Gene Farmer (died 1972) was an American journalist and a longtime senior editor at Life magazine. He joined the magazine as its sports editor and went on to serve as assistant national affairs editor, London bureau chief, and finally New York-based foreign editor, overseeing among other projects the serialization of General MacArthur's memoirs. A seasoned reporter, he co-wrote First on the Moon (1970), a landmark account of the Apollo 11 mission, with Dora Jane Hamblin, who had once worked under him at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. He was also the author of Massachusetts: Anatomy of Excellence. He died in 1972, aged fifty-two, while still on the staff of Life.