Lucius Antistius Burrus

Lucius Antistius Burrus († 189) was a Roman politician and senator in the last third of the 2nd century.

His status is unclear despite the Suffektkonsulats his father Quintus Antistius Adventus Postumius Aquilinus, but probably he was patrician. He was married to a sister of the Emperor Commodus, Vibia Aurelia Sabina. Together with his imperial brother- he was 181 ordinary consul.

Seven years after the confidence Antistius Burrus, however, was involved in a conspiracy against Commodus. He is said to have been intended by other senators from North Africa, including Gaius Arrius Antoninus, as a candidate to the imperial throne, and was therefore killed by the praetorian prefect Marcus Aurelius Cleander after the later Emperor Pertinax should have it displayed.