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Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac's 1833–1834 realist novel set in Saumur, part of La Comédie humaine's Scènes de la vie de province; first great public success of Balzac, translated by Dostoevsky in 1844, repeatedly adapted for film and television.

Eugenio Baeza Fares

Eugenio Baeza Fares, born in 1960, is a Mexican businessman who founded Grupo Bafar in 1983, a Chihuahua-based meat and food group listed on the Mexican stock exchange since 1996.

Eugenio Bertini

Eugenio Bertini (1846–1933) was an Italian mathematician, Cremona's first student and a master of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for two theorems on linear systems.

Eugenio Calabi

Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023) was an Italian-born American differential geometer at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for the Calabi conjecture and the Calabi–Yau manifolds named after him.

Eugenio Centanni

Eugenio Centanni (1863–1942) was an Italian general pathologist and immunologist who, with Ezio Savonuzzi, identified the fowl plague virus at Ferrara in 1901, the fourth virus ever discovered.

Eugenio Coronado

Eugenio Coronado Miralles, born in Valencia in 1959, is a Spanish materials chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universitat de València, and director of its Institute of Molecular Science, known for molecular magnetism.

Eugenio Culurciello

Eugenio Culurciello is an Italian-trained American electrical and biomedical engineer, a Purdue University professor who designs low-power integrated circuits for biomedical instrumentation and artificial neural networks in hardware.

Eugénio de Andrade

Eugénio de Andrade, pen name of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), was a Portuguese poet and translator, one of the most widely translated of the twentieth century.

Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio Derbez (Eugenio González Derbez, born 1961, Mexico City; some sources say 1962) is a Mexican comedian, actor, director, and 3Pas Studios co-founder. Known for La familia P. Luche, dubbing Donkey in Shrek, Instructions Not Included, CODA's SAG-winning cast, and Radical.

Eugenio Elia Levi

Eugenio Elia Levi (1883–1917) was an Italian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, several complex variables, and Lie algebras, proving the Levi decomposition in 1905.

Eugenio Giani

Eugenio Giani is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party who has been President of Tuscany, known for opposing the national government's abolition of the vehicle tax.

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti

Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti (1890–1977) was an Italian algebraic geometer of the Segre school in Turin, known for the Togliatti surface, a quintic with 31 nodes.

Eugenio María de Hostos

Eugenio María de Hostos (El Ciudadano de América), Puerto Rican intellectual born 11 January 1839 in Mayagüez, died 1903 in Santo Domingo; independence advocate, sociologist, and founder of the first Dominican normal school in 1880.

Eugenio Mercuri

Eugenio Mercuri, born in 1963, is an Italian pediatric neurologist who directs child neuropsychiatry at the Gemelli hospital in Rome and led trials in spinal muscular atrophy.

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature; his books include Ossi di seppia and Satura.

Eugenio Picano

Eugenio Picano, born in Cassino in 1958, is an Italian cardiologist at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, known for stress echocardiography and lung ultrasound.

Eugenio Siller

Eugenio Siller (Eugenio Siller Margain), Mexican actor and singer born 1981 in Tampico, star of telenovelas Al diablo con los guapos and Mi pecado, Telemundo leads Aurora and Una Maid en Manhattan, Netflix's Who Killed Sara?, and the 2026 telenovela Todavía te amo.

Eugenio Suárez

Eugenio Suárez (Bolibomba), Venezuelan MLB third baseman born 1991 in Puerto Ordaz; Tigers, Reds, Mariners, Diamondbacks; 49-HR 2019 and 2025 seasons, 351 career home runs, 2026 WBC champion with Venezuela.

Eugénio Tavares

Eugénio Tavares (1867–1 June 1930), born on Brava, was a Cape Verdean poet, journalist, writer, and musician called the "Camões de Cabo Verde" and one of the first morna composers.

Eugenios Voulgaris

Eugenios Voulgaris (Ευγένιος Βούλγαρης) was a Greek Orthodox bishop, theologian, and philosopher of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, born on Corfu in 1716 and died in St. Petersburg in 1806.

Eugeniu Carada

Eugeniu Carada was a Romanian economist and liberal politician, considered the founder of the National Bank of Romania, which he drafted the law for and directed from 1883 until his death in 1910.

Eugenius II

Eugenius II (Ευγένιος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1821 to 1822, elected under Ottoman duress the day after Gregory V was hanged at the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence.

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (1888–1974) was a Polish chemical engineer and statesman who built the port of Gdynia and led the Central Industrial District as deputy prime minister.

Eugenol

Eugenol (4-allyl-2-methoxyphenol) is a phenylpropanoid making up most of clove oil, used in dentistry since the 16th century and as a flavoring, fragrance, and precursor to vanillin.

Euglandina rosea

Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or cannibal snail, is a predatory land snail (Spiraxidae) native to the southeastern USA that tracks prey and mates by following mucus trails with lip extensions; introduced as a failed biocontrol agent against Achatina fulica, it drove many Pacific island snail extinctions.

Euglena

Euglena, genus of flagellate protists (euglenids) described by Ehrenberg 1830; pellicle of protein strips, secondary green-algal plastids, eyespot and PAC photoreceptor; E. gracilis is the model species used in photosynthesis research, biorefineries, and heavy-metal bioremediation.

Euglenozoa

Euglenozoa is a phylum of single-celled flagellate protists, named in 1981, with four main lineages, euglenids, kinetoplastids, diplonemids, and symbiontids, including Trypanosoma, which causes sleeping sickness.

Euglyphida

Euglyphida, an order of Rhizaria testate amoebae (euglyphids) with self-secreted siliceous plate tests and filopodia; five families including Euglyphidae and Cyphoderiidae; soil and freshwater bioindicators forming protozoic silicon pools.

Euhemerism

Euhemerism, from Euhemerus of Messene's Sacred History (Ἱερὰ Ἀναγραφή), is the theory that gods were deified mortals; covers the Panchaia stele, fragmentary transmission, Christian reception, and modern euhemerization.

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환)

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환) is a South Korean plant immunologist and associate professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for discoveries about plant immune receptor activation.