Maynard (given name)

Maynard is a masculine given name.

People

Notable people with the name include:

• Maynard (Australian media personality), DJ with ABC in Australia
• Maynard Ferguson (1928–2006), Canadian jazz trumpeter
• Maynard Jackson (1938–2003), former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• Maynard James Keenan (born 1964), singer for the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer (born James Herbert Keenan)
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English economist
• Maynard C. Krueger (1906–1991), socialist professor and politician
• Maynard Lyndon (1907-1999), American architect
• Maynard Jack Ramsay (1914–2005), American entomologist
• Maynard Reece (1920–2020), American artist
• Maynard Harrison Smith (1911–1984), US recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Maynard Solomon (1930-2020), American music producer and musicologist
• Maynard Wallace (1943-2021), American politician
• Maynard Webb Chairman of the Board of Directors at Yahoo!
• Robert Maynard Jones (Bobi Jones; 1929-2017), Welsh poet and academic

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with the given or single name "Maynard" include:

• Brother Maynard, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Maynard, one of the main antagonists from Pulp Fiction (film)
• Maynard (Bluey character), a character in the Australian children's TV series Bluey
• Maynard G. Krebs, character from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
• Maynard James "M.J." Delfino, fictional character from the television show Desperate Housewives, played by Mason Vale Cotton

See also

• Mainard
• Meinhard (disambiguation)
• Meinhardt
• Maynard (surname)