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Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz is a Ukrainian-born musician, songwriter, and actor best known as frontman of New York's Gogol Bordello, and for roles in Everything Is Illuminated and Filth and Wisdom.
Eugene I. Gordon
Eugene I. Gordon (1930–2014) was an American physicist at Bell Laboratories who led gas-laser development, directed the Lightwave Devices Laboratory, and received the 1984 IEEE Edison Medal.
Eugene II
Eugene II was the 99th pope, serving from May 824 until his death in August 827, whose pontificate saw the Constitutio Romana and a Roman council in 826.
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu, 1909-1994), Romanian-born French playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd; wrote La Cantatrice chauve (1950) and Rhinocéros (1959); elected to the Académie française in 1970.
Eugene J. Mele
Eugene J. Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and three-dimensional topological insulators.
Eugene J. Peltier
Eugene Joseph Peltier (1910–2004) was an American civil engineer and US Navy rear admiral who served as chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks from 1957 to 1962.
Eugene J. Van Scott
Eugene J. Van Scott (1922–2025) was an American dermatologist who founded the National Cancer Institute's dermatology branch and developed the first effective drug treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Eugene Jarvis
Eugene Jarvis, also known as Eugene Peyton Jarvis, is an American arcade game designer known for Defender, Robotron: 2084, and the Cruis'n series, and co-founder of Raw Thrills.
Eugene Joseph Billiot
Eugene Joseph Billiot is an American analytical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, known for developing amino-acid-based molecular micelles that separate mirror-image drug forms by capillary electrophoresis.
Eugene Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky, also known as Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky, is a Russian cybersecurity entrepreneur born in 1965 who founded Kaspersky, a leading antivirus and cybersecurity company, and serves as its chief executive officer and majority owner.
Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner (1923–2003) was an Austrian-born American engineer and venture capitalist who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and the venture firm Kleiner Perkins in 1972.
Eugene Landy
Eugene Landy (1934-2006), American psychologist known for "24-hour therapy" and his controversial treatment, business partnership, and songwriting credits with Beach Boy Brian Wilson; lost his California license in 1989.
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts is the undergraduate liberal arts college of The New School in New York City, founded as the 1972 Freshman Year Program, renamed for Eugene M. Lang's 1985 $5 million gift, known for seminar-style classes.
Eugene Lee Yang
Eugene Lee Yang (born 1986) is an American producer, actor, writer, director, and co-founder of The Try Guys at BuzzFeed in 2014; he came out in the 2019 video "I'm Gay" and left the group in 2024 for film and literary work.
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, writer, and producer born 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario; SCTV and Christopher Guest mockumentaries, American Pie's dad, co-creator and Emmy-winning star of Schitt's Creek, host of The Reluctant Traveler.
Eugene Lindsay Opie
Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971) was an American pathologist who first linked the pancreatic islets of Langerhans to diabetes and spent more than 70 years in research.
Eugene Lukacs
Eugene Lukacs (1906–1987) was a Hungarian-American statistician known for work on characterizations of probability distributions, stability theory, and characteristic functions, and for his 1960 monograph Characteristic Functions.
Eugene M. Johnson
Eugene M. Johnson Jr., known as Gene Johnson, is an American neuroscientist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine who studies neuronal cell death and neurotrophic factors.
Eugene M. Rasmusson
Eugene M. Rasmusson, also known as Eugene Martin Rasmusson (1929–2015), was an American meteorologist whose 1982 composite of El Niño's life cycle founded modern ENSO diagnostics.
Eugène Marais Prize
The Eugène Marais Prize (Eugène Maraisprys) is a South African literary award for a writer's first or early creative work in Afrikaans, first awarded in 1961.
Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916–2005), Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator and representative, challenged President Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 antiwar Democratic primaries, won 42% in New Hampshire, prompting Johnson's withdrawal and Kennedy's entry.
Eugene Mele
Eugene Mele is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Charles Kane, predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2005.
Eugene Melnyk
Eugene Melnyk was a Canadian pharmaceutical executive and sports owner who built Biovail into Canada's largest drug company and bought the Ottawa Senators in 2003.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997) was an American geologist who founded astrogeology, proved Meteor Crater was formed by a meteorite impact, and co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which struck Jupiter in 1994.
Eugene Meyer (financier)
Eugene Meyer, also known as Eugene Isaac Meyer, was an American investment banker who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and bought The Washington Post in 1933.
Eugene Mirman
Eugene Mirman (born 1974, Moscow) is a Russian-born American stand-up comedian and actor, voice of Gene Belcher on Bob's Burgers, Flight of the Conchords landlord, alt-comedy figure, and founder of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival.
Eugène Mougin
Eugène Mougin (1852–1923 or 1924) was a French archer who won the gold medal in the Au Chapelet 50 meters event at the 1900 Olympics in Paris.
Eugene N. Sokolov
Eugene N. Sokolov, also known as Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov, was a Russian psychophysiologist at Moscow State University who explained the orienting reflex through his neuronal model of the stimulus.
Eugene Nida
Eugene Nida (1914–2011) was an American linguist who, as the American Bible Society's translation secretary, developed dynamic equivalence and reshaped Bible translation worldwide from 1964.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953), American playwright, first US playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1936) and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey into Night.