Popescu
Popescu (Francisized as Popesco) is a family name very common in Romania (derived from popă, meaning priest). Used on its own, it may refer to:
- Adrian Popescu, football (soccer) player
- Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, politician
- Cezar Popescu, rugby union player
- Constantin Popescu, politician
- Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator
- Cosmin Alin Popescu, university rector
- Cristian Popescu (poet), poet
- Cristian Dumitru Popescu, Romanian-American mathematician
- Cristian Tudor Popescu, journalist and writer
- Cristian Popescu Piedone, politician
- Dan Popescu, comic book artist
- Dan Ioan Popescu, politician
- Daniel Popescu, footballer
- David Popescu, soldier and politician
- Dimitrie Popescu, rower
- Dumitru Radu Popescu, writer and communist activist
- Elvira Popescu, actress
- Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper
- Florin Popescu, canoer
- Gabriel Popescu (footballer), football player
- Gabriel Popescu (scientist), scientist and engineer
- Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, engineer
- Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1919), football (soccer) player
- Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1967), football (soccer) player
- Ilie Daniel Popescu, artistic gymnast
- Ion Popescu-Gopo, animator and cartoonist
- Irinel Popescu, surgeon
- Liliana Popescu, middle distance runner
- Lucian Popescu, boxer
- Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error
- Marioara Popescu, rower
- Mihai Popescu, actor
- Mircea Popescu, British engineer
- Mircea Popescu (table tennis), Romanian table tennis player
- Mitică Popescu, actor
- N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer
- Nicolae Popescu, mathematician
- Nicu Popescu, diplomat
- Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress
- Sandu Popescu, Physicist (quantum information)
- Spiridon Popescu, writer
- Ştefan Popescu, painter
- Stela Popescu, actress
- Stelian Popescu, journalist and fascist activist
- Vasile Popescu, painter
- Vlad Popescu, politician
Others
- Alexandru Candiano-Popescu, soldier, journalist, and political conspirator
- Eufrosina Marcolini (born Eufrosina Popescu), actress and singer
- Moş Ion Popescu, pseudonym of writer Ion Călugăru
Surname list
This page lists people with the surname Popescu. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
