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Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Litvinov (Максим Литвинов) was a Soviet diplomat and revolutionary, foreign minister from 1930 to 1939 and ambassador to the United States from 1941 to 1943.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Максим Сергеевич Марцинкевич)
Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist and video blogger who founded Format-18 and Restrukt before his death in 2020, which was officially ruled suicide.
Maxim of Bulgaria
Maxim of Bulgaria, born Marin Naydenov Minkov in 1914, was Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1971 until his death in 2012, the longest-serving head of the Church.
Maxim Reshetnikov
Maxim Reshetnikov is a Russian politician who serves as Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, reporting on investment, inflation, and debt restructuring.
Maxim Ryzhenkov
Maxim Ryzhenkov is a Belarusian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, representing the country at the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Maxim Vengerov (Максим Александрович Венгеров)
Maxim Vengerov (Максим Александрович Венгеров), born 1974, Russian-Israeli violinist and conductor; Carl Flesch Competition winner 1990, two-time Grammy winner, plays the 1727 Kreutzer Stradivari, returned to performing in 2011 after a shoulder-injury hiatus.
Máxima (TV series)
Máxima is a Dutch biographical drama series about Queen Máxima Zorreguieta, based on Marcia Luyten's book Moederland, premiering on Videoland in April 2024; produced by Millstreet Films with FBO and Beta Film, starring Delfina Chaves, with season 2 on HBO Max in March 2026.
Maxima Roma
Maxima Roma is an Italian professional basketball club in Rome that plays in Serie A and the EuroCup; founded in 2026, it is owned by Paul Matiasic.
Maximal Expiratory Flow Rate
Maximal expiratory flow rate (MEFR), also known as FEF 200-1200, is a spirometric index measuring airflow over the first liter of a forced expiration, effort dependent and now rarely reported routinely.
Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves
Maximal expiratory flow-volume curves (MEFV) plot expiratory flow in L/s against lung volume during a forced vital capacity maneuver, revealing obstructive, restrictive, and upper airway obstruction patterns in spirometry.
Maximal ideal
A maximal ideal is a proper ideal of a ring with no ideal strictly between it and the ring; an ideal is maximal exactly when the quotient ring is a field.
Maximal marginal relevance
Maximal marginal relevance (MMR) is a ranking criterion in information retrieval that selects documents balancing relevance to the query with dissimilarity from already selected results, reducing redundancy.
Maximal Midexpiratory Flow Rate
Maximal midexpiratory flow rate (MMEF, FEF25–75%) is a spirometric index: mean expiratory flow over the middle half of FVC, historically linked to small airways disease but poorly reproducible and not recommended for routine reporting.
Maximal Respiratory Pressures
Maximal respiratory pressures (MIP/PImax, MEP/PEmax) are noninvasive bedside tests of respiratory muscle strength in cmH2O, used in neuromuscular disease monitoring, weaning assessment, and interpreted against age- and sex-specific reference values.
Maximal-ratio combining
Maximal-ratio combining (MRC) is a diversity combining technique that weights and sums signals from multiple antennas to maximize output signal-to-noise ratio, defined by Brennan in 1959.
Maximalism
Maximalism is an aesthetic of abundance, ornament, and "more is more" opposing minimalism's "less is more." Coined in art by critic Robert Pincus-Witten for 1980s expressionism, with roots in Pattern and Decoration (New York, 1975), it spans art, architecture, music, and fashion.
Maximato
The Maximato was a period of Mexican history from 1928 to 1934, when former president Plutarco Elías Calles, the Jefe Máximo, dominated three puppet-free presidents.
Maxime Beauchemin
Maxime Beauchemin (@mistercrunch) is a software engineer, original creator of Apache Airflow (2014, Airbnb) and Apache Superset (originally Caravel), founder and CEO of Preset, and now builder of the AI-agent orchestration platform Agor.
Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier (born 1963), Canadian politician from Beauce, Quebec; former Conservative Cabinet minister, runner-up in the 2017 CPC leadership race, founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada since 2018, without a parliamentary seat since 2019.
Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher (1867–1918) was an American mathematician at Harvard who worked on potential theory, differential equations, and algebra, and founded the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
Maxime Dougados
Maxime Dougados is a French rheumatologist, professor at Université Paris Cité, who led rheumatology at Hôpital Cochin from 1995 to 2018 and served as EULAR president.
Maxime Faget
Maxime Faget (1921–2004) was an American aerospace engineer who designed the Mercury capsule, America's first crewed spacecraft, and shaped every NASA vehicle from Mercury through the Shuttle.
Maxime Fortin
Maxime Fortin is a French quantitative investor who co-founded Squarepoint Capital in 2014, serving as its CEO and Chief Investment Officer; the firm manages about $227 billion.
Maxime Gael Ngayap Hambou
Maxime-Gaël Ngayap Hambou, French judoka (born 2001, Clichy), -90 kg, AM Asnières club. Paris 2024 bronze in -90 kg and mixed team gold; European silver 2025, bronze 2026.
Maxime Grousset
Maxime Grousset, French swimmer born 1999 in Nouméa, New Caledonia; sprint freestyle and butterfly specialist; triple long-course world champion (100 fly 2023, 50 and 100 fly 2025) and Paris 2024 relay bronze medalist.
Maxime Laoun
Maxime Laoun, Canadian short track speed skater born 1996 in Montreal; Olympic gold medallist in the men's 5000m relay at Beijing 2022 and 2025 world champion in the same event; also competed at Milano Cortina 2026.
Maxime Le Forestier
Maxime Le Forestier, stage name of Bruno Le Forestier, is a French singer-songwriter born in Paris in 1949, a leading poetic chansonnier whose 1972 debut sold 1.5 million copies.
Maxime Pauty
Maxime Pauty is a French right-handed foil fencer, born in 1993 in Clamart, who won Olympic team foil gold at Tokyo 2020 and bronze at Paris 2024.
Maxime Prévot
Maxime Prévot, born 1978 in Mons, is a Belgian politician of Les Engagés who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister.
Maxime Raynaud
Maxime Raynaud (born 2003, Paris) is a French 7'1" NBA center; Stanford record-setting senior, 42nd pick of the 2025 draft by the Sacramento Kings, NBA All-Rookie rookie with 12.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game.