Eugene is a common masculine given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (eugenēs), "noble", literally "well-born",[1] from εὖ (eu), "well"[2] and γένος (genos), "race, stock, kin".[3] Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugenie.
Egon, a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant[citation needed] of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants include:
| Albanian
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Eugjen, Eugjeni
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| Arpitan
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Eugêne, Genio
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| Asturian
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Oxenu
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| Basque
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Euken(i)
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| Belarusian
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Jaŭhien (Яўген), Jaŭhienij (Яўгеній), Yauhen (Яўген)
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| Breton
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Ujan
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| Bulgarian
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Евгени (Evgeni)
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| Catalan
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Eugeni
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| Croatian
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Eugen
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| Czech
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Evžen, Eugen
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| Dutch
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Eugeen
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| Esperanto
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Eŭgeno
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| Estonian
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Jevgeni
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| French
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Eugène, Yvain
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| Galician
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Uxío
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| German
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Eugen, Eugine
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| Greek
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Ευγένιος (Eugénios)
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| Hungarian
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Jenő, Eugén
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| Irish
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Eoghan/Eóghan[4][5]
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| Italian
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Eugenio
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| Japanese
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ユージーン (romanized as Yūjīn)
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| Korean
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유진 (romanized as Yujin or Yoojin)
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| Latin
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Eugenius
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| Latvian
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Eugenijs/Eižens, Jevgēņijs/Jevgeņijs/Jevgenijs
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| Lithuanian
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Eugenijus
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| Macedonian
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Евгениј (Evgenij)
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| Occitan
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Eugèni
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| Piedmontese
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Genio
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| Polish
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Eugeniusz (Gienek)
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| Portuguese
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Eugênio (Brazil), Eugénio (Portugal)
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| Romanian
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Eugen, Eugeniu
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| Russian
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Евгений (transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeniy, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgueni, Eugeny, Eugeniy, Ievgeny, Jevgeni, Jevgeny, Yevgeny, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy, in German often as Jewgenij or Jewgeni)
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| Scottish Gaelic
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Eoghann,[5] Ewan, Euan
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| Serbian
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Еуген (Eugen), Евгеније (Evgenije)
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| Sicilian
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Eugeniu
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| Slovak
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Eugen
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| Slovenian
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Evgen
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| Spanish
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Eugenio
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| Swedish
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Eugen
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| Syriac
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ܐܘܓܝܢ (Augin)
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| Ukrainian
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Євген (national translit. Yevhen, also occur Ievhen, Yevgen, Ievgen), Євгеній (Yevhenii, also occur Yevgenii, Ievhenii, Ievgenii, Yevheniy, Yevgeniy, Ievheniy), Евген (Evhen), Ївген (Yivhen)
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| Welsh
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Owain,[4][5] Owen,[4][5] Ouein,[4] Oen,[4] Ewein,[4] Ywein/Ywain,[4] Yuein,[4]
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People
Notable people with the given name Eugene or Eugène include:
Christianity
Military
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), Austrian general, statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian monarchy
- Eugène de Beauharnais (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 (1923–2001), American World War II Marine and academic
- Eugene Sullivan, (1918-1942), American sailor, one of the Sullivan brothers.
