Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the

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'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of

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status. Similar derivative names such as Gino come from Eugenio, or

. Similar names include Eugenios, Efigenio, Eugine and

Eugenius Eugenius (died 6 September 394) was a Western Roman emperor from 392 to 394, unrecognized by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I. While Christian himself, Eugenius capitalized on the discontent in the West caused by Theodosius' religious p ...

People

Aristocracy

* Eugenio Alfonso Carlo Maria Giuseppe, Prince of Savoy-Genoa *

Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux (14 December 1857 – 8 January 1919) was an Italian nobleman and member of the International Olympic Committee. Early life Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux was born on the 14 December 1857, in Vercelli, and was educated in ...

, Italian nobleman * Eugenio Consolini, Italian aristocrat * Eugenio da Palermo, admiral of the Kingdom of Sicily * Eugenio Daza, Filipino ''principale'', educator and military leader * Eugenio Lascorz, pretender to a royal house of Byzantium

Business

* Eugenios Eugenidis, Greek shipping magnate, benefactor and philanthropist *

Eugenio Garza Lagüera Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. I ...

, Mexican businessman and philanthropist *

Eugenio Garza Sada Eugenio Garza Sada (January 11, 1892 – September 17, 1973) was an industrialist in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, best known for founding the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) school system in the country. Gar ...

, Mexican businessman and philanthropist *

Eugenio Lopez III Eugenio Gabriel "Gabby" Lopez III (; born August 13, 1952) is a Filipino-American businessman who was the CEO (1993–2013), chairman (1997–2018) and chairman emeritus (2018–2020) of ABS-CBN Corporation, the largest entertainment and media ...

, current chairman and chief executive officer of ABS-CBN * Eugenio Lopez, Jr., former chairman emeritus of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation * Eugenio Lopez, Sr., founder of the Manila Chronicle and Chronicle Broadcasting Network *

Eugenio Mendoza Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa (Caracas, November 13, 1906, Caracas, October 17, 1979) was a Venezuelan business tycoon who made important contributions in the modernization of the country during the 20th Century. Early life He was the son of Eugenio M ...

, Venezuelan business tycoon

Film, journalism and television

* Eugenio Abunda, Jr., Filipino television host, publicist, talent manager and celebrity endorser *

Eugenio Batres Garcia Victor Eugenio Batres Garcia (born May 21, 1941 in Chinandega, Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142 ...

, Nicaraguan journalist, political commentator, newscaster and writer *

Eugenio Bava Eugenio Bava (4 June 1886, Italy – 23 October 1966, Rome, Italy) was an Italian film cinematographer. His son was film director Mario Bava and his grandson is Italian horror film director Lamberto Bava. Selected filmography * ''Cabiria ...

, Italian cinematographer *

Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan (1878 – December 25, 1956) was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s. In Campinas, SP, he used to introduce ...

, Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter *

Eugenio Derbez Eugenio González Derbez (; born September 2, 1961) is a Mexican actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films and television series, including '' The Book of Life'', ''The Angry Birds Movie 2'', and '' CODA''. In the 2010s, he appeared in ...

, Mexican comedy actor and Formula Three auto driver *

Eugenio Martín Eugenio Martín Márquez (15 May 1925 – 23 January 2023) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was known for the low-budget Film genre, genre films he made in the 1960s and 1970s, including ''Bad Man's River'', ''The Bounty Killer' ...

, Spanish film director and screenwriter *

Eugenio Siller Eugenio Siller Margain (born April 5, 1981) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model who is best known for starring in popular novelas '' Rebelde'', '' Código Postal'', '' Al Diablo con los Guapos'', '' Mi pecado'', ''Aurora'', '' Una Maid en Manh ...

, Mexican actor and singer

Fine arts

Eugenio Agneni Eugenio Agneni or Agnèni (Sutri, Province of Viterbo, January 26, 1816 – Frascati, May 25, 1879) was an Italian painter, mainly of historic canvases. Biography Starting in 1833 in Rome, he began working with the painters Erzoche and the painte ...

, Italian painter *

Eugenio Caxés Eugenio Caxés (1574/75 – 15 December 1634) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was born into a Florentine family in Madrid, and wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete). His father ...

