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The name is also in use for girls in the United States, though it is in greater use for boys. There were 6,991 American boys named Maverick in 2022 compared with 98 American girls. [4] [5] In 2022, it was the 39th most popular name given to boys in Canada. [6] Notable people with the name include:
Maverick, a 1994 film based on the television series, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner; Maverick, callsign of Pete Mitchell in the Top Gun film series, played by Tom Cruise Top Gun: Maverick, a 2022 sequel to the film Top Gun "Maverick", a 2020 episode of L.A.'s Finest, named after the 1994 film
Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie.A sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, Tom Cruise reprises his starring role as the naval aviator Maverick.
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film [2] directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures.The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.
The original film portrays Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, who with his radar intercept officer, LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, are given the chance to train at the US Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California.
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier.
The Maverick was also manufactured in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and, from 1973 to 1979, in Brazil, where it did not achieve the expected success and was considered a failure. The name "maverick" was derived from the word for unbranded range animals, and the car's nameplate was stylized to resemble the head of Longhorn cattle. [4]
In the 1986 film Top Gun, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, portrayed by Tom Cruise, is a young and charismatic naval aviator with a distinctive appearance. He is often seen wearing a leather G-1 military flight jacket, white T-shirt, blue 501 Levi Jeans, with cowboy boots, aviator sunglasses, and a flight suit, which adds to his iconic and rugged image as a fighter pilot.