Maxine

Not to be confused with Maxime.

Maxine may refer to:

People

• Maxene Andrews (1916–1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio
• Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress
• Maxine Brown (country singer) (1932-2019), American country music singer
• Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer
• Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
• Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters)
• Maxine Dexter (1972), American politician
• Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), American actress
• Maxine Fassberg (born 1953), CEO, Intel Israel
• Maxine Fleming, New Zealand television screenwriter and producer
• Maxine Funke, New Zealand singer-songwriter
• Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita
• Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author
• Maxine Mawhinney (born 1957), newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel
• Maxine McKew (born 1953), Australian politician and journalist
• Maxine Medina (born 1990), Filipino model, beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Universe Philippines 2016, and top 6 Miss Universe 2016
• Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer
• Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress
• Maxine Reiner (1916–2003), American actress
• Maxine Sanders (born 1946), British Wiccan
• Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer
• Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, born 1938), American politician
• Maxine (wrestler) (born 1986), stage name of American former professional wrestler, model, and former WWE Diva Karlee Pérez

Fictional characters

• Maxine Baker, daughter of Animal Man (Buddy Baker) in DC Comics
• Maxine Barlow, from the British drama series Waterloo Road
• Max Caulfield, or Maxine, main character in the video game Life Is Strange
• Maxine Chadway, from the television series Soul Food
• Maxine Conway, from the Australian drama series, Wentworth
• Maxine Gray, from the American television series, Judging Amy
• Maxine Guevara, main character of the American TV series Dark Angel
• Maxine Mayfield, "Max" or "Madmax", on the Netflix series Stranger Things
• Maxine Minniver, from the British soap opera, Hollyoaks
• Maxine Minx, a main protagonist of the X and MaXXXine
• Maxine Peacock, from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
• Maxine Shaw, from the American television sitcom Living Single
• Maxine Tarnow, main character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge

Media

Music

• "Maxine" (Sharon O'Neill song), a song from Sharon O'Neill
• "Maxine", a 2007 reissue bonus track on the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
• "Maxine", a song by John Legend from the album Once Again
• "Maxine", a song by Donald Fagen from the album The Nightfly
• "Maxine", a 1996 rap song by Eminem from the album Infinite

Television

• Maxine (TV series), 2022 drama based on the story of Maxine Carr's involvement in the Soham murders

Places

• Maxine, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Other uses

• 3977 Maxine, an asteroid, see List of minor planets: 3001–4000
• Maxine Virtual Machine, an open source Java virtual machine

See also

• Max (disambiguation)
• Maximilian
• Maximus (disambiguation)
• Maxine (given name)