, Spanish painter of the Baroque * Eugenio Da Venezia, Italian painter * Eugenio Granell, Spanish Surrealist painter * Eugenio Tavolara, Sardinian artist

Music

* Eugenio Cavallini, Italian conductor, composer, violinist, and violist * Eugenio Colombo, Italian saxophonist and flautist * Eugenio Fernandi, Italian tenor *

Eugenio Finardi Eugenio Finardi (born July 16, 1952) is an Italian rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. Life Eugenio Finardi was born in Milan, Italy, on July 16, 1952, in a musical family: his father Enzo was an Italian music sound engineer a ...

, Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist * Eugenio Giraldoni, Italian operatic baritone * Eugenio Toussaint, Mexican composer, arranger and jazz musician.

Politics

Eugenio Aguilar Eugenio Aguilar González (15 November 1804 – 23 April 1879) was a Salvadoran politician who served as president of El Salvador from 1846 to 1848. He also served as the mayor of San Salvador in 1839 and 1864, and the president of the Legisla ...

, President of El Salvador, 1946-1948 * Eugenio Alvarez (1918–1976), New York assemblyman * Eugenio Arbones, Spanish physician and socialist politician * Eugenio Bergamasco (1858–1940), Italian engineer and politician * Eugenio Cambaceres, Argentine writer and politician *

Eugenio Elorduy Walther Eugenio Elorduy Walther (November 21, 1940 – September 23, 2023) was a Mexican politician. He was governor of his adoptive state of Baja California from November 1, 2001 to October 31, 2007. His wife Maria Elena Blackaller served as first lady ...

, Mexican politician * Eugenio Fernández Cerra, former Puerto Rican Senator *

Eugenio Hernández Flores Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores (born October 17, 1959) is a Mexican people, Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and governor of Tamaulipas from 2 ...

, Mexican politician * Eugenio Manuvakola, the leader of UNITA Renovada * Eugenio Martínez, member of the anti-Castro movement in the early 1960s * Eugenio Perente-Ramos, founder of the National Labor Federation (NATLFED) *

Eugenio Pérez Eugenio Padlan Pérez (November 13, 1896 – August 4, 1957) was a Filipino politician who served as speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1946 to 1953. He was a member of the Liberal Party, whose president he served ...

, Filipino politician * Eugenio Rodríguez Vega, Costa Rican writer, politician, and historian * Eugenio Tandonnet, French utopian socialist * Eugenio Tarabini, late Italian politician and lawyer

Religion

Eugênio de Araújo Sales Eugênio, sometimes Eugénio, is a Portuguese masculine given name equivalent to Spanish Eugenio. People *Eugênio Sales (1920–2012), Brazilian cardinal *Eugênio Izecksohn (1932–2013), Brazilian herpetologist * Eugénio Fernando Bila ( ...

(1920–2012), Roman Catholic cardinal from Brazil * Eugenio Duarte, Church of the Nazarene minister * Eugenio Kincaid, American Baptist missionary * Felix Eugenio Mkhori, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate * Luíz Eugênio Pérez, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate *

Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...

, born Eugenio Pacelli * Eugénio Salessu, was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malanje, Angola * Eugenio Scarpellini, Italian priest *

Eugenio Tosi Eugenio Tosi (6 May 1864 – 7 January 1929) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1922 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922. Biography Early life Tosi was born in Busto ...

, Italian cardinal * Eugenius Vulgarius, Italian priest and poet * Eugenio Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome

Sciences, technology and mathematics

Eugenio Barsanti Eugenio Barsanti (12 October 1821 – 19 April 1864), also named Nicolò, was an Italian engineer and Catholic priest who, together with Felice Matteucci, invented the first internal combustion engine in 1853. Their patent request was granted in ...

, Italian engineer *

Eugenio Beltrami Eugenio Beltrami (16 November 1835 – 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. He was the first to ...

, Italian mathematician *

Eugenio Berríos Eugenio Berríos Sagredo (November 14, 1947 – November 15, 1992) was a Chilean biochemist who worked for the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA). Berríos was charged with carrying out '' Proyecto Andrea'' in which Pinochet ordered ...

, Chilean biochemist *

Eugenio Calabi Eugenio Calabi (May 11, 1923 – September 25, 2023) was an Italian-born American mathematician and the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equa ...

