Arts and Music

• Max D. Barnes
  • Two-time winner of the Country Music Association Song of the Year award, in 1989 and 1992 (see list of Country Music Association Award Winners)
• Max Beckmann (born 1884, died 1950)

  German painter.

  • Painted The Night (see list of Expressionist Artists)
• Max Bill (born 1908, died 1994)

  Swiss architect and graphic designer.

  • Co-founder of the College of Design in Ulm, West Germany (see list of Graphic Designers)
• Max Ernst (born 1891, died 1976)

  German Surrealist painter and sculptor.

  • Painted The Elephants of the Celebes (see list of 20th-century Modern Artists)
• Max Fleischer (born 1883, died 1972)

  American cartoonist.

  • Betty Boop; Popeye (see list of Cartoonists)
• Max Roach (born 1924)

  American jazz musician.

  • Bop drummer (see list of Critics' Picks for the Jazz Hall of Fame)

Miscellaneous

• Max M. Kampelman

  American lawyer, diplomat and arms-control expert

  • 1999 recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom (see list of Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners)
• Max Miller

  Comedian.

  • On the cover of Sgt. Pepper''s Lonely Hearts Club Band (see list of Faces on the Cover of ''Sergeant Pepper'')
• Max Yergan
  • 1933 Spingarn Medal winner (see list of Spingarn Medal Winners)

Science and Philosophy

• Max Born (born 1882, died 1970)

  British physicist known for his research in quantum mechanics.

  • 1954 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Walter Bothe (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Max Delbrück (born 1906, died 1981)

  German-American biologist.

  • Noted for his pioneering work in modern molecular genetics (see list of Biological Scientists)
  • 1969 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine, with Alfred Hershey and Salvador Luria (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)
• Max von Laue

  German physicist known for his work on the diffraction of X-rays.

  • 1914 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Max F. Perutz

  British scientist known for his studies of the structure of globular proteins.

  • 1962 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, with John Kendrew (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Max Planck (born 1858, died 1949)

  German physicist known for his major contributions to quantum theory.

  • 1918 Nobel Prize winner for physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Max Theiler (born 1899, died 1972)

  American physician who invented a vaccine for yellow fever.

  • 1951 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)
• Max Tishler
  • 1987 National Medal of Science winner (see list of National Medal of Science Winners)
• Max Weber (born 1864, died 1920)

  German sociologist.

  • Wrote Theory of Social and Economic Organization (see list of Miscellaneous Social Scientists)

Sports

• Max Baer
  • Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (see list of Old Timer inductees)
• Max Bentley

  Hockey player.

  • 1946 Hart Trophy winner (see list of Hart Trophy Winners)
  • 1946-47 Art Ross Trophy winner (see list of Art Ross Trophy Winners)
• Max Carey
  • Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1961 (see list of Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Max Dercum

  Skier.

  • Elected to the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame in 1980 (see list of Members of the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame)
• Max Euwe

  Dutch chess player.

  • 1935-37 World Chess champion (see list of World Chess Champions)
• Max Faulkner
  • 1951 British Open golf champion (see list of British Open Golf Champions)
• Max Friedman

  American basketball player.

  • Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1971 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Max Julen

  Swiss athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic alpine skiing gold medal winner for Giant Slalom (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Downhill Skiing)
• Max Schmeling (born 1905)

  German heavyweight boxer.

  • Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (see list of Modern inductees)

Stage and Screen

• Max Factor (died 1996)

  American makeup artist.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Max Holden

  Fictional character.

  • Character on the soap opera ''''One Life to Live'''' (see list of Characters on ''One Life to Live'')
• Max

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Jimmy McQuaid (see list of Characters in the film Mighty Aphrodite)
• Max

  Fictional character.

  • From ''''Capitol Critters'''' (see list of Cartoon characters)
• Max Steiner (born 1888, died 1971)

  Austrian composer and conductor who wrote the music for the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Max Desfor
  • 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography)
• Max Frankel
  • 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting)
• Max Kase
  • 1952 recipient of a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation (see list of Winners of a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation)