Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was a Roman statesman and consul (145 BC).
[1] Fabius was by adoption a member of the patrician gens Fabia, but by birth he was the eldest son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Papiria Masonis and the elder brother of Scipio Aemilianus.
Fabius served under his biological father in the Third Macedonian War.
After the Battle of Pydna his father sent him to Rome to announce his victory.
After his consulship he went as proconsul to Hispania where he fought and defeated Viriathus in an episode of the Lusitanian War but failed to capture him.