Yevgeny

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. The short form is Zhenya (Женя), also transliterated as Jenya or Shenya.

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 grandmaster
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 (born 1980), Russian-born British newspaper publisher
Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985), Soviet theoretical physicist
Evgeniy Maloletka (born 1987), 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
Evgeny Velikhov (1935–2024), Russian physicist
Evgenii Wulff (1885–1941), Russian botanist, biologist and plant geographer
Yevgenii Vasilevich Zolotov (1922–1990), Soviet mathematician

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See also