List of Famous people named Eugene

Shortened forms: Gene. Similar names: Gene, Eugen, Eugenio, Eugenie, Eugenia, Eugeni, Eugeny, Eugeen. Here are some famous Eugenes:

Eugene Levy

First Name Eugene
Born on December 17, 1946 (age 77)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Eugene Levy CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He is also well known for works such as the American Pie series of movies and the Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman (1996).

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Eugene Cernan

Eugene Andrew Cernan
First Name Eugene
Born on March 14, 1934
Died on January 16, 2017 (aged 82)

Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he was the last person to walk on the Moon.

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Eugene Lazowski

First Name Eugene
Born on January 1, 1913
Died on December 16, 2006 (aged 93)

Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby train station to conceal his supply of medicine to Jews in the local Ghetto, which backed on to his home. By doing this, he risked the German death penalty, which was applied to Poles who helped Jews in the Holocaust.

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Eugène François Vidocq

First Name Eugène
Died on May 11, 1857

Eugène-François Vidocq was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. The former criminal became the founder and first director of the crime-detection Sûreté nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French police department. He is also regarded as the first private detective.

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Eugene Scalia

First Name Eugene
Born on August 14, 1963 (age 60)

Eugene Scalia is an American politician and attorney who served in the Donald Trump administration as the 28th United States Secretary of Labor, from September 30, 2019 to January 20, 2021. He was formerly a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and previously served one year as Solicitor of the Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

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Eugène Delacroix

First Name Eugène
Born on April 26, 1798
Died on August 13, 1863 (aged 65)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

First Name Eugène
Died on September 17, 1879

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 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. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, and the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne. His later writings on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a notable influence on a new generation of architects, including Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Antoni Gaudí, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Eugene Landy

First Name Eugene
Born on November 26, 1934
Died on March 22, 2006 (aged 71)

Eugene Ellsworth Landy was an American psychotherapist known for his unconventional 24-hour therapy and especially for his treatment of the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson in the 1970s and 1980s. His treatment of Wilson was deemed unethical by Californian courts and was later dramatized in the 2014 biographical film Love & Mercy, in which Landy is portrayed by Paul Giamatti.

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Eugene Merle Shoemaker

First Name Eugene
Born on April 28, 1928
Died on July 18, 1997 (aged 69)

Eugene Merle (Gene) Shoemaker was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. 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 televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive evidence of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program.

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Eugene Lee Yang

First Name Eugene
Born on January 18, 1986 (age 38)

Eugene Lee Yang is a South Korean-American filmmaker, actor, producer, author, director, activist and internet celebrity, best known for his work with BuzzFeed (2013–2018) and being one-fourth of the YouTube group sensation The Try Guys (2014–present). Eugene Lee Yang is also known for his work with various human rights and LGBTQ+ advocacy charities such as The Trevor Project.

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