Maverick
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A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf; it can also mean a person who thinks independently; a lone dissenter; a non-conformist or rebel.

People

• Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803–1870), Texas cattleman from whom the term maverick originated
• Samuel Maverick (colonist) (1602–1670), English colonist in Massachusetts
• Samuel Maverick (apprentice), a young man killed in the Boston Massacre
• Maury Maverick (1895–1954), US congressman from Texas, coined the word "gobbledygook"
• Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921–2003), Texas politician, activist and columnist
• Maverick Matt, ring name of Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler

Organizations and products

• Maverick (chocolate), a discontinued chocolate bar manufactured by Nestle in the UK
• Maverick (magazine), a South African business magazine
• Maverick (entertainment company), an American entertainment company with several divisions:
  • Maverick Records, a record label
  • Maverick Films, a film production company
• Maverik Lacrosse, a lacrosse equipment and apparel company, based in Mineola, New York
• Ford Maverick, the name of 4 different automobiles made by the Ford Motor Company
• Maverick (cigarette), made by the Lorillard Tobacco Company
• Maverick REV-6, a Nerf gun in the N-Strike series

Sports

• Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team from Dallas, Texas, US
• Mid-Missouri Mavericks, a minor league baseball team from Columbia, Missouri, US
• Mavericks, the mascot of Mesa State College in Colorado, US
• Mavericks, the mascot of University of Texas at Arlington in Texas, US
• Mavericks, the mascot of Minnesota State University, Mankato in Minnesota, US
• Mavericks, the mascot of University of Nebraska, Omaha, US

Film and television

• Maverick (TV series), an American television series from 1957–1962, set in the American Old West starring James Garner and Jack Kelly
• Maverick (film), a 1994 film based on the television series, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner
• Maverick, the callsign of the main character in the film Top Gun, played by Tom Cruise

Places

• Maverick (MBTA station), a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts, US
• Mavericks (location), a famous surfing location in Northern California, US
• Maverick County, Texas, US

Music

• Maverick (album), by George Thorogood
• The Mavericks, a country music band

Computers

• MaverickCrunch, a floating point math coprocessor by Cirrus Logic for ARM architectures
• Maverick Framework, an MVC framework for Java

Other uses

• Maverick (book), an autobiography of Ricardo Semler's Brazilian company
• Maverick (comics), or David North, a character in Marvel Comics
• Maverick (roller coaster), at Cedar Point amusement park
• Maverick (Mega Man), characters in the Mega Man X video game series
• AGM-65 Maverick, a guided air-to-surface missile

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