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Maxwell is an Irish, Jewish, and Scottish surname. The Scottish name is a habitational name, derived from a location near Melrose, in Roxburghshire, Scotland. This name was first recorded in 1144, as Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's spring (or stream)" (from the Old English well[a].). The surname Maxwell is also common in Ulster; where it has, in some cases, been adopted as alternate form of the surname Miskell. The surname Maxwell is also used as a Jewish surname, either as an adoption of the Scottish name, or as an Americanization of one of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.^[1] The surname Maxwell is represented in Scottish Gaelic as MacSual.

People

• Andrew Maxwell (born 1974), Irish stand-up comedian
• Anna Maxwell (1851–1929), American nurse
• Augustus Maxwell (1820–1903), American politician
• Brian Maxwell (1953–2004), Canadian athlete and founder of PowerBar
• Carmen Maxwell (1902–1987), American animator
• Cedric Maxwell (born 1955), American basketball player
• Charlie Maxwell (born 1927), American baseball player
• Chenoa Maxwell (born 1969), American actress and photographer
• Col Maxwell (1917-2001), Australian rugby league footballer
• David Maxwell
  • David Maxwell (academic) (born 1944), American academic and university president
  • David Maxwell (rower) (born 1951), British rower
  • David Farrow Maxwell (born 1900), American lawyer, president of the American Bar Association
  • David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900–1967), British politician, jurist, and Lord Chancellor
• Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963), American gossip columnist and socialite
• Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969), British naturalist
• Gilbert Maxwell (1910–1979) American poet, actor, and author
• Graham Maxwell, American theologian
• Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham (1799–1868), Irish politician
• Hugh Maxwell (1787-1873), New York County District Attorney and Collector of the Port of New York
• James Maxwell
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist
  • James Maxwell (actor) (1929–1995), American actor
• John Maxwell
  • John Maxwell (artist) (1905–1962) Scottish artist and painter
  • John Maxwell (British Army officer) (1859–1929), British soldier and governor
  • John Maxwell (writer) (born 1944), American writer
  • John C. Maxwell (born 1947), American leadership coach and writer
• Joseph Maxwell (1896–1967), Australian soldier
• Kenneth R. Maxwell (born 1941) British historian
• Lily Maxwell, the first woman to vote in Britain (1867)
• Lois Maxwell (1927–2007), Canadian actress
• Marcus Maxwell (born 1983), American football player
• Marilyn Maxwell (1921–1972), American actress
• Maxwell Baronets, created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1627
• Maxwell Maxwell (born 1986), American glam-rock musician
• Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004), American religious leader
• Nicholas Maxwell (born1937), philosopher at UCL
• Robert Maxwell (disambiguation)
  • Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), Czechoslovakian-born British politician and newspaper tycoon
  • Robert Maxwell (songwriter) (born 1921), American harpist and songwriter
• Robin Maxwell (author) (born 1948), American writer
• Ronald F. Maxwell (born 1947), American film director and writer
• Russell Maxwell, American general
• Steamer Maxwell (1890–1975), Canadian ice hockey player
• Stephen Maxwell (born 1940), Scottish nationalist
• Stewart Maxwell (born 1963), Scottish politician
• Tony Maxwell, American drummer and choreographer
• Vernon Maxwell (born 1965), American basketball player
• William Maxwell (disambiguation)

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