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People

Maxwell (surname) Maxwell is a Scottish surname, a habitational name derived from a location near Melrose, in Roxburghshire, Scotland. This name was first recorded in 1144, as ''Mackeswell'', meaning "Mack's spring (or stream)" (from the Old English ''well '). The ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name **

James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...

, mathematician and physicist *

Justice Maxwell (disambiguation) Justice Maxwell may refer to: * Augustus Maxwell (1820–1903), associate justice and chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court *Edwin Maxwell (attorney general) (1825-1903), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia *Evel ...

* Maxwell baronets, 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) Emaxwell Souza de Lima (born 11 February 1995), commonly known as Maxwell, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Guarani. Career On 11 March 2019, Maxwell joined Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as ...

, Brazilian forward *

Maxwell (musician) Gerald Maxwell Rivera (born May 23, 1973), known mononymously as Maxwell, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to prominence following the release of his debut studio album '' Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite'' ( ...

(born 1973), American R&B and neo-soul singer * Maxwell (rapper) (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 is a village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 312 at the 2010 census. History Maxwell was platted in 1894 after the Union Pacific Railroad was ...

* Maxwell, New Mexico * Maxwell, Texas *

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 ...

, 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). ''St ...

, Chicago, Illinois *

Maxwell Township (disambiguation) Maxwell Township may refer to the following townships in the United States: * Maxwell Township, Sangamon County, Illinois * Maxwell Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota Maxwell Township is a township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, Unit ...

Elsewhere

Maxwell, Ontario (disambiguation) Maxwell, Ontario can refer to: * Maxwell, Grey County, Ontario *Maxwell, Hastings County, Ontario Hastings Highlands is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the northernmost portion of Hastings County, the township had a ...

, multiple locations in Canada *

Maxwell MRT station Maxwell MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). Situated in the Downtown Core and Outram, Singapore along Neil Road, the station is near the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum ...

, in Singapore *

Maxwell Hill Bukit Larut is a hill resort in Malaysia located in the state of Perak, Malaysia, 10 kilometres southwest from Taiping. It was established under the direction of British colonists in 1884 as a place of observation for tin mining activity and ...

, in Perak, Malaysia *

Maxwelltown Maxwelltown ( gd, Ceann Drochaid, IPA: �kʰʲaun̴̪ˈt̪ɾɔxətʲ was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland ...

, Scotland *

Pākaraka Pākaraka, previously known as, Okehu, Maxwelltown, and most recently Maxwell, is a farming and lifestyle community west of Whanganui, on the North Island of New Zealand. Toponymy Local Māori knew the area as Pakaraka ("the pā where the k ...

, New Zealand, formerly known as Maxwell

In space

Maxwell (crater) Maxwell is a crater on the far side of the Moon named after the physicist James C. Maxwell. It lies in the southwestern part of the larger crater Richardson. The southern part of Maxwell is overlain in turn by the partly flooded Lomonosov. Le ...

, 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 ...

, a main-belt asteroid *

Maxwell Montes Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, of which a peak (Skadi Mons) is the highest point on the planet's surface. General description Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, Maxwell ...

, on Venus

Arts and entertainment

* ''Maxwell'' (film), a 2007 film about Robert Maxwell * ''Maxwell,'' an 1830 novel by

Theodore Hook Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1809. The w ...

* Maxwell the pig, in the GEICO commercials *Maxwell, the main protagonist of the '' Scribblenauts'' series * Maxwell, the antagonist then turned protagonist of the Don't Starve series

Businesses and organisations

* Maxwell Motor Company, an American automobile manufacturer 1904–1925 * Maxwell Technologies, an American developer and manufacturer * Maxwell School, 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 1 ...

, of Syracuse University, U.S. *

Maxwell International Bahá'í School Brookes Shawnigan Lake is an independent private boarding school located in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2009, originally under the name Dwight International School, it offers the International Baccalaureate diploma progra ...

, 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 New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York ...

, 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 ser ...

, 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 ...

, 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 The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the college football player judged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best ...

, presented by the Maxwell Football Club for the American football College Player of the Year