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Max E. Gottesman
Max E. Gottesman, born in 1935, is an American molecular biologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University known for his work on transcription antitermination in bacteriophage lambda.
Max Ehrich
Max Ehrich (born 1991) is an American actor, singer, and dancer known for Fenmore Baldwin on The Young and the Restless, four Daytime Emmy nominations, Netflix's Walk. Ride. Rodeo., and Southern Gospel; distinct from the cabaret artist Max Ehrlich.
Max Emmerich
Max Philip Emmerich (1879–1956), American gymnast and track athlete from Indianapolis; won 1904 Olympic triathlon gold (100 yd, long jump, shot put, 35.7 pts); later imprisoned five years for $40,000 bank embezzlement.
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (1891–1976), German-born painter, sculptor, and Dada and Surrealist pioneer. Invented frottage and grattage and made collage novels such as Une semaine de bonté; persecuted as a degenerate artist, exiled to the United States 1941–1951.
Max Essex
Max Essex, born Myron Essex in 1939, is an American virologist at Harvard who helped establish HIV as the cause of AIDS and chairs the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute.
Max F. Perutz
Max F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist and crystallographer who determined the structure of hemoglobin and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Kendrew.
Max Factor
Max Factor (Maksymilian Faktorowicz, c. 1877–1938) was a Polish-born Hollywood make-up artist who invented film make-up, coined "make-up", and founded the cosmetics brand now owned by Coty.
Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer (1883–1972), American animator and inventor, patented the rotoscope (1917), created Ko-Ko the Clown, Betty Boop, and Popeye, and ran Fleischer Studios, Disney's chief rival before WWII.
Max Fosh
Max Fosh (Maximilian Arthur Fosh, born 1995) is an English YouTuber and comedian known for elaborate stunts like his 2022 "Welcome to Luton" sign near Gatwick Airport.
Max Fried
Max Fried, left-handed MLB pitcher born 1994, drafted 7th overall in 2012 by the Padres, 2021 World Series champion with Atlanta, signed record 8-year $218M Yankees deal in 2024.
Max Frisch
Max Frisch (1911–1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist whose works on identity and guilt include I'm Not Stiller, Homo Faber, The Fire Raisers, and Andorra.
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally is an American materials scientist who held named surface science chairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for quantitative surface diffraction, thin-film growth studies, and silicon nanomembranes.
Max Gail
Max Gail (Maxwell Trowbridge Gail Jr.), American actor born 1943 in Detroit; best known as Detective Wojo on Barney Miller (1975–82, 170 episodes, two Emmy nominations) and as Mike Corbin on General Hospital, winning 2019 and 2021 Daytime Emmys.
Max Gate
Max Gate, Dorchester, Dorset: red-brick Victorian house designed by Thomas Hardy, built 1883-1885, his home until his 1928 death; Grade I listed, National Trust, over the Neolithic Flagstones enclosure.
Max Gazor
Max Gazor is a venture capital investor who founded Striker Venture Partners in 2025 with a $165 million fund, after 14 years as a general partner at CRV in Menlo Park.
Max George
Max George (Maximillian Alberto George, born 1988, Manchester) is an English singer and actor, founding member and lead vocalist of The Wanted ("All Time Low", "Glad You Came"), later a solo artist, Glee actor, Strictly 2020 contestant, and now half of The Wanted 2.0 with Siva Kaneswaran.
Max Gerson
Max Gerson (1881–1959), German-born physician, developed the Gerson therapy, an alternative cancer treatment of vegetarian diet, supplements, and coffee enemas; rejected by NCI reviews and unproven in controlled trials.
Max Goof
Max Goof (Maximilian "Max" Goof) is Goofy's son, a Disney animated character starring in Goof Troop (1992), A Goofy Movie (1995), and An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000).
Max Gradel
Max-Alain Gradel, born 1987 in Abidjan, Ivorian left winger; Leicester, Leeds, Saint-Etienne, Bournemouth, Toulouse, Turkish clubs; 113 Ivory Coast caps, 18 goals; AFCON winner 2015 and 2023.
Max Greenfield
Max Greenfield (born 1980, Dobbs Ferry, New York) is an American actor known as Schmidt on New Girl (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations) and Dave Johnson on The Neighborhood, with films including The Big Short and Promising Young Woman.
Max Greger
Max Greger (1926–2015) was a German bandleader, saxophonist, and composer from Munich who recorded over 3,000 titles for Polydor and led ZDF's show orchestra from 1963 to 1977.
Max Grundig
Max Grundig (1908–1989) was a German entrepreneur who founded the Grundig consumer electronics company in Fürth in 1930 and built it into Europe's largest radio and television maker.
Max H Farrell
Max H Farrell is an American econometrician, an Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 2023 and an Amazon Scholar, known for machine learning methods in causal inference.
Max Hainle
Max Hainle (Max Otto Hainle, 1882-1924), German swimmer and water polo player; won gold in the 200 m team swim at Paris 1900, fourth in the 1,000 m freestyle, and German 1,500 m champion 1898 and 1900.
Max Hardcore
Max Hardcore (Paul F. Little, 1956-2023) was an American gonzo pornographer from Racine, Wisconsin, convicted in 2008 on federal obscenity counts, sentenced to 46 months, and died of septic shock after thyroid cancer treatment.
Max Harry Weil
Max Harry Weil, also known as Max H. Weil, was a Swiss-born American physician regarded as a father of critical care medicine, coining the specialty's name.
Max Hartmann
Max Hartmann (1876–1962) was a German zoologist and protistologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem and proposed the law of relative sexuality.
Max Hastings
Max Hastings (born 1945) is a British journalist, editor of the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard, Falklands War correspondent who entered Port Stanley, and author of about thirty military history books including Bomber Command and All Hell Let Loose.
Max Haushofer
Max Haushofer (1840–1907) was a German economist and statistician, professor at the Technische Hochschule München, a liberal Bavarian parliamentarian, and the father of geographer Karl Haushofer.
Max Havelaar
Max Havelaar is an 1860 satirical novel by Multatuli, pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker, exposing the exploitation of Javanese peasants under Dutch colonial rule.