Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the
Greek 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 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 the G ...
, 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
Pope Eugene I ( la, Eugenius I; died 2 June 657) was the bishop of Rome from 10 August 654 to his death. He was chosen to become Pope after the deposition and banishment of Martin I by Emperor Constans II over the dispute about Monothelitism.
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(died 657), Italian pope from 655 to 657
*Pope Eugene II
Pope Eugene II ( la, Eugenius II; died 27 August 827) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 6 June 824 to his death. A native of Rome, he was chosen by nobles to succeed Paschal I as pope despite the clergy and the people fav ...
(died 827), Italian pope from 824 to 827
* Pope Eugene III (died 1153), Italian pope from 1145 to 1153
* Pope Eugene IV (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
Saint Zenobius ( it, San Zanobi, Zenobio) (337–417) is venerated as the first bishop of Florence. His feast day is celebrated on May 25.
Life
Born of a Florentine noble family, Zenobius was educated by his pagan parents. He came under the ...
*Eugene (Eoghan)
Eugene may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...
(died c. 618), Irish saint
*Eugène Philippe LaRocque
Eugène Philippe LaRocque (27 March 1927 – 16 December 2018) was a Canadian Catholic priest, and Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall from 1974 to 2002.
LaRocque served as State Chaplain for the Knights of Columbus in Ontario from 1977 to 1987, ...
(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 marr ...
(1781–1824), stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
*Eugene A. Greene
USS ''Eugene A. Greene'' (DD/DDR-711) was a of the United States Navy, named for Ensign Eugene A. Greene (1921–1942), was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism in the Battle of Midway.
Namesake
Eugene A. Greene was born on 21 N ...
(1921–1942), American sailor, posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross
*Eugène Maizan
Eugène Maizan (28 September 1816 in Montauban – July 1845) was a French Naval lieutenant and explorer, possibly the first European to penetrate East Africa and the first to enter tropical Africa from Zanzibar. In 1844-1845 Maizan reached ...
(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
Eugene Robert Glazer (born December 16, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of "Operations" on the TV show '' La Femme Nikita''. Glazer was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and worked at a variety of jobs be ...
(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
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessibl ...
(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 ''Sta ...
(1921–1991), American scriptwriter and producer
*Eugène Saccomano
Eugène Saccomano (23 September 1936 – 7 October 2019) was a French radio journalist and non-fiction author.
Biography
Eugène Saccomano was born on 23 September 1936 in Marseille, southern France.Grégoire LeménagerEugène Saccomano, le journ ...
(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 (1893–1962), English conductor and composer
*Eugène Goossens, fils
Eugène Goossens (28 January 1867 – 31 July 1958) was a French-born conductor and violinist.
Career
Goossens was born in Bordeaux and studied in BrugesBanfield, StephenEugène Goossens (ii)Grove Music online (subscription required); accessed 1 ...
(1867–1958), French conductor and violinist
*Eugène Goossens, père
Eugène Goossens (25 February 1845 – 30 December 1906) was a Belgians, Belgian conducting, conductor.
Biography
He was born in Bruges and studied music as a child at the Church of Our Lady, Bruges, then at the Bruges Conservatoire. At the ...
(1845–1906), Belgian conductor
*Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz (; uk, Євген Гудзь, Yevhen Hudz, ; born Yevgen Oleksandrovych Nikolayev-Symonov, ua, Євген Олександрович Ніколаєв-Симонов, on 6 September 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer, composer, disc ...
(born 1972), Ukrainian-American singer, composer, disc jockey and actor, frontman of the band Gogol Bordello
* Eugene Izotov (born 1973), Russian-American oboist
* Gene Krupa (1909–1973), American jazz and big band drummer
* Gene McDaniels (1935–2011), American singer-songwriter
* Eugene Ormandy (1899–1985), Hungarian-born conductor
*Eugene Pao
Eugene Pao is a jazz guitarist. He has played with Jeremy Monteiro's group ''Asiana''.
References
External links
Official website
Living people
Hong Kong jazz guitarists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (livin ...
, Hong Kong jazz guitarist
*Eugene Tzigane
Eugene Tzigane (IPA – Ju:dʒi:n tsi'ga:n) (real name: Gene McDonough) is a symphonic and operatic conductor. He's serving as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Kuopio Symphony Orchestra in Kuopio, Finland, since 2023.
Biography
Tzigan ...
, 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
Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".
Early life and education
Field was born in St. Louis, Missour ...
(1850–1895), American writer, columnist and children's poet
*Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...
, Romanian-French playwright and dramatist
* Eugène Marin Labiche, French dramatist
*Eugène Lanti
Eugène Lanti was a pseudonym of Eugène Adam (19 July 1879 in Normandy, France – 17 January 1947 in Mexico). Lanti was an Esperanto, Esperantist, socialist and writer. He was a founder of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, and a longtime editor of t ...
, French Esperantist, socialist and writer
*Eugene Marais
Eugene may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...
, 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 literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier ...
, American playwright
*Eugène Edine Pottier
Eugène Edine Pottier (; 4 October 1816 – 6 November 1887) was a French revolutionary, poet, freemason and transport worker.
