Paddy Maxwell (12 March 1909 – 15 December 1991) was a solicitor and a nationalist politician in Ireland.
In 1934, he was elected to the City Council for the Nationalist Party, holding his seat until 1946, and became Chairman of the Derry Catholic Registration Association.
[1] In 1937, he was elected to the Northern Ireland House of Commons representing Foyle, but pledged not to take his seat.
[2] A nationalist convention before the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, reselected Maxwell but mandated him to take his seat in Parliament.
Eddie McAteer objected to Maxwell's abstentionism and challenged him at the nationalist convention held before the 1953 general election.