Eugene (first name)
Eugene is a male given name of Greek origin ( Greek Εὐγένιος ) meaning well-born, noble, which occurs especially in the English-speaking world (short form: genes). The German-speaking form of the name is Eugen , the French-speaking Eugène .
Name bearer
- Eugene Aram (1704–1759), English philologist and murderer
- Eugene Byrd (* 1975), American actor
- Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), American astronaut
- Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926), American trade unionist and politician
- Eugene Galekovic (* 1981), Australian football player
- Eugene Allen Gilmore (1871–1953), American legal scholar and politician
- Eugene Robert Glazer (born 1942), American actor
- Ezra Eugene Gossage (1935-2011), American football player, see Gene Gossage
- Gene Hackman (born 1930), American actor
- Eugene Holiday (born 1962), governor of Sint Maarten
- Eugene Katschalow (* 1981), American poker player
- Eugene Kennedy (biochemist) (1919-2011), American biochemist
- Eugene Kennedy (psychologist) (1928-2015), American psychologist and author
- Eugene Kranz (* 1933), NASA flight director
- Eugene Lukacs (1906–1987), American mathematician
- Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005), American politician
- Eugene Myers (* 1953), American computer scientist
- Eugene Nida (1914-2011), American linguist
- Eugene O'Curry (1794–1862), Irish professor of history and archeology
- Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), American playwright
- Eugene Ormandy (1899–1985), American conductor and violinist of Hungarian origin
- Eugene Polley (1915–2012), American engineer
- Eugene Rabinowitch (1901–1973), American biophysicist
- Eugene Richards (born 1944), American photographer
- Eugene Robinson (born 1963), American football player
- Eugene Roche (1928-2004), American actor
- Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991), American screenwriter, television and film producer
- Eugene Schmitz (1864–1928), American politician, Mayor of San Francisco
- Eugene Amandus Schwarz (1844–1928), German-American entomologist
- Eugene Shoemaker (1928–1997), American geologist, impact researcher and astronomer
- Eugene Sledge (1923–2001), American soldier, author, and university professor
- Eugene Sseppuya (* 1983), Ugandan football player
- Eugene Stanley (* 1941), American physicist
- Gene Watts (* 1936), American trombonist
- Eugene Whelan (1924-2013), Canadian politician
- Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995) American-Hungarian physicist