Eugene (given name)
Eugene is a common masculine given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής, "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ, "well" and γένος, "race, stock, kin". Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugenie.
Other male foreign-language variants include:
| Albanian | Eugjen, Eugjeni |
| Arpitan | Eugêne, Genio |
| Asturian | Oxenu |
| Basque | Euken |
| Belarusian | Jaŭhien, Jaŭhienij, Yauhen |
| Breton | Ujan |
| Bulgarian | Евгени |
| Catalan | Eugeni |
| Croatian | Eugen |
| Czech | Evžen, Eugen |
| Dutch | Eugeen |
| Esperanto | Eŭgeno |
| Estonian | Jevgeni |
| French | Eugène, Yvain |
| Galician | Uxío |
| German | Eugen, Eugine |
| Greek | Ευγένιος |
| Hungarian | Jenő, Eugén |
| Irish | Eoghan |
| Italian | Eugenio |
| Japanese | ユージーン |
| Korean | 유진 |
| Latin | Eugenius |
| Latvian | Eižens |
| Lithuanian | Eugenijus |
| Macedonian | Евгениј |
| Occitan | Eugèni |
| Piedmontese | Genio |
| Polish | Eugeniusz |
| Portuguese | Eugênio, Eugénio |
| Romanian | Eugen, Eugeniu |
| Russian | Евгений |
| Scottish Gaelic | Eòghann, Ewan, Euan |
| Serbian | Еуген, Евгеније |
| Sicilian | Eugeniu |
| Slovak | Eugen |
| Slovenian | Evgen |
| Spanish | Eugenio |
| Swedish | Eugen |
| Syriac | ܐܘܓܝܢ |
| Ukrainian | Євген, Євгеній, Евген, Ївген |
| Welsh | Owain, Owen, Ouein, Oen, Ewein, Ywein/Ywain, Yuein, |
People
Notable people with the given name Eugene or Eugène include:Christianity
- Eugene or Eugenios of Trebizond, 4th century Christian saint and martyr
- St. Eugene, one of the deacons of saint Zenobius of Florence
- Eugene (Eoghan), 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 (fencer), American Olympic fencer
- Gene Cockrell, American football player
- Gene Filipski, American football player
- Gene Moore (outfielder), right fielder in Major League Baseball
- Gene Moore (pitcher), 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 (window dresser), 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
Fictional characters
- Gene Belcher, a main character in the animated series Bob's Burgers
- Eugene Chaud, in Mega Man Battle Network
- Eugene Fitzherbert, the male protagonist in Tangled, commonly called 'Flynn Rider'
- Eugene Grizzard, in Bonnie & Clyde
- Eugene "Bling-Bling Boy" Hamilton, antagonist in the animated series Johnny Test
- Eugene Horowitz, in Hey Arnold! media
- Gene Hunt, in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes
- Eugene H. Krabs, in SpongeBob SquarePants media
- Eugene Meltsner, in the Adventures in Odyssey series
- Eugene Onegin, the title character in the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin and in the eponymous opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- Eugene (Pokémon) or Eusine, in Pokémon media
- Eugene Tackleberry, in Police Academy
- Eugene "Flash" Thompson, in the Spider-Man comics
- Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch, comic relief in Power Rangers
- Eugene Wrayburn, one of the main characters in Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend
- Eugene Young, in The Practice
- Gene Evernight, also known as Kyrios, antagonist in ArcheAge
- Eugene Dix, in Final Destination 2
- Eugene Francis, in The Boss Baby
- Eugene Choi, a main character in the Korean drama Mr. Sunshine
- Gene, a former antagonist on Regular Show
- Eugene is an alias under the Halley Labs / LapFox Trax label
- Eugene Hofstadt and Eugene “Gene” Draper, Don Draper’s father-in-law and youngest son in Mad Men
- Eugene, a character from the 2023 indie-adventure RPG Cassette Beasts
- Eugene, a localized name for Yusuke Urameshi, in the Tagalog dub of ''YuYu Hakusho''