Eugenia (name)
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- For other meanings see Eugenia (disambiguation).
Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene that comes from the Greek eugenes "well-born," from eu- "well" + -genes "born." Variants include Eugènie (French) and Yevgeniya (Russian: Евгения).
Many people have had this name, including:
- Empress Eugénie, consort of Emperor Napoleon III of France.
- Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
- Saint Eugenia.
- Eugénie Olkhine, a Soviet spy in the United States in the 1940s.
- Eugénie de Guérin, French writer.
- Eugénie De Keyser, Belgian writer.
- Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie d'Orléans, sister of King Louis-Philippe of France.
- Eugenia Errázuriz, a Chilean patron of the arts.
- Blessed Eugenia Smet, a saint.
- Eugenia Volodina, a Russian model.
- Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica.
- Eugenia Smith claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.
- Eugenia Price, American author.
- María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Uruguayan teacher and poet.
- Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philip II of Spain.
- Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian historian and writer.
