Eugene (given name)

Eugene
Pronunciation	/juːdʒiːn/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"noble", "well-born"
Other names
Nickname(s)	Gene
Related names	Owen

Eugene is a common (masculine) first name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (eugenēs), "noble", literally "well-born",^[1] from εὖ (eu), "well"^[2] and γένος (genos), "race, stock, kin".^[3] Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugénie.

Male foreign-language variants include:

Albanian	Eugjeni
Arpitan	Eugêne, Genio
Asturian	Euxeniu
Basque	Euken(i)
Belarusian	Jauhien/Yaugen/Yauhen (Яўген), Yauheni (Яўгеній)
Breton	Ujan
Bulgarian	Евгени (Evgeni)
Catalan	Eugeni
Chinese	尤金 (Mandarin - Yóu Jīn)
Croatian	Eugen
Czech	Evžen
Dutch	Eugeen
Esperanto	Eŭgeno
French	Eugène, Yvain
Galician	Uxío
German	Eugen
Greek	Ευγένιος (Evgénios)
Hungarian	Jenő
Irish	Eóghan,^[4]^[5] (Eóġan pre 1948)
Italian	Eugenio
Korean	유진
Latin	Eugenius
Latvian	Eugenijs/Eižens
Lithuanian	Eugenijus
Macedonian	Евгениј (Evgenij, Yevgenij)
Occitan	Eugèni
Romanian	Eugen, Eugeniu
Piedmontese	Genio
Polish	Eugeniusz (Gienek)
Portuguese	Eugênio (Brazil), Eugénio (Portugal)
Russian	Евгений (transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeniy, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgueni, Eugeny, Eugeniy, Ievgeny, Jevgeni, Jevgeny, Yevgeny, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy, in German often as Jewgenij or Jewgeni)
Scottish Gaelic	Eoghann,^[5] Ewan, Euan
Serbian	Еуген (Eugen), Евгеније (Evgenije)
Sicilian	Eugeniu
Slovakian	Eugen
Slovenian	Eugen
Spanish	Eugenio
Swedish	Eugen
Syriac	ܐܘܓܝܢ (Augin)
Ukrainian	Євген (transliterated as Yevhen, Yevgen), Євгеній (Yevheniy, Yevgeniy, Ievheniy, Ievgeniy)
Welsh	Owain,^[4]^[5] Owen,^[4]^[5] Ouein,^[4] Oen,^[4] Ewein,^[4] Ywein/Ywain,^[4] Yuein,^[4]

Notable people

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 (1920–2012), Roman Catholic cardinal from Brazil

Military

Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), the stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
Eugenio Calò (1905–1943), Italian partisan
Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), the last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923
Eugene A. Greene (1921–1942), American sailor, posthumous recipient of Navy Cross
Eugene de Kock (born 1949), South African policeman serving a life sentence
Eugène Maizan (1819–1845), French Naval lieutenant and explorer
Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial (1856–1879), the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo
Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), noted general and Austrian Field Marshal
Eugene Sledge (1923–2001), American WWII marine and academic

Television and film

Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer
Eugene, Korean Kim Yoo-jin, singer, actress, and emcee
Gene Eugene, Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician
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
Eugene Levy, Jewish-Canadian actor
Eugene Mirman, Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker
Gene Rayburn, American gameshow host and radio personality
Gene Roddenberry, American scriptwriter and producer
Eugène Saccomano (born 1936), French radio journalist and non-fiction author.
Gene Siskel, American film critic
Gene Wilder, American actor

Music

Eugene (entertainer), Korean singer of the group S.E.S.
Eugene Andrusco, American singer, songwriter and producer (also known as "Gene Eugene")
Gene Autry, American singer, actor, businessman
Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter of the group The Byrds
Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer
Eugène Goossens, fils, French conductor and violinist
Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian conductor
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
Eugene Tzigane, Japanese-American 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

Literature

Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese writer
Eugene Field, Nineteenth Century poet
Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and dramatist
Eugène Marin Labiche, French 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
Gene Wolfe, American science fiction author
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian science fiction author

Art

Eugène Boudin, French painter
Eugène Carrière, French symbolist
Eugène Delacroix, French painter
Eugenio Granell, Spanish painter
Eugène Grasset, Swiss decorative artist of the Belle Epoque
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor
Eugene Lambert, Irish puppeteer
Eugene Pandala, Indian Architect
Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist
Prince Eugen of Sweden, Swedish painter

