальгий Руф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump