# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-claudius-marcellus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:35:37.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcus-claudius-marcellus"
name: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus"
slug: "marcus-claudius-marcellus"
description: "Augustus' nephew and son-in-law, dead at nineteen, who became Roman literature's most famous might-have-been. The succession struggle he sparked by simply existing sent the emperor's best general into self-exile."
tagline: "Nephew and son-in-law of Roman emperor Augustus"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_Marcellus_Louvre_Ma3547.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "-42"
deathDate: "-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.01974933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Marcus%20Claudius%20Marcellus"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Марк Клавдий Марцел (Юлиево-Клавдиева династия)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Claudi_Marcel_(nebot_d'August)"
    title: "Marc Claudi Marcel (nebot d'August)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(Julisk-Claudiske_dynasti)"
    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julisk-Claudiske dynasti)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(Neffe_des_Augustus)"
    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Neffe des Augustus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82_(%CE%99%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%B4%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82)"
    title: "Μάρκος Κλαύδιος Μάρκελλος (Ιουλιο-Κλαυδιανής δυναστείας)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_(nephew_of_Augustus)"
    title: "Marcellus (nephew of Augustus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_(sobrino_de_Augusto)"
    title: "Marcelo (sobrino de Augusto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martzelo"
    title: "Martzelo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Augustuksen siskonpoika)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(neveu_d'Auguste)"
    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (neveu d'Auguste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מרקוס קלאודיוס מרקלוס (המאוחר)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_(Kr._e._23)"
    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Kr. e. 23)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Claudio_Marcello_(nipote_di_Augusto)"
    title: "Marco Claudio Marcello (nipote di Augusto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9_(%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E7%94%A5)"
    title: "マルクス・クラウディウス・マルケッルス (アウグストゥスの甥)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus_III"
    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus III"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julo-claudiske dynasti)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Klaudiusz_Marcellus"
    title: "Marek Klaudiusz Marcellus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Cl%C3%A1udio_Marcelo_(sobrinho_de_Augusto)"
    title: "Marco Cláudio Marcelo (sobrinho de Augusto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB_(%D1%8D%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB_23_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%BD._%D1%8D.)"
    title: "Марк Клавдий Марцелл (эдил 23 года до н. э.)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Klaudije_Marcel_(Julijevsko-Klaudijevska_dinastija)"
    title: "Marko Klaudije Marcel (Julijevsko-Klaudijevska dinastija)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klavdij_Marcel"
    title: "Mark Klavdij Marcel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB_(%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%9B)"
    title: "Марко Клаудије Марцел (Августов сестрић)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marco_Claudio_Marcello_(nipote_di_Augusto)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ماركوس كلاوديوس مارسيلوس (سلالة جوليو-كلاوديان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klavdi_Marsell"
    title: "Mark Klavdi Marsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 42 BC to Octavia the Younger, he was Augustus' closest male relative and raised alongside his cousin Tiberius. The two served together under Augustus in the Cantabrian Wars in Hispania. When he returned to Rome in 25 BC, he married his cousin Julia, the emperor's daughter, in a union that marked him as heir apparent. The other candidate was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus' general, and according to Suetonius the tension drove Agrippa to leave Rome for Mytilene in 23 BC. That same year an illness swept through the city. Augustus recovered; Marcellus, who caught it later, did not. He died at Baiae in Campania at twenty-three. His ashes were the first placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus, and Virgil memorialized him in the Aeneid as the young prince Rome would never see rule.