# Maxine

Maxine or Maxene may refer to:

## People

* Maxene Andrews (1916–1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio
* Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress
* Maxine Brown (country singer) (1932–2019), American country music singer
* Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer
* Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
* Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters)
* Maxine Dexter (1972), American politician
* Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), American actress
* Maxine Fassberg (born 1953), CEO, Intel Israel
* Maxine Fleming, New Zealand television screenwriter and producer
* Maxine Funke, New Zealand singer-songwriter
* Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita
* Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author
* Maxine Mawhinney (born 1957), newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel
* Maxine McKew (born 1953), Australian politician and journalist
* Maxene Magalona (born 1986), Filipina actress
* Maxine Medina (born 1990), Filipino model, beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Universe Philippines 2016, and top 6 Miss Universe 2016
* Maxine Munt (1912–2000), American dancer, educator
* Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer
* Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress
* Maxine Reiner (1916–2003), American actress
* Maxine Sanders (born 1946), British Wiccan
* Maxine Seymour, Bahamian politician
* Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer
* Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, born 1938), American politician
* Maxine (wrestler) (born 1986), stage name of American former professional wrestler, model, and former WWE Diva Karlee Pérez

### Fictional characters

* Maxine Baker, daughter of Animal Man (Buddy Baker) in DC Comics
* Maxine Barlow, from the British drama series Waterloo Road
* Max Caulfield, or Maxine, main character in the video game Life Is Strange
* Maxine Chadway, from the television series Soul Food
* Maxine Conway, from the Australian drama series, Wentworth
* Maxine Gray, from the American television series, Judging Amy
* Maxine Guevara, main character of the American TV series Dark Angel
* Maxine Lund, character in Being John Malkovich
* Maxine Mayfield, "Max" or "Madmax", on the Netflix series Stranger Things
* Maxine Minniver, from the British soap opera, Hollyoaks
* Maxine Minx, a main protagonist of the X and MaXXXine
* Maxine Peacock, from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
* Maxine Shaw, from the American television sitcom Living Single
* Maxine Tarnow, main character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge

## Media
### Music

* "Maxine" (Sharon O'Neill song), a song from Sharon O'Neill
* "Maxine", a 2007 reissue bonus track on the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
* "Maxine", a song by John Legend from the album Once Again
* "Maxine", a song by Donald Fagen from the album The Nightfly
* "Maxine", a 1996 rap song by Eminem from the album Infinite

### Television

* Maxine (TV series), 2022 drama based on the story of Maxine Carr's involvement in the Soham murders

## Places

* Maxine, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

## Other uses

* 3977 Maxine, an asteroid, see List of minor planets: 3001–4000
* Maxine Virtual Machine, an open source Java virtual machine
* Nvidia Maxine, a suite of AI conferencing software