Yevhen ( uk, Євге́н, Jevhén ), also spelled Evhen, is a common
Ukrainian given name. Its
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language.
Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...
form ''Евгении'' came from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''Eugenios'' (masculine form), names derived from the Greek adjective , literally "well-born".
["Євген" in ]
Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïns′koï Movy
' (''Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language''), O.S. Mel′nychuk, 1982–2006.
Yevhen is the Ukrainian equivalent of the English given name
Eugene.
People with the given name include
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Yevhen Adamtsevych
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych (19 December 19041 January 1972) was a prominent blind Ukrainian bandurist.
Biography
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia on 1 January 1904, not far from the town of Lubny, in ...
, blind Ukrainian kobzar-bandurist
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Yevhen Apryshko
Yevhen Anatoliovych Apryshko ( uk, Євген Анатолійович Апришко; born 23 January 1985) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian Association football, football midfielder currently playing for Ukrainian Second League club FC Kremin Kremench ...
(born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Baryshnikov
Yevhen Vitaliyovych Baryshnikov ( ua, Євген Віталійович Баришніков; born 1 August 1988) is a Ukrainian football manager and retired defensive midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association fo ...
, a Ukrainian football defensive midfielder who plays for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
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Yevhen Braslavets
Yevhen Anatoliyovych Braslavets ( uk, Євген Анатолійович Браславець; born 11 September 1972 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion.
He won a gold medal in the 470 class at t ...
, Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion
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Yevhen Bredun
Yevhen Bredun ( uk, Євген Бредун); Yevgeniy Bredun (russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Бреду́н; born 10 September 1982) is a Ukrainian (until 2015), Russian former footballer.
Career
Bredun began his professiona ...
, Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Sevastopol
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Yevhen Budnik, Ukrainian football midfielder for Metalist Kharkiv
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Yevhen Cheberyachko, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Chepurnenko
Yevhen Kostyantynovych Chepurnenko ( uk, Євген Костянтинович Чепурненко; born 6 September 1989) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Career Desna Chernihiv
In 2015, he returned to FC Des ...
, Ukrainian football striker who plays for FC Lviv
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Yevhen Chernenko
Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko ( uk, Євген Васильович Черненко; 5 October 1934 – 3 January 2007) was a Ukrainian archaeologist. He was Professor of Archaeology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an inte ...
, Ukrainian archaeologist
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Yevhen Drahunov, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Fedorovych Stankovych, Ukrainian composer
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Yevhen Hrebinka
Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka ( uk, link=no, Євген Павлович Гребінка; russian: link=no, Евге́ний Па́влович Гребёнка) (2 February 1812, Ubizhyshche (today – Marianivka), Poltava Governorate - 15 Dece ...
, Ukrainian romantic, writer and poet
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Yevhen Hutsalo
Yevhen Hutsalo (14 January 1937 – 4 July 1995 ) was a Ukrainian writer and journalist.
Biography
Hutsalo was born in Staryi Zhyvotiv, Vinnytsia oblast. He graduated from the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute in 1959, and was first published in 19 ...
, Ukrainian writer and journalist
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Yevhen Khacheridi
Yevhen Hryhorovych Khacheridi ( uk, Євген Григорович Хачеріді, el, Ευγένιος Χατσερίδης, ''Evgenios Chatseridis''; born 28 July 1987) is a Ukrainian footballer.
Club career Dynamo Kyiv
In 2010 he moved ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Evhen Khytrov
Evhen Khytrov ( ua, Євген Ігорович Хитров; born 18 August 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. Khytrov won the gold medal at Middleweight division at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku.
Khytrov was also 20 ...
(born 1988), Ukrainian boxer
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Yevhen Konoplyanka
Yevhen Olehovych Konoplyanka ( uk, Євген Олегович Коноплянка; born 29 September 1989) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ekstraklasa club Cracovia and the Ukraine national team.
He began h ...
(born 1989), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Konovalets
Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets ( uk, Євген Михайлович Коновалець; June 14, 1891 – May 23, 1938), also anglicized as Eugene Konovalets, was a military commander of the Ukrainian National Republic army, veteran of the Uk ...
(1891–1938), Ukrainian military commander and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
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Yevhen Kucherevskyi
Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi ( uk, Євген Мефодiйoвич Кучеревський, russian: Евгений Мефодьевич Кучеревский) (6 August 1941 – 26 August 2006) was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most f ...
, Ukrainian football coach
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Yevhen Kushnaryov
Yevhen Petrovych Kushnaryov ( uk, Євген Петрович Кушнарьов, ) (January 29, 1951 – January 17, 2007) was a prominent Ukrainian politician of the post-Soviet era. Kushnaryov was considered one of the chief ideologues of the ...
, Ukrainian politician
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Yevhen Lapinsky
Yevhen Valentinovich Lapinsky ( uk, Євген Валентинович Лапинський, 23 March 1942 – 29 September 1999), also known as Yevgeny Lapinsky, was a Ukrainian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the ...
