Roman is a male first name. It has distant origins dating back to the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

 and the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 language.
It comes from the Latin word "romanus", which means "of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

". In this initial sense, the title "Roman" means "a citizen of the Roman Empire", a man of Roman (or Byzantine) culture, Latin or Greek. The name day

Name day

A name day is a tradition in many countries in Europe and Latin America that consists of celebrating the day of the year associated with one's given name....

 festival for Roman may take place on different days depending on the country.

Variations of the name include:

• French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  : Romain
• Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Román
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : Romano
  Romano
  - People :* Romano AKA the Man in the Hat, a character in the TV series Ghost Whisperer* Aldo Romano , Italian-French jazz drummer* Andrea Romano, voice actress* Andy Romano, American actor* Ángel Romano , Uruguayan footballer...
  
  
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Romão
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  : Román
• Russian
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  : Роман (Roman)

Roman may refer to:

Persons named "Roman"

• Roman Abramovich
  Roman Abramovich
  Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian businessman and the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.In 2003, Abramovich was named Person of the Year by Expert, a Russian business magazine. He shared this title with Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
  
   (born 1966), Russian entrepreneur
• Roman Berezovsky
  Roman Berezovsky
  Roman Anatoliy Berezovsky is an Armenian football goalkeeper, currently with Russian First Division club FC Khimki and is a member of Armenia national team. He is of Russian origin...
  
   (born 1974), Armenian football player
• Roman Coppola
  Roman Coppola
  Roman Coppola is an American film director and music video director.-Early life:Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris...
  
   (born 1965), American film director
• Roman Eremenko
  Roman Eremenko
  Roman Alekseevich Eremenko is a Russian-born Finnish footballer who currently plays for FC Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League. He is best known for his time in Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he became leader, winning the Ukrainian Premier League title in 2009, and playing in the Champions and...
  
   (born 1987), Finnish football player
• Roman Glick
  Roman Glick
  Roman Glick is an American bassist. He is known for playing with Brother Cane, Jesse James Dupree, and, Jackyl.-Brother Cane:Brother Cane formed in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 90's with singer/guitarist Damon Johnson and bassist Glenn Maxey. Damon and Maxey were later joined by drummer Scott...
  
  , American bass guitarist for American rock band Jackyl
• Roman Golanowski
  Roman Golanowski
  Roman Golanowski is a retired long jumper from Poland.He was born in Wrocław, and represented the club Śląsk Wrocław. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. He became Polish champion in 1992, 1993 and 1994....
  
   (born 1969), Polish long jumper
• Roman Greenberg
  Roman Greenberg
  Roman Greenberg is a British-based Israeli heavyweight boxer, currently International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion, with a 27–1 record. Greenberg has been nicknamed the "Lion from Zion."-Biography:...
  
    ("The Lion from Zion"; born 1982), Israeli International Boxing Organization
  International Boxing Organization
  The International Boxing Organization is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...
  
  's Intercontinental champion heavyweight boxer
• Roman Harper
  Roman Harper
  Roman Harper is an American football safety with the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Alabama...
  
   (born 1982), American football player
• Roman Ingarden
  Roman Ingarden
  Roman Witold Ingarden was a Polish philosopher who worked in phenomenology, ontology and aesthetics.Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language...
  
   (1893-1970), Polish philosopher
• Roman Ivanovsky
  Roman Ivanovsky
  Roman Ivanovsky is a retired male breaststroke swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the 4×100 metres medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He only swam in the preliminary heats, and was replaced in the final by Stanislav Lopukhov.-References:*...
  
   (born 1977), Russian swimmer
• Roman Kantor
  Roman Kantor
  Roman Józef Kantor , born in Łódź, Poland, was a Polish Olympic epee fencer.-Early life:Kantor was the son of Elchanan and Barbara Kantor. After finishing local primary school, he left for Paris in 1924 to continue his education. He played tennis, and was captain of the school soccer...
  
   (1912-43), Polish épée fencer, Nordic champion & Soviet champion
• Roman Kroitor
  Roman Kroitor
  Roman Kroitor is a Canadian filmmaker who is known as an early practitioner of Cinéma vérité, as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system...
  
   (born 1926), Canadian filmmaker
• Roman Opałka (born 1931), Polish painter
• Roman Pavlyuchenko
  Roman Pavlyuchenko
  Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko is an footballer who currently plays as a centre forward for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and for the Russian national team.-Spartak Moscow:...
  
   (born 1981), Russian football player
• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
   (born 1933), Polish director
• Juan Román Riquelme
  Juan Román Riquelme
  Juan Román Riquelme is an Argentine footballer who plays for Boca Juniors. A longtime Argentine international, Riquelme is best known for his spells with Boca Juniors and Villarreal...
  
   (born 1978), Argentine football player
• Roman Romanenko
  Roman Romanenko
  Roman Yurievich Romanenko is a cosmonaut at the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.-Personal life:His parents, Yuri Victorovich Romanenko and Aleftina Ivanovna Romanenko, live in Star City. He is married to Yulia Leonidovna Romanenko . They have one son...
  
   (born 1971), Russian cosmonaut
• Roman U. Sexl (1939-1986), Austrian theoretical physicist
• Roman Shukhevych
  Roman Shukhevych
  Roman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian politician and military leader, the general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.-Childhood:Roman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was born in the city of Krakovets, Jaworow powiat, in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria which is located today between Lviv and...
  
   (1907-1950), Ukrainian politician and military leader
• Roman Tam
  Roman Tam
  Roman Tam, known by the stage name Lo Man , nickname Law Kee , was a renowned Hong Kong Cantopop singer. He is regarded as the "Godfather of Cantopop".-Career:...
  
   (1950-2002), Hong Kong singer
• Roman Vishniac
  Roman Vishniac
  Roman Vishniac was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. A complete archive of his work now rests at the International Center of Photography....
  
   (1897-1990), Russian photographer
• Roman Volodkov (born 1973), Ukrainian diver
• Roman Weidenfeller
  Roman Weidenfeller
  Roman Weidenfeller is a German footballer who plays for Fußball-Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund as a goalkeeper.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1980), German football player
• Roman Yakovlev
  Roman Yakovlev
  Roman Yakovlev is a volleyball player from Russia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Two years later he won the Volleyball World League with Russia...
  
   (born 1976), Russian volleyball player
• Roman Yakub
  Roman Yakub
  Roman Yakub is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition. In 1991 he moved to the United States, where he earned a Master's Degree in Music Composition at the University of Massachusetts...
  
   (born 1958), American composer
• Roman Yegorov
  Roman Yegorov
  Roman Yegorov is a former Russian freestyle swimmer.Yegorov won several medals as a member of the freestyle relay team during the mid-1990s. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics for his native country, winning two silver medals in the relay events.-References:*...
  
   (born 1974), Russian swimmer
• Roman Zaretski
  Roman Zaretski
  Roman Zaretsky is an Israeli ice dancer.He competed with his sister, Alexandra Zaretsky. Together, they are three-time Israeli National Champions, and two-time Olympic competitors.-Personal life:Roman Zaretsky was born in Minsk, Belarus SSR, Soviet Union....
  
   (born 1983), Belarusian-born Israeli Olympic ice dancer

See also

• Romain (disambiguation)
• Romano (disambiguation)
• Romanus (disambiguation)