Yevgeny

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