Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the

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εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".γένος
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is

Eugenia ''Eugenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, ...

or Eugenie.

Egon Egon is a variant of the male given name Eugene. It is most commonly found in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark, and parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. The name can also be derived from ...

, a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants include:

People

Notable people with the given name Eugene or Eugène include:

Christianity

* Pope Eugene I (died 657), Italian pope from 655 to 657 * Pope Eugene II (died 827), Italian pope from 824 to 827 *

Pope Eugene III Pope Eugene III ( la, Eugenius III; c. 1080 – 8 July 1153), born Bernardo Pignatelli, or possibly Paganelli, called Bernardo da Pisa, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1145 to his death in 1153. He w ...

(died 1153), Italian pope from 1145 to 1153 *

Pope Eugene IV Pope Eugene IV ( la, Eugenius IV; it, Eugenio IV; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 3 March 1431 to his death in February 1447. Condulmer was a Venetian, and ...

(1383–1447), Italian pope from 1431 to 1447 *Eugene or Eugenios of Trebizond, 4th century Christian saint and martyr *St. Eugene, one of the deacons of saint Zenobius of Florence * Eugene (Eoghan) (died c. 618), Irish saint * Eugène Philippe LaRocque (1927–2018), Roman Catholic bishop from Canada * Eugene Antonio Marino (1934–2000), first African-American archbishop in the United States

Military

Prince Eugene of Savoy Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano, (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) better known as Prince Eugene, was a Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal in the army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th a ...

(1663–1736), Austrian general, statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian monarchy *

Eugène de Beauharnais Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marri ...

(1781–1824), stepson and adopted child of Napoleon * Eugene A. Greene (1921–1942), American sailor, posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross * Eugène Maizan (1819–1845), French naval lieutenant and explorer *

Eugene Sledge Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine Corps, United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed, ''With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa'' chroni ...

(1923–2001), American World War II Marine and academic

Television and films

Gene L. Coon Eugene Lee Coon (January 7, 1924 – July 8, 1973) was an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist. He is best remembered for his work on the original ''Star Trek'' as a screenwriter, story editor, and showrunner from the mid ...

(1924–1973), American screenwriter and television producer * Eugene Cordero, American actor * Eugene Robert Glazer (born 1942), American actor *

Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor and former novelist. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Hackman has won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, two BAFTAs ...

(born 1930), American actor * Gene Kelly (1912–1996), American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer *

Eugene Levy Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series '' SCTV''. He has also appeared in the '' American Pie'' series of films and the Canadian ...

(born 1946), Canadian actor * Eugene Mirman (born 1974), Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker * Gene Rayburn (1917-1999), American radio personality and game show host *

Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer, and creator of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', its sequel spin-off series '' Star Trek: The Animated Series,'' and '' S ...

(1921–1991), American scriptwriter and producer * Eugène Saccomano (born 1936), French radio journalist and non-fiction author *

Gene Siskel Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted a series of movie review programs on television from 1975 until his d ...

(1946–1999), American film critic

Music

Gene Allison Gene Allison (born Versie Eugene Allison; August 29, 1934 – February 28, 2004) was an American R&B singer. Allison was born in Pegram, Tennessee, and he grew up in Nashville, Tennessee singing in the church choir with his brother Leevert. ...

(1934–2004), American R&B singer * Gene Austin (1900–1972), American singer-songwriter *

Gene Clark Harold Eugene Clark (November 17, 1944 – May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best ...

(1944–1991), American singer, songwriter, founding member of the band The Byrds * Eugen Doga (born 1937), Moldovan composer *

Eugene Aynsley Goossens Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (; 26 May 189313 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer. Biography He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens (''fils'', 1867–1958) and Annie ...

(1893–1962), English conductor and composer * Eugène Goossens, fils (1867–1958), French conductor and violinist * Eugène Goossens, père (1845–1906), Belgian conductor * Eugene Hütz (born 1972), Ukrainian-American singer, composer, disc jockey and actor, frontman of the band Gogol Bordello *

Eugene Izotov Eugene Izotov (born 1973) is a Russian-born oboist and recording artist. He is Principal Oboist of the San Francisco Symphony appointed by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2014. He is the first Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra. ...

