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Max, originally an abbreviation of "Maximilian" may refer to:

Surname

Adolphe Max
Adolphe Max
Adolphe Eugène Jean Henri Max was a Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death....

, Belgian politician
Gabriel von Max
Gabriel von Max
Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter.He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of Czech sculptor Joseph Max and Anna Schumann. He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth...

, Austrian painter
Peter Max
Peter Max
Peter Max is a German-born Jewish American artist. At first, works in this style appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across America. Max then became fascinated with new printing techniques that allowed for four-color reproduction on product merchandise...

, American artist
Tucker Max
Tucker Max
Tucker Max is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it for a bet in 2002, making him an Internet celebrity.Max's book I Hope They...

, American author

Fictional characters

Max (24 character), a character from the second season of 24 and 24: The Game
Max and Moritz
Max and Moritz
Max and Moritz is a German language illustrated story in verse. This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865...

, a German language illustrated story in verse
Max, a character from the Bomberman series of computer and video games
Max (Comet Man)
Max (Comet Man)
Max is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. He is an alien, a member of the extraterrestrial race known as the Fortisquains, created by the Beyonders.-Publication history:...

, a Marvel Comics character
Max, the nickname of The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe in the new series of Doctor Who
Max Branning
Max Branning
Max Branning is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Jake Wood. He made his first appearance on 27 June 2006.-Backstory:Max is the fifth child and second son of Jim and Reenie Branning...

, a character from EastEnders.
Max (Flight of the Navigator), a spaceship from Flight of the Navigator
Max Goof
Max Goof
Max Goof is a fictional character who is the teenage son of the popular Disney character Goofy. He first appeared in the 1992 television series Goof Troop...

, the son of Disney character Goofy
Max Guevara
Max Guevara
Max Guevara is a fictional television character and protagonist in the cyberpunk science fiction television program Dark Angel. She is portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child...

, a character from Dark Angel
Max Headroom (character)
Max Headroom (character)
Max Headroom is a fictional British artificial intelligence, known for his wit and stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled voice. The character was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton in the mid nineteen eighties, and portrayed by Matt Frewer as "The World's first...

, a 1980s television personality
Max Heiliger
Max Heiliger
Max Heiliger was a fictional name created during the Nazi era under authority of Reichsbank president Walther Funk in a secret arrangement with S.S. leader Himmler; the false identity was used to establish bank accounts to launder valuables stolen from those killed in the Nazi system of...

, identity created by top Nazi German banking officials for laundering valuables taken from Holocaust victims
Maxxie Oliver
Maxxie Oliver
Maxxie Oliver is a fictional character in the British television series Skins. He is portrayed by actor Mitch Hewer.-Characterisation:Maxxie is portrayed as proficient at several styles of dance, including tap dance. He is also shown as being a brilliant artist, seductive, well-liked and...

, a character from Skins
Max (Pokémon), a character in the Pokémon anime
Max, The Grinch's dog from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and its adaptations.
Max Rebo, a Star Wars character
Max Rockatansky
Max Rockatansky
"Mad" Max Rockatansky, sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior and The Man with No Name, is the main character from director George Miller's Mad Max franchise, appearing in the films Mad Max, Mad Max 2, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome...

, the main character from the Mad Max films
Max Russo
Max Russo
Maximilian Alanzo Ernesto "Max" Russo is a fictional character on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, portrayed by Jake T. Austin...

, The youngest sibling in The Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place
Max, a "hyperkinetic rabbity thing", one of the two main characters in the comic series Sam & Max
Max Tate
Max Tate
Max Tate is a fictional character in the popular manga and anime series of Beyblade....

, a character from the anime/manga series Beyblade
Max Zorin
Max Zorin
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Academy Award winner Christopher Walken...

, the central antagonist in the James Bond film A View To A Kill
Max Tennyson, a character from Ben 10
Montana Max
Montana Max
Montana "Monty" Master Max is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. He is one of the main characters on the show. and also one of the main antagonists of the show. Monty is voiced by Danny Cooksey. Montana Max is a young, brown haired, male...

, a Tiny Toons Adventures character
Montana Max (Hellsing)
Montana Max (Hellsing)
The Major is a character in the manga and OVA series Hellsing. He is the main antagonist of the series and is the leader of Millennium. He's voiced in Japanese by Nobuo Tobita, and in English by Gildart Jackson...

, an anime character
Ultraman Max
Ultraman Max
was an Ultraman TV series which started airing on 7 July 2005, and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.. The show tried to return to the true formula of new monsters every week and being a fast paced show like previous series with the exception of Ultraman Nexus...

