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(derived from ''popă'', meaning priest). Used on its own, it may refer to: *

Adrian Popescu Adrian Mihai Popescu (born 26 July 1960) is a Romanian retired football defender. Career He was born in Craiova and debuted in Divizia A with Universitatea Craiova in 1981. He gradually became their first-choice libero, and helped win the l ...

, football (soccer) player *

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 December 2004 to 22 December 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-pre ...

, politician * Cezar Popescu, rugby union player * Constantin Popescu, politician * Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator *

Cosmin Alin Popescu Cosmin Alin Popescu (born March 19, 1974 in Babșa, Timiș County) is a Romanian environmental scientist, University Professor and Rector of the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. Professor Popescu was reelected on ...

, university rector *

Cristian Popescu (poet) Cristian Popescu (; 1 June 1959 – 21 February 1995) was one of the most important Romanian poets of the 1990s. Born in Bucharest, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ...

, poet *

Cristian Dumitru Popescu Cristian Dumitru Popescu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in algebraic number theory, and in particular, in special values of L-functions. Education and c ...

, Romanian-American mathematician *

Cristian Tudor Popescu Cristian Tudor Popescu (; often referred to as CTP; born October 1, 1956) is a Romanian journalist, essayist, engineer, short-story writer and political commentator. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he also hosted talk shows f ...

, 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 Elvira Popescu (; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Life and career Pop ...

, actress * Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper *

Florin Popescu Florin Popescu (born 30 August 1974 in Iancu Jianu, Olt) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică Pricop (gold: C ...

, canoer *

Gabriel Popescu (footballer) Gabriel "Gabi" Popescu (born 25 December 1973) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Popescu represented the Romania national team 21 times and scored four goals, he was also capped 37 times for the U- ...

, football player * Gabriel Popescu (scientist), scientist and engineer *

Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu (8 August 1907–26 June 1982) was a Romanian engineer. He was born in Borca, Neamț County. After attending elementary school in his native commune and in Dobrovăț, Iași County, he went to high school in Bacău, ...

, engineer * Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1919), football (soccer) player *

Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1967) Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu (; born 9 October 1967) is a Romanian former professional football player who played as a defender. He notably played in La Liga where he is a former captain of FC Barcelona. He played for a string of European clubs ...

, football (soccer) player *

Ilie Daniel Popescu Ilie Daniel Popescu (born 1 June 1983 in Reşiţa) is a Romanian-born former artistic gymnast. He is an Olympic Team bronze medallist (2004), a world silver medalist (2007/ vault Vault may refer to: * Jumping, the act of propelling oneself u ...

, artistic gymnast *

Ion Popescu-Gopo Ion Popescu-Gopo (; 1 May 1923 – 28 November 1989) was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, film director, and actor. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a prominent personality in the Romanian cinematography and the ...

, animator and cartoonist *

Irinel Popescu Irinel Popescu, M.D. (born on 22 April 1953, Filiași) is a Romanian surgeon. He served as the manager of the Department of Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the . Career Popescu studied medicine at Carol Davila University of Medicine and P ...

, surgeon *

Liliana Popescu Liliana Popescu, née Barbulescu (born 5 February 1982) is a Romanian middle distance runner, who specializes in the 800 metres. Career Her personal best is 1:59.34 minutes, achieved in May 2008 in Bucharest. She has 4:00.35 minutes in the 1500 me ...

, middle distance runner * Lucian Popescu, boxer * Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error *

Marioara Popescu Marioara Popescu (later Ciobanu, born 9 November 1962) is a retired Romanian rower. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Olympics and won gold medals in 1984 and 1996. At the world championships she won seven medals between 1983 and 2000, inc ...

, rower * Mihai Popescu, actor * Mircea Popescu, British engineer *

Mircea Popescu (table tennis) Mircea Popescu is a male former international table tennis player from Romania. He won a bronze medal at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Toma Reiter, Matei Gantner, Tiberiu Harasztosi and P ...

, Romanian table tennis player *

Mitică Popescu Mitică Popescu (; 2 December 1936 – 3 January 2023) was a Romanian actor. Biography Popescu was born in Bucharest on 2 December 1936. He died on 3 January, at the age of 86, at the Elias Hospital in Bucharest, where he was hospitalized. Act ...

, actor * N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer *

Nicolae Popescu Nicolae Popescu (; 22 September 1937 – 29 July 2010) was a Romanian mathematician and professor at the University of Bucharest. He also held a research position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and was elected corresp ...

, mathematician *

Nicu Popescu Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu (born 25 April 1981, ) is a Moldovan author and diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova in the Sandu Cabinet from June to November 2019. Until and after his appointment, he was ...

, diplomat *

Rodica Popescu Bitănescu Mihaela Rodica Popescu Bitănescu (; born 8 August 1938 in Răsuceni, Ilfov County, Romania) is a Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania ** Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian langu ...

, actress *

Sandu Popescu Sandu Popescu (born 1956 in Oradea, Romania) is a Romanian-British physicist working in the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Career and research Popescu has been Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol sinc ...

, Physicist (quantum information) *

Spiridon Popescu Spiridon Popescu (August 13, 1864 – May 8, 1933) was a Romanian prose writer. Born in Rogojeni, Galați County, his parents were the peasant Constantin Dumitrașcu al Popei and his wife Safta (''née'' Tofan). He attended seminary in Galaț ...

, writer * Ştefan Popescu, painter * Stela Popescu, actress *

Stelian Popescu Stelian Popescu (February 18, 1874 in Lacu Turcului, Prahova County – 8 March 1954 in Madrid, Spain) was a nationalist Romanian journalist. Biography He was elected to Parliament many times. He was Minister of Justice in the Ionescu ca ...

, journalist and fascist activist *

Vasile Popescu Vasile Popescu (May 1, 1925 in Bucharest – 2003) was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the ...

, 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 Ion Călugăru (; born Ștrul Leiba Croitoru, Ion Călugăru, Ioan Lăcustă''"Uzina care încearcă să gonească morții". Note nepublicate (1948)'' at thMemoria Digital Library retrieved February 17, 2010 also known as Buium sin Strul-Leiba Cro ...

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