Maximiliaan le Maire (28 February 1606 in Amsterdam – c. 1654 in prob. Batavia) was a merchant/trader and official of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC).[1]
Le Maire served for the VOC starting around 1630 in Malabar followed by Moçambique and Hirado. He was the DutchOpperhoofd at Dejima from 14 February 1641 to 30 October 1641.[1] He was the first "new" chief trader at the island outpost.
He returned home, and in 1647 remarried, in The Hague, Geertruij van Mierop. For a couple of years, he lived in Amsterdam, but in 1650 he left again for Batavia with his wife. He died after a few years; it is not known exactly where and when. His widow went back to the Netherlands and in September 1656 remarried Cornelis van der Lijn, previously a governor of the Indies and from 1668 burgomaster of Alkmaar.[3]