Maxwell may refer to:

People

* Maxwell (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician and physicist * Justice Maxwell (disambiguation) *

Maxwell baronets There have been several baronetcies created for persons with the surname Maxwell, all of them in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. Maxwell Baronets, of Calderwood (1627) *see Baron Farnham Maxwell Baronet, of Pollok (1630) *Sir John Maxwell, 1st B ...

, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia *

Maxwell (footballer, born 1979) Maxwell Santos Silva (born 23 April 1979), known as just Maxwell, is a Brazilian former football player, He played as a forward. He joined South China on 5 September 2007. On 28 December 2008, SCAA's Steven Lo said on his blog that Maxwell wil ...

, Brazilian forward *

Maxwell (footballer, born 1981) Maxwell Scherrer Cabelino Andrade (born 27 August 1981), known as Maxwell, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is currently employed by Paris Saint-Germain as assistant sporting director. Maxwell came thr ...

, Brazilian left-back *

Maxwell (footballer, born 1986) Max Suel da Cruz or MaxwellMax Suel da Cruz
at Soccerway (born October 29, 1986) is a Maxwell (footballer, born 1989) Maxwell Batista da Silva (born 23 October 1989), simply known as Maxwell, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a left back. Early in his career he was known as Jorbison (alleged full name Jorbison Reis dos Santos, allegedly born 30 December 19 ...

, Brazilian left-back * Maxwell (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian forward * Maxwell (musician) (born 1973), American R&B and neo-soul singer *

Maxwell (rapper) 187 Strassenbande (German for "187 streetgang") is a German hip hop and urban music formation joining a great number of German rappers mostly based in Hamburg formed in 2006. It is made up of Gzuz, Bonez MC, Maxwell, LX and Sa4, taggers and graf ...

(born 1993), German rapper, member of rap band 187 Strassenbande * Maxwell Jacob Friedman (born 1997) AEW Professional wrestler *

Maxwell Silva Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva was born on September 27, 1953 in Willorawatte, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Presently he is serving as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Colombo. Birth and childhood He was born into a devoted Roman Cath ...

(born 1953), Sri Lankan Sinhala Catholic cleric, Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo

Places

United States

Maxwell, California Maxwell (formerly, Occident) is a census-designated place and farm community in Colusa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 92 feet (28 m). Located off Interstate 5, it is home to Maxwell High School. The main crop grown is rice, though ...

* Maxwell, Indiana *

Maxwell, Iowa Maxwell is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 859 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area. ...

* Maxwell, Nebraska * Maxwell, New Mexico *

Maxwell, Texas Maxwell is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas, Caldwell County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, it had a population of 500 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolit ...

Maxwell Air Force Base Maxwell Air Force Base , officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. O ...

, Alabama *

Maxwell Street Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road. It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee (1988). '' ...

, Chicago, Illinois * Maxwell Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

* Maxwell, Ontario (disambiguation), multiple locations in Canada * Maxwell MRT station, in Singapore * Maxwell Hill, in Perak, Malaysia * Maxwelltown, Scotland * Pākaraka, New Zealand, formerly known as Maxwell

In space

* Maxwell (crater), on the Moon *

12760 Maxwell 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, a main-belt asteroid * Maxwell Montes, on Venus

Arts and entertainment

* ''Maxwell'' (film), a 2007 film about Robert Maxwell * ''Maxwell,'' an 1830 novel by Theodore Hook * Maxwell the pig, in the

GEICO commercials The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO ) is a private American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned ...

*Maxwell, the main protagonist of the ''

Scribblenauts ''Scribblenauts'' is a series of action puzzle video games primarily developed by 5th Cell. The series is owned and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The first game in the series was titled '' Scribblenauts'' and was first rel ...

'' series * Maxwell, the antagonist then turned protagonist of the

Don't Starve ''Don't Starve'' is a survival video game developed by the Canadian indie video game developer Klei Entertainment. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on April 23, 2013. A PlayStation 4 port, renamed ''Don't ...

series

Businesses and organisations

* Maxwell Motor Company, an American automobile manufacturer 1904–1925 *

Maxwell Technologies Maxwell Technologies Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer headquartered in San Diego, California. The company focuses on developing and manufacturing energy storage and power delivery products for automotive, heavy transportation, renew ...

, an American developer and manufacturer *

Maxwell School Maxwell School ( ms, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Maxwell) is an all-boys secondary school, located north of Kuala Lumpur. The school is believed to be the oldest school in north of Kuala Lumpur as well as one of the oldest in Kuala Lumpur and ...

, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Maxwell School) is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 13 ...

, of Syracuse University, U.S. * Maxwell International Bahá'í School, formerly in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada *

William H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School William H. Maxwell Career and Technical High School is a vocational high school in Brooklyn, New York. It lies on Pennsylvania Avenue in the upper half of the East New York East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section ...

, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. * Maxwell's, a bar/restaurant and music club in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.

Science and technology

Maxwell (microarchitecture) Maxwell is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Kepler microarchitecture. The Maxwell architecture was introduced in later models of the GeForce 700 series and is also used in the GeForce 800M serie ...

, a graphics processor architecture developed by Nvidia *

Maxwell (unit) The maxwell (symbol: Mx) is the CGS (centimetre–gram–second) unit of magnetic flux (). History The unit name honours James Clerk Maxwell, who presented a unified theory of electromagnetism. The ''maxwell'' was recommended as a CGS unit at t ...

, the cgs unit of magnetic flux * Maxwell Render, 3D rendering engine software

Other uses

* ''Maxwell'' (1804 ship), an American-built British merchant ship * Maxwell Award, presented by the Maxwell Football Club for the American football College Player of the Year