Pottier was elected a member of the Paris municipal council - the Paris Commune, in March 1871. Following the Commu ...
, 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 Chri ...
, Greek author
Art
*Eugène Broerman
Eugène Broerman (12 July 1861 – 7 October 1932) was a Belgian painter.
Life
He trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
His house, Antoine Delporteplein 2, Saint-Gilles, has been a protected historical monument since ...
, Belgian painter
* Eugène Boudin, French painter
*Eugène Carrière
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. He ...
, 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: Britis ...
, French painter
* Eugène Grasset, 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 ''W ...
, Irish puppeteer
*Eugene Pandala
Eugene Pandala is an Indian architect, known for building with values of environmental sustainability.
Education and career
Pandala completed his Bachelor's in Architecture from College of Engineering Trivandrum.
Pandala studied for a Masters ...
, Indian architect
*Evgenios Spatharis
Evgenios Spatharis ( el, Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης; January 2, 1924 – May 9, 2009) was the most prominent shadow theatre artist in Greece. He is credited with having brought the traditional Karagiozis plays to mass audiences through telev ...
, Greek shadow theatre artist
*Eugene V. Thaw
Eugene Victor Thaw (October 27, 1927 – January 3, 2018) was an American art dealer and collector. He was the owner of an art gallery on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, and a past president of the Art Dealers Association of America. With his wif ...
(1927–2018), American art dealer and collector
Politics
*Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialism, socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate ...
, 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
Eugene Webb McGehee (March 19, 1929 – April 11, 2014) was an American judge and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
McGehee was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana Stat ...
, Louisiana politician
*Eugene Mitchell
Eugene Muse Mitchell (October 16, 1866 - June 17, 1944) was an American lawyer, politician, and historian. He served as the President of the Atlanta Board of Education from 1911 to 1912, during which time he eliminated the use of corporal punish ...
, 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 elected to ...
, Canadian parliamentarian
*Eugène Ruffy
Eugène Ruffy (2 August 1854, in Lutry – 25 October 1919) was a Swiss politician.
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 14 December 1893 and resigned on 31 October 1899. He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Party of Switzerlan ...
, Swiss politician
* Eugene Sawyer, American businessman and politician
* Eugene Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB
Sports
*Eugene Laverty
Eugene Laverty (born 3 June 1986) is a professional motorcycle road racing, road racer from Northern Ireland, the brother of Michael Laverty, Michael and John Laverty, John.
For 2022, Laverty is contracted to ride for satellite BMW team Bonov ...
, Irish professional motorcyclist
*Eugene Galekovic
Eugen Josip Galekovic ( ; hr, Eugen Josip Galeković, ; born 12 June 1981) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeper coach for Adelaide United.
Biography
Club career
Galekovic's j ...
, 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
Marius Eugène Chaboud (12 April 1907 – 28 December 1983) was a French racing driver. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, scoring one championship point. He also participated in numerous non-Championship ...
, 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)
Eugene Gerson "Gene" Glazer (born November 24, 1939) is an American former foil fencer.
Early and personal life
Glazer was born in New York City, lived in Flushing, Queens, New York, and is Jewish. He became a securities analyst after college. ...
, American Olympic fencer
*Gene Cockrell
Eugene Oliver Cockrell (June 10, 1934 – May 16, 2020) was an American football offensive tackle who played three seasons with the New York Titans (football), New York Titans of the American Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Cleveland ...
(born 1934), American football player
*Gene Filipski
Eugene C. Filipski (June 14, 1931 – August 23, 1994) was an American football halfback who played two seasons with the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the seventh round of the 1953 NFL ...
(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, American professional wrestling announcer
*Gene Prebola
Eugene Nicholas Prebola (June 30, 1938 – December 10, 2021) was an American football tight end who played four seasons in the American Football League (AFL) with the Oakland Raiders and Denver Broncos. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the ...
, 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
Eugène Michel Antoniadi (Greek: Ευγένιος Αντωνιάδης; 1 March 1870 – 10 February 1944) was a Greek-French astronomer.
Biography
Antoniadi was born in Istanbul (Constantinople) but spent most of his adult life in France ...
, Greek astronomer
*Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", "schizoid", " ...
, Swiss psychiatrist who coined the terms schizophrenia and autism
* Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
* Eugene Cernan (1934–2017), American astronaut, eleventh person to walk on the Moon
*Eugene Chelyshev
Eugene Petrovich Chelyshev or E. P. Chelyshev (russian: link=no, Евгений Петрович Челышев, 27 October 1921 – 13 July 2020) was a Russian Indologist, academician and public figure. He was a full-time member of the Russia ...
(1921–2020), Russian indologist
*Eugene Goodilin
Eugene Goodilin (russian: Евгений Алексеевич Гудилин; born 18 November 1969) is Russian chemist and material scientist.
Biography
In 2006 was elected in the Russian Academy of Science and became the youngest corresponding ...
, 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 th ...
