Popa


Popa may refer to:




Contents





  • 1 People


  • 2 Sports


  • 3 Places


  • 4 Biology


  • 5 Computing




People


Popa ("the priest" in Romanian) is a common family name in Romania and Moldova. Persons named Popa include:



  • Alina Popa (b. 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder


  • Anatolie Popa (1896-1920), Moldavian military commander


  • Celestina Popa (b. 1970), Romanian, artistic gymnast


  • Constantin Popa (b. 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player


  • Gabriel Popa (painter) (1937–1995), Romanian painter


  • Grigore T. Popa (1892-1948), Romanian physician


  • Loredan Popa (b. 1980), Romanian canoer


  • Marius Popa (b. 1978), Romanian footballer


  • Mihnea Popa (b. 1973), Romanian-American mathematician


  • Nicolae Popa (judge) (b. 1939), a Romanian judge


  • Nicolae Popa (businessman) (b. ca. 1965), a Romanian businessman


  • Roxana Popa (b. 1997), a Romanian born Spanish artistic gymnast


  • Sorin Popa (b. 1953), a Romanian-American mathematician


  • Tudor Petrov-Popa (b.1963), Moldovan-Romanian politician


  • Valter Popa, Romanian guitarist


  • Vasko Popa (1922-1991), Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent


Sports



  • Porin Palloilijat (PoPa), Finnish football club


Places



  • Mount Popa, a volcano in central Burma (Myanmar)


  • Patriarch Evtimiy Square in Sofia, Bulgaria, commonly known as Popa


  • Popa, a community in Lesotho


  • Popocatépetl, a volcano in central Mexico


Biology



  • Popa (genus), a genus of praying mantises containing the species Popa spurca


Computing


  • Pop All General-Purpose Registers, an x86 instruction



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