Valery Iosifovich Fabrikant (Russian: Валерий Иосифович Фабрикант, Belarusian: Валеры Іосіфавіч Фабрыкант, romanized: Valery Iosifavič Fabrykant, [vɐˈɫɛrɪj ˈjosifəvɪt͡ɕ fɐbrʲɪˈkant]; born 28 January 1940) is former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 24 August 1992, after years of increasingly disruptive behaviour at the university, he shot and killed four colleagues and wounded one staff member.