, Belgian astronomer
*Eugene Gu
Eugene Gu (born March 5, 1986) is an American physician and social media personality. While he was in medical school, he founded a company called Ganogen to develop methods to use fetal tissue implants in organ transplantation. Work at Ganogen ha ...
, 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 epidemic ...
, 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
Eugène Soubeiran (5 December 1797, in Paris – 17 November 1859, in Paris) was a French scientist.
From 1823 he served as chief pharmacist at La Pitie Hospital in Paris. In 1832 he became director of ''Pharmacie Centrale'', a drug manufacturin ...
, 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
Eugene Burger (June 1, 1939 – August 8, 2017) was an American magician. He was born in 1939 and was based in Chicago, Illinois. He was reputed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and bizarre magic.
Burger was also a philosop ...
, American magician and author
* Gene Gotti, Italian-American mobster
* Eugene Jarvis, American computer games designer and programmer
*Eugene de Kock
Eugene Alexander de Kock (born 29 January 1949) is a former South African Police colonel, torturer, and assassin, active under the apartheid government. Nicknamed "Prime Evil" by the press, De Kock was the commanding officer of C10, a counterins ...
(born 1949), South African policeman serving a life sentence
* Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director
*Eugène Minkowski
Eugène (Eugeniusz) Minkowski (; 17 April 1885 – 17 November 1972) was a French psychiatrist of Jewish Polish origin, known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology and for exploring the notion of "lived time". A student of ...
, French psychiatrist
*Gene Moore (window dresser)
Gene Moore (June 10, 1910 – November 23, 1998) was an American designer and window dresser. Moore joined Tiffany & Company in 1955, as its Artistic Director and Vice President.
Biography
Gene Moore is often cited as pioneer in the history ...
, American designer and window dresser
*Eugene Murtagh
Eugene Murtagh (born 23 June 1942) is an Irish billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Kingspan Group, a building materials manufacturer.
Early life
Eugene Murtagh was born on 23 June 1942, in Kingscourt, County Cavan, Ireland, ...
, 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
Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997) was an American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was redesigned and modified by Colt's Patent Firearm Company (now known ...
(1922–1997), American firearms designer, who designed M16 rifle
*Eugene Thuraisingam
Eugene Singarajah Thuraisingam (born 10 June 1975) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is the founder of the law firm Eugene Thuraisingam LLP, a law firm that specialises in international arbitration and criminal and commercial litigation. He is als ...
, 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, Hungarian physicist
Fictional characters
*Gene Belcher
This is a list of characters from the American animated television series ''Bob's Burgers''.
Appearances
Belcher family
The Belcher family is a family who runs the family business called Bob's Burgers. Loren Bouchard described their ethnicity ...
, 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 r ...
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*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
This is a list of characters from the Nickelodeon animated TV series ''Hey Arnold!'', where most residents live in the fictional Port, coastal city of Hillwood, in the state of Washington (state), Washington.
Main Arnold Shortman
Arnold Philli ...
, in ''Hey Arnold!'' media
*Gene Hunt
DCI Gene Hunt is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama ''Life on Mars'' and its sequel, '' Ashes to Ashes''. The character is portrayed by Philip Glenister in both ''Life on Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes'', w ...
, in ''Life on Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes''
*Eugene H. Krabs
Eugene Harold Krabs, better known as simply Mr. Krabs, is a fictional character in the American animated series, animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. He is voiced by actor Clancy Brown and first appeared in the series' pilot ...
or Mr. Krabs, in ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' media
*Eugene Meltsner
The following is a partial list of characters from the radio program ''Adventures in Odyssey''.
Major characters (currently active)
*John Avery Whittaker, voiced by Hal Smith (1987–1994), Paul Herlinger (1996–2008), and Andre Stoj ...
, in the ''Adventures in Odyssey'' series
*The title character in '' Eugene Onegin'', 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 othe ...
* 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 Entert ...
*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, quo ...
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* Eugene Young, in ''The Practice''
*Gene Evernight, also known as Kyrios, antagonist in ArcheAge
''ArcheAge'' is an Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPG developed by South Korea, Korean developer Jake Song (former developer of ''Lineage (video game), Lineage'') and his development company, XL Games. The game was released in K ...
* 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
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See also
*Eugene (disambiguation)
Eugene may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...
*Eugen
Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to:
* Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923
* Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pat ...
*Eugenio
Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese.
The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar de ...
*Eugenios Eugenios is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
* Eugenios of Trebizond, 4th century Christian saint and martyr
* E. M. Antoniadi (1870–1944), Greek-French astronomer Eugène Michel Antoniadi, also known as Eugenios Antoniadis
* Eugenios Eug ...
*Eugenius
Eugenius (died 6 September 394) was a usurper in the Western Roman Empire (392–394) against Emperor Theodosius I. While Christian himself, Eugenius capitalized on the discontent in the West caused by Theodosius' religious policies targeting p ...
, Western Roman emperor
*Eugenia (name)
Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene that comes from the Greek ''eugenes'' 'well-born', from ''eu''- 'well' + ''genes'' 'born' (from ''genos'').Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicons.v.' ...
* Kevin, a name of Irish origin with a similar meaning
References
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Given names of Greek language origin
English masculine given names