Maxime is a French given name that may refer to:
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Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier (; born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 t ...
(born 1963), former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
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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'' ...
(1867–1918), an American mathematician
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Maxime Boyer (born 1984), a Canadian professional wrestler
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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 ...
(1822–1894), a French writer and photographer
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Maxime Chaya (born 1961), a Lebanese explorer
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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 ATP, achieved on 8 August 2022. He has been ranked as high as world No. 64 in doubles, achieved on 8 M ...
(born 1997), an American tennis player
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Maxime Dupé
Maxime Dupé (born 4 March 1993) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for club OGC Nice, Nice.
Club career
Dupé joined the youth system of FC Nantes, Nantes in ...
(born 1993), a French footballer
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Maxime Faget
Maxime Allen "Max" Faget (pronounced ''fah-ZHAY''; August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer. Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as we ...
(1921–2004), an American mechanical engineer and
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Maxime Guyon
Maxime Guyon (born 7 May 1989 in Laval, Mayenne) is a French flat racing
Horse racing is an equestrianism, equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) ov ...
(born 1989), a French flat racing jockey
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Maxime Hordies (born 1996), Belgian para-cyclist
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Maxime Laisney (born 1981), a French politician
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Maxime Le Forestier
Maxime Le Forestier (; born 10 February 1949 as Bruno Le Forestier) is a French singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Bruno Le Forestier was born on 10 February 1949 in Paris to Robert Le Forestier and Genevieve (''née'' Lili 1917–2010), who had ...
(born 1949), a French singer
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Maxime Médard (born 1986), a French Rugby Union player
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Maxime Minot (born 1987), a French politician
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Maxime Monfort
Maxime Monfort (born 14 January 1983) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the , , , , and teams.
Monfort won a variety of races including the Tour de Luxembourg in 2004, t ...
(born 1983), a Belgian racing cyclist
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Maxime Partouche (born 1990), a French footballer
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Maxime Rodinson
Maxime Rodinson (; 26 January 191523 May 2004) was a French historian and sociologist. Ideologically a Marxist, Rodinson was a prominent authority in oriental studies. He was the son of a Russian- Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both ...
(1915–2004), a French historian, sociologist, Marxist, and orientalist
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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 ...
(born 1975), French composer
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Maxime Talbot (born 1984), a Canadian ice hockey player
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Chess Championship, World Blitz Champion. With a peak Elo rating system, ra ...
(born 1990), a French chess super-Grandmaster
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Maxime Valet (born 1978), a French wheelchair fencer
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Maxime Verhagen
Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (; born 14 September 1956) is a retired Dutch politician and historian. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2012 under Prime Ministe ...
(born 1956), former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, and historian
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Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand (; 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high ranking member of the Vichy France, Vichy regime.
Born in Belgium, Weygand was raised in France and educate ...
(1867–1965), a French military commander in World War I and World War II
Other
* ''Maximes'', a 1665 book by
François de La Rochefoucauld
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''Maxime'' (film), a 1958 French comedy film
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Olympe Maxime
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, the headmistress of the wizarding school Beauxbatons in the world of Harry Potter
* Maxime Le Mal, a supervillain played by Will Ferrell in the 2024 film ''
Despicable Me 4
''Despicable Me 4'' is a 2024 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal. The sequel to '' Despicable Me 3'' (2017), it is the fourth main installment and sixth overall entry in t ...
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Maxim (given name)
Maxim (more accurately spelled Maksim assuming that "X" is not a consonant, but the conjunction of "K" and "S" sounds; “Maksym”, or "Maxym") is an epicene (or gender-neutral) first name of Roman origin mainly given to males. It is adopted in ...
, a male first name of Roman origin, and relatively common in Slavic language speaking countries
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Maxim (disambiguation)
Maxim or Maksim may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Maxim'' (magazine), an international men's magazine
** ''Maxim'' (Australia), the Australian edition
** ''Maxim'' (India), the Indian edition
* Maxim Radio, ''Maxim'' magazine's radio channel on Si ...
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Maximus
Maximus (Hellenised as Maximos) is the Latin term for "greatest" or "largest". In this connection it may refer to:
* Circus Maximus (disambiguation)
* Pontifex maximus, the highest priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome
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Massimo
Massimo () is a masculine Italian given name.
Notable people with the name include:
* Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss-based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist
* Massimo Agostini (born 1964), Italian football man ...
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