Eugene (given name)

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 eugenes (Greek- εὐγενής, "noble", literally "well-born"). The name shares its root with the word "eugenics". Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugénie.

Male foreign-language variants include:

Belarusian	Yaugen/Yauhen (Яўген)
Bulgarian	Евгени (Evgeni)
Catalan	Eugeni
Czech	Evžen
Esperanto	Eŭgeno
French	Eugène
Galician	Uxío
German	Eugen
Greek	Ευγένιος (Eugénios)
Hungarian	Jenő
Italian	Eugenio
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, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy, Yevgeny)
Serbian	Еуген (Eugen)
Sicilian	Eugeniu
Spanish	Eugenio
Ukrainian	Evgen (Євген)

Notable people

In 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

In 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
• 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

In 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
• 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 Tierney, American actress
• Gene Wilder, American actor

In music:

• 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 ("Hello, Mary Lou")
• 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.

In 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 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

In art:

• Eugène Carrière, French symbolist
• Eugène Delacroix, French painter
• Eugenio Granell, Spanish painter
• Eugène Grasset, Swiss decorative artist of the Belle Epoque
• Eugene Pandala, Indian Architect
• Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist
• Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor

In 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 Terreblanche (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

In 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, Kafelnikov's Russian compatriot but now 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
• Gene Snitsky, professional wrestler currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand
• 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 WWE wrestler Nick Dinsmore

In science:

• 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
• Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law
• Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963

Fictional people:

• 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

Other uses:

• Eugene Allen, White House butler
• 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

See also

• Eugene (disambiguation)
• Eugenia (name)