, the main character from the titular film
Max, a commanding officer in the Advance Wars
Advance Wars
Advance Wars, known in Japan as is a turn-based tactics video game developed for the Game Boy Advance by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on September 10, 2001, but put on hold in Japan and Europe due to the following day's terrorist attacks in the USA...

video games
Max, the co-star of the Max & Ruby, animated series
Max, the boy in Where the Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 , a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film...

by Maurice Sendak
Max, a character in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine
Maximum Ride, the main character of the Maximum Ride book series by James Patterson

Computers, software, and games

3ds Max, a computer program for the development of 3-dimensional graphics and animation
Max (software)
Max (software)
Max is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. During its 20-year history, it has been widely used by composers, performers, software designers, researchers, and artists for creating innovative recordings,...

, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia
Commodore MAX Machine
Commodore MAX Machine
The Commodore MAX Machine, also known as Ultimax in the United States and VC-10 in Germany, was a home computer designed and sold by Commodore International in Japan, beginning in early 1982, a predecessor to the popular Commodore 64...

, a computer
Max Payne
Max Payne
Max Payne is a BAFTA Award–winning third-person shooter video game developed by Finnish developers Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. Ports created later in the year for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the GameBoy Advance were published by...

, a third-person shooter video game
MAX (Linux distribution)
MAX (Linux distribution)
MAX is a Linux distribution sponsored by the department of education of the autonomous community of Madrid. MAX stands for MAdrid LinuX. It was formerly based on Knoppix, while its last release, MAX 4.0, is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Since 2003 MAX has been installed on all the computers of the...

(Madrid linux), a government sponsored Ubuntu-based version of Linux in Spanish
Mechanized Assault & Exploration
Mechanized Assault & Exploration
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration is a turn-based strategy game released for DOS in 1996. The objective of the game is to colonize various alien planets by building eco-spheres for your colonists to live in and defending them against enemies...

, a computer game
Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions
Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions
The Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions or MAX are instruction set extensions to the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC instruction set architecture ....

, for HP PA-RISC
Max (ripping software), an audio ripper for Mac OS X
Dancing Stage Max
Dancing Stage Max
Dancing Stage Max, or Max, was released on November 25, 2005 by Konami to the Europeean PlayStation 2 gaming audience. Dancing Stage Max was modeled after Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 in America and Dance Dance Revolution Strike in Japan, containing the new Dance Master Mode and improved EyeToy...

, a game in the Dance Dance Revolution series
MAX, commonly used shorthand for DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix, a Japanese music video game
MAX, commonly used shorthand for DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution, a North American music video game

Places

In the United States:

Max, Indiana
Max, Indiana
Max is an unincorporated town in Jefferson Township, Boone County, Indiana....
Max, Nebraska
Max, Nebraska
Max is an unincorporated community in Dundy County, Nebraska, United States. Its elevation is 2,900 feet ....

, in Dundy County
Max, North Dakota
Max, North Dakota
As of the census of 2000, there were 278 people, 129 households, and 74 families residing in the city. The population density was 362.3 people per square mile . There were 150 housing units at an average density of 195.5 per square mile...

, in McLean County
Max Township, Minnesota
Max Township, Minnesota
Max Township is a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 156 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 34.2 square miles , of which, 28.7 square miles of it is land and 5.5 square...

, in Itasca County

Transportation

MAX Light Rail (an acronym for Metropolitan Area Express), a light rail system serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
MAX (UTA)
MAX (UTA)
Max is the name of a bus rapid transit line operated by Utah Transit Authority that opened on July 14, 2008. Max has service improvements that differ from regular bus service, such as signal priority, increased spacing between stops, high frequency service and improved stops...

, a rapid transit bus line in Salt Lake County, Utah
Metropolitan Area Express BRT Line
Metropolitan Area Express BRT Line
The Metropolitan Area Express, or MAX, is a bus rapid transit line owned by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and operated by Veolia Transportation. MAX began operations on June 30, 2004...

(MAX), a bus rapid transit system in Las Vegas, Nevada
Modesto Area Express
Modesto Area Express
Modesto Area Express, better known by the acronym MAX, is the primary bus agency for Modesto, a Northern California city with over 200,000 inhabitants...

, a transit agency serving Modesto, California
The E1 Series Shinkansen
E1 Series Shinkansen
The is a Shinkansen high-speed train type operated by East Japan Railway Company in Japan since 1994. They were the first double-deck trains built for Japan's Shinkansen...

and E4 Series Shinkansen
E4 Series Shinkansen
The is a high-speed shinkansen train type operated by East Japan Railway Company in Japan. They were the second series of completely bi-level Shinkansen trainsets to be built in Japan . They operate on the Tōhoku and Jōetsu Shinkansen, and occasionally on the Nagano Shinkansen...

double-decker Shinkansen trains in Japan

Media, arts and entertainment

Cinemax
Cinemax
Cinemax, sometimes abbreviated as simply "Max", is a collection of premium television networks that broadcasts primarily feature films, along with softcore erotica, original action series, documentaries and special behind-the-scenes features. Cinemax is operated by Home Box Office, Inc., a...

