People
- Maxwell (musician) (born 1973), Grammy winning R&B/neo-soul singer
- Maxwell Cabelino Andrade (known as "Maxwell"), a Brazilian footballer who plays for French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), a Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician
- John Maxwell (Medal of Honor), American Medal of Honor recipient
- Murray Maxwell, a British Royal Navy officer
- Robert Maxwell, Czech-born media proprietor and former British MP
- W. Henry Maxwell (1935–2010), American politician, Virginia state legislator
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society’s business were making people instead of profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musician. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny’s life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn’t let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.”
—John Mauceri (b. 1945)