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Max Headroom

Max Headroom is a fictional, stuttering, computer-generated television personality created in Britain in the early 1980s, played by Matt Frewer and created as a digital copy of reporter Edison Carter.

Max Headroom (TV series)

Max Headroom is a science fiction series that ran from 1987 to 1988. It is set in a dystopian future where corporate TV networks wield power.

Max Headroom signal hijacking

Max Headroom signal hijacking: unsolved November 22, 1987 broadcast intrusion in which masked pirates overrode WGN-TV and WTTW in Chicago via analog microwave studio-transmitter links; FCC and FBI never identified anyone.

Max Heimbucher

Max Heimbucher was a German Roman Catholic priest and professor of apologetics and dogmatics, compiler of a standard handbook on the orders and congregations of the Catholic Church.

Max Herrmann

Max Herrmann (1885-1915), German sprinter from Danzig/Gdansk, 1912 Stockholm Olympian in five events, 4x100 m relay world record semifinalist, German 400 m champion 1911 and 1913, killed in World War I.

Max Hess

Max Hess (1877-1969), German-born American gymnast of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde, won 1904 St. Louis Olympic team gold; distinct from Max Heß, German triple jumper born 1996.

Max Hodak

Max Hodak is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk in 2016 and has led Science Corporation, maker of the PRIMA retinal implant, since 2021.

Max Hoff

Max Hoff (born 1982, Troisdorf) is a German sprint and former wildwater canoeist; Olympic K4 1000 m champion 2016, K2 silver 2020, K1 bronze 2012, and multiple K1 1000 m world champion.

Max Hoffmann

Max Hoffmann (Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann, 1869–1927), Prussian general; planned Tannenberg (1914), chief of staff of the German Eastern Front from 1916, and German military lead negotiator at Brest-Litovsk; later advocated the anti-Soviet Hoffmannplan.

Max Holloway

Max Holloway, born Jerome Max Keli'i Holloway, is an American mixed martial artist from Hawaii, a former undisputed UFC featherweight champion known for his record-setting striking output.

Max Homa

Max Homa (John Maxwell Homa), American pro golfer from Burbank, California; 2013 NCAA individual champion for Cal, six-time PGA Tour winner, 2023 World No. 5, Ryder Cup 2023 and Presidents Cup 2022 and 2024 player.

Max Huber (statesman)

Max Huber (1874–1960) was a Swiss lawyer and judge who led the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1928 to 1944, directing its wartime relief operations.

Max Hurleman

Max Hurleman (born 2001) is an American football wide receiver and return specialist from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, a 2025 undrafted free agent from Colgate and Notre Dame on the Pittsburgh Steelers' practice squad.

Max Iheanachor

Max Iheanachor, Nigerian-born offensive tackle from Arizona State, drafted 21st overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2026; began playing football in 2021 at East Los Angeles College, no sacks allowed in 2025.

Max Irons

Max Irons is an English-Irish actor and model, son of actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack, known for roles in Red Riding Hood, The White Queen, and Condor.

MAX IV Laboratory

MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national synchrotron light source in Lund, hosted by Lund University and opened in 2016 as the first fourth-generation storage-ring light source.

Max Jacobson

Max Jacobson (1900-1979), "Dr. Feelgood" or "Miracle Max," German-born New York physician whose amphetamine-laced injections treated celebrities and JFK, including the 1961 Vienna summit; his license was revoked in 1975 and he died in 1979.

Max Julen

Max Julen, born 1961 in Zermatt, Swiss alpine skier, 1984 Sarajevo Olympic giant slalom champion in 2:41.18; one World Cup win (Les Diablerets 1983), 11 podiums, retired 1987, later hotelier.

Max Julien

Max Julien (Maxwell Julien Banks, 1933–2022), American actor, screenwriter, and producer; starred as Goldie in The Mack (1973), wrote Cleopatra Jones, and co-wrote, produced, and starred in Thomasine & Bushrod.

Max Junestrand

Max Junestrand is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Legora, formerly Leya, a legal artificial intelligence company, in Stockholm in 2023, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Max Keeble's Big Move

Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 Walt Disney live-action family comedy directed by Tim Hill, starring Alex D. Linz as a bullied seventh grader whose revenge schemes backfire when his family's move to Chicago is canceled.

Max Kellerman

Max Kellerman, American boxing commentator and radio host; creator of "Max on Boxing," ESPN Friday Night Fights analyst, original Around the Horn host, HBO boxing voice, First Take co-host until his 2023 ESPN layoff.

Max Kennedy

Max Kennedy (Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, born 1965) is an American lawyer and author, ninth child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy; edited Make Gentle the Life of This World, wrote Danger's Hour, and opposed brother RFK Jr.'s 2024 campaign.

Max Kepler

Max Kepler (Maximilian Kepler-Rozycki), German-born MLB outfielder born 1993 in Berlin, signed by the Twins in 2009 for $800,000; 2019 record 36 homers by a European-born player, later with the Phillies.

Max Klare

Max Klare is an American football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams, drafted 61st overall in 2026 after playing college football at Purdue and Ohio State.

Max Kleiber

Max Kleiber (1893–1976) was a Swiss-born agricultural chemist and animal physiologist at UC Davis who showed in 1932 that mammal metabolic rate scales with body weight to the 3/4 power, known as Kleiber's law.

Max Klymenko

Max Klymenko, also known as Maksym Klymenko, is a Ukrainian content creator based in London, best known for the Career Ladder series of stepladder street interviews, launched in 2024.

Max Knoll

Max Knoll (1897–1969) was a German electrical engineer who co-invented the electron microscope with his student Ernst Ruska in Berlin in 1931 and later proposed the scanning principle behind the scanning electron microscope.

Max Koecher

Max Koecher (1924–1990) was a German mathematician who held chairs at Munich and Münster, known for the Koecher principle in Siegel modular forms and for Jordan-algebra methods applied to bounded symmetric domains.

Max Konnor

Max Konnor (Clifford Berry, born 1986) is an American gay adult film performer, director, and webcam creator; Falcon/NakedSword exclusive, founder of Haus of Konnor, and multi-time GayVN, Grabby, and XBIZ award winner.