- an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one: the maxims of La Rochefoucauld.
- a principle or rule of conduct.
- U.S. inventor.
- English inventor, born in the U.S.: inventor of the Maxim gun.
- U.S. inventor and explosives expert (brother of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim).
- a male given name, form of Maximilian.
- a brief expression of a general truth, principle, or rule of conduct
- Sir Hiram Stevens. 1840–1916, British inventor of the first automatic machine gun (1884), born in the US
