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* [[Gene Makowsky]], offensive lineman for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL |
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* [[Evgeni Malkin]], Russian forward in the NHL playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Gender | Male |
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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