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Maverick, a term suggesting independence of thought or action, can refer to:

Attractions:

• Maverick (roller coaster), Cedar Point's 17th roller coaster

People:

• Maury Maverick, Jr. (1921–2003), a Texas politician, activist and columnist
• Maury Maverick (1895–1954), a U.S. Congressman from San Antonio who coined the word "gobbledygook"
• Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803–1870), a Texas cattleman from whom the term maverick originated
• Samuel Maverick (colonist) (1602–1670), an English colonist in Massachusetts
• Maverick Matt (Matt Bentley), professional wrestler in TNA wrestling

Places:

• Maverick County, Texas, USA
• Mavericks (location), a reef near Half Moon Bay in Northern California known for powerful surf and an annual big-wave riding surf contest

In business:

• Maverick Records, a record label
• Maverick, a Bucharest-famous shawarma spot in Drumul Taberei district
• Maverick (magazine), a South African business magazine
• Maverik Lacrosse, a lacrosse equipment and apparel company, based in Mineola, New York.
• Maverick Technology a worldwide distributer of automotive diagnostic equipment based in England
• Maverick, a guitar production company set up by Mark James and his Friend Trevor Wilkinson in 1997

In games:

• Maverick (Mega Man), rebellious Reploids from the Mega Man X video game series

In film and television:

• Maverick (TV series), a 1957 television series set in the American Old West starring James Garner and Jack Kelly.
• Maverick (film), a 1994 film, based on the 1957 television series, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner.
• Maverick's a 1998 one-hour PBS documentary the famed California surfing location.
• Top Gun (film)'s main character's callsign (played by Tom Cruise)
• Yugi-oh (anime)'s recurring vilian in the later seasons goes by the name Maverick.

In music:

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

In computers:

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

In other uses:

• Maverick (chocolate), a chocolate snack previously manufactured by Nestle
• Ford Maverick, the name of 4 different automobiles made by the Ford Motor Company
• AGM-65 Maverick, a guided air-to-surface missile
• Maverick, a Marvel Comics mutant superhero also known as David North (Comics) or Agent Zero
• Dallas Mavericks an NBA basketball team
• Toronto Mavericks, a Canadian paintball team competing in the CXBL and PSP series
• A-Tech Mavericks, mascot for Advanced Technologies Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Maverick, an autobiography of Ricardo Semler's company

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