Maximilian Explained
Maximilian or Maximillian (Maximiliaan in Dutch and Maximilien in French) is a male name.
The name "Max" is considered a shortening of "Maximilian" as well as of several other names.
List of people
Monarchs
Other royalty
Saints
Sportspeople
- Max Aarons (born 2000), English footballer
- Maximilian Abel (born 1982), professional tennis player from Germany
- Maximilian Ahlschwede (born 1990), German former professional footballer
- Maximilian Arfsten (born 2001), American professional soccer player
- Maximilian Arndt (born 1987), German bobsledder
- Maximilian Arnold (born 1994), German professional footballer
- Maximilian "Max" Baer (Maximilian Adelbert Baer), (1909-1959), American boxer and heavyweight champion
- Maximilian Bauer, multiple people
- Maximilian Beier (born 2002), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Beister (born 1990), German footballer
- Maximilian Benassi, Italian sprint canoeist
- Maximilian Beyer (born 1993), German racing cyclist
- Maximilian Brandl (born 1997), German cross-country mountain biker
- Maximilian Braune (born 2003), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Breunig (born 2000), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Buhk (born 1992), retired German racing driver
- Maximilian "Max" Chilton (born 1991), Indycar driver
- Maximilian Dahlhoff (born 1992), German footballer
- Maximilian Dallinger (born 1996), German sport shooter
- Maximilian Dietz (born 2002), American professional soccer player
- Maximilian Dimitrovici (born 1989), German ice hockey player
- Maximilian Dittgen (born 1995), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Dörnbach (born 1995), German track cyclist
- Maximilian Drum (born 1991), German footballer
- Maximilian Eggestein (born 1996), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Engl (born 1997), German professional footballer
- Maximilian Entrup (born 1997), Austrian professional footballer
- Maximilian Ferrari (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
- Maximilian Forster (born 1990), German professional ice hockey player
- Maximilian Jäger (born 2000), German para-cyclist
- Maximilian Heidegger (born 1997), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Maximilian Günther (born 1997), German Formula E driver
- Maximilian Levy (born 1987), German track cyclist
- Maximilian Maeder (born 2006), Singaporean kitesurfer
- Maximilian Mbaeva (born 1989), Namibian footballer
- Maximillian "Max" Schmeling (1905–2005), German boxer and heavyweight champion
- Max Emilian Verstappen (born 1997), Formula 1 driver and three time world champion [1]
Other people
- Maximilian Apfelbaum (d.1953), Polish-born furrier who co-founded the New York furriers Maximilian.
- Maximilian Arland (born 1981), German television presenter and singer
- Max Baer Jr. (Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr.), American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
- Maximilian Balzan (1637–1711), Maltese mediaeval philosopher who specialised mainly in physics and art
- Maximilian Berlitz (1852–1921), linguist and founder of the Berlitz Language Schools
- Maximilian Bern (1849–1923), German writer and editor
- Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), Swiss physician and pioneer nutritionist
- Maximilian F. Bonzano (1821–1894), German-born American government official, politician, and physician
- Maximilien "Max" Boublil (born 1979), French actor and singer
- Maximilian Braun (1850–1930), German anatomist and zoologist who specialized in the field of parasitology
- Maximillian "Max" Brooks (born 1972), American author
- Maximilian Brückner (born 1979), German actor
- Maximilian Büsser, Swiss businessman and founder of the watch brand MB&F
- Maximilian Cercha (1818–1907), Polish painter and drawer
- Maximilian Colt, Flemish sculptor who settled in England and eventually rose to become the King's Master Carver
- Maximilian Consbruch (1866-1927), German West Prussian classical philologist and gymnasium principal, known for his studies of Greek lyric and the work of Hephaestion
- Maximilian (1936–2020), stage name of American musician Maxfield Crook
- Maximilian Curtze (1837–1903), German mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Maximilian Dasio (1865-1954), German painter and medal engraver
- Maximilian Davis (born 1995), British fashion designer
- Maximilian Dimoff (born 1968), principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra
- Maximillian Miles Christensen, known as Maximilian Dood (born 1983), American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
- Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert (born 1974), composer and violinist
- Maximilian Fichtner (born 1961), professor for Solid State Chemistry at the Ulm University and executive director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU)
- Maximilian Fischer (1929-2019), Austrian entomologist and a specialist on parasitic wasps
- Maximilian Forte, professor of anthropology at the Concordia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Maximilian "Max" Fosh (born 1995), British YouTuber and comedian
- Maximilian Grabner (1905–1948), Austrian Nazi Gestapo chief in Auschwitz executed for crimes against humanity
- Maximilian Hacman (1877–1961), Romanian academic
- Maximilian Emil Hehl (1861-1916), German engineer and architect active in Brazil
- Maximilian von Jaunez (1873–1947), French-German industrialist and politician
- Maximilian List (1910 – c. 1980), German SS concentration camp commandant
- Maximilian Nitze (1848–1906), German urologist
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), politician in the French Revolution
- Maximilian Ronge (1874–1953), Austrian intelligence officer
- Maximilian Schell (1930–2014), Austrian-born Swiss actor
- Max C. Starkloff (1858–1942), American physician and Health Commissioner for St. Louis, Missouri
- Maximilian von Sevenborg (–), author
- Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954), German field marshal
- Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke (1820-1906), German entomologist
Fictional characters
- Maximillian, robot from the 1979 Disney motion picture The Black Hole
- Maximillian Arturo, a character from the television series Sliders
- Maximilien Aue, fictional SS officer from Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones
- Maximilian Bercovicz, fictional character from Once Upon A Time In America
- Maximilian Boisvert, Victorian Princess from menswear store Greenwoods
- Maximilian Goof is Max Goof's full name in Disney TV and film franchises
- Maximilian Jenius, fictional character from Macross
- Maximilien Morrel, the son of shipbuilder Pierre Morrel, from Alexandre Dumas' adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo
- Maximillion Pegasus, fictional character on Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Maximilian Alanzo Ernesto Russo, also known as Max Russo, a character from Wizards of Waverly Place
- Maximilian Veers, Imperial general who led the assault on Echo Base in The Empire Strikes Back
- Maximilian (Maxie) Zeus, villain in Batman comic book series
- Tsar Maximilian, hero of the eponymous Russian folk-play
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Max Verstappen crowned Formula One world champion . . 7 October 2023 .
