Maximilian

Monarchs

• Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
• Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527-1576)
• Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573-1651)
• Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726)
• Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727-1777)
• Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756-1825)
• Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811-1864)
• Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929)
• Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808-1888)
• Maximilian I of Mexico (1832-1867)

Other royalty

• Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759-1838)
• Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933-2022)

Saints

• Maximilian of Lorch (died 288), Roman bishop, missionary and martyr
• Maximilian of Tebessa (274-295), Roman martyr
• Maximilian of Antioch (died c. 353), Christian martyr
• Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and martyr

Sportspeople

• Max Aarons (born 2000), English footballer
• Maximilian Abel (born 1982), professional tennis player from Germany
• Maximilian Ahlschwede (born 1990), German former professional footballer
• Maximilian Arfsten (born 2001), American professional soccer player
• Maximilian Arndt (born 1987), German bobsledder
• Maximilian Arnold (born 1994), German professional footballer
• Maximilian "Max" Baer (Maximilian Adelbert Baer), (1909-1959), American boxer and heavyweight champion
• Maximilian Bauer, multiple people
• Maximilian Beier (born 2002), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Beister (born 1990), German footballer
• Maximilian Benassi, Italian sprint canoeist
• Maximilian Beyer (born 1993), German racing cyclist
• Maximilian Brandl (born 1997), German cross-country mountain biker
• Maximilian Braune (born 2003), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Breunig (born 2000), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Buhk (born 1992), retired German racing driver
• Maximilian "Max" Chilton (born 1991), Indycar driver
• Maximilian Dallinger (born 1996), German sport shooter
• Maximilian Dietz (born 2002), American professional soccer player
• Maximilian Dimitrovici (born 1989), German ice hockey player
• Maximilian Dittgen (born 1995), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Dörnbach (born 1995), German track cyclist
• Maximilien Drion (born 1997), Belgian ski mountaineer
• Maximilian Drum (born 1991), German footballer
• Maximilian Eggestein (born 1996), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Engl (born 1997), German professional footballer
• Maximilian Entrup (born 1997), Austrian professional footballer
• Maximilian Ferrari (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
• Maximilian Forster (born 1990), German professional ice hockey player
• Maximilian Jäger (born 2000), German para-cyclist
• Maximilian Heidegger (born 1997), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Maximilian Günther (born 1997), German Formula E driver
• Maximilian Levy (born 1987), German track cyclist
• Maximilian Maeder (born 2006), Singaporean kitesurfer
• Maximilian Mang (born 2000), German-American football player
• Maximilian Mbaeva (born 1989), Namibian footballer
• Maximilian Ruth (born 1994), German athlete
• Maximilian Senft (born 1989), Austrian football manager, former footballer, and poker player
• Maximillian "Max" Schmeling (1905-2005), German boxer and heavyweight champion
• Max Emilian Verstappen (born 1997), Formula 1 driver and four time world champion

Academics and Scholars

• Maximilian Balzan (1637-1711), Maltese mediaeval philosopher who specialised mainly in physics and art
• Maximilian Berlitz (1852-1921), linguist and founder of the Berlitz Language Schools
• Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), Swiss physician and pioneer nutritionist
• Maximilian Braun (1850-1930), German anatomist and zoologist who specialized in the field of parasitology
• Maximilian Consbruch (1866-1927), German West Prussian classical philologist and gymnasium principal, known for his studies of Greek lyric and the work of Hephaestion
• Maximilian Curtze (1837-1903), German mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Maximilian Fichtner (born 1961), professor for Solid State Chemistry at the Ulm University and executive director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU)
• Maximilian Fischer (1929-2019), Austrian entomologist and a specialist on parasitic wasps
• Maximilian Forte, professor of anthropology at the Concordia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Maximilian Hacman (1877-1961), Romanian academic
• Maximilian Emil Hehl (1861-1916), German engineer and architect active in Brazil
• Maximilian Nitze (1848-1906), German urologist
• Max C. Starkloff (1858-1942), American physician and Health Commissioner for St. Louis, Missouri
• Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist, historian, jurist, political economist
• Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke (1820-1906), German entomologist

Arts

• Maximilian Arland (born 1981), German television presenter and singer
• Max Baer Jr. (Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr, born 1937), American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
• Maximilian Bern (1849-1923), German writer and editor
• Maximilien "Max" Boublil (born 1979), French actor and singer
• Maximillian "Max" Brooks (born 1972), American author
• Maximilian Brückner (born 1979), German actor
• Maximilian Cercha (1818-1907), Polish painter and drawer
• Maximilian Colt, Flemish sculptor who settled in England and eventually rose to become the King's Master Carver
• Maximilian (1936-2020), stage name of American musician Maxfield Crook
• Maximilian Dasio (1865-1954), German painter and medal engraver
• Maximilian Davis (born 1995), British fashion designer
• Maximilian Dimoff (born 1968), principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra
• Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert (born 1974), composer and violinist
• Maximilian Schell (1930-2014), Austrian-born Swiss actor
• Maximilian von Sevenborg (c. 1490, c. 1538), author

Other people

• Maximilian Aichern (1932-2026), Austrian Roman Catholic bishop
• Maximilian Apfelbaum (d. 1953), Polish-born furrier who co-founded the New York furriers Maximilian
• Maximilian Bathon (born 1991), German politician
• Maximilian F. Bonzano (1821-1894), German-born American government official, politician, and physician
• Maximilian Büsser, Swiss businessman and founder of the watch brand MB&F
• Maximilian Dood (born 1983), American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
• Max Fosh (born 1995), British YouTuber and comedian
• Maximilian Gludau (born 1998), German politician
• Maximilian Grabner (1905-1948), Austrian Nazi Gestapo chief in Auschwitz executed for crimes against humanity
• Maximilian von Jaunez (1873-1947), French-German industrialist and politician
• Maximilian List (1910, c. 1980), German SS concentration camp commandant
• Maximilian Menton (born 1995), German politician
• Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), politician in the French Revolution
• Maximilian Ronge (1874-1953), Austrian intelligence officer
• Maximilian Schirmer (born 1990), German politician
• Maximilian von Weichs (1881-1954), German field marshal

Fictional characters

• Maximillian, robot from the 1979 Disney motion picture The Black Hole
• Maximillian Arturo, a character from the television series Sliders
• Maximillian Papandrious, the Greek student in Mind Your Language, played by Kevork Malikyan
• Maximilian Jenius, fictional character from Macross
• Maximillion Pegasus, fictional character on Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Maximilian Veers, Imperial general who led the assault on Echo Base in The Empire Strikes Back
• Maximilian (Maxie) Zeus, villain in Batman comic book series
• Tsar Maximilian, hero of the eponymous Russian folk-play