Gallio

Proconsul of the province of Achaia (capital: Corinth), probably in A.D. 52-53. He was a brother of the Roman philosopher Seneca, and like him, was sentenced to death by Nero. He is mentioned in an inscription, found in Delphi, which is part of a letter by the Emperor Claudius. Paul was accused by the local Jews and brought before his court, but he dismissed the case as an unimportant dispute between Jews.

Concordance
Acts 18:12, 14,17

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Gallio (Junius Annaeus Gallio) (găl'ēō), d. A.D. 65?, Roman proconsul in Achaea; brother of the philosopher Seneca. His name was originally Lucius Annaeus Novatus. The “Gallio Inscription,” discovered at Delphi, can be dated to c.A.D. 51. The Acts of the Apostles relates that he refused judgment on a question of Jewish religious law when Paul was on trial before him, and later would not interfere between Sosthenes and his Greek assailants.