Television and films
- Gene L. Coon (1924–1973), American screenwriter and television producer
- Eugene Cordero (born 1986), American actor
- Eugene Robert Glazer (born 1942), American actor
- Gene Hackman (born 1930), American actor
- Gene Kelly (1912–1996), American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer
- Eugene Levy (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 (1921–1991), American scriptwriter and producer
- Eugène Saccomano (1936–2019), French radio journalist and non-fiction author
- Gene Siskel (1946–1999), American film critic
Music
- Gene Allison (1934–2004), American R&B singer
- Gene Austin (1900–1972), American singer-songwriter
- Gene Clark (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 (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 (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 (fl. 2000s–2010s), Hong Kong jazz guitarist
- Eugene Tzigane (fl. 2000s–2020s), Japanese-American conductor
- Eugene Wright (1923–2020), American jazz bassist, member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
- Gene Simmons (born 1949), bassist and co-lead singer of rock band Kiss
Literature
- Eugene Field (1850–1895), American writer, columnist and children's poet
- Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), Romanian-French playwright and dramatist
- Eugène Marin Labiche (1815–1888), French dramatist
- Eugène Lanti (1879–1947), French Esperantist, socialist and writer
- Eugène Marais (1871–1936), South African writer and poet
- Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), American playwright
- Eugène Edine Pottier (1816–1887), French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport worker
- Eugene Trivizas (born 1946), Greek author
Art
- Eugène Broerman (1861–1932), Belgian painter
- Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), French painter
- Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), French symbolist
- Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter
- Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), Swiss decorative artist of the Belle Epoque
- Eugène Jansson (1852-1915), Swedish painter
- Eugene Lambert (1928–2010), Irish puppeteer
- Eugene Pandala (born 1954), Indian architect
- Eugene Oliver Palmer (born 1955) Jamaican-born British artist
- Evgenios Spatharis (1924–2009), Greek shadow theatre artist
- Eugene V. Thaw (1927–2018), American art dealer and collector
Politics
- Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926), American socialist
- Eugene Reginald de Fonseka (died 2003), puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Eugene D. Lujan (1887–1980), justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
- Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005), U.S. senator from Minnesota
- Eugene McGehee (1929–2014), Louisiana politician
- Eugene Mitchell (1866–1944), American lawyer and president of the Atlanta Board of Education
- Eugène Paquet (1867–1951), Canadian parliamentarian
- Eugène Ruffy (1854–1919), Swiss politician
- Eugene Sawyer (1934–2008), American businessman and politician
- Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941–2010), South African right-wing politician and leader of the AWB
Sports
- Eugene Laverty (born 1986), Irish professional motorcyclist
- Eugene Galekovic (born 1981), Australian goalkeeper
- Eugene Sseppuya (born 1983), Ugandan football striker
- Eugène Chaboud (1907–1983), Formula One driver from France
- Eugène Christophe (1885–1970), French professional cyclist
- Eugene Lawrence (born 1986), American professional basketball player
- Eugene Selznick (1930–2012), American volleyball player
- Eugene Glazer (fencer) (born 1939), American Olympic fencer
- Gene Cockrell (1934–2020), American football player
- Gene Filipski (1931–1994), American football player
- Gene Moore (outfielder) (1909–1978), right fielder in Major League Baseball
- Gene Moore (pitcher) (1886–1938), left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Gene Okerlund (1942–2019), American professional wrestling announcer
- Gene Prebola (1938–2021), American football player
- Geno Smith (born 1990), American football player
- Gene Snitsky (born 1970), American professional wrestler who formerly performed for World Wrestling Entertainment
- Gene Upshaw (1945–2008), American football player, labor leader, and former NFL Players Association director
Sciences
- Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870–1944), Greek astronomer
- Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who coined the terms schizophrenia and autism
- Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), Belgian mathematician
- Eugene Cernan (1934–2017), American astronaut, eleventh person to walk on the Moon
- Eugene Chelyshev (1921–2020), Russian indologist
- Eugene Goodilin (born 1969), Russian material scientist
- Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882–1955), Belgian astronomer
- Eugene Gu (born 1986), American physician-scientist
- Eugene Guth (1905–1990), Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
- Eugene Lazowski (1913–2006), Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in World War II
- Eugene Parker (1927-2022), American solar and plasma physicist, after which the Parker Solar Probe was named
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997), American astronomer and geologist
- Eugène Simon (1848–1924), French arachnologist
- Eugène Soubeiran (1797–1859), French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
- Eugene Stanley (born 1941), American physicist
- Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
Other professions
- Eugene Allen (1919–2010), White House butler
- Eugene Burger (1939–2017), American magician and author
- Gene Gotti (born 1946), Italian-American mobster
- Eugene Jarvis (fl. 1970s–2020s), American computer games designer and programmer
- Eugene de Kock (born 1949), South African policeman serving a life sentence
- Gene Kranz (born 1933), NASA Flight Director
- Eugène Minkowski (1885–1972), French psychiatrist
- Gene Moore (window dresser) (1910–1998), American designer and window dresser
- Eugene Murtagh (born 1942), Irish billionaire businessman, founder of Kingspan Group
- Eugene K. Palmer (born 1939) American fugitive
- Eugene Skinner (1809–1864), American pioneer, founder of Eugene, Oregon
- Eugene Stoner (1922–1997), American firearms designer, who designed M16 rifle
- Eugene Tan (born 1970), Singapore political analyst and law lecturer
- Eugene Thuraisingam (born 1975), Singaporean criminal lawyer
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), French architect
