Fabio is a given name descended from Latin ''

Fabius In Roman mythology, Fabius was the son of Hercules and an unnamed mother. In "The Life of Fabius Maximus" from the ''Parallel Lives'' by Plutarch, Fabius, the first of his name, was the son of Hercules by a nymph or a woman native to the country, ...

'' and very popular in Italy and Latin America (due to Italian migration). The name is written without an accent in Italian and Spanish, but is usually accented in Portuguese as ''Fábio'' (with the diminutive Fabinho and the variant Fabiano in Portuguese and Fabián in Spanish Fabian">Fabian_(name).html" ;"title="nglish equivalent is Fabian (name)">Fabian. The presence or absence of the written accent does not affect pronunciation.

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* Fabio (DJ), drum-and-bass DJ and producer from the UK * Fábio Alves (footballer, born 1988), Fábio Alves (born 1988), Brazilian professional footballer * Fabinho (footballer, born 1980), Fábio Alves Félix (born 1980), Brazilian football manager and former player *

Fábio Arlindo de Medeiros Fabio is a given name descended from Latin ''Fabius'' and very popular in Italy and Latin America (due to Italian migration). The name is written without an accent in Italian and Spanish, but is usually accented in Portuguese as ''Fábio'' (with t ...

(1939–2020), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Fabio Armiliato (born 1956), Italian operatic tenor *

Fábio Aurélio Fábio Aurélio Rodrigues (born 24 September 1979) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played for Grêmio, São Paulo, Valencia and Liverpool. He played as either a left back or left winger and represented Brazil at under-17 and ...

(born 1979), Brazilian footballer *

Fábio Bahia Fábio Júnior Nascimento Santana (born 2 November 1983), or simply Fábio Bahia, is a Brazilian defensive midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Mid ...

(Fábio Júnior Nascimento Santana, born 1983), playing for Goiás *

Fabio Bencivenga Fabio Bencivenga (born 20 January 1976) is a retired water polo player from Italy, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 (Atlanta, Georgia). He was a member of the Men's National Team that clai ...

, Italian water polo player *

Fábio Bilica Fábio Alves da Silva (born 4 January 1979), commonly known as Bilica, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Club career Bilica is infamous for his statement during his time at Venezia when during a game aga ...

(born 1979), Brazilian former professional footballer * Jud "Fabio" Birza, winner of ''Survivor: Nicaragua'' *

Fabio Borini Fabio Borini (born 29 March 1991) is an Italian professional Association football, footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, Winger (association football), left winger or forward (association football), forward for Serie B club UC Sampdori ...

, Italian footballer *

Fábio Camilo de Brito Fabio is a given name descended from Latin ''Fabius'' and very popular in Italy and Latin America (due to Italian migration). The name is written without an accent in Italian and Spanish, but is usually accented in Portuguese as ''Fábio'' (with t ...

(Nenê, born 1975), playing for Coritiba Foot Ball Club *

Fabio Cannavaro Fabio Cannavaro (; born 13 September 1973) is an Italian professional association football, football coach and former player who last was the head coach of Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Zagreb. He is regarded as one of the greatest De ...

, former captain of the Italy national team *

Fabio Capello Fabio Capello (; born 18 June 1946) is an Italian former professional association football, football manager (association football), manager and player. As a player, Capello represented SPAL, AS Roma, Roma, AC Milan and Juventus FC, Juventus. H ...

, Italian manager of the Russian national association football team *

Fábio Costa Fabio Costa (born 27 November 1977 in Camaçari, Bahia) is a former Brazilian goalkeeper. Career Costa played for Brazil under-23 and won the 1996 Toulon Tournament and the 2000 South American Pre-Olympic Tournament. He was part of the Brazil ...

(born 1977), Brazilian footballer *

Fábio Eduardo Cribari Fábio Eduardo Cribari (born 13 February 1975 in Cambará, Paraná)), better known as Binho, is a Brazilian football defender. He last played for Castelnuovo in 2006-07 season. Football career He started his professional career at his st ...