Politics

Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Argentine president, 1955–1958
Eugene V. Debs, American socialist
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Guatemalan president
Eugene J. McCarthy, U.S. senator from Minnesota
Eugene McGehee, Louisiana politician
Eugène Paquet, Canadian parliamentarian
Eugen Richter, (1838-1906), German politician in Imperial Germany
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

Sports

Eugene Galekovic, Australian goalkeeper
Eugen Sandow, Father of modern body building
Eugène Chaboud, Formula One driver from France
Eugène Christophe, French professional cyclist
Eugene Lawrence (born 1986), American professional basketball player
Eugene Selznick (born 1930), American volleyball player
Eugeni Berzin, Russian professional bicycle road racer
Eugenio Castellotti, Italian Formula One driver
Eugenio Corini, Italian footballer
Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder
Eugenio Vélez, major-league baseball
Evgeni Malkin, Russian forward in the NHL playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins
Evgeni Nabokov, goalie in the National Hockey League
Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
Evgeny Alexandrov (born 1982), Russian professional ice hockey player
Evgeny Busygin (born 1987), Russian ice hockey player
Evgeny Korolev, Kazakh tennis player
Evgeny Lapenkov (born 1984), Russian professional ice hockey player
Gene Bradley (born 1957), American football player
Gene Cockrell (born 1934), American football player
Gene Filipski, American football player
Gene Makowsky, offensive lineman for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL
Gene Miles, Australian rugby league footballer
Gene Moore (outfielder), right fielder in Major League Baseball
Gene Moore (pitcher), left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
Gene Okerlund, professional wrestling announcer
Gene Prebola, American football player
Gene Robillard, Canadian football player
Gene Samuel, Trinidad and Tobago road bicycle racer and track cyclist
Gene Sarazen, U.S. golfer, one of five male golfers to win the professional career Grand Slam
Gene Smith (athletic director), athletic director at The Ohio State University
Gene Snitsky, professional wrestler who formerly performed for World Wrestling Entertainment
Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926 to 1928
Gene Upshaw, NFL Hall of Fame guard and former NFL Players Association director
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian former tennis player
Eugene, ring name of former WWE wrestler Nick Dinsmore

Sciences

Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician
Eugenio Berríos, Chilean biochemist
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Austrian economist
Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
Eugene Cernan, former American astronaut; eleventh man on the Moon
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

Fictional people

Gene Belcher, a main character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
Eugene Chaud, character in Mega Man Battle Network
Eugene Fitzherbert, the male protagonist in Tangled, commonly called 'Flynn Rider'
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
The title character in Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
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 "Flash" Thompson, a character in the Spider-Man comics
Eugene Wrayburn, one of the main characters in Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend
Eugene Young, character in The Practice

Other uses

Eugene Allen, White House butler
Eugene Burger, American magician and author
Eugenios Eugenidis, Greek shipping magnate
Eugênio German, Brazilian chess player
Eugene Gotti, Italian-American mobster
Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican philosopher, educator, lawyer
Eugene Jarvis, computer games designer and programmer
Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Mexican businessman
Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director
Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-born British newspaper publisher
Eugène Minkowski, French psychiatrist
Gene Moore (window dresser), leading window-dresser of the 20th century
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, German-born Jewish social philosopher
Eugene Skinner, American pioneer, founder of Eugene, Oregon
Eugen Bleuler, Swiss physician
Eugen d'Albert, German composer
Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
Eugène de Beauharnais, French general
Eugène Ionesco, Romanian writer
Eugene O'Neill, American writer
Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect
Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist
Eugenio Montale, Italian writer

References

^ εὐγενής, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
^ εὖ, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
^ γένος, 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 time considered that the name represented Irish eoghunn = Gael. Ogan- [f.Old Irish oc- Welsh og, young], ‘youth’.

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[1] εὐγενής, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus

[2] εὖ, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus

[3] γένος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus

[Welsh_Surnames:Owen-4] ^ ^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

[UK_surnames:Owen-5] 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 time considered that the name represented Irish eoghunn = Gael. Ogan- [f.Old Irish oc- Welsh og, young], ‘youth’.

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