Maxwell

Maxwell most commonly refers to the mathematician and physicist named James Clerk Maxwell.

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 Jacob Friedman (born 1996), American professional wrestler
• 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 rap 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, Grey County, Ontario
  • Maxwell, Hastings County, Ontario
• 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