Gene Walter Babb (born December 27, 1934 in El Paso, Texas) is a former American football fullback and linebacker in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. He also played in the American Football League for the Houston Oilers in 1962 and 1963. Babb played college football at the University of Texas and was drafted in the nineteenth round of the 1957 NFL Draft. Gene Babb played his college football at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.