Maxwell
Maxwell most commonly refers to the mathematician and physicist named James Clerk Maxwell
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Maxwell may also refer to things named after him, including
- The unit named after him, of magnetic flux
- The Maxwell's Equations, a set of equations that attempted to describe electromagnetism before quantum physics
- The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, a telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Maxwell may also refer to:
People
Surname
- Maxwell (surname)
- James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician and physicist
- Justice Maxwell (disambiguation)
Given name
- Maxwell Caulfield (born 1959), British-American film, stage, and television actor
- Maxwell Henry Gluck (1899–1984), American businessman, diplomat, horse breeder and philanthropist
- Maxwell Kogon (1920–1980), Canadian bomber pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II
- Max Seibald (born 1987), American lacrosse player
- Maxwell Starkman (1921–2003), Canadian architect based in Los Angeles, California
Mononym
- Maxwell (footballer, born 1979), Brazilian forward
- Maxwell (footballer, born 1981), Brazilian left-back
- Maxwell (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian striker
- Maxwell (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian left-back
- Maxwell (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian forward
- Maxwell (musician) (born 1973), American R&B and neo-soul singer
- Maxwell (rapper) (born 1993), German rapper, member of rao band 187 Strassenbande
Places
United States
- Maxwell, California
- Maxwell, Indiana, in Hancock County
- Maxwell, Morgan County, Indiana
- Maxwell, Iowa
- Maxwell, Nebraska
- Maxwell, New Mexico
- Maxwell, Texas
- Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
- Maxwell Street, a Chicago, Illinois street famous for its blues music and black culture
Elsewhere
- Maxwell, Ontario (disambiguation), multiple locations in Canada
- Maxwell MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore
- Maxwell Hill, a hill in Perak, Malaysia (also known as Bukit Larut)
- Maxwelltown, Scotland, UK
- Pākaraka, New Zealand formally known as Maxwell
In space
- Maxwell (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
- 12760 Maxwell, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1993 at the European Southern Observatory
- Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain on Venus
Arts and entertainment
- Maxwell (film), a film about businessman Robert Maxwell
- Maxwell's, a music club in Hoboken, New Jersey
- Maxwell, an 1830 novel by Theodore Hook
Fictional characters
- Duo Maxwell, a pilot in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
- Enrico Maxwell, an archbishop in Hellsing
- Jane Maxwell, a character in Wild Arms 3
- Nicole "Nikki" Maxwell, the main character of the Dork Diaries book series
- Maxwell Edison, in the Beatles song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
- Maxwell, in the show Hamtaro
- Maxwell Q. Klinger, in the TV series M*A*S*H
- Maxwell Lord, a DC Comics businessman and villain
- Maxwell Sheffield, male lead of the TV sitcom The Nanny
- Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86, on the TV show Get Smart
- Maxwell, protagonist of the Scribblenauts video game series
- Maxwell, the antagonist of the video game Don't Starve
- Maxwell, the king of summon spirits in the video game Tales of Phantasia and other games in the series
- Peter Maxwell, a recurring character in season 8 of The Vampire Diaries
- Peter Maxwell, the protagonist of Clifford Simak's novel The Goblin Reservation
- Maxwell Tennyson, Ben and Gwen's grandfather in Ben 10
- Maxwell the pig, a recurring character in the GEICO commercials
- Electro (Marvel Comics) aka Maxwell Dillon, a Marvel Comics supervillain
Education
- Maxwell School, a Malaysian secondary school
- Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, a graduate school in Syracuse University
- Maxwell International Bahá'í School, Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- William H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School, Brooklyn, New York City
Science and technology
- Maxwell (microarchitecture), a graphics processor architecture developed by Nvidia
- Maxwell (unit), the cgs unit of magnetic flux
- Maxwell automobile, an early 20th-century brand of automobile
- Maxwell bridge, a circuit used to measure electrical inductance
- Maxwell's demon, a thought experiment created by physicist James Clerk Maxwell
- Maxwell's equations, describing the behavior of electric and magnetic fields
- Maxwell relation, a set of equations in thermodynamics
- Maxwell Render, 3D rendering engine software
- Maxwell Technologies, a producer of ultracapacitors, microelectronics, and high-voltage energy storage products
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, a submillimeter telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
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
- Maxwell House, a brand of coffee
- Maxwell House Hotel, formerly in Nashville, Tennessee
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