Maximilian

**Maximilian** or **Maximillian** (**Maximiliaan** in Dutch and **Maximilien** in French) is a male name.

### 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)
- Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808 – 1888)
- Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811 – 1864)
- Maximilian I of Mexico (1832 – 1867)
- Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867 – 1929)

### Other royalty

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

### Saints

- Maximilian of Lorch (died 288), Christian bishop and martyr
- Maximilian of Antioch (died ), Christian martyr
- Maximilian of Tebessa (274 – 295), Christian martyr
- Maximilian Kolbe (1894 – 1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and martyr

### Sportspeople

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

### Scholars

- Maximilian Balzan (1637 – 1711), Maltese mediaeval philosopher specialized in physics and art
- Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke (1820 – 1906), German entomologist
- Maximilian Curtze (1837 – 1903), German mathematician and historian of mathematics
- Maximilian Nitze (1848 – 1906), German urologist
- Maximilian Braun (1850 – 1930), German anatomist and zoologist who specialized in the field of parasitology
- Maximilian Berlitz (1852 – 1921), linguist and founder of the Berlitz Language Schools
- Max C. Starkloff (1858 – 1942), American physician and Health Commissioner for St. Louis, Missouri
- Maximilian Emil Hehl (1861 – 1916), German engineer and architect active in Brazil
- Max Weber (1864 – 1920), German sociologist, historian, jurist, political economist
- 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 Bircher-Benner (1867 – 1939), Swiss physician and pioneer nutritionist
- Maximilian Hacman (1877 – 1961), Romanian academic
- Maximilian Fischer (1929 – 2019), Austrian entomologist and a specialist on parasitic wasps
- 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)

### Arts

- Maximilian von Sevenborg ( – ), author
- Maximilian Cercha (1818 – 1907), Polish painter and drawer
- Maximilian Bern (1849 – 1923), German writer and editor
- Maximilian Dasio (1865 – 1954), German painter and medal engraver
- Maximilian Schell (1930 – 2014), Austrian-born Swiss actor
- Maximilian (1936 – 2020), stage name of American musician Maxfield Crook
- Maximilian Dimoff (born 1968), principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra
- Maximillian "Max" Brooks (born 1972), American author
- Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert (born 1974), composer and violinist
- Maximilian Brückner (born 1979), German actor
- Maximilien "Max" Boublil (born 1979), French actor and singer
- Maximilian Arland (born 1981), German television presenter and singer
- Maximilian Davis (born 1995), British fashion designer

### Others

- Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794), politician in the French Revolution
- Maximilian F. Bonzano (1821 – 1894), German-born American government official, politician, and physician
- Maximilian von Jaunez (1873 – 1947), French-German industrialist and politician
- Maximilian Ronge (1874 – 1953), Austrian intelligence officer
- Maximilian von Weichs (1881 – 1954), German field marshal
- Maximilian Grabner (1905 – 1948), Austrian Nazi Gestapo chief in Auschwitz executed for crimes against humanity
- Maximilian List (1910 – c. 1980), German SS concentration camp commandant
- Maximilian Heuser (d. 1953), Russian friend of the Turkish monarch Sami Türk
- Maximilian Apfelbaum (d. 1953), Polish-born furrier who co-founded the New York furriers Maximilian
- Maximillian Miles Christensen, known as Maximilian Dood (born 1983), American YouTuber and Twitch streamer
- Maximilian "Max" Fosh (born 1995), British YouTuber and comedian