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Maxi Jazz
Maxi Jazz (Maxwell Alexander Fraser, 1957–2022), English rapper, DJ, and lyricist, frontman and founder of Faithless, whose Insomnia, God Is a DJ, and We Come 1 defined 1990s dance music; also led Soul Food Cafe and the E-Type Boys.
Maxi Kleber
Maxi Kleber (Maximilian Kleber), German NBA forward/center born 1992 in Würzburg; undrafted 2014, Dallas Mavericks 2017-2025, Los Angeles Lakers from the February 2025 Doncic trade; 2024 NBA finalist known for floor spacing, small-ball defense, and a 2023 buzzer beater.
Maxi López
Maxi López (Maximiliano Gastón López, born 1984, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired striker from River Plate who played for Barcelona, Catania, Milan, Torino, and others, won two La Liga titles, retired in 2021, and now co-owns Birmingham City.
Maxi Mobility
Maxi Mobility, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated technology holding company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, whose group operates the Cabify ride-hailing platform; it raised about $193 million in 2016 and 2017 offerings.
Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest (Max Alfred Elliott, born 1961) is a British reggae vocalist from Lewisham, London, known for lovers rock and reggae fusion. His "Close to You" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990; he has three Best Reggae Album Grammy nominations.
Maxi Rodríguez
Maxi Rodríguez (Maximiliano Rubén Rodríguez, born 1981, Rosario), nicknamed La Fiera, Argentine midfielder of Newell's, Espanyol, Atlético Madrid, Liverpool, and Peñarol; 54 Argentina caps, 2006 Goal of the Tournament versus Mexico, 2014 semifinal winning penalty.
Maxidrom
Maxidrom (Максидром) is an international rock festival created by Moscow radio Maximum, first held in 1995 and staged intermittently until 2016, ending as an open-air stadium festival.
Maxie (drag queen)
Maxie (Jayvhot Andreison Galang) is a Filipino drag performer and LGBTQ advocate who won Drag Race Philippines Season 3 in 2024 and competed on Queen of the Universe.
Maxie Parks
Maxie Parks (Maxwell Lander Parks, born 1951) is an American sprinter, 1976 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist (2:58.65) and fifth-place finisher in the 400m; personal best 44.82.
Maxieye
Maxieye (智驾科技) is a Chinese supplier of vision-perception-based ADAS and autonomous driving systems, founded by Zhou Shengyan in 2016 and headquartered in Shanghai; Aptiv became its largest shareholder in 2024.
Maxilla
Maxilla: paired midfacial bone formed by fused right and left maxillary bones; carries upper teeth, forms orbital floor and hard palate, houses the largest paranasal sinus; key in Le Fort fractures and sinus lift implant surgery.
Maxillaria
Maxillaria (Ruiz & Pav., 1794), tiger orchid, a large neotropical orchid genus in Maxillariinae with 665 accepted Kew species; shown polyphyletic by DNA data and broadly recircumscribed in 2015.
Maxillary nerve
Maxillary nerve (V2), middle purely sensory division of the trigeminal nerve; exits via foramen rotundum to the pterygopalatine fossa, ends as the infraorbital nerve, and supplies midface, upper teeth, palate, and nasal mucosa.
Maxillary osteotomy
A maxillary osteotomy cuts and repositions the upper jaw bone to correct jaw deformities, malocclusion, and obstructive sleep apnea, most often via the Le Fort I osteotomy.
Maxillary sinus
Maxillary sinus (antrum of Highmore): the largest paranasal sinus, a pyramid-shaped air cavity in the maxilla draining via a superiorly placed ostium into the middle meatus; first to develop, closely related to upper teeth and sinus lift surgery.
Maxillectomy
Maxillectomy is a surgical operation to remove all or part of the maxilla, the upper jaw bone, performed mainly to treat maxillary sinus and nasal cavity tumors.
Maxillofacial Prosthesis
Maxillofacial prosthesis: artificial replacement of missing facial or intraoral structures (eye, ear, nose, palate, maxilla) after surgery, trauma, or congenital defect; mainly silicone and acrylic resin, increasingly CAD/CAM and 3D printed, retained by implants, adhesives, or teeth.
Maxillomandibular advancement
Maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) is a skeletal surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in which the upper and lower jaws are moved forward to enlarge the pharyngeal airway.
Maxillomandibular fixation
Maxillomandibular fixation, also called intermaxillary fixation, is a surgical technique that wires or binds the upper and lower teeth together to hold the jaw immobile while facial fractures heal.
Maxillonasal dysplasia
Maxillonasal dysplasia, also called Binder syndrome (maxillonasal dysostosis, OMIM 155050), is a rare congenital midfacial hypoplasia of the premaxilla and nose, with absent anterior nasal spine, class III malocclusion, cervical spine anomalies, and vitamin K-related phenocopies.
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim (magazine): British-origin men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine launched in 1995 by Dennis Publishing; no-nudity pictorial formula, 1997 US edition peak, 2009 UK print closure, now digital with licensed editions.
Maxim (musician)
Maxim (Keith Andrew Palmer, born 1967, Peterborough) is the English MC and vocalist of The Prodigy, formerly Maxim Reality, with solo albums Hell's Kitchen, Fallen Angel, and Love More and art under the name MM.
Maxim Baldry
Maxim Alexander Baldry, also credited as Max Baldry, is an English actor born 1996 who played Stepan in Mr. Bean's Holiday, Viktor in Years and Years, and Isildur in The Rings of Power.
Maxim Berezovsky
Maxim Berezovsky (Максим Березовський) was a Ukrainian composer and opera singer, born in 1745, known for the sacred concerto "Do Not Forsake Me in My Old Age".
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky (Maxim Gorky; real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov), 1868-1936, Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, and founder of socialist realism, author of The Lower Depths, Mother, and the autobiographical trilogy, never a Communist Party member.
Maxim gun
The Maxim gun, the first fully automatic machine gun, was invented by American-born engineer Hiram Maxim, patented in Britain in 1884, and became the standard machine gun into the 1930s.
Maxim Integrated
Maxim Integrated Products, also called Maxim Integrated, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1983 that made analog chips and was acquired by Analog Devices in 2021.
Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Kontsevich (Максим Концевич), born 1964 in the USSR, is a French mathematician at IHÉS who won the Fields Medal in 1998 for work on moduli spaces of curves.
Maxim Kurnikov
Maxim Kurnikov is an Israeli software entrepreneur known as a co-founder of Echo, a Haifa-based Y Combinator Winter 2023 startup building an AI sales co-pilot for B2B founders.
Maxim Lany
Maxim Lany is a Belgian DJ, producer, and remixer from Ghent working in melodic house and techno, whose breakthrough came with the 2019 track 'Renaissance' on Armada.