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Eugene Commins

Eugene Commins (1932–2015) was an American experimental atomic physicist at UC Berkeley known for precision measurements of parity nonconservation and the electron's electric dipole moment.

Eugene Cordero

Eugene Cordero, American actor, comedian, and writer of Filipino descent, born in Detroit; known for Pillboi in The Good Place, Casey in Loki, and voicing Sam Rutherford in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Eugène Cosserat

Eugène Cosserat (1866–1931) was a French astronomer and mathematician, professor and director at the Toulouse Observatory, remembered as co-founder with his brother François of the Cosserat theory of elasticity.

Eugene D. Kwon

Eugene D. Kwon is a urologic oncologist and tumor immunologist at Mayo Clinic whose 1997 prostate cancer immunotherapy study was cited by the Nobel Committee.

Eugene D. Reed

Eugene D. Reed (1919–2008) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who led microelectronics development at Bell Laboratories, then headed weapons components at Sandia National Laboratories.

Eugene D. Robin

Eugene D. Robin (1919–2000) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist and Stanford professor whose work on pulmonary embolism and edema was matched by advocacy of patients' rights.

Eugene D. Shapiro

Eugene D. Shapiro is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at Yale School of Medicine since 1983, known for vaccine effectiveness studies and Lyme disease research.

Eugene D. Shchukin

Eugene D. Shchukin, born in Moscow in 1928, is a Russian surface scientist known for work on how surfactants govern the strength and fracture of solids.

Eugene Daniels

Eugene Daniels (Eugene Anthony Daniels-Stephens II, born 1989) is an American journalist, MS NOW senior Washington correspondent and co-host of The Weekend, formerly Politico Playbook co-author and White House Correspondents' Association president 2024-2025, known for covering Kamala Harris.

Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), son of Joséphine and stepson of Napoleon, was Viceroy of Italy 1805–1814, commanded the IV Corps in Russia in 1812, and became Duke of Leuchtenberg in Bavaria.

Eugène de Mazenod

Eugène de Mazenod, also known as Saint Eugene de Mazenod, was a French priest who founded the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and served as Bishop of Marseille from 1837.

Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863), French Romantic painter and muralist, leader of French Romanticism; painted Liberty Leading the People, Death of Sardanapalus, Women of Algiers; worked at Saint-Sulpice; studio-museum at 6 rue de Fürstenberg, Paris.

Eugene Demler

Eugene Demler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who spent twenty years as a Harvard professor before joining ETH Zurich in 2021, known for the theory behind cold-atom quantum simulators.

Eugene Dynkin

Eugene Dynkin, born Evgenii Borisovich Dynkin (1924–2014), was a Soviet and American mathematician known for Dynkin diagrams and for foundational work on Markov processes, and a Cornell professor from 1977.

Eugene E. Covert

Eugene E. Covert (1926–2015) was an American aerodynamicist who devised the first practical wind-tunnel magnetic-suspension system, headed MIT's aeronautics department, and served as US Air Force chief scientist.

Eugene E. Haller

Eugene E. Haller (1943–2018) was a Swiss-born materials scientist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab whose ultrapure germanium crystals enabled gamma-ray, far-infrared, and dark-matter detectors.

Eugene E. Siler, Jr.

Eugene E. Siler, Jr. (born 1936) is an American jurist, a senior judge of the Sixth Circuit appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.

Eugene Fama

Eugene Fama, University of Chicago finance professor, formulated the efficient market hypothesis and, with Kenneth French, the Fama-French three-factor model; he shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Hansen and Shiller.

Eugene Feenberg

Eugene Feenberg (1906–1977) was an American theoretical physicist and Wayman Crow Professor at Washington University in St. Louis who founded the correlated basis functions theory of quantum fluids.

Eugene Floyd DuBois

Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882–1959) was an American physician and clinical physiologist at Cornell who standardized basal metabolic rate measurement and devised the 1916 DuBois body-surface-area formula still used in medicine.

Eugène Fromentin

Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) was a French painter and writer, known for Orientalist paintings of Algeria, the psychological novel Dominique (1863), and the art criticism classic Les Maîtres d'autrefois.

Eugene Galanter

Eugene H. Galanter (1924–2016) was a Columbia University professor and a key founder of the cognitive psychology revolution, known as the co-author of Plans and the Structure of Behavior.

Eugene Gardner

Eugene Gardner was an American nuclear physicist at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory who, with César Lattes, recorded the first photographs of artificially produced pions in 1948.

Eugene Garfield

Eugene Garfield (1925–2017) was an American information scientist who invented citation indexing, founded the Institute for Scientific Information, and created the Science Citation Index and journal impact factor.

Eugène Gley

Eugène Gley (1857–1930) was a French physiologist, professor at the Collège de France, who first assigned the parathyroid glands a vital role and became a cofounder of organotherapy and endocrinology.

Eugene Gregoryanz

Eugene Gregoryanz is a professor of high-pressure physics at the University of Edinburgh whose diamond anvil cell experiments produced evidence for a new dense phase of hydrogen above 325 GPa in 2016.

Eugène Grisot

Eugène Grisot (Eugène François Grisot, 1866–1936), French tinsmith-archer of the Compagnie d'Ulysse; won 1908 Olympic Continental Style gold in London and three 1920 Antwerp team medals (two silver, one bronze).

Eugene H. Blackstone

Eugene H. Blackstone is an American physician-investigator at the Cleveland Clinic who works in cardiothoracic surgery outcomes research and received the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's 2013 Scientific Achievement Award.

Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was an American Presbyterian pastor, scholar, and poet who pastored a Maryland church for 29 years and wrote the best-selling Bible rendering The Message.

Eugene Henry Gravelotte

Eugene Henry Gravelotte (Eugène-Henri Gravelotte), French fencer (1876–1939), won men's individual foil at Athens 1896, beating Henri Callot 3–2, becoming the first French Olympic champion.