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
• Johan Fabricius (1899–1981), Dutch writer, journalist and adventurer
• 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