Maxwell is a masculine given name. It is of English and Scottish origin, meaning "From Mack's Spring". The name originates as a place name from a location on the River Tweed in Scotland and first recorded in 1144 CE, spelled Mackeswell.

People with this given name

A Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer Maxwell Aitken (disambiguation) Maxwell Akora, Ugandan politician Maxwell Amponsah, Ghanaian boxer Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and writer Maxwell L. Anderson, American art historian and museum director Maxwell Anikwenwa, Nigerian Anglican bishop Maxwell Ariston Burgess, Bermudian politician Maxwell Armfield, English painter Maxwell Arnow, American film producer Maxwell Arthur, Ghanaian footballer Maxwell Atoms, American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor Maxwell Ayrton, British architect

B Maxwell Baakoh, Ivorian footballer Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and artist Maxwell Becton, American industrialist and businessman Maxwell Blacker, English cricketer and clergyman Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist Maxwell Bolus, South African cricketer Maxwell Brander, British Army general Maxwell Struthers Burt, American novelist, poet, and writer Maxwell Bury, British architect Maxwell Button, Canadian civil servant and politician

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Maxwell Carpendale, Irish Rugby Union player

Maxwell Caulfield, British actor Maxwell Charles, American actor Maxwell Close, Irish politician Maxwell Combes, Australian cricketeer Maxwell Confait, Seychellois-English murder victim Maxwell Frederic Coplan, American photographer Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor Maxwell Craig, minister of the Church of Scotland Maxwell Cummings, Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist

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Maxwell Dal Santo, Australian weightlifter Maxwell Dane, American executive and co-founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach Maxwell Davis, American saxophonist, bandleader, and record producer Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Maxwell Deacon, Canadian ice hockey player Maxwell Dent, American online streamer, record producer, and rapper Maxwell DeMay, author Maxwell Dlamini, Swazi activist Maxwell Dube, Zimbabwean footballer Maxwell Dunn, Australian writer and radio producer

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Maxwell Chimezie Egwuatu, Nigerian footballer Maxwell Eley, British rower Maxwell Evarts, American lawyer and politician Maxwell Exsted, American tennis player

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Maxwell Fernie, New Zealand musician Maxwell Findlay, Scottish WWI flying ace Maxwell Finland, American scientist and medical researcher Maxwell Jacob Friedman, American wrestler Maxwell Frost, American activist and politician Maxwell Fry, English architect, writer and painter Maxwell J. Fry, expert in development finance

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Maxwell Gamble, Australian rower Maxwell Garnett, English educationist, barrister, peace campaigner and physicist Maxwell Garthshore, Scottish physician Maxwell Garvie, Scottish murder victim Maxwell M. Geffen, American publisher Maxwell Geismar, American writer Maxwell Henry Gluck, American diplomat and businessman Maxwell K. Goldstein, American scientist Maxwell Gray, English novelist and poet Maxwell Griffin, American soccer player Maxwell Gregory, Archdeacon of Singapore Maxwell Gruver, American who died from hazing Maxwell Gyamfi, German footballer

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Maxwell Hairston (born 2003), American football player Maxwell Hall, British colonial administrator, judge and author Maxwell S. Harris, American lawyer and politician Maxwell Hendler, American painter Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player Maxwell Hunter, American aerospace engineer Maxwell Hutchinson, English architect, broadcaster, and Anglican deacon

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Maxwell Irvine, British theoretical physicist and university administrator Maxwell Itoya, Nigerian immigrant killed

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Maxwell Ralph Jacobs, Australian forester Maxwell Jenkins, American actor Maxwell Joseph, British founder of Grand Metropolitan plc Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Ghanaian politician

K

Maxwell Karger, American producer Maxwell Khobr, Nigerian general Maxwell Knight, British spymaster, naturalist and broadcaster Maxwell Konadu, Ghanaian association football player and manager

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Maxwell G. Lee, English educator and activist

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, English painter Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Canadian actor and musician Maxwell Kwame Lukutor, Ghanaian politician

M

Maxwell, American singer Maxwell, Brazilian footballer Maxwell (born 1989), Brazilian footballer Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson, British naval officer, barrister and judge Maxwell Maltz, American cosmetic surgeon Maxwell Mavhunga, Zimbabwean politician Maxwell Mays, American painter Maxwell McCombs, American journalism scholar Maxwell Meighen, Canadian financier Maxwell Mensah, Ghanaian footballer Maxwell Miller, Australian politician Maxwell Mittelman, American voice actor Maxwell Mlilo, South African actor Maxwell Moss, South African politician Maxwell Murray, United States Army general Maxwell Mutanda, Zimbabwean artist and designer

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Maxwell Nagai, Ghanaian air force officer Maxwell Newton, Australian media publisher Maxwell Valentine Noronha, Indian Roman Catholic bishop Maxwell Nyamupanedengu, Zimbabwean footballer

O

Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Ghanaian economist

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Maxwell Perkins, American book editor Maxwell Powers, American voice actor

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Maxwell Abbey Quaye, Ghanaian footballer

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Maxwell Rayson, Australian cricketeer Maxwell Reed, Northern Irish actor Maxwell Rich, United States Army general Maxwell Richmond, New Zealand officer in the Royal Navy Maxwell Rosenlicht, American mathematician Maxwell C. Reece, micro-preemie born January 2015, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. At birth Maxwell weighed 1lb 5oz and was 21” long. Despite the low odds of 12% survival and 6-8% of walking and talking, Maxwell has defied the odds and has grown to be a very active, normal acting young man.

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Maxwell E. Seidman, American politician Maxwell Setton, British film producer Maxwell Shane, American film director Maxwell Shaw, British actor Maxwell Zeb Shumba, founding president of the Zimbabwe First Party Maxwell Sibiya, South African politician Maxwell Silva, Sri Lankan bishop Maxwell Simpson, Irish chemist Maxwell Stevens, American painter

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Maxwell D. Taylor, United States Army general Maxwell R. Thurman, United States Army general Maxwell Thurmond, American football coach

U

Maxwell Upson, American educationalist

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Maxwell Walters, Australian cricketeer and business executive Maxwell Ward, Australian cricketeer Maxwell Ward, housemate on Big Brother (British TV series) series 6 Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor, Irish peer and politician Maxwell Wintrobe, Austrian-American physician

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Fictional characters Maxwell Edison, in the Beatles song Maxwell's Silver Hammer Maxwell Smart, title character of the Get Smart comedy spy media franchise Maxwell Sheffield, character in American sitcom The Nanny Maxwell Lord, supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics Maxwell Greevey, character from American television police procedural and legal drama Law & Order Maxwell Dillon, one of two collective supervillains in American comic books published by Marvel Comics Maxwell Nerdstrom, character in the American television sitcom Saved by the Bell Maxwell Klinger, character from the American media franchise M*A*S*H

See also

Max (given name) Maxwell (surname)

References