Max (given name)

Max (/ˈmæks/) is a given name. As a masculine name, it is often short (hypocorism) for Maximilian, Maxim, Maxwell or sometimes Maximus in English; Maximos (Μάξιμος) in Greek; and Maxime or Maxence in French. As a feminine name, it is often short for Maxine. The name Max has had a constant presence on the U.S. name popularity charts since the government began tracking naming trends in 1880.

Almost all Max names derive from the Latin Maximus. The name Maximus has been in circulation since the Classical Era, commonly used in Ancient Rome as a cognomen, the third name in the three-part naming system known as the tria nomina. The cognomen began as a nickname and would have been given to men of the patrician class who demonstrated traits of greatness. The name was introduced to the Celtic Britons during the Roman occupation of England in the 1st century.

Maximus the Confessor was a seventh-century monk and theologian from Constantinople. Μost of the Max names celebrate their name day on 21 January of every year according to the Greek Orthodox Church.

People

• Max Abmas (born 2001), American basketball player
• Max Adler (disambiguation)
• Max Baer (boxer) (1909–1959), American world heavyweight boxing champion
• Max Baer Jr. (born 1937), son of the boxer, actor on TV's The Beverly Hillbillies
• Max Baer (judge) (born 1947), Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
• Max Barsky (born 1991), American professional wrestler best known by his ring name David Starr
• Baron Max Wladimir von Beck (1854–1943), Austrian politician
• Max Beckmann (1884-1950), German artist
• Max Bill (1908-1994), Swiss architect, artist, painter, industrial designer and graphic designer.
• Max Birbraer (born 1980), Kazakhstan-born Israeli professional ice hockey forward
• Max Blumenthal (born 1977), American journalist
• Max Borghi (born 2000), American football player
• Max Born (1882–1970), German physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate
• Max Brown (English actor) (born 1981), English actor
• Max Brown (novelist) (1916–2003), Australian novelist
• Max Brown (rugby league) (born 1946), Australian rugby league footballer
• Max Bruch (1838-1920), German composer and conductor
• Max Burkholder (born 1997), American child actor
• Max Cleland (1942-2021), Secretary of State of Georgia and Vietnam veteran
• Max Colby (born 1980), American artist
• Max Collins (disambiguation)
• Max Cooper (electronica musician), European electronica and techno musician
• Max Dale Cooper (born 1933), American immunologist
• Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German–American biophysicist
• Max Delbrück (chemist) (1850–1919), German agricultural chemist, uncle of the above
• Max Domi (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League
• Max Ernst (1891–1976) German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet
• Max Evans (disambiguation)
• Max Fleischer (1883–1972), Polish-American animator and film producer
• Max Fried (born 1994), American baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves
• Max Jakob Friedländer (1867–1958), German curator and art historian
• Marty Friedman (basketball) (1889–1986), Hall of Fame NBA pro basketball player and coach
• Max Gandrup (born 1967), Danish badminton player
• Max Geldray (1916–2004), Dutch-born British harmonica player
• Max Geller (disambiguation)
• Max Giesinger (born 1988), German singer-songwriter
• Max Green (musician) (born 1984), American musician
• Max Green (lawyer) (1952–1998), Australian lawyer, embezzler and murder victim
• Max Harris (composer) (1918–2004), British film and television composer/arranger
• Max Hastings (born 1945), British journalist, editor, historian and author
• Max Hecker (born 1879), Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Max Heidegger (born 1997), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Max Homa (born 1990), American golfer
• Max Huber (Canadian football) (born 1945), American football player in the Canadian Football League
• Max Huber (graphic designer) (1919–1992), Swiss graphic designer
• Max Huber (statesman) (1874–1960), Swiss lawyer and diplomat
• Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865–1935), Austrian politician, Prime Minister of Austria in 1918
• Max Jammer (1915–2010), Israeli physicist and Rector and Acting President of Bar-Ilan University
• Max Johnson (born 2001), American football player
• Max Karoubi (born 1938), French mathematician
• Max Kelly (1930–2007), Australian mathematician
• Max Kelly (footballer) (1909–1987), Australian rules footballer
• Max King (disambiguation)
• Max Koegel (1895–1946), German Nazi commander of several concentration camps
• Max Kouguere (born 1987), Central African basketball player
• Max Labovitch (1924–2018), Canadian National Hockey League player
• Max Landa (1873–1933), Russian-born Austrian actor
• Max Marcuse (1877–1963), Jewish-German/Israeli dermatologist and sexologist
• Max Margulis (1907–1996), American writer, voice coach, and left-wing activist
• Max Friedrich Meyer (1873–1967), German-born American psychologist
• Max Mathiasin (born 1956), French politician
• Max Meyer (footballer) (born 1995), German footballer
• Max Meyer-Olbersleben (1850–1927), German composer and pianist
• Max Mitchell (born 1999), American football player
• Maxey Dell Moody (1883–1949), American businessman
• Max Morinière (born 1964), French retired sprinter
• Max Muncy (born 1990), American Major League Baseball player
• Max Müller (disambiguation)
• Max Pauly (1907–1946), German SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
• Max Planck (1858–1947), German theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
• Max Purcell (born 1998), Australian tennis player
• Max Reger (1873-1916), German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher
• Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), Austrian-born American theatre and film director, intendant and theatrical producer
• Max Reinhardt (publisher) (1915–2002), British publisher
• Max Reis (1927–2014), chemical engineer and President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Max Rheinstein (1899–1977), German-American jurist
• Max Roach (1924–2007), American jazz drummer
• Max Rose (born 1986), American soldier and politician
• Max Rudolf (conductor) (1902—1995), German conductor
• Max Saalmüller (1832–1890), Prussian lieutenant colonel and German entomologist
• Max Schäfer (1907–1990), German football player and manager
• Max Schäfer (soldier) (1907–1987), German World War II officer
• Max Scharping (born 1996), American National Football League player
• Max Scheler (1874-1928), German philosopher
• Max Scherzer (born 1984), American baseball pitcher for the New York Mets
• Max Scheuer, Austrian 1920s footballer
• Max Schmeling (1905–2005), German boxer
• Max Schneider (born 1992), American pop singer-songwriter
• Max Sefrin (1913–2000), East German politician
• Max Seibald (born 1987), American former lacrosse player
• Max Seydewitz (1892–1987), German politician
• Max Steiner (1888–1971), Austrian-American composer and conductor
• Max Stirner (1806–1856), German philosopher
• Max Spiers (1976–2016), Polish conspiracy theorist
• Max Streibl (1932–1998), German politician
• Max Ugrai (born 1995), German basketball player
• Max van Rysselberghe (1878–1961), Belgian engineer and Antarctic explorer
• Max Verstappen (born 1997), Belgian-Dutch racing driver
• Max Weber (1864–1920), German political economist and sociologist
• Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), generally known as Max Egremont, British biographer and novelist
• Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985), American National Basketball Association player and American Basketball Association coach

Fictional characters

• Max, a character in 1993 action/martial arts film Showdown
• Max, in the Fox TV series 24
• Max, in the Advance Wars video games
• Max, from the 2005 film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
• Max, in the Bomberman series of computer and video games
• Max, a Camp Campbell camper and a protagonist in the animated TV series Camp Camp
• Max, Darla Dimple's assistant in the 1997 animated film Cats Don't Dance
• Max, in the PBS animated TV series Dragon Tales
• Max, in the Swedish Den Max children's books
• Max, the robotic spaceship in the 1986 sci-fi adventure film Flight of the Navigator
• Max, the Grinch's dog from the Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and its adaptations in other media
• Max the Minifigure, the mascot of the Lego Club Magazine and The Lego Group
• Uncle Max, a meerkat character in the 2004 animated film The Lion King 1½
• Max, an alien character featured in Marvel Comics
• Max, a anthropomorphic rabbit character in the Nick Jr. animated preschool TV series Max & Ruby
• Max, in the animated series Mighty Max
• Max, from the 1979 film The Muppet Movie
• Max, a main character in the film Once Upon A Time In America
• Max, a character in the Pokémon anime series
• Max, a character from Brawl Stars
• Max, in the Sam & Max franchise
• Max, in the 2016 3D computer-animated film The Secret Life of Pets
• Max, the boy in Christopher Nolan's Tenet
• Max, a dump truck in the British animated children's TV series Thomas & Friends
• Max, in the Canadian animated TV series Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
• Max, the boy from the Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are and its adaptations in other media
• Max, in the 1968 animated musical film Yellow Submarine
• Max, the namesake owner and waiter of The Max from Saved by the Bell
• Max Black, from the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls
• Max Blum, from the TV sitcom Happy Endings
• Max Branning, in the BBC TV series EastEnders
• Max Brass, a heavyweight champion from Arms
• Max Cady, the villain in both film versions of Cape Fear (1962 film) and Cape Fear (1991 film)
• Max Carr, a character in the 1995 family-comedy film Born to Be Wild
• Max Caulfield, the main character in the 2015 video game Life Is Strange
• Max Cherry, a bail bondsman from the film Jackie Brown, which is based on the novel Rum Punch
• Max Cooper, on the television series Italic textPower Rangers Wild Force.
• Max Demian, in Hermann Hesse novel Demian
• Max Dennison, in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus
• Max Dillon, fictional Marvel Comics supervillain otherwise known as Electro. One of Spider-Man's nemeses
• Max Einstein, the main character of the book Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
• Max Estrella, the main character of Bohemian Lights, play written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán and published in 1924.
• Max Fischer, main character in Rushmore
• Max Frost, the lead character in the film Wild in the Streets
• Max Goof, the son of the Disney character Goofy
• Max Guevara, the lead character in the TV series Dark Angel
• Max Headroom, a 1980s TV character
• Max King, in the TV series Emmerdale
• Max Klinger, in the 1970s TV series M*A*S*H
• Maxine "Max" Mayfield, a character in the Netflix TV series Stranger Things
• Max Modell, fictional Marvel Comics character.
• Max Payne, the main character in the video game series Max Payne and its film adaptation
• Max Rebo, a Star Wars character
• Max Ride, the main character of the Maximum Ride book series by James Patterson
• Max Rockatansky, the main character in the Mad Max films
• Max Russo, in the Disney Channel TV series Wizards of Waverly Place
• Max Smart, in the 1995 version of the TV series Get Smart
• Max Steel (a.k.a. Max McGrath in some media), from the Max Steel franchise
• Max Tate (Max Mizuhara in Japanese version), from the anime/manga series Beyblade
• Max Tennyson, the grandfather of Ben and Gwen Tennyson from the Ben 10 franchise
• Max Thunderman, from the Nickelodeon TV series The Thundermans
• Max Tyler, in the MTV animated TV sitcom Daria
• Max von Mayerling, Norma Desmond's butler in the film Sunset Boulevard
• Max Young, in the animated TV series Fantastic Max
• Max Zorin, the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View To A Kill