List of Famous people named Max

Max Emilian Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver currently competing in Formula One, under the Dutch flag, with Red Bull Racing. At the 2015 Australian Grand Prix, when he was aged 17 years, 166 days, he became the youngest driver to compete in Formula One. He holds several other "firsts" in Formula One racing.

Jerome Max Keli'i Holloway is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Featherweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former UFC Featherweight Champion. As of December 14, 2020, he is #8 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings and #1 in the UFC featherweight rankings.

Maxwell M. Scherzer, nicknamed "Mad Max", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). A right-handed starting pitcher, Scherzer is a seven-time MLB All-Star, has won three Cy Young Awards, has pitched two no-hitters, and was a member of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals.

Max Dorian Fried is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the first round, seventh overall, in the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. He made his major league debut in 2017. His 17 wins in 2019 were 2nd-most in the National League, and his seven wins in 2020 were again 2nd-most in the NL. In 2020 he also won the NL Gold Glove Award at pitcher and the Fielding Bible Award at pitcher, and was named All-MLB First Team.

Joseph Maxwell Cleland was an American politician from the state of Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, was a disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, and a United States Senator.

Max von Sydow was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. He became a French citizen in 2002, and lived in France for the last decades of his life.

Max Giesinger is a German singer-songwriter and musician from Waldbronn, Germany. He first gained widespread popularity with his single 80 Millionen, placing as high as second position in the German charts. His music is usually labeled as pop and pop-rock.

Maxwell Braden Mittelman is an American voice actor who provides voices for English versions of anime, animation and video games. Some of his major roles include Saitama in One-Punch Man, Kousei Arima in Your Lie in April, Hikari Sakishima in A Lull in the Sea, King from The Seven Deadly Sins, Ritsu Kageyama in Mob Psycho 100, Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero, Atsushi Nakajima in Bungo Stray Dogs and Io Flemming in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Nacht Faust from Black Clover, and Plagg from Miraculous Ladybug. In video games, he voices McBurn and Lechter Arundel in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I, II and III, Shigure Rangetsu in Tales of Berseria, Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5, Troy Calypso in Borderlands 3, Peter Boggs in Grounded, Fidel Camuze in Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, Claude Wallace in Valkyria Chronicles 4, Louis in Code Vein and Red XIII in Final Fantasy VII Remake.

Max Gawn is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A ruckman, 2.08 metres tall and weighing 108 kilograms (238 lb), Gawn is capable of contributing in both the ruck and forward line. A basketballer and rugby union player at a young age, he pursued his career in Australian rules football and was drafted to the Melbourne Football Club with the thirty-fourth selection in the 2009 AFL draft. He made his AFL debut in the 2011 AFL season. Knee and hamstring injuries hampered his first four seasons in the AFL before he moved into the number one ruck position at Melbourne in 2015 along with All-Australian selection in 2016. Gawn was named as Melbourne's captain at the start of the 2020 AFL season. He also has Geelong Football Club in his back pocket

Maximilian William Kilman is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

Max Raabe is a German folk singer. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester.

Max Liebermann was a German painter and printmaker of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. Once little known by anglo-american collectors, he has gained increasing prominence for his 'revolutionary' style and brushstroke. Liebermann's quality of painting is today compared by many experts to the likes of Renoir- even surpassing it in some respects.

Maxwell Frank Clifford was an English publicist.

Maximilian "Max" von der Groeben is a German actor. His father Alexander von der Groeben is a former judoka, sports journalist and also an actor. His mother Ulrike von der Groeben is also a sports journalist. He has one Sister, Caroline, who also works as an actress.

Max Antony Whitlock is a British artistic gymnast. He is a five-time Olympic medallist, winning two golds and three bronzes, and an eight-time world medallist on the same apparatus with three gold and five silvers. He became Britain's first ever gold medallist in artistic gymnastics when he won both the men's floor and pommel horse exercises at the 2016 Summer Olympics. With twelve medals and five titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history.

Max Ehrich is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for his roles as Fenmore Baldwin in The Young and the Restless, Hunter May in Under the Dome, and Freddie Ridge in The Path. He also starred in a recurring role in American Princess. He played the role of Tate in Walk. Ride. Rodeo., a Netflix original film for which he co-wrote and sang the song "Ride".

George Edward Maxwell Wright was an American actor, known for his role as Willie Tanner on the sitcom ALF (1986–1990).

Max Rufus Mosley is a British former racing driver, lawyer and the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide. The FIA is also the governing body for Formula One and other international motorsports.

Max B. Yasgur was an American farmer. He was the owner of the 600-acre (240 ha) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.