(1923–2023), Jewish Italian American mathematician * Eugenio Cantatore, Italian Dutch electrical engineer * Eugenio Curiel, Italian physicist * Eugenio de Bellard Pietri, speleologist *

Eugenio Elia Levi Eugenio Elia Levi (18 October 1883 – 28 October 1917) was an Italian mathematician, known for his fundamental contributions in group theory, in the theory of partial differential operators and in the theory of functions of several complex var ...

, Italian mathematician * Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti, Italian mathematician * Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra, Spanish engineer

Sports

* Eugenio Amore, Italian beach volleyball player * Eugenio Balanqué, retired Cuban decathlete *

Eugenio Canfari Eugenio Canfari (16 October 1878 – 23 March 1962) was an early Italian sporting director. He was one of the thirteen men who founded Juventus in 1897 and the club's first-ever president. His brother Enrico Canfari was also a founding member o ...

, early Italian football player *

Eugenio Castellotti Eugenio Castellotti (; 10 October 1930 – 14 March 1957) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 14 Grands Prix from to . Nicknamed "il Bello", Castellotti won the Mille Miglia and 12 Hours of Sebring, both in 1956 with ...

(1930–1957), Italian Formula One driver *

Eugenio Castellucci Eugenio Castellucci was an Argentine professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word ...

, Argentine football player *

Eugenio Corini Eugenio Corini (born 30 July 1970) is an Italian professional football coach and former player. A talented, dynamic, and hard-working playmaker, known for his precise long passing, flair and his ability to orchestrate his team's attacking moves ...

, Italian association football coach and former player *

Eugenio Fascetti Eugenio Fascetti (born 23 October 1938) is an Italian professional football coach and a former player, who played as a midfielder. Fascetti managed S.S.C. Bari in Serie A for several seasons before being dismissed towards the end of the 2000– ...

, Italian professional football coach and a former player * Eugenio Faxas, Dominican golfer *

Eugenio Fernando Bila Eugénio Fernando Bila (born 3 March 1979), commonly known as Genito, is a Mozambican former footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented The Black Mambas at 2010 African Cup of Nations. Honours Budapest Honvéd *Hungarian Cup T ...

, Mozambican football player * Eugênio German, Brazilian chess master * Eugenio Gestri, Italian professional road bicycle racer * Eugenio Hilario, Spanish professional association football player * Eugenio Konrad, Hungarian footballer and manager * Eugenio Lamanna, Italian professional football player * Eugenio Lazzarini, Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion * Eugenio Leal, retired Spanish footballer * Eugenio Luperto, football philosopher of De Zerbismo and Allegrismo * Eugenio Mena, Chilean left defender or midfielder * Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder *

Eugenio Morel Eugenio Félix Morel Bogado (born 2 February 1950) is a former Paraguayan professional footballer who played as a left forward. He has been characterized as a very fast, talented left-footed player who scored many goals playing the left forw ...

, retired professional footballer * Eugenio Neves, Portuguese footballer * Eugenio Peralta, Paraguayan footballer * Eugenio Rizzolini, retired Italian professional footballer * Eugênio Rômulo Togni, Brazilian footballer * Eugenio Rossi (athlete) (born 1992), athlete from San Marino specialising in the high jump * Eugenio Rossi (tennis) (born 1969), Italian retired professional tennis player * Eugenio Serrano, Spanish handball player *

Eugenio Siena Eugenio Siena (1 April 1905 - 15 May 1938) was an Italian racecar driver from Milan. A cousin of Giuseppe Campari, he was a mechanic and testdriver for Alfa Romeo (assistant to Enzo Ferrari). Next, he joined Scuderia Ferrari 1930–34. Siena wo ...

, Italian race-car driver * Eugenio Staccione, Italian professional footballer *

Eugenio Suárez Eugenio Alejandro Suárez (born July 18, 1991) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, and Seattle Mari ...

, Major League Baseball Player * Eugenio Suárez Santos, Spanish professional footballer * Eugenio Szabados, Hungarian-Italian chess master *

Eugenio Torres Villarreal Eugenio Torres Villarreal (born July 13, 1964) is a Mexican ''Lucha libre, luchador'', or professional wrestling, professional wrestler, Television presenter, television host, Singing, singer and comedian best known under his ring name Konan Big. ...

, Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, television host and rapper *

Eugenio Torre Eugenio Oliveros Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Filipino and non-Soviet Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. Torre di ...

, Filipino chess grandmaster *

Eugenio Vélez Eugenio Vélez Vancomper (born May 16, 1982) is a Dominican former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers from 2007 to 2011. Career Toronto Blue Jays ...

, Major League Baseball player * Eugene Currie, Rugby league player

Writing

* Eugenio Agacino y Martínez, Spanish sailor and writer *

Eugenio Barba Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark. Biography Barba w ...

, Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark * Eugenio Corti, Italian writer * Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish Catalan writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic * Eugénio de Andrade, Portuguese poet *

Eugénio de Castro Eugénio de Castro e Almeida (March 4, 1869 in Coimbra, Portugal – August 17, 1944) was a Portuguese writer and a poet. He was a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; , ) is a ...

, Portuguese writer and author * Eugenio de Ochoa, Spanish author, writer and translator * Eugénio de Paula Tavares, Cape Verdean poet * Eugenio Fuentes, Spanish novelist * Eugenio Mimica Barassi (1949–2021), Chilean writer *

Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 'for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has ...

, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature * Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan poet and essay writer *

Eugenio Scalfari Eugenio Scalfari (; 6 April 1924 – 14 July 2022) was an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of '' L'Espresso'' (1963–1968), a member of Parliament in Italy's Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972), and co-founder of ''La Repubblica'' and ...

, Italian journalist * Eugenio Sellés, Spanish writer, journalist, playwright and politician

Other

* Eugenio Balzan * Eugenio Biagini, Italian historian *

Eugenio Caballero Eugenio Caballero (born 1972) is a Mexican production designer. He is best known for his work on Guillermo del Toro's film ''Pan's Labyrinth'' for which he earned an Academy Award, Ariel Award, Art Directors Guild Award, Los Angeles Film Critics ...

, Mexican production designer * Eugenio Calò (1905–1943), Italian partisan * Eugenio Coşeriu, Romanian-German linguist *

Eugenio Courret Eugène Courret (1839 – 1920), known as Eugenio, was a French people, French photographer who was based in Lima, Peru. Biography Courret was born in Angoulême, the son of François Courret and Calixta Chalet. Courret came to Lima in 1860 to ...

, French photographer * Eugenio de Salazar, Spanish explorer * Eugenio Domingo Solans, Spanish economist * Eugenio Donato, Armenian-Italian deconstructionist, literary critic, and “philosophical critic” * Eugenio Espejo, medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of mestizo origin in colonial Ecuador *

Eugenio Garin Eugenio Garin (May 9, 1909 – December 29, 2004) was an Italian philosopher and Renaissance historian. He was recognised as an authority on the cultural history of the Renaissance. Born at Rieti, Garin studied philosophy at the University of Flo ...

, Italian philosopher and Renaissance historian * Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, Spanish soldier and poet * Eugenio Lopez (disambiguation) * Eugenio López Alonso, founder of the Colección Jumex *

Eugenio María de Hostos Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican ...

, Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist and independence advocate *

Eugenio Miccini Eugenio Miccini (b. Florence 1925 – d. Florence 2007) was an Italian artist and writer, considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry. Biography Eugenio Miccini (1925 in Florence – 2007 in Florence) is considered to be one of th ...

, Italian artist and writer * Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, Argentine lawyer * Eugenio Recuenco, Spanish photographer *

Eugenio Rignano Eugenio Vittorio Rignano (31 May 1870 in Livorno – 9 February 1930 in Milan) was a Jewish Italian philosopher. Biography He was born in Livorno to Giacomo Rignano and Fortunata Tedesco, into a Jewish family. Rignano edited the journal ''R ...

, Italian philosopher * Eugenio Sanz-Orozco Mortera, martyr of the Spanish civil war * Eugenio Sicomoro, Italian comic book artist *

Eugenio Trías Sagnier Eugenio Trías Sagnier (31 August 1942 – 10 February 2013) was a Spanish philosopher. Critics have likened his work to Ortega y Gasset in the philosophical literature written in Spanish. Biography Trías was born in Barcelona. After obtaini ...

, Spanish philosopher * Eugenio Vegas Latapié, Spanish monarchist writer, activist and conspirator