Fabian (name)

Fabian is a masculine first name and family name.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

The name Fabian (derived from Fabian ) described the membership of the Roman noble family of the Fabians. Its members bore the name Fabius. The origin is unclear, either from fabis (Latin ) = " noble " or faba (Latin ) = " The Bean".

The most famous son of the family is Fabius Maximus.

Patron

St. Fabian is the patron saint of the city in Westphalia Selm - along with the St. Sebastian.

Name-day

January 20

Variants

In the Italian Space the shapes as well as Fabio Fabiano are common. In Hungarian, the variant Fabian is the usual form of letters, in the Czech and Slovak Fabián. The French form of Fabian Fabien, whose feminine form Fabienne, and in Italian, there is the female form Fabiana and Fabia.

A surname variant is Fabiani.

Well-known bearers of the name

Saint Fabian († 250), Pope
Fabian ( singer) ( born 1943 ), American pop musician
Fabian I. of Dohna (1550-1622), German military leader, diplomat and statesman
Fabian II of Dohna (1577-1631), director of the Prussian district administrator
Fabian III. of Dohna (1617-1668), statesman kurbrandenburgischer
Fabian re (* 1994), German handball player

Family name

Alessandro Fabian (* 1988), Italian triathlete
Andrew Fabian ( b. 1948 ), British astronomer and astrophysicist
Anne -Marie Fabian (pseudonym Friederike Berend born Anne -Marie Lorenz, 1920-1993 ), German journalist and writer
Bernhard Fabian (* 1930), German literature and literary critic
Claus Fabian ( b. 1956 ), German music producer, drummer and singer
Denny Fabian, German singer, composer, music producer and film producer
Florian Fischer -Fabian ( b. 1957 ), German television presenter
Florin Fabian ( b. 1974 ), the Romanian football player and coach
Françoise Fabian ( born 1933), French actress
Fabian Franz (1921-1986), Hessian politician ( SPD)
Heinz Fabian (* 1925), German actor and radio speaker
Heinz- Otto Fabian ( born 1918 ), German General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
Jo Fabian ( b. 1960 ), German artist (director, set designer, lighting designer, Katagraph, video artist and author)
John McCreary Fabian ( born 1939 ), American astronaut
Karl Leopold Fabian (1782-1855), German Secret Bergrat
Konrad Fabian (1878-1945), an Austrian secondary school teachers
Lara Fabian (born 1970 ), Belgian - Canadian singer and songwriter
Laszlo Fabian ( canoeist ) ( b. 1936 ), Hungarian canoeist
Laszlo Fabian ( author ) ( born 1940 ), Hungarian writer and translator
Laszlo Fabian ( Modern Pentathlon fighter) ( born 1963 ), Hungarian Modern pentathlete
Marco Fabián (* 1989), Mexican football player
Marco Antonio Fabián Vázquez (born 1964 ), Mexican football player
Fabian Martin ( composer ) (born 1978 ), Austrian composer and conductor
Olga Fabian (1885-1983), Austrian actress
Oscar Fabian (1846-1899), Polish mathematician and physicist
Patrick Fabian (* 1987), German football player
Peter Fabian (1937-2014), German atmospheric chemist and physicist
S. Fischer -Fabian (1922-2011), German writer and journalist
Thomas Fabian ( b. 1955 ), German psychologist
Tomáš Fabián (* 1989), the Czech football player
Fabian Walter (1902-1992), German journalist, politician (SPD, SAPD ) and resistance fighter
Zsolt Fabian ( b. 1968 ), Hungarian badminton players

Fictional characters

The protagonist of a novel by Erich Kästner, see Fabian (novel)
The film adaptation of this novel, see Fabian (film )