Eugene (given name)

People

Christianity

• Eugene or Eugenios of Trebizond, 4th century Christian saint and martyr
• St. Eugene, one of the deacons of saint Zenobius of Florence
• Eugene , Irish saint
• Pope Eugene I, Italian pope from 655 to 657
• Pope Eugene II, Italian pope from 824 to 827
• Pope Eugene III, Italian pope from 1145 to 1153
• Pope Eugene IV, Italian pope from 1431 to 1447
• Eugène Philippe LaRocque, Roman Catholic bishop from Canada
• Eugene Antonio Marino, first African-American archbishop in the United States

  Military

• Prince Eugene of Savoy, Austrian general, statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian monarchy
• Eugène de Beauharnais, stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
• Eugene Goodman, American United States Capitol Police officer who diverted invading rioters from the United States Senate chamber during the January 6 Capitol attack
• Eugene A. Greene, American sailor, posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross
• Eugene Hasenfus, United States Marine helping the right-wing rebel Contras in Nicaragua
• Eugène Maizan, French naval lieutenant and explorer
• Eugene Sledge, American World War II Marine and academic
• Eugene Sullivan, American sailor, one of the Sullivan brothers

  Television and films

• Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer
• Eugene Cordero, American actor
• Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor
• Gene Hackman, American actor
• Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer
• Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
• Eugene Mirman, Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker
• Gene Rayburn, American radio personality and game show host
• Gene Roddenberry, American scriptwriter and producer
• Eugène Saccomano, French radio journalist and non-fiction author
• Gene Siskel, American film critic

  Music

• Gene Allison, American R&B singer
• Gene Austin, American singer-songwriter
• Gene Clark, American singer, songwriter, founding member of the band The Byrds
• Eugen Doga, Moldovan composer
• Wendell Eugene, American jazz musician
• Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer
• Eugène Goossens, fils, French conductor and violinist
• Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian conductor
• Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian-American singer, composer, disc jockey and actor, frontman of the band Gogol Bordello
• Eugene Izotov, Russian-American oboist
• Gene Krupa, American jazz and big band drummer
• Gene McDaniels, American singer-songwriter
• Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor
• Eugene Pao, Hong Kong jazz guitarist
• Gene Puerling, vocal arranger, leader of The Hi-Lo's and The Singers Unlimited
• Eugene Tzigane, Japanese-American conductor
• Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist, member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
• Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
• Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer of rock band Kiss

  Literature

• Eugene Field, American writer, columnist and children's poet
• Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and dramatist
• Eugène Marin Labiche, French dramatist
• Eugène Lanti, French Esperantist, socialist and writer
• Eugène Marais, South African writer and poet
• Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
• Eugène Edine Pottier, French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport worker
• Eugene Trivizas, Greek author

  Art

• Eugène Broerman, Belgian painter
• Eugène Boudin, French painter
• Eugène Carrière, French symbolist
• Eugène Delacroix, French painter
• Eugène Grasset, Swiss decorative artist of the Belle Epoque
• Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter
• Eugene Lambert, Irish puppeteer
• Eugene Pandala, Indian architect
• Eugene Oliver Palmer, Jamaican-born British artist
• Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist
• Eugene V. Thaw, American art dealer and collector

  Politics

• Eugène Koffi Adoboli, Togolese politician
• Eugene H. Belden, Michigan politician
• Eugene "Geno" Chiarelli, West Virginian state delegate
• Eugene V. Debs, American socialist
• Eugene Reginald de Fonseka, puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Eugène Heijnen, Dutch politician and tax consultant
• Eugene D. Lujan, justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
• Eugene McCarthy, U.S. senator from Minnesota
• Eugene McGehee, Louisiana politician
• Eugene Mitchell, American lawyer and president of the Atlanta Board of Education
• Eugène Paquet, Canadian parliamentarian
• Eugene E. Pratt, justice of the Utah Supreme Court
• Eugène Ruffy, Swiss politician
• Eugene Sawyer, American businessman and politician
• Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB

  Sports

• Eugene Asante, American football player
• Eugene Laverty, Irish professional motorcyclist
• Eugene Galekovic, Australian goalkeeper
• Eugene Sseppuya, Ugandan football striker
• Eugène Chaboud, Formula One driver from France
• Eugène Christophe, French professional cyclist
• Eugene Lawrence, American professional basketball player
• Eugene Selznick, American volleyball player
• Eugene Glazer , American Olympic fencer
• Gene Cockrell, American football player
• Gene Filipski, American football player
• Gene Moore , right fielder in Major League Baseball
• Gene Moore , left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Gene Okerlund, American professional wrestling announcer
• Gene Prebola, American football player
• Geno Smith, American football player
• Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler who formerly performed for World Wrestling Entertainment
• Gene Upshaw, American football player, labor leader, and former NFL Players Association director

  Sciences

• Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
• Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist who coined the terms schizophrenia and autism
• Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
• Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, eleventh person to walk on the Moon
• Eugene Chelyshev, Russian indologist
• Eugene V. Gallagher, American religious scholar
• Eugene Goodilin, Russian material scientist
• Eugène Joseph Delporte, Belgian astronomer
• Eugene Gu, American 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
• Eugene Parker, American solar and plasma physicist, after which the Parker Solar Probe was named
• Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer and geologist
• Eugène Schueller, French chemist, entrepreneur and founder of L'Oréal
• Eugène Simon, French arachnologist
• Eugène Soubeiran, French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
• Eugene Stanley, American physicist
• Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963

  Other professions

• Eugene Allen, White House butler
• Eugene Burger, American magician and author
• Gene Gotti, Italian-American mobster
• Eugene Jarvis, American computer games designer and programmer
• Eugene de Kock, South African policeman serving a life sentence
• Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director
• Eugène Minkowski, French psychiatrist
• Gene Moore , American designer and window dresser
• Eugene Murtagh, Irish billionaire businessman, founder of Kingspan Group
• Eugene K. Palmer American fugitive
• Eugene Skinner, American pioneer, founder of Eugene, Oregon
• Eugene Stoner, American firearms designer, who designed M16 rifle
• Eugene Tan, Singapore political analyst and law lecturer
• Eugene Thuraisingam, Singaporean criminal lawyer
• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect
• Eugene Lee Yang, American filmmaker, actor, author, and internet celebrity