Maximilian of Tebessa was a 3rd-century Christian martyr from the Roman province of Numidia. Born around AD 274 to a former soldier named Fabius Victor, he was ordered to join the Roman military when he reached the age of 21. Because of his religious convictions, he refused to serve, making him one of the earliest documented instances of conscientious objection. In AD 295, after declining to swear allegiance to the Emperor before the proconsul Cassius Dio, he was executed by beheading in his hometown of Theveste.