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Maximus of Turin
Maximus of Turin was the first known bishop of Turin and a Latin homiletic writer of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, remembered for his sermons.
Maxine Clark
Maxine Clark is an American retail executive who founded Build-A-Bear Workshop in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1997, leading it as its "Chief Executive Bear" until 2013.
Maxine Dexter
Maxine Dexter is an American politician and physician, a Democrat representing Oregon's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2025, after serving in the Oregon House from 2020.
Maxine Elliott
Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), born Jessie Dermot(t) in Rockland, Maine, was an American Broadway star, producer, and theater owner who built the Maxine Elliott Theatre (1908) and led Belgian war relief. Not the Maxine Elliott Hicks of film.
Maxine Feibelman
Maxine Feibelman (also Feibelmann), Bernie Taupin's first wife and seamstress for Elton John's touring band, is the 'Maxine' of the 'With love to Maxine' credit on 'Tiny Dancer' (Madman Across the Water, 1971); Taupin described the song as capturing 1970 California, not one person.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is an American writer whose blend of memoir, myth, and fiction made her a leading figure in Asian American literature; The Woman Warrior appeared in 1976.
Maxine Jones
Maxine Jones, born in Paterson, New Jersey, is an American R&B singer and actress best known as a founding member of the vocal group En Vogue.
Maxine L. Linial
Maxine L. Linial is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, known for her work on retroviral RNA packaging and foamy viruses.
Maxine M. Chesney
Maxine M. Chesney is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Maxine Medina
Maxine Medina (Maria Mika Maxine Perez Medina), Filipina beauty queen crowned Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2016 and Miss Universe 2016 Top 6 finalist; later actress (Hanggang Saan, First Yaya, Magandang Dilag), wife of Timmy Llana, and live seller.
Maxine Minx
Maxine Minx is the fictional protagonist of Ti West's X horror trilogy, played by Mia Goth in X (2022), Pearl (2022), and MaXXXine (2024): a 1979 adult film performer, sole survivor of the Texas farmhouse massacre, who pursues Hollywood stardom in 1985 Los Angeles.
Maxine Peacock
Maxine Peacock (née Heavey) is a fictional Coronation Street hairdresser played by Tracy Shaw from 1995 to 2003, wife of Ashley Peacock, murdered by serial killer Richard Hillman in a 17.5-million-viewer episode.
Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake (born 1974) is an English actress and playwright from Bolton, known for Dinnerladies, Shameless, Silk, Three Girls, her 2014 Royal Exchange Hamlet, Say Nothing, Words of War, and Apple TV's Last Seen.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer (1931–2024) was an American molecular biologist who worked on the genetic code at NIH, co-organized the 1975 Asilomar conference, and led the Carnegie Institution.
Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters (born 1938) is the Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 43rd District since 1991, former California assemblymember, and first woman and African American chair of the House Financial Services Committee.
Maxis
Maxis, American game studio founded 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun, creator of SimCity, The Sims, and Spore; acquired by Electronic Arts in 1997 for $125 million; now an EA label working on The Sims 4 and Project Rene.
Maxis Communications
Maxis Communications, formally Maxis Communications Berhad, is a Malaysian integrated telecommunications company whose mobile service launched in 1995 and became one of Malaysia's leading operators.
Maxixcatl
Maxixcatl, also spelled Maxixcatzin, was the tlatoani of Ocotelulco, a head town of the Tlaxcallan confederation, and led the alliance with Hernán Cortés in 1519.
MaxLinear
MaxLinear is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in Carlsbad, California in 2003, designing communications chips for broadband access, 5G wireless infrastructure, and data center connectivity.
MaxMatch
MaxMatch names several distinct things: a Ludii graph theory game (DLP.Game.546 by Tahmina Begum), a deterministic 2-rank-approximation mechanism for matching markets, a 2022 semi-supervised learning method, and competitive-programming problems and function names for maximum matching.
Maxo Kream
Maxo Kream (Emekwanem Ogugua Biosah Jr., born 1990) is a Nigerian-American rapper from Alief, Houston, known for autobiographical albums Punken, Brandon Banks, Weight of the World, and O.Y.N.
Maxomys
Maxomys, spiny rats, Southeast Asian murine rodent genus (Muridae: Murinae) erected by Sody 1936, type species Mus bartelsii; about 17-22 species; 2025 work transfers all species to the older genus Crunomys.
Maxon Group
Maxon Group is a Swiss family-owned manufacturer of high-precision electric drive systems based in Sachseln, founded in 1961, whose motors have powered NASA Mars rovers, surgical tools, and humanoid robots.
Maxon Margiela
Maxon Margiela, born Mason Jorge Reyes, was an American rapper from Orlando, Florida whose 2024 single "Austin Powers" went viral before his death in 2025.
MAXQ hierarchical reinforcement learning
MAXQ is a hierarchical reinforcement learning method introduced by Thomas G. Dietterich in 2000 that decomposes a task into smaller subtasks and their value functions, converging faster than flat Q-learning.
MAXQDA
MAXQDA is a software package for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis developed by VERBI Software in Berlin, first released as MAX for DOS in 1989.
Maxthon
Maxthon, formerly MyIE2, is a freeware web browser from the Chinese company Maxthon, built on Chromium, available for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS since its 2004 renaming.
Maxtla
Maxtla was a Tepanec ruler, son and successor of Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco, who reigned from about 1426 to 1428 and arranged the assassination of the Mexica ruler Chimalpopoca.
Maxton Hall—The World Between Us
Maxton Hall – Die Welt zwischen uns (Maxton Hall – The World Between Us) is a German Prime Video romantic drama by UFA Fiction adapted from Mona Kasten's Save Me trilogy, starring Harriet Herbig-Matten and Damian Hardung; season 1 premiered May 9, 2024 and topped charts in over 120 countries.
Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor Corporation was an American hard disk drive manufacturer founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, growing into one of the world's largest drive makers before Seagate acquired it in 2006.