Yevgeny
Appearance
Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (Russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgeniy or Evgenij, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:
- Note: Occasionally, a person may be in more than one section.
Arts and entertainment
- Yevgeny Aryeh (1947–2022), Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and set designer
- Yevgeni Bauer (1865–1917), Russian film director and screenwriter
- Yevgeni Grishkovetz (born 1967), Russian writer, dramatist, stage director and actor
- Evgeny Kissin (born 1971), Russian pianist
- Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), Soviet and Russian actor
- Yevgeni Mokhorev (born 1967), Russian photographer
- Evgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), Russian conductor
- Evgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), Russian conductor
- Yevgeni Urbansky (1932–1965), Soviet Russian actor
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), Soviet and Russian actor
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet and Russian poet
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), Russian author of political satire and science fiction
- Evgeny Zharikov (1941–2012), Soviet and Russian actor
- Eugene Abdukhanov (born 1987), Ukrainian musician
Chess
- Evgeny Bareev (born 1966), Russian-Canadian chess grandmaster
- Evgeny Gleizerov (born 1963), Russian chess grandmaster
- Evgeny Shtembuliak (born 1999), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987), Russian chess grandmaster
Sports
- Evgeny Alexandrov (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Balyaikin (born 1988), Russian footballer
- Evgeni Berzin (born 1970), Russian bicycle road racer
- Evgeny Busygin (born 1987), Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Bushmanov (born 1971), retired Russian football player
- Yevgeni Dolgov (born 1969), Soviet and Russian retired football player
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov (born 1974), Russian retired tennis player
- Evgeni Karpoukhine (born 1973), Russian judoka
- Yevgeni Kharlachyov (born 1974), Russian retired football player
- Yevgeni Korablyov (born 1978), Russian footballer
- Evgeny Korolev (born 1988), Kazakh tennis player
- Yevgeni Kulik (born 1993), Russian ice hockey player
- Evgeny Kuznetsov (born 1992), Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Kuznetsov (born 1983), Russian footballer
- Evgeny Lapenkov (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Lapinsky (1942–1999), Soviet Olympic champion volleyball player
- Yevgeni Makeyev (born 1989), Russian football player
- Evgeni Malkin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
- Yevgeni Malkov (born 1988), Russian football player
- Yevgeny Maskinskov (1930–1985), Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk
- Yevgeni Matyugin (born 1981), Moldovan international footballer
- Yevgeni Mayorov (1938–1997), ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League
- Yevgeni Minaev (1933–1993), Russian former weightlifter
- Yevgeni Mishakov (1941–2007), retired ice hockey player
- Evgeni Nabokov (born 1975), retired goalie in the National Hockey League
- Evgeni Plushenko (born 1982), Russian figure skater and four-time Olympic medalist
- Yevgeni Safonov (born 1977), Uzbekistan national team football player
- Yevgeni Sidorov (born 1956), Soviet and Russian retired football player and current manager
- Evgenii Tiurnev (born 1997), Russian tennis player
- Yevgeni Trefilov (born 1955), Russian team handball coach
- Yevgeni Varlamov (born 1975), Russian retired football player
- Yevgeni Yatchenko (born 1986), Russian footballer
- Yevgeni Zimin (1947–2018), retired ice hockey player
- Evgeni Semenenko (born 2003), Russian figure skater
Other
- Yevgeny Chuplinsky, prolific Russian serial killer
- Yevgeny Kaspersky (born 1965), Russian information security expert and entrepreneur
- Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-born British newspaper publisher
- Evgeny Lifshitz, Russian theoretical physicist
- Evgeny Morozov (born 1984), Belarusian journalist
- Yevgeni Nikolayev (1921–1990), Soviet World War II colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yevgeni Pakhomov (1880–1965), Russian, Georgian and Azerbaijani numismatist and archaeologist
- Evgeny Paton (1870–1953), Ukrainian and Soviet engineer
- Evgeny Perlin (born 1990), Belarusian journalist and television presenter
- Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886–1937), Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961–2023), Russian oligarch and founder of Wagner Group
- Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942–2020), Soviet marshal and last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union