Eugene F. Irschick was an American historian. He was born in Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu, India) in 1934, the son of Lutheran missionaries. He was a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1978. He died on November 10, 2022 in El Dorado Hills, California
Irschick, a 1951 graduate of the Kodaikanal School, earned his B.A. Honors in History with minor in Religion and Greek from Gettysburg College in 1955 and later a M.A. in South Asia Regional Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. He subsequently did his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964.