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{{Short description|Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and Jesuit priest (1720–1792)}}
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| name = Maximilian Hell<br><small>Hell Miksa</small>
| image = MaximilianHell.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Maximilian Hell dressed in [[Sami people|Sami]] clothing during his stay at [[Vardø (town)|Vardø]] in 1769 to observe the Venus transit<ref name="Kragh"/>
| birth_name = Rudolf Maximilian Höll
| birth_date = {{birth date|1720|5|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Štiavnické Bane|Selmecbánya]], [[Kingdom of Hungary]] (present-day [[Banská Štiavnica]], [[Slovakia]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1792|4|14|1720|5|15}}
| death_place = [[Vienna]]
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| nationality = Hungarian<ref name="Kragh">{{cite book|last=Kragh|first=Helge |title=The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite|publisher=[[Axel Springer AG|Springer]]|pages=199|date=2008|isbn= 9783764389086}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Barry Evans|title=The Wrong-Way Comet and Other Mysteries of Our Solar System|publisher=Tab Books|pages=192|date=1992|isbn=9780830626700}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Patrick Moore|title=Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars|url=https://archive.org/details/exploringnightsk00moor|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/exploringnightsk00moor/page/213 213]|date=2000|isbn=9780521793902}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Anthony Federer |author2=Harvard College Observatory |title=Sky and Telescope|publisher=Sky Pub. Corp.|pages=213|date=1962}}</ref> 
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| field = [[Astronomy]] 
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'''Maximilian Hell''' ({{langx|hu|Hell Miksa}}) (born '''Rudolf Maximilian Höll'''; May 15, 1720 – April 14, 1792) was an [[astronomer]] and an ordained [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest from the [[Kingdom of Hungary]]. The lunar crater [[Hell (crater)|Hell]] is named after him.