Meyerson (Meersohn) Maxim (22 February 1904, Riga — 19 April 1977) — lawyer.

Maxim Meyerson was born in Riga into the family of an accountant; his father was Gozia, his mother Rasha (née Lasa). He spent his childhood in Liepāja. During the First World War he lived in Riga and studied at the private lower gymnasium named after A. Korte (graduated in 1918), after which he continued his education at the Riga Municipal German Gymnasium.

After graduating from the Riga Municipal Russian Secondary School in 1922, he began studying economics at the University of Latvia; in 1924 he switched to the study of law, which he completed in 1928. During his studies he worked as a private tutor. From 5 December 1928 he served as an assistant to sworn attorney O. Borkovsky in Liepāja; from 9 October 1929 in Aizpute; from 1932 in Saldus; from 1938 in Jelgava; and from 1939 again in Saldus. From 25 April 1934 he was a sworn attorney in the district of the Jelgava Circuit Court.

During the Soviet occupation, from 24 February 1941 he worked as a lawyer at the Jelgava Legal Consultation Office; in the summer he did not evacuate to Russia. At the beginning of the German occupation he was detained in Riga, imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto, and later transferred to a concentration camp. In November 1943 he escaped and went into hiding. After the second Soviet occupation, from November 1944 he worked as a lawyer at the 1st Riga Legal Consultation Office. In 1949 he graduated from the Faculty of History of the Evening University of Marxism–Leninism of the Riga City Committee of the Latvian Communist Party. From May 1976 he was retired. He died on 19 April 1977 and was buried at the Šmerlis Cemetery.

Maxim Meyerson was married twice; his first wife Sara (born 1916) and their daughter perished during the German occupation, in the Riga Ghetto. In 1959 he married for the second time, to Biruta Bergmane.