Eugene C Van Cooten (1820-1851) was a Dutch surgeon and missionary. He worked at Islington College, a part of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington in London and traveled to the Badagry mission in Nigeria in March 1850. He was among the first missionaries to work at the Yoruba mission in Badagry within the Church Missionary Society. He served from 1850 to 1851. Along with classmates, E. G. Irving and A. A. Harrison, they sacrificed their lives for their missionary work. He died in 1851.