Fabricius
# Fabricius

Fabricius (Latin: smith, German: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia:
   * Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
* Johann Goldsmid (1587–1616), known by his Latinized name Johann Fabricius, and son of David Fabricius (1564–1617). Astronomer who discovered the variability of the star Mira Ceti in 1596.
* Carel Fabritius (sometimes spelled Fabricius, 1622–1654), Dutch painter
* David Fabricius (1564–1617), German theologian and astronomer, discoverer of the variable star Mira
* Ernst Fabricius (1857–1942), German historian, archaeologist and classical scholar
* Georg Fabricius (1516–1571), German poet, historian and archaeologist
* Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio (1537–1619), Italian anatomist
* Hildanus Fabricius (Wilhelm Fabry) (1560–1634), German anatomist and surgeon
* Jan Fabricius (1871-1964), Dutch journalist and playwright
* Johan Fabricius (1899–1981), Dutch writer, journalist and adventurer
* Johann Fabricius (1608-1653), German orientalist, professor of Hebrew at Rostock
* Johann Albert Fabricius (1668–1736), German classical scholar, publisher, and librarian
* Johann Phillip Fabricius (1711–1791), German Christian missionary in southern India
* Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), Danish botanist and entomologist
* Johannes Fabricius, (1587–1615) Frisian astronomer, discoverer of sunspots, son of David Fabricius
* Nanna Øland Fabricius (1985–) Danish singer-songwriter, great-great-granddaughter of Otto Fabricius
* Otto Fabricius (1744–1822) Danish missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer of Greenland
* Philipp Conrad Fabricius (1714–1774), German botanist
* Werner Fabricius, German composer, father of Johann Albert Fabricius
* Wilhelm Fabricius, German ambassador to Romania under Hitler
* Alexander Carpenter, Latinized Fabricius, (fl. 1429), English religious philosopher and author
* B. Fabricius, pseudonym of Heinrich Theodor Dittrich, German philologist and librarian
