Max Roach was born in a North Carolina town founded by freed slaves, and grew up in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood.

NPR: Max Roach: A Hurricane on the Drum Set

Max Shatto, born Maksim Kuzmin, and his younger brother Kristopher were adopted from an orphanage in north-west Russia last year by the Shattos, who live in Gardendale, Texas.

BBC: Max Shatto: Texas prosecutor declines charges in death

Four doctors in Texas concluded that Max Shatto, born Maksim Kuzmin, had died accidentally from a torn artery in his abdomen and had bruises consistent with injuring himself, a statement said.

BBC: Max Shatto Russia-US adoption death ruled an accident

His sense of their marriage as countercultural, an artistic alliance committed to the support of vinyl records and Midwestern literary quarterlies, had persisted even after Max and Eleanor were born.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

Amazingly enough, the film's composer Max Steiner, a Viennese-born musician who scored hundreds of Hollywood movies, was initially disinclined to use a popular song.

WSJ: 'Play It Again, Sam,' and Again: A Sequel to Casablanca?

Jamaica-born Maurice Chambers took 4-32, while Max Osborne picked up a couple of scalps on his first-class debut.

BBC: Essex bowler Tony Palladino makes loan switch to Kent

In the summer of 1998, Max Levchin, a twenty-three-year-old Ukrainian-born computer programmer, had just arrived in the Bay Area when he heard Thiel give a talk at Stanford on currency trading.

NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes