Fabian Franklin (1853–1939) was a Hungarian-born American engineer, mathematician and journalist, husband of Christine Ladd-Franklin.

He was awarded a doctorate in 1880[2] and he was the assistant of James Joseph Sylvester till his return to England in 1883, applying the new calculational techniques to compute binary forms.

[5] During his short university period, some fifteen years, he published thirty papers, most of which appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics.

He collaborated in the launching of The Weekly Review (1919–1922), a journal devoted to the Consideration of Politics, of Social and Economic Tendencies, of History, Literature, and the Arts.

He also wrote a biography of the founding president of Johns Hopkins University, The Life of Daniel Coit Gilman (1910).