(born 1975), Brazilian footballer, better known as Binho *

Fabio Cudicini Fabio Cudicini (; 20 October 1935 – 8 January 2025) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1955 to 1972. Standing at , he was one of the tallest goalkeepers of his time. Despite never playing for the Italy na ...

(1935–2025), Italian footballer *

Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fognini's most successful surface is Clay court#Red clay, ...

(born 1987), Italian tennis player * Fábio Gonçalves dos Santos (born 1978), Brazilian footballer *

Fábio Pereira da Cruz Fábio Pereira da Cruz (born 30 July 1979), commonly known as Pereira, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a central defender. In January 2002 he left on loan to Turkish club Gaziantepspor. Honours ;Santos *Campeonato Brasileir ...

(born 1979), Brazilian footballer *

Fabio Díez Fabio Ricardo Diez Steinaker (born 18 November 1965 in Santa Fe) is a former male beach volleyball player, who represented Spain at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Alongside Javier Bosma he won the silver medal at the 1999 European Championships in ...

(born 1965), Argentinian-Spanish beach volleyball player *

Fabio Duarte Fabio Andrés Duarte Arevalo (born 11 June 1986 in Facatativá, Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca) is a Colombian Track cycling, track and road bicycle racing, road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He is best known fo ...

, Colombian track and road cyclist *

Fabio Frizzi Fabio Frizzi (born 2 July 1951) is an Italian musician and composer. Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists o ...

(born 1951), Italian film composer *

Fabio De Gaspari Fabio De Gaspari (born 4 December 1966) is a retired javelin thrower from Italy. Biography He won a total number of nine national titles during his career. His mother, Giancarla Spagolla, was a javelin thrower as well. He competed at the 1983 ...

(born 1966), Italian javelin thrower *

Fabio Di Giannantonio Fabio Di Giannantonio (born 10 October 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, riding for Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team in the MotoGP class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 2025. Career Early career Born in Rome, in 2015, Di ...

(born 1998), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer * Fábio Gilvan do Nascimento Silva (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer * Fábio Henrique Tavares (born 1993), Brazilian footballer, playing for Liverpool * Fabio Jaramillo, Colombian cyclist *

Fábio Jr. Fábio Correa Ayrosa Galvão (born November 21, 1953), known as Fábio Jr. or Fábio Júnior, is a Brazilian MPB singer, songwriter and actor. Biography In 1971, already in a solo career, Fábio Jr. recorded songs in English (with pseudonyms s ...

, a Brazilian singer and musician * Fábio Kolling (born 1985), Brazilian footballer

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Fábio Lago Fábio de Souza Lago (born 13 March 1970) is a Brazilian actor, best known for his works in '' Elite Squad'', '' Caras & Bocas'', and '' Invisible City''. Filmography ;Films *2001: ''3 Histórias da Bahia'' as Roupinol "Roupi" *2002: ''Nada S� ...

, Brazilian actor *

Fabio Lanzoni Fabio Lanzoni (; born March 15, 1959), known List of one-word stage names, mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including work as a romance novel cover model thro ...

, Italian , generally known as simply Fabio * Fábio Lefundes, Brazilian football manager *

Fabio Lione Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October 1973), known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer who has worked with many bands in the heavy metal music, heavy metal genre. He was known for being the singer of Italian symphonic power metal ba ...

, Italian vocalist of Rhapsody of Fire * Fábio Deivson Lopes Maciel (born 1980), Brazilian footballer, playing for Cruzeiro *

Fabio Lopez Fabio Lopez (born 17 June 1973) is an Italian association football, football Manager (association football), manager of Spanish descent and a former footballer. Lopez has coached many Italian academy clubs, scouted for Atalanta B.C. and ACF Fio ...

(born 1973), Italian football manager *

Fábio Luciano Fábio Luciano (born April 29, 1975) is a Brazilian football pundit and retired player who played as a centre-back. He also has Italian citizenship. He played for Brazil's major clubs Corinthians and Flamengo, being very well recognized by the ...