(unofficially known as Max), an American premium television network
MAX (band)
MAX (band)
MAX whose name is an acronym for "Musical Active eXperience" is an Okinawan vocal group popular in Japan. The original members of MAX made their musical debut as members of the Super Monkey's along with lead vocalist, Namie Amuro...

, a Japanese vocal group
MAX (comics)
MAX (comics)
MAX is an imprint of Marvel Comics aimed at a niche 'adults only' audience, launched in 2001 after Marvel broke with the Comics Code Authority and established its own rating system...

, a Marvel imprint
Max (film)
Max (film)
Max is a 2002 British/Hungarian/Canadian fictional drama film, that depicts a friendship between a Jewish art dealer, Max Rothman, and a young Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler...

, a semi-historical film portraying Adolf Hitler after his military discharge at the end of World War I
MAX, a Spanish theatre
Culture of Spain
The culture of Spain is based on a variety of influences.The Visigothic Kingdom left a sense of a united Christian Hispania that was going to be welded in the Reconquista. Muslim influences were strong during the period of 711 AD to the 15th century, especially linguistically...

award
"Max" (The X-Files)
Max (The X-Files)
"Max" is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of television series The X-Files. As Mulder and Scully's investigation of the apparent downing of Flight 549 by a UFO continues, they encounter deadly opposition from the military which continues to cover up the truth of the incident.- Plot...

, an episode of The X-Files
"Max", a 1978 episode of The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is an American television series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired for three seasons between 1976 and 1978 as a spin off from The Six Million Dollar Man. Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident. Sommers' life is saved by Oscar Goldman ...
Omroep MAX
Omroep MAX
Omroep MAX is a broadcast station in the Netherlands. The focus of MAX is on people with an age of 50 years and older. MAX is broadcasted on Nederland 1 and Nederland 2....

, a television broadcasting station in the Netherlands
Max, album by The Rumour
The Rumour
The Rumour were a British rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, whose early records were credited to Graham Parker & The Rumour...

(1977)
Max FM
Max FM
Max FM was a dance radio station in the UK broadcasting from Stoke on Trent. Max FM came back on air in 2008 and is streams continuously in MP3 and aacPlus on Shoutcast and Icecast from its studios in Staffordshire, its owned by Ashley Scrivens also known as "DJ Scrivo", Max FM is operated by MMG...

, a UK radio station
MAX (Channel), an Australian pay TV channel
MAX (TV channel)
MAX (TV channel)
MAX is a Norwegian television channel designed for a mostly male audience.The first program on MAX was the movie Wild Hogs, followed by the premiere of Breaking Bad...

, a Norwegian TV channel
"Max" series, a collection of songs following the same theme from the music video game series Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the...
Max (Howard Fast novel), a novel by Howard Fast
MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel
MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel
MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel is the fifth book in the Maximum Ride series, written by James Patterson. The book was released on March 16, 2009. MAX was published by Little, Brown and Company.-Plot:...

, the fifth book in the Maximum Ride book series by James Patterson

Science and technology

Max, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Maxillaria
Maxillaria
Maxillaria, abbreviated as Max in horticultural trade, is a large genus of orchids . This is a diverse genus, with very different morphological forms. Their characteristics can vary widely....
MAX (gene)
MAX (gene)
Protein max also known as myc-associated factor X is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAX gene.- Function :Protein max is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper family of transcription factors. It is able to form homodimers and heterodimers with other family members, which...

, a human gene
Max, an abbreviation for either maximal element, greatest element, or extreme value in mathematics; see Maxima and minima
Maxima and minima
In mathematics, the maximum and minimum of a function, known collectively as extrema , are the largest and smallest value that the function takes at a point either within a given neighborhood or on the function domain in its entirety .More generally, the...

Other

Max (book)
Max (book)
Max is a children's book by Bob Graham. In 2000 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award....

, a children's book by Bob Graham
Max (cigarette)
Max (cigarette)
Max, introduced in 1975, was a brand of 120mm cigarettes produced by the Lorillard Tobacco Company of Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. The brand was discontinued in summer 2010....

, a brand of cigarettes made by Lorillard Tobacco Company
Max (pig), the pet pig of George Clooney
Max Hamburgers
Max Hamburgers
Max Hamburgerrestauranger AB is a fast food corporation which was founded by Curt Bergfors in Gällivare, Sweden in 1968...

, a fast-food corporation
Lotto Max
Lotto Max
Lotto Max is a Canadian lottery game that began sales on September 19, 2009. The first set of winning numbers were drawn on September 25, 2009, and subsequent draws have been held every Friday. It replaced Lotto Super 7 in September 2009....

, a Canadian national lottery game
"Max", pen name of Catalan ligne claire cartoonist Francesc Capdevila Gisbert

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