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Max Michael Jr

Max Michael Jr was a physician and medical educator who served as the first dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine's Jacksonville campus, from 1962 to 1985.

Max Miedinger

Max Miedinger (1910–1980) was a Swiss typeface designer from Zurich who created Neue Haas Grotesk in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry, renamed Helvetica and emblematic of the Swiss Style.

Max Miller (Ohio politician)

Max L. Miller, born in 1988, is an American Republican politician who has been the U.S. representative for Ohio's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2023.

Max Minghella

Max Minghella (born 1985, Hampstead, London), son of director Anthony Minghella, is a British actor and filmmaker: Nick Blaine in The Handmaid's Tale (Emmy-nominated 2021), director of Teen Spirit and Shell, Whitney Halberstram in Industry.

Max Mirny

Max Mirny (Maksim Mirnyi, "The Beast"), Belarusian tennis player born 1977 in Minsk; doubles No. 1, ten Grand Slam titles, 2012 Olympic mixed doubles gold with Azarenka, later coach to Nishikori and Sabalenka.

Max Moerstedt

Max Moerstedt (born 2006, Mannheim) is a German striker for TSG Hoffenheim. U17 European and World Cup champion 2023, U19 double winner 2024, 194 cm tall, contract extended beyond 2027.

Max Mosley

Max Mosley (1940-2021), British barrister, ex-Formula 2 driver, and March co-founder, was FIA President 1993-2009; he led post-Senna F1 safety reform, founded Euro NCAP and the FIA Foundation, and won a landmark privacy case.

Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) was a German-born comparative philologist who settled at Oxford, edited the Rigveda, and led the 50-volume Sacred Books of the East translation project.

Max Muncy

Max Muncy (Maxwell Steven Muncy, born 1990 in Midland, Texas) is an American baseball infielder who has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers since 2018 and is a two-time All-Star.

Max Murray (actor)

Max Murray (born 2007) is an English actor and singer who plays Joel Marshall in BBC One's EastEnders from March 2025, in a toxic masculinity storyline; son of Gina Murray, nephew of Mazz Murray.

Max Neuburger

Max Neuburger (1868–1955) was an Austrian physician and historian of medicine who founded one of the world's first institutes for the history of medicine, in Vienna.

Max Newman

Max Newman (Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, 1897–1984) was an English mathematician who led the Bletchley Park Newmanry breaking the Lorenz cipher and established the laboratory where the world's first stored-program computer ran in 1948.

Max Nieuwdorp

Max Nieuwdorp (born 1977) is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC whose research links the gut microbiome to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease.

Max Noether

Max Noether (1844–1921) was a German mathematician who led the algebraic-geometric school at Erlangen, proved the AF + BG theorem, and was the father of Emmy Noether.

Max Nonne

Max Nonne (1861–1959) was a German neurologist in Hamburg who built the Eppendorf neurological university clinic, introduced the Nonne-Apelt cerebrospinal-fluid test, and dominated the World War I debate on war neuroses.

Max O. Cogburn, Jr.

Max O. Cogburn, Jr., also known as Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina since 2011.

Max O'Leary

Max Edward O'Leary (born 1996, Bath) is a Republic of Ireland goalkeeper. Bristol City academy product, 179 club appearances, loans at Kidderminster, Bath, Solihull Moors, Shrewsbury; joined West Bromwich Albion January 2026; Ireland debut June 2025 v Luxembourg.

Max Pacioretty

Max Pacioretty, American NHL left wing born in New Canaan, Connecticut; 29th captain of the Montreal Canadiens, later Vegas, Carolina, Washington, Toronto; retired September 30, 2025 with 681 points in 939 games, now a Michigan hockey special assistant.

Max Palevsky

Max Palevsky (1924–2010) was an American computer-industry entrepreneur who founded Scientific Data Systems in California in 1961, sold it to Xerox in 1969, and helped finance Intel.

Max Park

Max Park (WCA ID 2012PARK03) is an American speedcuber, 3.13-second 3x3 single world record holder, big-cube record holder, two-time WCA World Champion, and subject of Netflix's The Speed Cubers.

Max Payne

Max Payne: third-person shooter series by Remedy Entertainment (2001, 2003) and Rockstar (Max Payne 3, 2012), known for bullet time slow-motion gunplay and noir storytelling; remakes in production.

Max Payne (film)

Max Payne, a 2008 American-Canadian action thriller directed by John Moore and starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, is adapted from the video game of the same name.

Max Payne (video game)

Max Payne (2001), Remedy Entertainment's third-person neo-noir shooter published by Gathering of Developers and Rockstar Games, popularized bullet time slow-motion gunplay in a blizzard-bound New York revenge story.

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a 2003 film-noir third-person shooter by Remedy Entertainment, published by Rockstar Games, released October 14, 2003 on PC and later PS2 and Xbox, known for Bullet Time and Havok physics.

Max Payne 3

Max Payne 3 is a 2012 third-person shooter by Rockstar Games, the first Max Payne not made by Remedy, set in São Paulo. Released May 15, 2012; Metacritic 86; about 3 million sold-in; Dan Houser later called it a failure.

Max Perlich

Max Perlich, American character actor born 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio; won the 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Drugstore Cowboy, played J.H. Brodie on Homicide: Life on the Street, and appeared in Rush, Cliffhanger, and Beautiful Girls.

MAX phases

MAX phases are a family of layered hexagonal carbides and nitrides, first identified in the 1960s, that combine ceramic stiffness with metallic conductivity and machinability.

Max Pirkis

Max Pirkis (Max William R. Pirkis, born 1989, London) is an English actor and film sales executive, known as Midshipman Blakeney in Master and Commander (2003) and young Octavian in HBO's Rome, later head of acquisitions on The Father.

Max Planck

Max Planck (1858–1947) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Berlin University, who originated quantum theory in 1900 and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) is a Heidelberg research institute of the Max Planck Society, founded in Berlin in 1924, re-established in Heidelberg in 1949, covering public international law, EU law, human rights, and comparative public law.