Maxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, science fiction and rock music writer and critic.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko, better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov, is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist.

Maxim Karlovich Kantor, is a Russian painter, writer, essayist and art historian.

Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky was a Russian and Soviet doctor, close clinician, founder of the school of internal medicine clinic.

Maksim Kononenko is an ex journalist, writer, TV show host, and political activist.

Maxim Leonidovich Leonidov is a Soviet and Russian musician, singer, actor, songwriter and TV presenter. He is known as one of the founders and members of the beat-quartet Sekret, and subsequently as a solo artist. In 1997, he won the Golden Gramophone Award.

Maxim Mikhailovich Meyer is a Russian politician and statesman, social and political scientist specializing in political history of the Post-Soviet states. His father, Mikhail Meyer, is the former Director of Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Moscow State University (MSU). His grandfather was the prominent Soviet sinologist Rudolf Vyatkin,.

Maxim Alexandrovich Osipov is a Russian writer and cardiologist. His short stories and essays have won a number of prizes, and his plays have been staged and broadcast on the radio in Russia.

Maxim Moisseyevitsch Vinaver was a Russian lawyer, politician, and patron.

Maxime Drouot, known by his pen name Maxime Chattam or Maxime Williams, is a French novelist who, after studying criminology, specialized in writing crime novels.