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Max Kruse
Max Kruse (Max Bennet Kruse, born 1988, Reinbek) is a German retired striker and playmaker; 307 Bundesliga games, 97 goals, 14 Germany caps; clubs included Werder Bremen, Gladbach, Wolfsburg, Fenerbahçe, Union Berlin; retired December 2023.
Max L. Birnstiel
Max L. Birnstiel (1933–2014) was a Brazilian-born, Swiss-based molecular biologist who purified the first single genes by physical methods and founded the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Max L. Williams, Jr
Max L. Williams, Jr. (1922–2013) was an American mechanical and aerospace engineer, a pioneer of fracture mechanics who founded the International Journal of Fracture in 1963.
Max Landis
Max Landis is an American screenwriter, director, and comic book writer best known for the 2012 film Chronicle and for creating Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Max Lemke
Max Lemke (born 1996, Heppenheim) is a German sprint kayaker, KC Potsdam, with three Olympic golds: K4 500 m Tokyo 2020 and K2 500 m plus K4 500 m at Paris 2024; multiple K4 500 world champion.
Max Lemme
Max C. Lemme is a German electrical engineer and nanoelectronics researcher who heads the Chair of Electronic Devices at RWTH Aachen University and directs AMO GmbH.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1975, is a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur best known as co-founder of PayPal and founder of the buy-now-pay-later lender Affirm.
Max Li
Max Li is an Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 with Jack Zhang, after payment frustrations at the coffee shop they ran together.
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (1847–1935), German-Jewish painter and printmaker born and died in Berlin; pioneer of German Impressionism with Slevogt and Corinth, founder-president of the Berlin Secession, Prussian Academy president 1920–1933, banned by the Nazis in 1933.
Max Little
Max Little is an applied mathematician at the University of Birmingham known for algorithms that detect Parkinson's disease from voice recordings, and for the 2012 Parkinson's Voice Initiative.
Max Llewellyn (American football)
Max Llewellyn (born 2002), Urbandale, Iowa defensive end; Iowa Hawkeyes 2021-2025; drafted 238th overall in Round 7 of the 2026 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins; known for a productive spin move.
Max Lucado
Max Lucado is an American Christian author and pastor of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, whose books have sold over 150 million copies.
Max Lytvyn
Max Lytvyn (Макс Литвин) is a Ukrainian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Grammarly in 2009 with Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider, after selling his earlier plagiarism-detection company MyDropBox to Blackboard in 2008.
Max M. Burger
Max M. Burger (1933–2019) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist known for showing that cancer cell surfaces differ in lectin binding, and director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 1987 to 2000.
Max M. Hansmann
Max M. Hansmann (Max Martin Hansmann) is an organic chemist and full professor of organic chemistry at TU Dortmund University since 2023, known for isolating the first room-temperature stable diazoalkenes.
Max Mallowan
Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (1904-1978), British Mesopotamian archaeologist, Woolley's assistant at Ur, excavator of Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud (1949-58), and husband of Agatha Christie.
Max Manus
Max Manus (Maximo Guillermo Manus, 1914–1996) was a Norwegian resistance fighter in Kompani Linge and the Oslo gang, known for the Mardonius ship sabotage and the 1945 sinking of the Donau, later a businessman and subject of the 2008 film Max Manus.
Max Margules
Max Margules (1856–1920) was an Austrian meteorologist at the Vienna Meteorological Institute, a founder of theoretical meteorology known for his frontal-slope formula and storm energy analysis.
Max Martin
Max Martin, formerly Karl Martin Sandberg, is a Swedish writer and producer. His music carried artists like Britney Spears and Taylor Swift to the top of the American charts.
Max Martin production discography
Max Martin production discography: catalog of Swedish producer Karl Martin Sandberg (born 1971), from Cheiron teen pop and "...Baby One More Time" through Teenage Dream, 1989, and "Blinding Lights", with 25-plus Hot 100 number ones.
Max Martini
Max Martini (Maximilian Carlo Martini, born 1969) is an American actor, director, and producer; known for The Unit, Pacific Rim, Captain Phillips, 13 Hours, and directing Sgt. Will Gardner, a veteran-charity film.
Max Mason
Max Mason was an American mathematician and scientific administrator, president of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1936.
Max Mathews
Max Vernon Mathews (1926–2011) was an American Bell Labs engineer called the father of computer music; his Music programs underlie synthesis software like Csound and Max/MSP.
Max Mayfield (Stranger Things)
Maxine "Max" Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink, is a Stranger Things character introduced in Season 2; her Season 4 grief arc after stepbrother Billy's death, the "Dear Billy" episode and "Running Up That Hill," and her Season 5 coma distinguish her.
Max McCaffrey
Max McCaffrey (born 1994) is a former Duke wide receiver who played six NFL games for Jacksonville in 2017 and later coached at Northern Colorado and with the Miami Dolphins; son of Ed McCaffrey, brother of Christian.
Max McNown
Max McNown (born 2001) is an Oregon-born, Nashville-based country-folk singer-songwriter whose 2023 single "A Lot More Free" went Gold and whose albums Wandering, Night Diving, and Leave On a Light define his career.
Max Mell
Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian poet and playwright, praised by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose mystery play Das Apostelspiel was the most popular amateur drama of the interwar period.
Max Mercury
Max Mercury (Max Crandall), originally Quicksilver of Quality Comics (National Comics #5, 1940), is a DC speedster revived by Mark Waid in Flash #76 (1993); mentor to Impulse and explainer of the Speed Force.
Max Mermelstein
Max Mermelstein, Brooklyn-born engineer and Medellin cartel's Miami distributor 1978-1985, claimed 56 tons of cocaine and $300 million moved; became federal witness and wrote The Man Who Made It Snow (1990).
Max Meyer (footballer)
Max Meyer (Maximilian Meyer, born 1995, Oberhausen) is a German central midfielder, Schalke 04 academy product, 2017 U21 Euro winner and 2016 Olympic silver medalist; later Crystal Palace, Fenerbahçe, Luzern, APOEL; distinct from the 2006-born Regensburg player of the same name.