Eugene (given name)
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| Eugene |
| Gender |
Male |
| Origin |
| Word/Name |
Greek |
| Meaning |
"noble", "well-born" |
| Other names |
| Related names |
Gene |
Eugene is a common (masculine) first name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (eugenēs), "noble", literally "well-born".[1] Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugénie.
Male foreign-language variants include:
| Belarusian |
Jaugen/Yauhen (Яўген) |
| Bulgarian |
Евгени (Evgeni) |
| Catalan |
Eugeni |
| Czech |
Evžen |
| Esperanto |
Eŭgeno |
| French |
Eugène, Yvain |
| Galician |
Uxío |
| German |
Eugen |
| Greek |
Ευγένιος (Evgénios) |
| Hungarian |
Jenő |
| Irish Gaelic |
Eóghan, [2][3] (Eóġan pre 1948) |
| Italian |
Eugenio |
| Korean |
유진 |
| Latin |
Eugenius |
| Latvian |
Eugenijs/Eižens |
| Lithuanian |
Eugenijus |
| Macedonian |
Евгение (Evgenie, Yevgenie) |
| Occitan |
Eugèni |
| Romanian |
Eugen, Eugeniu |
| Piedmontese |
Genio |
| Polish |
Eugeniusz |
| Portuguese |
Eugênio |
| Russian |
Евгений (transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeniy, Evgeny, Eugeny, Eugeniy, Ievgen, Yevgeny, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy) |
| Scottish Gaelic |
Eoghann,[3] Ewan, Ewan, Euan |
| Serbian |
Еуген (Eugen) |
| Sicilian |
Eugeniu |
| Spanish |
Eugenio |
| Swedish |
Eugen |
| Turkish |
Evgen |
| Ukrainian |
Євген (tranliterated as Yevhen) |
| Welsh |
Owain,[2][3] Owen,[2][3] Ouein,[2] Oen,[2] Ewein,[2] Ywein/Ywain,[2] Yuein,[2] |
| Buryat |
Ифгеени |
[edit] Notable people
[edit] Christianity
- Pope Eugene I, pope from 655 to 657
- Pope Eugene II, pope from 824 to 827
- Pope Eugene III, pope from 1145 to 1153
- Pope Eugene IV, pope from 1431 to 1447
- Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1782–1861), the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
- St. Eugene, one of the deacons of Saint Zenobius
- Saint Eugenios of Trebizond was the patron saint of the Empire of Trebizond
- Pope Pius XII, pope from 1939 to 1958, given name Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
- Eugene Antonio Marino (1934–2000), first African-American archbishop in the United States
- Eugênio de Araújo Sales (1920-), Roman Catholic cardinal from Brazil
[edit] Military
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), noted general and Austrian Field Marshal
- Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), the stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
- Eugene A. Greene (1921–1942), American sailor, posthumous recipient of Navy Cross
- Eugene de Kock, South African policeman serving a life sentence
- Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial (1856–1879), the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo
- Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), the last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923
- Eugenio Calò (1905–1943), Italian partisan
- Eugene Sledge, a US WWII marine and academic.
[edit] Television and film
- Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer
- Gene Eugene, Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician
- Eugene Levy, Jewish-Canadian actor
- Eugene Mirman, Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker
- Eugenio Derbez is a Mexican comedian, actor, and Formula Three auto driver
- Gene Hackman, American actor
- Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer
- Gene Rayburn, American gameshow host and radio personality
- Gene Roddenberry, American scriptwriter and producer
- Gene Siskel, American film critic
- Gene Wilder, American actor
- Gene Clark, leader of The Birds and also gorgeous boy resident in Box in Wilts.
- Eugene Andrusco, American singer, songwriter and producer (also known as "Gene Eugene")
- Gene Autry, American singer, actor, businessman
- Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer
- Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian conductor
- Eugène Goossens, fils, French conductor and violinist
- Eugene Hütz, lead singer and guitarist of the group Gogol Bordello
- Eugene Izotov, Russian-American oboist
- Eugen Jochum, German conductor
- Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
- Gene Krupa, American jazz and big band drummer
- Evgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor
- Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor
- Eugene Pao, Hong Kong jazz guitarist
- Gene Pitney, American singer ("Town Without Pity")
- Gene Simmons, American musician in the band Kiss
- Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor
- Gene Vincent, American singer ("Be Bop a Lula")
- Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
- Eugene (entertainer), Korean singer of the group S.E.S.
