Max

Max, originally an abbreviation of "Maximilian" may refer to:

First name

All pages beginning with "Max"

Surname

• Adolphe Max, Belgian politician
• Gabriel von Max, Austrian painter
• Peter Max, American artist
• Tucker Max, American author

Fictional characters

• Max (24 character), a character from the second season of 24 and 24: The Game
• Max and Moritz, a German language illustrated story in verse
• Max, a character from the Bomberman series of computer and video games
• Max (Comet Man), a Marvel Comics character
• Max, the nickname of The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe in the new series of Doctor Who
• Max Branning, a character from EastEnders.
• Max (Flight of the Navigator), a spaceship from Flight of the Navigator
• Max Goof, the son of Disney character Goofy
• Max Guevara, a character from Dark Angel
• Max Headroom (character), a 1980s television personality
• Max Heiliger, identity created by top Nazi German banking officials for laundering valuables taken from Holocaust victims
• Maxxie Oliver, a character from Skins
• Max (Pokémon), a character in the Pokémon anime
• Max, The Grinch's dog from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and its adaptations.
• Max Rebo, a Star Wars character
• Max Rockatansky, the main character from the Mad Max films
• Max Russo, The youngest sibling in The Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place
• Max, a "hyperkinetic rabbity thing", one of the two main characters in the comic series Sam & Max
• Max Tate, a character from the anime/manga series Beyblade
• Max Zorin, the central antagonist in the James Bond film A View To A Kill
• Max Tennyson, a character from Ben 10
• Montana Max, a Tiny Toons Adventures character
• Montana Max (Hellsing), an anime character
• Ultraman Max, the main character from the titular film
• Max, a commanding officer in the Advance Wars video games
• Max, the co-star of the Max & Ruby, animated series
• Max, the boy in Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• Max, a character in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine
• Maximum Ride, the main character of the Maximum Ride book series by James Patterson

Computers, software, and games

• 3ds Max, a computer program for the development of 3-dimensional graphics and animation
• Max (software), a graphical development environment for music and multimedia
• Commodore MAX Machine, a computer
• Max Payne, a third-person shooter video game
• MAX (Linux distribution) (Madrid linux), a government sponsored Ubuntu-based version of Linux in Spanish
• Mechanized Assault & Exploration, a computer game
• Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, for HP PA-RISC
• Max (ripping software), an audio ripper for Mac OS X
• Dancing Stage Max, a game in the Dance Dance Revolution series
• MAX, commonly used shorthand for DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix, a Japanese music video game
• MAX, commonly used shorthand for DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution, a North American music video game

Places

In the United States:

• Max, Indiana
• Max, Nebraska, in Dundy County
• Max, North Dakota, in McLean County
• Max Township, Minnesota, in Itasca County

Transportation

• MAX Light Rail (an acronym for Metropolitan Area Express), a light rail system serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
• MAX (UTA), a rapid transit bus line in Salt Lake County, Utah
• Metropolitan Area Express BRT Line (MAX), a bus rapid transit system in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Modesto Area Express, a transit agency serving Modesto, California
• The E1 Series Shinkansen and E4 Series Shinkansen double-decker Shinkansen trains in Japan

Media, arts and entertainment

• Cinemax (unofficially known as Max), an American premium television network
• MAX (band), a Japanese vocal group
• MAX (comics), a Marvel imprint
• Max (film), a semi-historical film portraying Adolf Hitler after his military discharge at the end of World War I
• MAX, a Spanish theatre award
• "Max" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files
• "Max", a 1978 episode of The Bionic Woman
• Omroep MAX, a television broadcasting station in the Netherlands
• Max, album by The Rumour (1977)
• Max FM, a UK radio station
• MAX (Channel), an Australian pay TV channel
• MAX (TV channel), a Norwegian TV channel
• "Max" series, a collection of songs following the same theme from the music video game series Dance Dance Revolution
• Max (Howard Fast novel), a novel by Howard Fast
• MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel, the fifth book in the Maximum Ride book series by James Patterson

Finance and investment

• MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index

Science and technology

• Max, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Maxillaria
• MAX (gene), a human gene
• Max(), an abbreviation for either maximal element, greatest element, or extreme value in mathematics; see Maxima and minima

Other

• Max (book), a children's book by Bob Graham
• Max (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes made by Lorillard Tobacco Company
• Max (pig), the pet pig of George Clooney
• Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation
• Lotto Max, a Canadian national lottery game
• "Max", pen name of Catalan ligne claire cartoonist Francesc Capdevila Gisbert

See also

• Mad Max (disambiguation)
• Maximilian (disambiguation)
• Maximus (disambiguation)
• Maxwell (disambiguation)
• Maxx (disambiguation)
• Mighty Max (disambiguation)