(born 1973), Russian-American oboist *

Gene Krupa Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973), known as Gene Krupa, was an American jazz drummer, bandleader and composer who performed with energy and showmanship. His drum solo on Benny Goodman's 1937 recording of " Sing, Sing, ...

(1909–1973), American jazz and big band drummer * Gene McDaniels (1935–2011), American singer-songwriter *

Eugene Ormandy Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. His 44-year association with ...

(1899–1985), Hungarian-born conductor * Eugene Pao, Hong Kong jazz guitarist * Eugene Tzigane, Japanese-American conductor * Eugene Wright (1923–2020), American jazz bassist, member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet *

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Legend of the Ysaÿe violin Eugène Ysaÿe ...

(1858–1931), Belgian violinist, composer and conductor

Literature

* Eugene Field (1850–1895), 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 * Eugene Marais, South African writer and poet *

Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature, literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama tech ...

, American playwright * Eugène Edine Pottier, French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport worker *

Eugene Trivizas Eugene Trivizas ( Greek: Eυγένιος Τριβιζάς; born 1946) is a Greek sociologist and writer of children's books. For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, Trivizas was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans C ...

, Greek author

Art

* Eugène Broerman, Belgian painter *

Eugène Boudin Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 18248 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summa ...

, French painter * Eugène Carrière, French symbolist *

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...

, French painter *

Eugène Grasset Eugène Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design. Biography G ...

, Swiss decorative artist of the Belle Epoque *

Eugene Lambert Eugene Lambert (1928 – 22 February 2010) was an Irish puppeteer and actor from County Sligo. He was owner of the Lambert Puppet Theatre in Monkstown, County Dublin. He was noted for co-starring as O'Brien in the RTÉ television series '' ...

, Irish puppeteer * Eugene Pandala, Indian architect * Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist * Eugene V. Thaw (1927–2018), American art dealer and collector

Politics

* Eugene V. Debs, American socialist * Eugene Reginald de Fonseka (died 2003), puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka *

Eugene J. McCarthy Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. ...

, U.S. senator from Minnesota * Eugene McGehee, Louisiana politician * Eugene Mitchell, American lawyer and president of the Atlanta Board of Education *

Eugène Paquet Eugène Paquet, (23 October 1867 – 8 May 1951) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Paquet was born in St-Agapit, Quebec, and prior to entering politics studied medicine and practised as a physician. A Conservative, he was first elect ...

, Canadian parliamentarian * Eugène Ruffy, Swiss politician *

Eugene Sawyer Eugene Sawyer Jr. (September 3, 1934January 19, 2008) was an American businessman, educator, and politician. Sawyer was selected as the 53rd Mayor of Chicago, Illinois after the sudden death of then–mayor Harold Washington, serving from Decembe ...

, American businessman and politician * Eugene Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB

Sports

* Eugene Laverty, Irish professional motorcyclist * Eugene Galekovic, Australian goalkeeper *

Eugene Sseppuya Andrew Eugene Sseppuya (born 1 April 1983) is a Ugandan football striker. Sseppuya is a former international for the Uganda national team. Biography Sseppuya played college soccer at Alabama A&M from 2001 to 2004, during which time he played ...

, Ugandan football striker * Eugène Chaboud, Formula One driver from France *

Eugène Christophe Eugène Christophe (born Malakoff, Paris, France, 22 January 1885, died in Paris, 1 February 1970) was a French road bicycle racer and pioneer of cyclo-cross. He was a professional from 1904 until 1926. In 1919 he became the first rider to wear ...

, French professional cyclist *

Eugene Lawrence Eugene Lawrence (born June 22, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for BC Novosibirsk of the Russian Basketball Super League 1. College career After a successful high school career, Lawrence went on to play for St. John's Universi ...

(born 1986), American professional basketball player * Eugene Selznick (born 1930), American volleyball player * Eugene Glazer (fencer), American Olympic fencer * Gene Cockrell (born 1934), American football player * Gene Filipski (1931–1994), American football player * Gene Moore (outfielder), right fielder in Major League Baseball * Gene Moore (pitcher), left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball *

Gene Okerlund Eugene Arthur Okerlund (December 19, 1942 – January 2, 2019), better known by his ring name "Mean Gene" Okerlund, was an American professional wrestling interviewer, announcer and television host. He was best known for his work in the World ...

