Fabian (name)
Fabian is a male first name and family name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name Fabian (derived from Fabianus) denoted belonging to the Roman noble family of the Fabier . Its members were named Fabius . The origin is unclear, either from fabis (lat.) = " Noble " or faba (lat.) = "The bean".
The most famous son of the family is Fabius Maximus .
Patron saint
The holy Fabian is patron of the city Selm in Westphalia - together with the St. Sebastian .
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variants
In the Italian area, the shapes Fabio and Fabiano are common. In Hungarian, the variant Fábián is the usual form of the spelling, in Czech and Slovak Fabián . The French form of Fabian is Fabien , its feminine form is Fabienne , and in Italian there are the feminine forms Fabiana and Fabia .
A variant of the last name is Fabiani .
Name bearer
First name
- Saint Fabian († 250), Pope
- Fabian (singer) (* 1943), American pop musician
- Fabian Cancellara (* 1981), Swiss cyclist
- Fabian I. von Dohna (1550–1621), German general, diplomat and statesman
- Fabian Giefer (* 1990), German soccer goalkeeper
- Fabian Hambüchen (* 1987), German gymnast
- Fabian Hinrichs (* 1974), German actor
- Fabian Kahl (* 1991), German antique dealer
- Fabian Quoss (* 1982), German poker player
- Fabian Reese (* 1997), German soccer player
- Fabian Unteregger (* 1977), Swiss comedian
- Fabian Wiede (* 1994), German handball player
- Fabian Willmann (* 1992), German jazz musician
family name
- Alessandro Fabian (* 1988), Italian triathlete
- Alfred Fabian (1910–1989), Australian rabbi of German origin (emigrated in 1939)
- Andrew Fabian (* 1948), British astronomer and astrophysicist
- Anne-Marie Fabian (pseudonym Friederike Berend , née Anne-Marie Lorenz ; 1920–1993), German journalist and writer
- Bernhard Fabian (* 1930), German literary and book scholar
- Bienvenido Fabián (1920–2000), Dominican composer, pianist and singer
- Charles Fabian (* 1968), Brazilian soccer player
- Claudia Fabian (* 1958), German librarian
- Claus Fabian (* 1956), German music producer, drummer and singer
- Denny Fabian , German singer, composer, music producer and film producer
- Dora Fabian (1901–1935), German writer and journalist
- Egon Fabian (1946–2019), German psychoanalyst and psychotherapist
- Ekkehart Fabian (1926–2007), German-Swiss church and Reformation historian
- Ernst Fabian ( Ernst Emil Fabian ; 1844–1920?), German teacher, local researcher and museum founder
- Erwin Fabian (1915–2020), Australian sculptor of German origin
- Ewald Fabian (1885–1944), German dentist and secretary of the Association of Socialist Doctors
- Florian Fischer-Fabian (* 1957), German television presenter
- Florin Fabian (* 1974), Romanian football player and coach
- Françoise Fabian (* 1933), French actress
- František Fabian (1867–1911), Bohemian-Austrian archivist
- Franz Fabian (1926–1986), Hessian politician (SPD)
- Gottfried Fabian (1905–1984), German-Austrian painter and graphic artist
- Heinrich Fabian (1889–1970), German dentist and university professor
- Heinz Fabian (1925–2014), German actor and radio play speaker
- Heinz-Otto Fabian (1918–1990), German brigadier general
- Jo Fabian (* 1960), German director, set designer, video artist and author
- Johannes Fabian (* 1937), German anthropologist
- John M. Fabian (* 1939), American astronaut
- Josef Fabian (also Iosif Fabian and José Fabian ; 1923–2008), Romanian football player and coach
- Josef Fabián (1916–1976), Czechoslovak founding director of Dvůr Králové Zoo
- Karl Leopold Fabian (1782–1855), German mining official
- Konrad Fabian (1878–1945), Austrian teacher
- Lara Fabian (* 1970), Belgian-Canadian singer and songwriter
- László Fábián (Canoeist) (1936–2018), Hungarian canoeist
- László Fábián (author) (* 1940), Hungarian author and translator
- László Fábián (Modern Pentathlon) (* 1963), Hungarian Modern Pentathlon
- Ludwig Fabian (1900–1942), Austrian miner and resistance fighter
- Marco Fabián (* 1989), Mexican soccer player
- Marco Antonio Fabián Vázquez (* 1964), Mexican soccer player
- Márta Fábián (* 1946), Hungarian cimbalom player
- Martin Fabian (* 1978), Austrian composer and conductor
- Max Fabian (1873–1926), German painter and graphic artist
- Melina Fabian (* 1997), German actress
- Olga Fabian (1885–1983), Austrian actress
- Oskar Fabian (1846–1899), Polish mathematician and physicist
- Otto Fabian (1856–1938), German mountain ridge and industrial manager
- Patrick Fabian (actor) (born 1964), American actor
- Patrick Fabian (soccer player) (* 1987), German soccer player
- Peter Fabian (1937–2014), German physicist and chemist
- Rainer Fabian (1935–2004), German journalist and author
- Rudolf Fabian (1912–1943), German geologist
- S. Fischer-Fabian (1922–2011), German journalist and writer
- Thomas Fabian (* 1955), German psychologist
- Tomáš Fabián (* 1989), Czech football player
- Walter Fabian (1902–1992), German journalist, politician (SPD, SAPD) and resistance fighter
- Wilhelm Fabian (1857–1928), German dramaturge
- Zsolt Fábián (* 1968), Hungarian badminton player
Fictional characters
- Jakob Fabian , the protagonist of a novel by Erich Kästner, see Fabian (novel)