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
- Alexe Popescu, chemist
- Augustin Popescu, comic book artist
- Bogdan Popescu, basketball player
- Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, politician
- Cezar Popescu, rugby union player
- Constantin Popescu, World War II flying ace
- Constantin Popescu, politician
- Constantin Popescu, filmmaker
- Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator
- Cosmin Popescu (environmental scientist) Timișoara
- 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
- Dan Mircea Popescu, politician
- Daniel Popescu, footballer
- David Popescu, soldier and politician
- David Popescu, perennial candidate in Canadian elections
- Dimitrie Popescu, rower
- Dorin Popescu, mathematician
- Dorin Gheorghe Popescu, archaeologist and historian
- Dumitru Popescu, politician
- Dumitru I. Popescu, general and politician
- Dumitru Radu Popescu, writer and communist activist
- Elena Liliana Popescu, poet and translator
- Elvira Popescu, actress
- Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper
- Florin Popescu, canoer
- Gabriel Popescu, football (soccer) player
- Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, engineer
- Gheorghe Popescu, football (soccer) player
- Gheorghe Popescu-Ciocănel, World War II flying ace
- Ilie Daniel Popescu, artistic gymnast
- Ioan-Ioviţ Popescu, physicist
- Ion Popescu-Gopo, animator and cartoonist
- Ion Popescu-Pasărea, musician, musicologist, and schoolteacher
- Ion Popescu-Puţuri, communist activist and historian
- Ion Popescu-Voiteşti, geologist
- Ionuţ Popescu, politician
- Iulia Popescu, actress
- J. David Popescu, Canadian politician
- Liliana Popescu, middle distance runner
- Lucian Popescu, boxer
- Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error
- Marin Popescu-Spineni, geographer
- Marioara Popescu, rower
- Mihai Popescu, actor
- Mitică Popescu, actor
- N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer
- Nicolae Popescu, mathematician
- Radu Popescu, Wallachian chronicler
- Răsvan Popescu, journalist
- Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress
- Smaranda Popescu, actress
- Sorin Popescu, mathematician
- Spiridon Popescu, writer
- Ştefan Popescu, painter
- Stela Popescu, actress
- Stelian Popescu, journalist and fascist activist
- Tudor Popescu, writer
- Valerian C. Popescu, stomatologist
- Vasile Popescu, painter
Others
- Alexandru Candiano-Popescu, soldier, journalist, and political conspirator
- Eufrosina Marcolini (born Eufrosina Popescu), actress and singer
- Sandra Romain (born Maria Popescu), pornographic actress
- Moş Ion Popescu, pseudonym of writer Ion Călugăru
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