Faber
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Faber may refer to:
- A city in Pennsylvania
- The Latin word meaning "smith", "forger" or "maker", as in "Homo faber", whence:
- Homo faber (novel), a 1957 work by Max Frisch
- A character in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, who creates a listening device
- Faber and Faber (also known as "Faber and Gwyer"), a publishing house in the United Kingdom
- Eberhard Faber, a German art supply manufacturer best known (in the United States) by their brand of pencil
- Mount Faber, the second highest peak in Singapore
- Faber (band), a Canadian rock band
Faber is also a surname and may refer to:
- the following are listed in order of birth year
- Dr. Mark Faber (20th century), aka "Dr Doom" contrarian swiss economist in asia
- Felix Faber (15th century)
- Jacobus Faber (c.1455–c.1536), a pioneer of the Protestant movement in France
- Heinrich Faber (before 1500–1552), a German music theorist, composer, and Kantor
- Peter Faber (1506–1546), a beatified French Jesuit theologian
- George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), an Anglican theologian
- Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), a British hymn writer and theologian
- François Faber (1887–1915), a Luxembourgian cyclist
- Red Faber (1888–1976), an American pitcher in Major League Baseball
- David Faber (20th century) (this is a disambiguation page)
- Sandra M. Faber (born 1944), a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Michel Faber (born 1960), a Dutch novelist
- Katelyn Faber (born 1985), accuser of professional basketball player Kobe Bryant of rape
Nicknames:
- Fabrizio de André, (1940–1999), for his friends Faber, acclaimed Italian songwriter, musician and poet.
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