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People

Alina Popa Alina Popa (born October 12, 1978) is a Romanian-born professional female bodybuilder currently living in the USA. Early life and education Popa grew up Brăila, Romania. From the age of 12, she competed in track and field, initially to lose ...

(born 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder * Anatolie Popa (1896–1920), Moldavian military commander *

Celestina Popa Celestina Stefania Popa-Toma (born 12 July 1970) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast, who competed internationally between 1985 and 1988.Constantin Popa Constantin Popa ( he, קונסטנטין פופה; born February 18, 1971) is a Romanian-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player. Biography Popa played for Dinamo Bucharest in his native Romania before going overseas to play colle ...

(born 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player *

Gabriel Popa (painter) Gabriel Popa (1937–1995) was a Romanian painter. Popa was born on 18 July 1937 in Ploiești, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgar ...

(1937–1995), Romanian painter * Grigore T. Popa (1892–1948), Romanian physician * Ilie Popa (1907–1983), Romanian mathematician * Ion Popa (disambiguation), several people *

Loredan Popa Loredan Popa, (15 July 1980, Vaslui, Romania) is a Romanian flatwater canoeist and current (2005) World and European champion in the Canadian canoe C-4 500m event. Popa's first international title came in 2000 as a member of the Romani ...

(born 1980), Romanian canoer * Marius Popa (born 1978), Romanian footballer *

Mihnea Popa Mihnea Popa (born 11 August 1973) is a Romanian-American mathematician at Harvard University, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for his work on complex birational geometry, Hodge theory, abelian varieties, and vector bundles. Aca ...

(born 1973), Romanian-American mathematician *

Nicolae Popa (judge) Nicolae Popa (born 1 September 1939) is a Romanian judge, the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice from 2004 to 2009. Popa, born in Govora, Vâlcea County, graduated the University of Bucharest's Law Faculty in 1960, receiving a D ...

(born 1939), Romanian judge *

Nicolae Popa (businessman) Nicolae Popa (born 1965) is a Romanian criminal. In 2006 he was sentenced ''in absentia'' to 15 years in jail for fraud and embezzlement related to the 2000 collapse of the Fondul Național de Investiții (FNI) Ponzi scheme, with an estimated ...

(born c. 1965), a Romanian businessman *

Roxana Popa Roxana Daniela Popa Nedelcu (born June 2, 1997 in Constanța) is a Romanian-born Spanish artistic gymnast who has represented Spain in all her international competitions. Popa first came into contact with gymnastics in her native Romania, where ...

(born 1997), a Romanian born Spanish artistic gymnast *

Sorin Popa Sorin Teodor Popa (24 March 1953) is a Romanian American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Popa earned his PhD from the University of Bucharest in 1983 under the s ...

(born 1953), a Romanian-American mathematician * Toma Popa (1908–1962), Romanian chess master *

Tudor Petrov-Popa Tudor Petrov-Popa (born 1963) is a Moldovan-born Romanian politician, arrested in Tiraspol in June 1992 by the Transnistrian separatists. Biography Petrov-Popa was a Soviet army veteran of the war in Afghanistan who was convicted together with ...

(born 1963), Moldovan-Romanian politician *

Valter Popa Iris is a Romanian rock band established in February 1977 by Ioan 'Nelu' Dumitrescu (drums), Ion 'Nuțu' Olteanu (lead solo guitar and vocals) and Emil Lechințeanu (bass guitar). They achieved success, followed by tours throughout Romania and ...

, Romanian guitarist *

Vasko Popa Vasile "Vasko" Popa ( sr-Cyrl, Васко Попа; 29 June 1922 – 5 January 1991) was a Serbian poet. Biography Popa was born in the village of Grebenac ( ro, Grebenaț), Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). After finishing hig ...

(1922–1991), Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent

Places

Mount Popa Mount Popa (, ) is a dormant volcano 1518 metres (4981 feet) above sea level, and located in central Myanmar in the region of Mandalay about southeast of Bagan (Pagan) in the Pegu Range. It can be seen from the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) Riv ...

, a volcano in central Burma (Myanmar) *

Patriarch Evtimiy Square Patriarch Evtimiy Square ( bg, площад „Патриарх Евтимий“, ''ploshtad Patriarh Evtimiy''), more popularly known as Popa (Попа, "The Priest"), is a small urban square and a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, the ...

, Sofia, Bulgaria, commonly known as Popa * Popa Falls, rapids in the

Okavango River The Okavango River (formerly spelled Okovango or Okovanggo), Also known as the Cubango River, is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for . It begins at an elevation of in ...

Popa, Lesotho Popa is a community council A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain. In England they may be statutory parish councils by another name, under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, or they ma ...

Popocatépetl Popocatépetl (; Nahuatl: ) is an active stratovolcano located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and Mexico in central Mexico. It lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt. At it is the second highest peak in Mexico, after C ...

, a volcano in central Mexico

Other uses

* ''Popa'' (mantis), a genus of praying mantises in the family Deroplatyidae *

Porin Palloilijat Porin Palloilijat or FC PoPa is a Finnish football club, based in the city of Pori in Finland. The club currently plays in the Ykkönen (First Division), the second highest level of Finnish football . The club was established in 1925 but did ...

(PoPa), a Finnish football club *Pop All General-Purpose Registers (popa), an instruction in

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