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Eugene (given name)

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Pronunciation
  
/juːdʒiːn/

Word/name
  
Greek

Nickname(s)
  
Gene

Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
"noble", "well-born"

Related names
  
Owen

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

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Male foreign-language variants include:

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 Gu, physician-scientist
  • 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

    Eugene (given name) Wikipedia