All articles starting with M

Maxime Schwartz

Maxime Schwartz, born in 1940, is a French molecular biologist who researched positive transcriptional regulation in bacteria and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1988 to 1999.

Maxime Seligmann (1927–2010) was a French physician-immunologist at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, known for describing heavy chain disease, defining B-cell and T-cell markers in lymphoid malignancies, and organizing French AIDS research.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (MVL), born 1990, is a French chess grandmaster, peak 2819 and world #2 in 2016, 2021 World Blitz Champion, and runner-up in the 2020-21 Candidates Tournament.

Maxime Weygand

Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) was a French general, chief of staff to Foch in World War I and supreme commander of Allied armies in May 1940.

Maximian

Maximian (Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Herculius, c. 250–310) was Diocletian's co-Augustus in the western Roman Empire from 286 to 305, Tetrarch, father of Maxentius, thrice-restored claimant, died 310.

Maximian (Patriarch of Constantinople)

Maximian (Maximianos) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 431 to 434, a Roman-born ascetic presbyter elevated after Nestorius's deposition and honored as a saint in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Oct 21, 2026

Maximianon

Maximianon (Greek Μαξιμιανόν), the Roman praesidium at Al-Zarqa, Egypt, on the Coptos-Myos Hormos road; a 56 m square schist fort with central well, occupied from Trajan to the Severans, excavated 1994-1995.

Maximianus

Maximianus is a sixth-century Latin elegiac poet of Italy, author of six elegies on lost youth and love, sometimes called the last of the Roman poets.

Maximilian Andronnikov (Максимилиан Александрович Андронников)

Maximilian Andronnikov (Максимилиан Александрович Андронников), callsign Caesar, is deputy commander of the Freedom of Russia Legion, a Russian volunteer unit in Ukraine's armed forces; former Russian Imperial Movement member who left for Ukraine in summer 2022.

Sep 19, 2026

Maximilian Bittner

Maximilian Bittner, also known as Max Bittner, is an e-commerce executive who founded Lazada in 2012 and led the Singapore marketplace until Alibaba installed Lucy Peng in 2018.

Maximilian F. Reiser

Maximilian F. Reiser is a German radiologist who directed the Institute for Clinical Radiology at LMU Munich from 1993 to 2017 and served as medical faculty dean.

Maximilian Fichtner

Maximilian Fichtner (born 1961 in Heidelberg) is a German chemist, professor at the University of Ulm, and managing director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, known for rechargeable magnesium–sulfur batteries.

Maximilian Haider

Maximilian Haider (born 1950, Freistadt, Austria) is an Austrian physicist who built the first working aberration corrector for the transmission electron microscope in 1997 and shared the 2020 Kavli Prize.

Maximilian Harden

Maximilian Harden, born Felix Ernst Witkowski, was a German journalist and critic who founded the weekly Die Zukunft and provoked the Eulenburg scandal of 1906 to 1909.

Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria

Maximilian I Joseph (1756–1825), first King of Bavaria (elector Max IV Joseph 1799–1806, king 1806–1825), ruled with minister Montgelas, enlarged Bavaria via Napoleon, and granted the constitutions of 1808 and 1818.

Maximilian I of Mexico

Maximilian I (Maximiliano I), born Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, 1832-1867, was the only emperor of the Second Mexican Empire, installed by Napoleon III in 1864 and executed at Querétaro by Benito Juárez's republic in 1867.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I, a Holy Roman Emperor, reigned from 1493 to 1519, strengthening the empire, binding Burgundian lands to Habsburg, and being the second founder of the dynasty.

Maximilian Ibrahimović

Maximilian Ibrahimović (Maximilian Zlatan Seger Ibrahimović), Swedish forward born 2006 in Lund, son of Zlatan Ibrahimović; Hammarby and AC Milan academies, loaned to Ajax January 2026, joined AZ Alkmaar permanently July 2026.

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian II (1527-1576), Holy Roman Emperor 1564-1576, son of Ferdinand I; notable for toleration of Lutheran nobles in Austria, the disputed Habsburg-Ottoman settlement after 1566, and securing the imperial succession over Philip of Spain.

Maximilian J. Telford

Maximilian J. Telford, known as Max Telford, is an evolutionary biologist who holds the Jodrell Professorship of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London; his 2006 Nature paper established the phylum Xenoturbellida.

Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe, born Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Franciscan priest and publisher who at Auschwitz in 1941 volunteered to die in place of another prisoner, and was canonized in 1982.

Maximilian Muenke

Maximilian Muenke is a German-born American medical geneticist who identified genetic causes of craniosynostosis and holoprosencephaly, and led the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics from 2019.

Maximilian Mundt

Maximilian Mundt, born 1996 in Hamburg, is a German actor and photographer known as Moritz Zimmermann in Netflix's How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019–2025), ROMY 2020 winner, #actOut signatory, and lead of Athos 2643.

Maximilian Nierenstein

Maximilian Nierenstein, born Moses Nierenstein, was a Baltic German-born tannin chemist and biochemist at the University of Bristol, known for the 1915 Nierenstein reaction and for proposing the name Vitamine.

Oct 20, 2026

Maximilian Reinelt

Maximilian Josef Reinelt (1988–2019), German rower with Ulmer RC Donau and the Deutschlandachter men's eight; Olympic gold London 2012, silver Rio 2016, world champion 2010 and 2011; died skiing in Sankt Moritz.

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (1930-2014), Austrian-born Swiss actor and director; Oscar winner as Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), later Oscar-nominated for The Man in the Glass Booth and Julia.

Maximilian Ulysses Browne

Maximilian Ulysses Browne was an Austrian field marshal of Irish descent who commanded Habsburg forces against Frederick the Great and died of wounds from the 1757 Battle of Prague.

Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg

Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (Max von Hohenberg, 1902–1962), eldest son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek; Austrian lawyer, Dachau prisoner after the 1938 Anschluss, postwar mayor of Artstetten.

Sep 19, 2026

Maximiliano Casal

Maximiliano Casal is a Uruguayan software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital freight forwarder Nowports in 2018 and later returned as its chief executive officer.