Yevgeni ( Russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Yevgeny, Yevgenii, Yevgeniy, Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgeniy, Evgenyi or Evgenij, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:

Note: Occasionally, a person may be in more than one section.

Arts and entertainment

• Yevgeny Aryeh (1947–2022), Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and set designer
• Yevgeni Bauer (1865–1917), Russian film director and screenwriter
• Yevgeni Grishkovetz (born 1967), Russian writer, dramatist, stage director and actor
• Evgeny Kissin (born 1971), Russian-Israeli pianist
• Evgenij Kozlov (born 1955), Russian artist
• Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), Soviet and Russian actor
• Yevgeni Mokhorev (born 1967), Russian photographer
• Evgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), Russian conductor
• Evgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), Russian conductor
• Yevgeni Urbansky (1932–1965), Soviet Russian actor
• Evgeniy Voishvillo (1907–1993), Russian artist
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), Soviet and Russian actor
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet and Russian poet
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), Russian author of political satire and science fiction
• Evgeny Zharikov (1941–2012), Soviet and Russian actor

Chess

• Evgeny Bareev (born 1966), Russian-Canadian chess grandmaster
• Evgenij Ermenkov (born 1949), Bulgarian chess player
• Evgeny Gleizerov (born 1963), Russian chess grandmaster
• Evgenij Miroshnichenko (born 1978), Ukrainian chess player
• Evgeniy Najer (born 1977), Russian chess grandmaster
• Evgeny Shtembuliak (born 1999), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
• Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born 1966), Russian chess grandmaster
• Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987), Russian chess grandmaster

Sports

• Evgeny Alexandrov (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
• Evgeniy Averchenko (born 1982), Kazakh footballer
• Yevgeni Balyaikin (born 1988), Russian footballer
• Evgeniy Barbakov (born 1954), Russian rower
• Evgeniy Belov (born 1990), Russian cross-country skier
• Evgeni Berzin (born 1970), Russian bicycle road racer
• Evgeniy Borisov (born 1984), Russian hurdler
• Evgeny Busygin (born 1987), Russian ice hockey player
• Yevgeni Bushmanov (born 1971), retired Russian football player
• Evgenii Dadonov (born 1989), Russian ice hockey player
• Yevgeni Dolgov (born 1969), Soviet and Russian retired football player
• Evgenij Dremin (born 1981), Russian badminton player
• Evgeniy Erofaylov (born 1975), Uzbekistani wrestler
• Evgeniy Garanichev (born 1988), Russian biathlete
• Evgeniy Gerganov (born 1975), Bulgarian road cyclist
• Evgeniy Goncharov (born 1986), Russian mixed martial artist
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov (born 1974), Russian retired tennis player
• Evgeni Karpoukhine (born 1973), Russian judoka
• Yevgeni Kharlachyov (born 1974), Russian retired football player
• Evgenii Klimov (born 1994), Russian ski jumper and skier
• Yevgeni Korablyov (born 1978), Russian footballer
• Evgeny Korolev (born 1988), Kazakh tennis player
• Yevgeni Kulik (born 1993), Russian ice hockey player
• Evgeny Kuznetsov (born 1992), Russian ice hockey player
• Yevgeni Kuznetsov (born 1983), Russian footballer
• Evgeny Lapenkov (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player
• Yevgeny Lapinsky (1942–1999), Soviet Olympic champion volleyball player
• Evgenii Lukantsov (born 1991), Russian canoeist
• Yevgeni Makeyev (born 1989), Russian football player
• Evgeniy Malinin (born 1986), Kyrgyzstani footballer
• Evgeni Malkin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
• Yevgeni Malkov (born 1988), Russian football player
• Yevgeny Maskinskov (1930–1985), Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk
• Yevgeni Matyugin (born 1981), Moldovan international footballer
• Yevgeni Mayorov (1938–1997), ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League
• Yevgeni Minaev (1933–1993), Russian former weightlifter
• Yevgeni Mishakov (1941–2007), retired ice hockey player
• Evgeni Nabokov (born 1975), retired goalie in the National Hockey League
• Evgeniy Pashutin (born 1969), Russian basketball coach and player
• Evgeniy Pechenin (born 1984), Russian cross-country mountain biker
• Evgeni Plushenko (born 1982), Russian figure skater and four-time Olympic medalist
• Evgeniy Prokopchuk (born 1994), Russian judoka
• Evgenyi Romanov (born 1985), Russian boxer
• Yevgeni Safonov (born 1977), Uzbekistan national team football player
• Yevgeni Sidorov (born 1956), Soviet and Russian retired football player and current manager
• Evgenij Spiridonov (born 1982), German artistic gymnast
• Evgeniy Timofeev (born 1994), Kyrgyzstani alpine skier
• Evgenii Tiurnev (born 1997), Russian tennis player
• Yevgeni Trefilov (born 1955), Russian team handball coach
• Yevgeni Varlamov (born 1975), Russian retired football player
• Yevgeni Yatchenko (born 1986), Russian footballer
• Yevgeni Zimin (1947–2018), retired ice hockey player
• Evgeni Semenenko (born 2003), Russian figure skater
• Evgenii Shvetcov (born 1998), Russian Paralympic track and field athlete
• Evgeniy Sviridov (bandy) (born 1974), Belarusian bandy player
• Evgeniy Tengel (born 1993), Belarusian sprint canoeist
• Evgenii Tiurnev (born 1997), Russian tennis player
• Evgenii Torsunov (born 1990), Russian para-athlete
• Evgeniy Yarovenko (born 1963), Kazakh-Ukrainian footballer

Other

• Evgeniy Abdullaev (born 1971), Russian-Uzbek poet, writer and critic
• Evgenii Alexeev (1946–1987), Ukrainian botanist
• Evgeniy Chuikov (1924–2000), Ukrainian landscape painter
• Yevgeny Chuplinsky, prolific Russian serial killer
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Belarusian research director
• Yevgeny Kaspersky (born 1965), Russian information security expert and entrepreneur
• Evgenii Landis (1921–1997), Soviet mathematician
• Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-born British newspaper publisher
• Evgeny Lifshitz, Russian theoretical physicist
• Evgeniy Maloletka, Ukrainian journalist and photographer
• Evgeny Morozov (born 1984), Belarusian journalist
• Evgeniy Morozov (choirmaster) (1944–2016), Russian choirmaster
• Evgenii Nikishin (1945–1986), Soviet mathematician
• Yevgeni Nikolayev (1921–1990), Soviet World War II colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Yevgeni Pakhomov (1880–1965), Russian, Georgian and Azerbaijani numismatist and archaeologist
• Evgeny Paton (1870–1953), Ukrainian and Soviet engineer
• Evgeny Perlin (born 1990), Belarusian journalist and television presenter
• Evgeniy Poddubny (born 1983), Russian war correspondent and propagandist
• Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886–1937), Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961–2023), Russian oligarch and founder of Wagner Group
• Evgenii Przhevalsky (1879–1953), Russian chemist
• Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942–2020), Soviet marshal and last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
• Evgeniy Shiryaev (1943–2023), Russian composer
• Evgeniy Svetlitsa (born 1983), Ukrainian ballet dancer
• Evgenii Troubetzkoy (1863–1920), Russian philosopher
• Evgeniy Udod (born 1973), Ukrainian politician
• Evgenii Wulff (1885–1941), Russian botanist, biologist and plant geographer
• Yevgenii Vasilevich Zolotov (1922–1990), Soviet mathematician

See also

• Yevgen
• 24609 Evgenij, a minor planet

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