Eugene Clyde Brooks (December 3, 1871 – October 18, 1947) was an American educator.

[3] Brooks was an educator by trade and spent much of his early professional life working in the North Carolina school system as a teacher, principal, and superintendent.

[4] He was named head of the Department of Education at Trinity College in 1907, where he served until 1919 when he was appointed state superintendent of public instruction by Governor Thomas Walter Bickett.

Brooks resigned from the office in 1923 to become president of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now North Carolina State University).

In 1948 he was posthumously elected to the North Carolina Educational Hall of Fame.