Yevgeny
Yevgeni, also transliterated as Yevgeny, Yevgenii, Yevgeniy, Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgeniy, Evgenyi or Evgenij, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. The short form is Zhenya, also transliterated as Jenya or Shenya.
People with the name include:
Arts and entertainment
- Yevgeny Aryeh, Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and set designer
- Yevgeni Bauer, Russian film director and screenwriter
- Yevgeni Grishkovetz, Russian writer, dramatist, stage director and actor
- Evgeny Kissin, Russian-Israeli pianist
- Evgenij Kozlov, Russian artist
- Yevgeny Leonov, Soviet and Russian actor
- Yevgeni Mokhorev, Russian photographer
- Evgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor
- Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor
- Yevgeni Urbansky, Soviet Russian actor
- Evgeniy Voishvillo, Russian artist
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Soviet and Russian actor
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet and Russian poet
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian author of political satire and science fiction
- Evgeny Zharikov, Soviet and Russian actor
Chess
- Evgeny Bareev, Russian-Canadian chess grandmaster
- Evgenij Ermenkov, Bulgarian chess player
- Evgeny Gleizerov, Russian chess grandmaster
- Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- Evgeniy Najer, Russian chess grandmaster
- Evgeny Shtembuliak, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- Evgeniy Solozhenkin, Russian chess grandmaster
- Evgeny Tomashevsky, Russian chess grandmaster
Sports
- Evgeny Alexandrov, Russian ice hockey player
- Evgeniy Averchenko, Kazakh footballer
- Yevgeni Balyaikin, Russian footballer
- Evgeniy Barbakov, Russian rower
- Evgeniy Belov, Russian cross-country skier
- Evgeni Berzin, Russian bicycle road racer
- Evgeniy Borisov, Russian hurdler
- Evgeny Busygin, Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Bushmanov, retired Russian football player
- Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Dolgov, Soviet and Russian retired football player
- Evgenij Dremin, Russian badminton player
- Evgeniy Erofaylov, Uzbekistani wrestler
- Evgeniy Garanichev, Russian biathlete
- Evgeniy Gerganov, Bulgarian road cyclist
- Evgeniy Goncharov, Russian mixed martial artist
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian retired tennis player
- Evgeni Karpoukhine, Russian judoka
- Yevgeni Kharlachyov, Russian retired football player
- Evgenii Klimov, Russian ski jumper and skier
- Yevgeni Korablyov, Russian footballer
- Evgeny Korolev, Kazakh tennis player
- Yevgeni Kulik, Russian ice hockey player
- Evgeny Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Russian footballer
- Evgeny Lapenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Lapinsky, Soviet Olympic champion volleyball player
- Evgenii Lukantsov, Russian canoeist
- Yevgeni Makeyev, Russian football player
- Evgeniy Malinin, Kyrgyzstani footballer
- Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
- Yevgeni Malkov, Russian football player
- Yevgeny Maskinskov, Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk
- Yevgeni Matyugin, Moldovan international footballer
- Yevgeni Mayorov, ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League
- Yevgeni Minaev, Russian former weightlifter
- Yevgeni Mishakov, retired ice hockey player
- Evgeni Nabokov, retired goalie in the National Hockey League
- Evgeniy Pashutin, Russian basketball coach and player
- Evgeniy Pechenin, Russian cross-country mountain biker
- Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater and four-time Olympic medalist
- Evgeniy Prokopchuk, Russian judoka
- Evgenyi Romanov, Russian boxer
- Yevgeni Safonov, Uzbekistan national team football player
- Evgeni Semenenko, Russian figure skater
- Evgenii Shvetcov, Russian Paralympic track and field athlete
- Yevgeni Sidorov, Soviet and Russian retired football player and current manager
- Evgeny Siminiuc, Canadian artistic gymnast
- Evgenij Spiridonov, German artistic gymnast
- Evgeniy Sviridov (bandy), Belarusian bandy player
- Evgeniy Tengel, Belarusian sprint canoeist
- Evgeniy Timofeev, Kyrgyzstani alpine skier
- Evgenii Tiurnev, Russian tennis player
- Evgenii Torsunov, Russian para-athlete
- Yevgeni Trefilov, Russian team handball coach
- Yevgeni Varlamov, Russian retired football player
- Evgeniy Yarovenko, Kazakh-Ukrainian footballer
- Yevgeni Yatchenko, Russian footballer
- Yevgeni Zimin, retired ice hockey player
Other
- Evgeniy Abdullaev, Russian-Uzbek poet, writer and critic
- Evgeny Agranovich, Soviet poet and bard
- Evgenii Alexeev, Ukrainian botanist
- Evgeniy Chuikov, Ukrainian landscape painter
- Yevgeny Chuplinsky, prolific Russian serial killer
- Yevgeny Emano, Filipino politician
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Belarusian research director
- Yevgeny Kaspersky, Russian information security expert and entrepreneur
- Evgenii Landis, Soviet mathematician
- Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-born British newspaper publisher
- Evgeny Lifshitz, Soviet theoretical physicist
- Evgeniy Maloletka, Ukrainian journalist and photographer
- Evgeny Morozov, Belarusian journalist
- Evgeniy Morozov (choirmaster), Russian choirmaster
- Evgenii Nikishin, Soviet mathematician
- Yevgeni Nikolayev, Soviet World War II colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yevgeni Pakhomov, Russian, Georgian and Azerbaijani numismatist and archaeologist
- Evgeny Paton, Ukrainian and Soviet engineer
- Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Soviet fighter pilot
- Evgeny Perlin, Belarusian journalist and television presenter
- Evgeniy Poddubny, Russian war correspondent and propagandist
- Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch and founder of Wagner Group
- Evgenii Przhevalsky, Russian chemist
- Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Soviet marshal and last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
- Evgeniy Shiryaev, Russian composer
- Evgeniy Svetlitsa, Ukrainian ballet dancer
- Evgenii Troubetzkoy, Russian philosopher
- Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist
- Evgenii Wulff, Russian botanist, biologist and plant geographer
- Yevgenii Vasilevich Zolotov, Soviet mathematician