People
- Maximo Blanco (born 1983), Venezuelan professional Mixed Martial Artist
- Máximo Gómez (1836–1905), military commander of the Cuba independence campaign
- Maximo V. Lorenzo (born 1982), comic artist.
- Máximo Macapobre, Filipino activist and the founder of Toledo City, Philippines
- Máximo Tajes (1852–1912), Uruguay president
- Máximo Rigondeaux (born 1976), Cuban javelin thrower
- Máximo Santos (1847–1889), Uruguay president
- Maximo V. Soliven, Filipino journalist
- Joel and Jose Maximo, a wrestling tag team known as The S.A.T.
- Maximo (wrestler) (born 1980), ring name of Mexican wrestler José Christian Nieves Ruiz
- Maximos the Confessor, one of the fathers of the Orthodox Church
- Maximo Yabes (1932–1967), born in Lodi, California, was a United States Army soldier
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