Faber may refer to:

People

Faber (surname) Faber is the Latin word for "smith". Like a few other Latin occupational names (e.g. Agricola (disambiguation), Agricola for farmer, Nauta (disambiguation), Nauta for sailor), it was adopted as a surname in the Low Countries and Germany. It is also ...

Companies

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

(also known as "Faber and Gwyer"), publishing house in the United Kingdom *

Faber-Castell Faber-Castell AG is a manufacturer of pens, pencils, other office supplies (e.g., staplers, slide rules, erasers, rulers)Faber-Castell InternationalOffice Products and art supplies,Faber-Castell InternationalProducts for FineArts and FineWriting ...

, German manufacturer of writing instruments * Faber Music, British sheet music publisher *

Eberhard Faber The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company was started by John Eberhard Faber in 1861 in Midtown Manhattan, New York City by the East River at the foot of 42nd Street, on the present site of the United Nations Headquarters. After an 1872 fire, operations mo ...

, German art supply manufacturer best known (in the United States) by their brand of pencil and eraser

In fiction

Faber College Faber may refer to: People * Faber (surname) Companies * Faber and Faber (also known as "Faber and Gwyer"), publishing house in the United Kingdom * Faber-Castell, German manufacturer of writing instruments * Faber Music, British sheet musi ...

, fictional school providing the setting for the movie ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' *

Faber (Fahrenheit 451) ''Fahrenheit 451'' is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, ''Fahrenheit 451'' presents an American society where books have been personified and outlawed and "firemen" burn any that ar ...

, character in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel ''Fahrenheit 451''

Places

Faber, Virginia Faber is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. It is the location of the Monroe Institute. Faber was one of the communities mentioned in several episodes of the television series, ''The Waltons''. The family dra ...

, a community in the United States * Mount Faber, second highest peak in Singapore

Other uses

* ''Faber'', pseudonym of the Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André * ''Faber'' (EP), a 2006 EP by Faber Drive *

Faber (grape) Faberrebe or Faber is a grape variety used for white wine. It was created in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the ''Landesanstalt für Rebenzüchtung'' in Alzey and was released with varietal protection in 1967. Scheu created Faberrebe by crossing Pinot b ...

, grape variety also known as ''Faberrebe'' * FABER test (Flexion Abduction External Rotation), a test for evidence of hip arthritis * Faber Towers, landmark in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia {{disambiguation, geo