Eugene (given name)

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Eugene is a common (masculine) first name that comes from the Greek eugenes (Greek- ευγενής, "Noble" ). The name shares a root with the word eugenics. Variants include Eugène (French), Eugen (German, Romanian), Eugenio (Italian, Spanish), Evhen (Ukrainian: Євген), Yevgeniy (Russian: Евгений), Evgeni (Bulgarian: Евгени), and Gene. The feminine variant is Eugenia. Many notable people have been named Eugene. In 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

In military:

• Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), the stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
• Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, 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
• Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863 - 1954), the last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923

In television and film:

• Eugene Levy, Jewish-Canadian actor
• Gene Hackman, Acclaimed Academy Award-winning American actor
• Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer.
• Gene Wilder, Academy-award wnning American actor
• Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer
• Gene Rayburn, American gameshow host and radio personality
• Gene Roddenberry, American scriptwriter and producer
• Jerome Eugene Morrow, a suitably named character in Gattaca, a film on genetic discrimination
• Thomas Eugene Paris, character in the fictional Star Trek universe who served aboard the USS Voyager as helmsman and pilot
• Eugene Horowitz, unlucky character from the Hey Arnold! series
• Gene Eugene, Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician

In music:

• Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer
• Eugène Goossens, fils, French conductor and violinist
• Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian conductor
• Eugen Jochum, German conductor
• Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
• Evgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor
• Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor
• Eugene Pao, Hong Kong jazz guitarist
• Gene Pitney, American singer ("Hello, Mary Lou")
• Gene Simmons, American musician in the band Kiss
• Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor
• Gene Vincent, American singer ("Be Bop a Lula")
• Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
• Gene Krupa, famous and influential American jazz and big band drummer

In literature:

• Eugene Field, Nineteenth Century poet
• Eugène Edine Pottier, French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport worker
• Eugène Lanti, Esperantist, socialist and writer
• Eugène Marin Labiche, French dramatist
• Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
• Eugene O'Neill, famous American playwright.
• Gene Weingarten, humor writer and journalist

In astronomy:

• Eugène Joseph Delporte, Belgian astronomer
• Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer

In artistry:

• Eugène Delacroix, French painter
• Eugène Carrière, French symbolist
• Eugène Grasset, Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Epoque
• Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor

In politics:

• Eugène Paquet, Canadian parliamentarian
• Eugène Ruffy, Swiss politician
• Eugene V. Debs, American socialist
• Eugene Terreblanche, South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB

In sports:

• Eugène Chaboud, Formula One driver from France
• Eugène Christophe a French professional cyclist from 1904 to 1926 who was the first cyclist to wear the famous yellow jersey in the Tour de France
• Eugenio Corini, Italian Footballer
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
• Evgeni Malkin, Russian forward in the NHL playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins
• Gene Miles, Australian rugby league footballer
• Gene Moore (baseball outfielder), right fielder in Major League Baseball
• Gene Moore (baseball pitcher), left handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Evgeni Nabokov, goalie in the National Hockey League
• Gene Okerlund, professional wrestling announcer
• Gene Samuel, Trinidad and Tobago road bicycle racer and track cyclist
• Gene Snitsky, professional wrestler currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand
• Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater

In science:

• Eugene Guth, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to polymer physics and the Kinetic Theory of Rubber Elasticity
• Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology
• Eugène Simon, French arachnologist
• Eugène Soubeiran, renowned French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
• Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law
  
• Jean Claude Eugène Péclet, French physicist
• Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
• Eugene Lazowski, Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in World War II

In other fields:

• Eugen Dühring, German philosopher and economist
• Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
• Eugène Minkowski, French psychiatrist
• Gene Moore (window dresser), leading window-dresser of the 20th century
• Before changing his name, Jin Kariya was known as Eugene Currier
• Eugene Burger, American magician and author.
• Eugene Antonio Marino first African-American archbishop in the United States.