(born 1975), Brazilian footballer *

Fábio Luiz Magalhães Fábio Luiz de Jesus Magalhães (; born 13 March 1979 in Marataízes) is a male beach volleyball player from Brazil. Magalhães won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Ge ...

, Brazilian beach volleyball player *

Fábio Freire Martins Fabio is a given name descended from Latin ''Fabius'' and very popular in Italy and Latin America (due to Italian migration). The name is written without an accent in Italian and Spanish, but is usually accented in Portuguese as ''Fábio'' (with t ...

(born 1989), Brazilian footballer *

Fabio Morábito Fabio Morábito (born February 21, 1955, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a Mexican writer and poet. Born in Egypt to Italian parents, he spent his childhood in Milan. Since the age of 14 he has lived in Mexico City where he has written four books of ...

(born 1955), Mexican poet *

Fabio Mussi Fabio Mussi (born 22 January 1948) is an Italian politician, formerly Minister of University and Research in the Prodi II Cabinet. A former member of the Italian Communist Party and then Democrats of the Left, he became a lead founding member ...

(born 1948), Italian politician *

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (May 12, 1924 – February 18, 2002), also known as Don Fabio, was the patriarch of a major Colombian drug trafficking family. A renowned horse breeder and Paso Fino enthusiast, he died of kidney failure in 2002. Biography ...

, Colombian businessman and patriarch of the Ochoa drug-trafficking family *

Fabio Ochoa Vásquez Fabio Ochoa Vásquez (born May 2, 1957) is a former leading member of the Medellín Cartel, along with his older brothers Juan David and Jorge Luis. His role briefly made him a billionaire. He was extradited to the US and served 25 years o ...

, Colombian drug lord * Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player *

Fábio Pereira da Silva Fabio Pereira da Silva (; born 9 July 1990), known as Fabio, is a Brazilian former professional association football, footballer who last played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, full-back for Brazilian club Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto ...

(born 1990), Brazilian footballer, twin brother of Rafael * Fabio Petruzzi (born 1970), Italian footballer *

Fabio Pignatelli Fabio Pignatelli is an Italian musician. He is the bass guitar player for the Italian progressive rock band Goblin (band), Goblin. Goblin provided soundtracks for several horror films, most famously Dario Argento's ''Suspiria'' (1977) and George ...

, bassist for the Italian progressive rock band Goblin *

Fabio Quagliarella Fabio Quagliarella (; born 31 January 1983) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Throughout his career, Quagliarella played for eight different Italian clubs, winning three consecutive Serie A titles from the 2 ...

, Italian footballer *

Fabio Quartararo Fabio Alain Quartararo (; born 20 April 1999), nicknamed El Diablo, is a French Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle rider racing in MotoGP for Yamaha Motor Racing, Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team. Having won the 2021 MotoGP Wor ...

, French Grand Prix motorcycle racer * Fabio Rakotoarimanana (born 2003), Malagasy table tennis player * Fabio Ribotta (born 1998), Italian curler * Fabio Rovazzi (born 1994), Italian rapper and actor * Fábio José dos Santos (born 1973), Brazilian footballer * Fábio Souza de Oliveira (born 1984), Brazilian footballer * José Fábio da Silva (born 1984), Brazilian football right-back * Fabio Semenzato, Italian rugby player * Fábio de Souza (Fabinho), Brazilian footballer *

Fabio Testi Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian actor. After growing up witnessing film work done around Lake Garda, Testi entered the sets of the film and began work as a stuntman and a double on set, where he worked as a stuntman on ''The Good, ...

(born 1941), Italian actor * Fabio Viviani (chef), placed fourth and earned the title of "fan favorite" in season 5 of Bravo reality show competition ''Top Chef'' * Fabio Viviani (footballer) (born 1966), Italian footballer

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João Paulo di Fabio João is a given name of Portuguese origin. It is equivalent to the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the s ...

(born 1979), Italian-Brazilian football defender * José Fabio (born 1977), Paraguayan basketball player

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