Maxime is a French given name that may refer to:

As a name

* Maxime Bernier (born 1963), former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs *

Maxime Bôcher Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as ''Trigonometry'' and ''Analytic Geometry''. ...

, American mathematician *

Maxime Boyer Maxime "Max" Boyer (born June 2, 1984) is a Canadians, Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, best known for his time in the Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara and International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) professional wrestl ...

, Canadian professional wrestler *

Maxime Du Camp Maxime Du Camp (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Biography Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to ...

, French writer and photographer *

Maxime Chaya Maxime Chaya ( ar, مكسيم شعيا) (born December 16, 1961) is a Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer and explorer. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge. On December 28, 2007, ...

, Lebanese explorer *

Maxime Cressy Maxime Cressy (born May 8, 1997) is a French-American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 31 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on August 8, 2022. He has been ranked as high as wo ...

, American tennis player *

Maxime Dupé Maxime Dupé (born 4 March 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Toulouse. Club career Dupé joined the youth system of Nantes in 2008 and signed his first professional contract with the club in the summe ...

, French footballer * Maxime Faget, an inventor * Maxime Le Forestier, French singer *

Maxime Médard Maxime Médard (born 16 November 1986) is a former French rugby union player who plays his club rugby for French club Stade Toulousain in Top 14 and France national rugby union team, France internationally. He can play as both a Rugby union posi ...

, French Rugby Union player * Maxime Minot (born 1987), French politician * Maxime Monfort, Belgian racing cyclist *

Maxime Partouche Maxime Partouche (born 5 June 1990) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and forward for Régional 1 club Boulogne-Billancourt. Club career Paris Saint-Germain Partouche began his career with his local club Vélizy ...

, French footballer, who currently plays for Paris Saint-Germain FC * Maxime Rodinson, French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist *

Maxime Rodriguez Maxime Rodriguez, born in Colombes, France, is a French composer. Many of his works, such as ''Esperanza'', ''Child of Nazareth'', and ''Tango Volver'', ''D'Artagnan'', ''Coeur Brave'', ''L'enfant pur'', have been used for figure skating programs ...

, French composer * Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player, who currently plays for the Colorado Avalanche *

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, Vachier-Lagrave is the seventh-highest r ...

, French

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

Grandmaster *

Maxime Verhagen Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (; born 14 September 1956) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and historian. Verhagen studied Contemporary history at the Leiden University obtaining a Master of Arts degre ...

, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs * Maxime Weygand, French military commander from World War I and World War II

In fiction

Olympe Maxime The following are supporting characters in the ''Harry Potter'' series written by J. K. Rowling. For members of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army, Hogwarts staff, Ministry of Magic, or for Death Eaters, see the respective articles. ...

, French and is the headmistress of Beauxbatons in the fictional world of

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

. * Maxime (film), a 1958 French film

Origins

Maxime was originally the Latin translation for "Maximus", "the greatest".

As a name

In fiction

Origins

See also