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.

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

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