, Ukrainian volleyball player
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Yevhen Lemeshko
Yevhen Lemeshko ( uk, Євген Пилипович Лемешко; 11 December 1930 – 2 June 2016) was a Ukrainian football coach and chairman of the Council of Veteran Footballers. He started his football career as a player for FC Dynamo Kyiv, ...
, Ukrainian football coach
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Yevhen Levchenko
Yevhen Viktorovych Levchenko, also known as Evgeniy Levchenko ( uk, Євген Вікторович Левченко; born 2 January 1978 in Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a retired Ukrainian-Dutch footballer. The main participa ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Lozynskyi
Yevhen Lozynskyi ( uk, Євген Петрович Лозинський; born 7 February 1982 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Poltava.
Lozynskyi began his playing career with ...
, Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Zorya Luhans
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Yevhen Lutsenko
Yevhen Valentynovych Lutsenko (born 10 November 1980) is a Ukrainian former professional football midfielder.
Club career
Lutsenko began playing in the Dynamo Kyiv football school, before moving to Belgium to continue his training with R.S.C. A ...
, Ukrainian footballer who plays for SC Tavriya Simferopol
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Yevhen Lysytsyn
Yevhen Anatoliyovych Lysytsyn ( uk, Євген Анатолійович Лисицин; russian: Евгений Анатольевич Лисицын; born 16 July 1981) is a former Ukrainian professional footballer.
Club career
He made his debu ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Marchuk
Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk ( uk, Євге́н Кири́лович Марчу́к; 28 January 1941 – 5 August 2021) was a Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Ukraine after its indep ...
, Ukrainian statesman and politician
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Yevhen Novak, a Ukrainian footballer who plays for FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
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Yevhen Pavlov, Ukrainian football striker who plays for FC Volyn Lutsk
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Yevhen Petrushevych
Yevhen Omelyanovych Petrushevych ( uk, Євге́н Омеля́нович Петруше́вич; June 3, 1863 in Busk, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Kronland of Austro-Hungary – August 29, 1940 in Berlin, Germany) was a Ukrainian law ...
, Ukrainian lawyer, politician and president of the Western Ukrainian National Republic
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Yevhen Pisotskyi (born 1987), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Pokhlebayev
Yevhen Vasylyovych Pokhlebaev ( uk, Євген Васильович Похлєбаєв; russian: Евгений Васильевич Похлебаев; born 25 November 1971 in Poltava) is a retired Ukraine, Ukrainian Association football, footb ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Pronenko (born 1984), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Rudakov
Yevgeniy Vasilievich Rudakov (russian: Евгений Васильевич Рудаков; 2 January 1942 – 21 December 2011) was a Ukrainian footballer of Russian origin who played as a goalkeeper. In 1971, he was recognized as the Best Ukrain ...
(1942–2011), Ukrainian football goalkeeper
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Yevhen Seleznyov
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Seleznyov ( uk, Євген Олександрович Селезньов; born 20 July 1985) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Mynai.
He previously played three spells at Shakhtar Donetsk, ...
(born 1985), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Selin
Yevhen Serhiyovych Selin (Ukrainian: Євген Сергійович Селін; born 9 May 1988) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a left back or centre back for Chornomorets Odesa.
Club career
Selin was born in Voroshylovh ...
, Ukrainian football defender who plays for Vorskla Poltava
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Yevhen Semenenko
Yevhen Semenenko ( uk, Євген Семененко, born 17 July 1984) is a Ukrainian triple jumper.
He finished twelfth at the 2006 European Championships. He also competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, but without reaching the fi ...
, Ukrainian triple jumper
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Yevhen Shakhov (footballer born 1962)
Yevhen Serhiyovych Shakhov (born 6 August 1962, in Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. As of 2009, he works as an assistant coach with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
His son Yevhen Yevhenovych Shakhov is a profe ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Shakhov (footballer born 1990)
Yevhen Yevhenovych Shakhov ( uk, Євген Євгенович Шахов; born 30 November 1990) is a Ukrainian professional association football, footballer who plays as a central midfielder for the Ukraine national football team, Ukraine nat ...
, Ukrainian footballer
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Evhen Shapoval (born 1987), Ukrainian footballer
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Yevhen Shevchenko
Yevhen Shevchenko ( ua, Євген Шевченко; born 16 October 1987 in Dniprodzerzhynsk) is a Ukrainian football striker. He is tall. He weighs .
Club history
He played for FC Kremin Kremenchuk
Football Club Kremin Kremenchuk ( uk , ...
, Ukrainian football striker
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Yevhen Shmakov, Ukrainian football midfielder who is currently playing for Simurq PFC
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Evhen Tsybulenko (born 1972), Estonian professor of international law
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Yevhen Vynohradov
Yevhen Valeriyovych Vynohradov ( uk, Євген Валерійович Виноградов; born 30 April 1984 in Vasylkiv) is a Ukrainian hammer thrower. He was born in the Kyiv Oblast, in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet Union. His perso ...
, Ukrainian hammer thrower
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Yevhen Yevseyev (1987–2011), Ukrainian footballer
References
See also
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Ukrainian masculine given names