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Eugen Steinach

Eugen Steinach was an Austrian physiologist who identified the testicular Leydig cells as a source of male sex hormones and originated the 1920s "Steinach operation" rejuvenation craze.

Eugen Weidmann

Eugen Weidmann (1908–1939), German-born criminal who killed six people near Paris in 1937 with accomplices including Roger Million; guillotined at Versailles 17 June 1939, the last public execution in France.

Eugena Washington

Eugena Washington is an American model and actress who was Playboy's 2016 Playmate of the Year and finished third on America's Next Top Model in 2006.

Eugene (wrestler)

Eugene (Nick Dinsmore, "U-gene") was a WWE character, 2004-2007: a kayfabe nephew of Eric Bischoff with an intellectual disability who was a wrestling savant, winning tag team gold but later widely criticized as an offensive portrayal.

Eugene (김유진) (actress)

Eugene (유진, Kim Yoo-jin, 김유진), born 1981, is a South Korean actress and former S.E.S. member (1997 debut, 'I'm Your Girl'). Known for Loving You, King of Baking Kim Tak Goo, Penthouse (SBS Top Excellence 2020), and First Lady (MBN, 2025).

Eugene A. Bauer

Eugene A. Bauer is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for the biochemistry of matrix metalloproteinases and international epidermolysis bullosa classifications.

Eugene A. Hammel

Eugene A. Hammel, also known as Eugene Alfred Hammel, was an American anthropological demographer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983; he died in 2025.

Eugene A. Hildreth

Eugene A. Hildreth, known as "Pat", was an American internist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Eugene Allen

Eugene Allen (1919–2010) was a White House butler and maître d' for 34 years, serving eight presidents from Truman to Reagan. His life inspired Lee Daniels' The Butler, whose Cecil Gaines family is largely fictional.

Eugène Artur François Bersier

Eugène Artur François Bersier (1831–1889) was a Swiss-born French Reformed pastor who founded the Église évangélique de l'Étoile in Paris and composed an influential liturgy.

Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget (1857–1927), French photographer of vieux Paris; also Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget. Made ~10,000 documentary photographs of Paris on 18×24 cm glass negatives; championed posthumously by Berenice Abbott, acquired by MoMA in 1968.

Eugene Augustus Hoffman

Eugene Augustus Hoffman (1829–1902) was an Episcopal clergyman who served as dean of New York's General Theological Seminary from 1879 until his death, remembered as its most munificent benefactor.

Eugene B. Chang

Eugene B. Chang, also known as Eugene Chang, is a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Chicago, known for linking diet, gut microbes, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Eugene B. Waggoner

Eugene B. Waggoner was an American engineering geologist and National Academy of Engineering member known for dam and reclamation work with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Eugène Baie

Eugène Baie (1874–1963) was a Belgian French-language essayist, historian, and economist who led international commerce and statistics institutes and wrote Le siècle des Gueux, a six-volume history of Flemish sensibility.

Eugène Belgrand

Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878) was a French engineer and geologist who built the water supply and sewer networks of Paris under Baron Haussmann during the Second Empire.

Eugene Bogomolny

Eugene Bogomolny (Evgeny Borisovich Bogomolny, Евгений Борисович Богомольный) is a theoretical physicist at LPTMS near Paris, known for the 1976 Bogomolny bound underlying BPS states and for work on quantum chaos.

Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), Honfleur-born French marine and beach painter, precursor of Impressionism, nicknamed "king of skies" by Corot, teacher of Monet, first Impressionist exhibition 1874.

Eugene Braunwald

Eugene Braunwald (1929–2026) was a Vienna-born American cardiologist at Harvard who founded the TIMI Study Group and edited Braunwald's Heart Disease, called the father of modern cardiology.

Eugene Bullard

Eugene Bullard, born Eugene James Bullard, was an American boxer and soldier who became the first African American military pilot, flying for France in World War I.

Eugene Byrd

Eugene Byrd (born 1975) is an American actor from Philadelphia known for Sesame Street, Dead Man, 8 Mile as Wink, Anacondas, and Dr. Clark Edison on Bones, plus voice roles in Spider-Man animation.

Eugene C. Butcher

Eugene C. Butcher is an immunologist and physician, Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology at Stanford, who pioneered the multistep paradigm of white blood cell recruitment and won the 2004 Crafoord Prize.

Eugene C. Sakshaug

Eugene C. Sakshaug (1923–2016) was an American electrical engineer who spent 32 years at General Electric developing surge arresters, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

Eugene C. Starr

Eugene C. Starr, also known as Eugene Carl Starr, was an American electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power Administration whose 1942 series-capacitor work let power travel four times farther.

Eugène Cahen

Eugène Cahen (1865–1941) was a French mathematician who proved Cahen's constant irrational in 1891, wrote a 1894 Paris thesis on the Riemann zeta function, and published about 40 works.

Eugene Carl Starr

Eugene Carl Starr (1901–1988) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered long-distance high-voltage power transmission, chiefly as Chief Engineer of the Bonneville Power Administration in the Pacific Northwest.

Eugene Casalis

Eugene Casalis, also known as Eugène Casalis, was a French Protestant missionary who founded the Morija mission in Lesotho in 1833 and served as adviser to King Moshoeshoe of the Basotho.

Eugene Chaplin

Eugene Chaplin (Eugene Anthony Chaplin, born 1953, Switzerland), son of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill; RADA-trained recording engineer for the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Queen, maker of Charlie Chaplin: A Family Tribute and the musical Smile.

Eugène Charmat

Eugène Charmat was a French agricultural engineer and oenologist at the University of Montpellier who, between 1907 and 1909, perfected and patented the closed-tank Charmat method of sparkling wine production.

Eugene Chudnovsky

Eugene Chudnovsky is a Russian-born American theoretical physicist, Distinguished Professor at Lehman College, CUNY, known for foundational work on quantum tunneling of magnetization and advocacy for persecuted scientists.