Eugene (given name)

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Gene is a common (masculine) first name that comes from the Greek genes (Greek- ευγενής, "noble", literally "well-born"). The name shares a root with the word genics. Variants include gène (French), gen (German, Romanian), genio (Italian, Spanish), jan (Persian: اوژن), vhen (Ukrainian: Євген), vgeniy (Russian: Евгений), geni (Bulgarian: Евгени), and Gene. The feminine variant is genia.

Many notable people have been named gene.

In Christianity:

  • Pope gene I, pope from 655 to 657
  • Pope gene II, pope from 824 to 827
  • Pope gene III, pope from 1145 to 1153
  • Pope gene IV, pope from 1431 to 1447
  • Charles-Joseph-gene de Mazenod (1782-1861), the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • St. gene, one of the deacons of Saint Zenobius
  • Saint genios of Trebizond was the patron saint of the Empire of Trebizond
  • Pope Pius XII, pope from 1939 to 1958

In military:

  • gène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), the stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
  • Napoléon gène, Prince Imperial, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo
  • Prince gene of Savoy (1663-1736), noted general and Austrian Field Marshal
  • Archduke gen of Austria (1863 - 1954), the last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923

In television and film:

  • gene Levy, Jewish-Canadian actor
  • Gene Hackman, Acclaimed Academy Award-winning American actor
  • Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer
  • Gene Wilder, Academy-award wnning American actor
  • Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer
  • Gene Rayburn, American gameshow host and radio personality
  • Gene Roddenberry, American scriptwriter and producer
  • Jerome gene Morrow, a suitably named character in Gattaca, a film on genetic discrimination
  • Thomas gene Paris, character in the fictional Star Trek universe who served aboard the USS Voyager as helmsman and pilot
  • Eugene Horowitz, unlucky character from the Hey Arnold! series
  • Gene Eugene, Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician

In music:

  • gène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer
  • gène Goossens, fils, French conductor and violinist
  • gène Goossens, père, Belgian conductor
  • Eugene Izotov, Russian-American oboist
  • gen Jochum, German conductor
  • Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
  • geny Mravinsky, Russian conductor
  • gene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor
  • gene Pao, Hong Kong jazz guitarist
  • Gene Pitney, American singer ("Hello, Mary Lou")
  • Gene Simmons, American musician in the band Kiss
  • Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor
  • Gene Vincent, American singer ("Be Bop a Lula")
  • Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
  • Gene Krupa, American jazz and big band drummer
  • Eugene (entertainer), a Korean singer of the group S.E.S.
  • Eugene Hütz, lead singer and guitarist of the group Gogol Bordello

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In science:

  • Eugene Guth, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to polymer physics and the Kinetic Theory of Rubber Elasticity
  • Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology
  • Eugène Simon, French arachnologist
  • Eugène Soubeiran, renowned French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
  • Evhen Tsybulenko, professor of international law
  • Jean Claude Eugène Péclet, French physicist
  • Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
  • Eugene Lazowski, Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in World War II

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