title: Fabricius
text: # 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
  