Eugene Kornel Balon (Polish: Eugeniusz Kornel Bałon,[1][2] Czech: Evžen Kornel Balon;[3][4] 1 August 1930 – 4 September 2013)[5] was a Polish Canadian and Czech zoologist and ichthyologist.

Balon was born on 1 August 1930 in Orlová in Czechoslovakia.

He went to the Polish High School in Orlová, where he took his A levels in 1949.

From 1953 to 1967 he worked in the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava where he studied the endemic fauna of Danube.

He died on 4 September 2013 in Guelph, at the age of 83.