, 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 Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatry, psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", " ...

, Swiss psychiatrist who coined the terms schizophrenia and autism *

Eugène Charles Catalan Eugène Charles Catalan (30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic ...

, Belgian mathematician * Eugene Cernan (1934–2017), American astronaut, eleventh person to walk on the Moon * Eugene Chelyshev (1921–2020), Russian indologist * Eugene Goodilin, Russian material scientist *

Eugène Joseph Delporte Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe. He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and ...

, Belgian astronomer * Eugene Gu, American physician-scientist * Eugene Guth, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist *

Eugene Lazowski Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski (1913 in Częstochowa, Poland – December 16, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, United States) was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemi ...

, Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in World War II *

Eugene Merle Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televise ...

, American astronomer and geologist *

Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4 ...

, French arachnologist * Eugène Soubeiran, French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital * Eugene Stanley, American physicist * Eugene Paul 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 (born 1949), 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 Skinner Eugene Franklin Skinner (September 13, 1809 – December 15, 1864) was an early American settler in Oregon and the founder of the city of Eugene, Oregon, which is named after him. Skinner was born in Essex, New York. His father was Major John Jo ...

, American pioneer, founder of Eugene, Oregon * Eugene Stoner (1922–1997), American firearms designer, who designed M16 rifle * Eugene Thuraisingam, Singaporean criminal lawyer *

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. H ...

, French architect *

Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner ( hu, Wigner Jenő Pál, ; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his con ...

, Hungarian physicist

Fictional characters

* Gene Belcher, a main character in the animated series ''

Bob's Burgers ''Bob's Burgers'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011. The show centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who ...

'' *Eugene Chaud, in

Mega Man Battle Network is a tactical role-playing video game series created by Masahiro Yasuma and developed and published by Capcom as a spin-off of the ''Mega Man'' series; it premiered in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance and takes place in an alternate continuity whe ...

*Eugene Fitzherbert, the male protagonist in '' Tangled'', commonly called 'Flynn Rider' *Eugene "Bling-Bling Boy" Hamilton, antagonist in the animated series '' Johnny Test'' * Eugene Horowitz, in ''Hey Arnold!'' media *

Gene Hunt Detective Chief Inspector, DCI Gene Hunt is a Character (arts), fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural Dramatic programming, drama ''Life on Mars (UK TV series), Life on Mars'' and its sequel, ''Ashes to Ashes (Briti ...

, in ''Life on Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes'' * Eugene H. Krabs or Mr. Krabs, in ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' media * Eugene Meltsner, in the ''Adventures in Odyssey'' series *The title character in ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Евгений Оне́гин, ромáн в стихáх, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn, r=Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh) is a novel in verse written by A ...

'', a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin also made into an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * Eugene (''Pokémon'') or Eusine, in ''Pokémon'' media * Eugene Tackleberry, in

Police Academy A police academy, also known as a law enforcement training center, police college, or police university, is a training school for police cadets, designed to prepare them for the law enforcement agency they will be joining upon graduation, or ot ...

* Eugene "Flash" Thompson, in the ''Spider-Man'' comics *Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch, comic relief in

Power Rangers ''Power Rangers'' is an entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live-action superhero television series, based on the Japanese tokusatsu franchise '' Super Sentai''. Produced first by Saban Entertainment, second by BVS ...

*Eugene Wrayburn, one of the main characters in Charles Dickens' novel ''

Our Mutual Friend ''Our Mutual Friend'', written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, qu ...

'' * 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 ''The Boss Baby'' is a 2017 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Loosely based on the 2010 picture book of the same name by Marla Frazee, it was directed by Tom McGrath ...

'' *Eugene Choi, a main character in the Korean drama '' Mr. Sunshine'' *Gene, a former antagonist on ''

Regular Show ''Regular Show'' (known as ''Regular Show in Space'' during its Regular Show (season 8), eighth season) is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over the co ...

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