List of Famous people named Max

Max Strus is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Lewis Flyers and the DePaul Blue Demons.

Max Bowden is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Justin Fitzgerald in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road, and as Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Maximillian James Aarons is an English professional footballer who plays for Championship club Norwich City. He is primarily a right-back, but can also play as a left-back.

Leutnant Max Näther HOH, IC, was a German World War I ace fighter pilot noted for the destruction of 26 enemy aircraft. He shot down 10 observation balloons and 16 airplanes, including 10 SPAD S.XIII fighters and a Sopwith Dolphin. He died in action at the border of Germany and Poland after the war's end on 8 January 1919.

Max Ferdinand Alfthan was a Finnish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the Finnish boat Heatherbell, which won the bronze medal in the 12 metre class.

Max Lahiff is an English rugby union footballer who plays as a loosehead prop for Bristol in the Gallagher Premiership.

Max Guazzini is a French entrepreneur and until June 2011, president of the Stade Français rugby union club of Paris, who compete in the top division of rugby union in France, the Top 14. Since arriving at Stade Français in the early 1990s, the club rose from the lower divisions of competition to become one of the most successful French rugby teams of the modern era.

Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages.

Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker. Blumenthal established The Grayzone in December 2015; he is the website's editor and one of its contributors.

Max James Emden was a German Jewish businessman, philanthropist and art collector whose properties, including valuable paintings, have been the object of Nazi era restitution claims. The manner in which his legacy has been handled has sparked a debate in Germany about the erasure of information concerning the Nazi era and inspired films about his life.