Fabian

This was the name given to freed (emancipated) slaves which originally belonged to a Roman family with the family (gens=clan) name Fabius, that derived from the Latin faba for the broad bean, an important food crop in the Roman Empire. It entered the English language with the Normans, but has never achieved the popularity of Fabien in France and Fabio or Fabiano in Italy.
Fabian may refer to these persons:
Pope Fabian (died 250), saint to whom is dedicated the Chapel of Saints Fabian and Sebastian in Donji Humac on the island of Brač, Dalmatia
Robert Fabyan (d.1513), English chronicler
Fabian Månsson, Swedish Socialist (1872 - 1938),
Fábián Imre, Hungarian musicologist and composer (in Hungary family names are put in front),
Fabian (entertainer) (b. 1943), 50's American teen idol,
Andrew Fabian, (b 1948) British astronomer and astrophysicist.
Fabian Nicieza, (b.1961) comic book writer,
Fabian Núñez, (b.1966) a politician,
Buff Bagwell, (b.