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{{short description|Roman emperor from 251 to 253}}
{{other uses|Volusianus (disambiguation)}}
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| image        = Buste de Volusianus, MBA.jpg
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| caption      = Possible bust of Volusianus at the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Buste de Volusianus|website=Musée des Beaux-Arts|url=https://mba.tours.fr/TPL_CODE/TPL_COLLECTIONPIECE/191-antiquite.htm?COLLECTIONNUM=25&PIECENUM=31&NOMARTISTE=Antiquit%C3%A9+gr%C3%A9co-+romaine}}</ref>
| alt          = Bust of Volusianus
| succession   = [[Roman emperor]]
| reign        = {{circa}} August 251 – August 253 (with [[Trebonianus Gallus]])
| predecessor  = [[Decius]] and [[Herennius Etruscus]]
| successor    = [[Aemilianus]]
| birth_date   = c. 230
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = August 253
| death_place  = [[Terni|Interamna]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]]
| burial_place = 
| full name    = Gaius Vibius Afinius Gallus Veldumnianus Volusianus (birth){{sfn|Cooley|2012|p=498}}<br/>Gaius Vibius Volusianus Caesar (251){{sfn|Cooley|2012|p=498}}
| regnal name  = Imperator Caesar Gaius Vibius Afinius Gallus Veldumnianus Volusianus Augustus{{sfn|Cooley|2012|p=498}}
| father       = [[Trebonianus Gallus]]
| mother       = [[Afinia Gemina Baebiana]]
}}

'''Gaius Vibius Volusianus''' ([[Latin]]: ''Gaius Vibius Afinius Gallus Veldumnianus Volusianus''; died August 253), commonly called '''Volusian''', was a [[Roman emperor]] from 251 to 253, ruling with his father [[Trebonianus Gallus]].

After Emperor [[Decius]] and his son and co-ruler [[Herennius Etruscus]] died in battle in June 251, Trebonianus Gallus was elected emperor in the field by the legion. Gallus raised [[Hostilian]], the younger son of Decius, to ''[[Augustus (title)|augustus]]'' (co-emperor) and elevated Volusianus to ''[[Caesar (title)|caesar]]''. After the death of Hostilian in July or August 251, Volusianus was raised to ''augustus''. The short reign of Gallus and Volusianus was notable for the outbreak of a plague, which is said by some to be the reason for Hostilian's death, and for hostilities with the [[Sasanian Empire]] and the [[Goths]]. Volusianus and his father were killed in August 253 by their own soldiers, who were terrified of the forces of the usurper [[Aemilian]] which were marching towards [[Rome]].