- Evgeny Pozharnov, Russian techno artist and Mako Records owner
[edit] Literature
- Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese writer
- Eugene Field, Nineteenth Century poet
- Eugène Marin Labiche, French dramatist
- Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and dramatist
- Eugène Lanti, Esperantist, socialist and writer
- Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975
- Eugene Marais, South African writer and poet
- Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
- Eugène Edine Pottier, French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport worker
- Eugénio Tavares, Cape Verdean poet
- Eugene Trivizas, Greek author
- Eugenio Vegas Latapie, Spanish monarchist writer
- Gene Weingarten, humor writer and journalist
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian science fiction author
- Gene Wolfe, American science fiction author
[edit] Politics
- Eugene V. Debs, American socialist
- Eugene J. McCarthy, U.S. senator from Minnesota
- Eugène Paquet, Canadian parliamentarian
- Eugène Ruffy, Swiss politician
- Eugene Sawyer, American businessman and politician
- Eugene Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB
- Eugen Ţurcanu, Romanian political prisoner
- Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Guatemalan president
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Argentine president, 1955–1958
[edit] Sports
- Eugeni Berzin, Russian professional bicycle road racer
- Eugenio Castellotti, Italian Formula One driver
- Eugène Chaboud, Formula One driver from France
- Eugène Christophe, French professional cyclist
- Eugenio Corini, Italian footballer
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian former tennis player
- Evgeny Korolev, Kazakh tennis player
- Gene Makowsky, offensive lineman for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL
- Evgeni Malkin, Russian forward in the NHL playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins
- Gene Miles, Australian rugby league footballer
- Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder
- Gene Moore (baseball outfielder), right fielder in Major League Baseball
- Gene Moore (baseball pitcher), left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Evgeni Nabokov, goalie in the National Hockey League
- Gene Okerlund, professional wrestling announcer
- Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
- Gene Samuel, Trinidad and Tobago road bicycle racer and track cyclist
- Eugen Sandow, Father of modern body building
- Eugene Selznick (b. 1930), American volleyball player
- Gene Snitsky, professional wrestler who formerly performed for World Wrestling Entertainment
- Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926–1928
- Gene Upshaw, NFL Hall of Fame guard and former NFL Players Association director
- Eugenio Vélez, major-league baseball
- Eugene, the ring name of former WWE wrestler Nick Dinsmore
- Gene Smith, athletic director at The Ohio State University
[edit] Sciences
- Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Austrian economist
- Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician
- Eugenio Berríos, Chilean biochemist
- Eugene Cernan, former American astronaut; eleventh man on the Moon
- Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
- Eugène Joseph Delporte, Belgian astronomer
- Eugen Dühring, German philosopher and economist
- Eugene Goldstein, physicist
- Eugene Guth, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
- Eugene Lazowski, Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in World War II
- Jean Claude Eugène Péclet, French physicist
- Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer and geologist
- Eugène Simon, French arachnologist
- Eugène Soubeiran, renowned French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
- Eugene Stanley, American physicist
- Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law
- Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
[edit] Fictional people
- Eugene Fitzherbert, The male protagonist in Tangled, commonly called 'Flynn Rider'
- The title character in Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
- Eugene Horowitz, character in Hey Arnold! media
- Gene Hunt, character in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes
- Eugene H. Krabs or Mr. Krabs, character in SpongeBob SquarePants media
- Eugene Meltsner, character in the Adventures in Odyssey series
- Jerome Eugene Morrow, suitably named character in Gattaca, a film on genetic discrimination
- Thomas Eugene Paris, better known as Tom Paris, a character in the Star Trek universe
- Eugene (Pokémon) or Eusine, a character in Pokémon media
- Eugene Wrayburn, one of the main characters and heroes in Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend.
[edit] Other uses
- Eugene Allen, White House butler
- Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director
- Eugene Burger, American magician and author
- Eugenios Eugenidis, Greek shipping magnate
- Eugene Jarvis, computer games designer and programmer
- Eugène Minkowski, French psychiatrist
- Gene Moore (window dresser), leading window-dresser of the 20th century
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, German-born Jewish social philosopher
- Eugênio German, Brazilian chess player
- Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican philosopher, educator, lawyer
- Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Mexican businessman
- Eugene Skinner, American pioneer, founder of Eugene, Oregon
- Eugene Gotti, Italian-American mobster
- Eugene Ostashevsky, Professor
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ εὐγενής, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ a b c d e f g h Morgan, T.J. and Morgan, Prys, Welsh Surnames, University of Wales, 1985, Owain (Owen, Bowen, Ednowain). According to T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames (page 172/173) Owen is a derivation of the Latin Eugenis “ > [Old Welsh] Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein … 'variously written in [Middle Welsh] as Ewein, Owein, Ywein. LL gives the names Euguen, Iguein, Yuein, Ouein. The corresponding form in Irish is Eoghan.” Morgan notes that there are less likely alternative explanations and agrees with Dr. Rachel Bromwich that Welsh Owein “is normally latinized as Eugenius," and both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. Additionally, another latinized variations of the name Owen is Audoenus in certain parish registers
- ^ a b c d Surnames of the United Kingdom, reprinted for Clearfield Company, INC by Genealogical Publishing Co. INC, Baltimore 1995, 1996. Entry notes that the most likely and widely accepted origin of Owen (Old Welsh Owain, Irish Gaelic Eoghan, and Scottish Gaelic Eoghann,) is from Latin Eugenius. “Cormic gives this origin for Eogan (one MS, Eogen); and Zimmer considers Owen to be borrowed from Latin Eugens, as noted by MacBain, p. 400. The mediaeval Latinization of Owen as Oenus led to a belief that the etymology was the Welsh and Breton oen ‘lamb’. With much stronger reason it was at one tme considered that the name represented Irish eoghunn = Gael. Ogan- [f.Old Irish oc- Welsh og, young], ‘youth’.
