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


  • Mircea Popescu, British engineer


  • Mitică Popescu, actor


  • N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer


  • Nicolae Popescu, mathematician


  • Radu Popescu, Wallachian chronicler


  • Răsvan Popescu, journalist


  • Robert Popescu, Esq., attorney at law


  • 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


  • Moş Ion Popescu, pseudonym of writer Ion Călugăru




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