Radu is a masculine

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

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of Slavic etymological origin, derived from the Old Church Slavonic root ''rad-'' (cf. '' радъ'' "glad"). Radu became widespread among the (non-Slavic) Romanians because of

Radu Negru Radu may refer to: People * Radu (given name), Romanian masculine given name * Radu (surname), Romanian surname * Rulers of Wallachia, see * Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960), disputed pretender to the former Romanian throne Other uses * Radu ( ...

's status as legendary founder of

Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and s ...

, a historical Romanian state. Many Wallachian and some

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...

n voivodes or princes have been named Radu. Notable people named Radu include:

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* Radu Albot (born 1989), Moldovan tennis player * Radu Aldulescu (1922–2006), Romanian-Italian cellist * Radu Aldulescu (born 1954), Romanian novelist * Radu Almășan (born 1980), Romanian singer of the band Bosquito * Radu Aricescu, Romanian-British molecular neuroscientist

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* Radu Barbu (born 1989), Romanian football player *

Radu Băldescu Radu Băldescu (16 October 1888 – 2 December 1953) was a Romanian major general during World War II. Biography Băldescu was born on 16 October 1888, at Mihăileștii de Sus, a village that now belongs to Scornicești, Olt County, Romania, ...

(1888–1953), Romanian general during World War II * Radu Bălescu (1932–2006), Romanian and Belgian physicist *

Radu Beligan Radu Beligan (; 14 December 1918 – 20 July 2016) was a Romanian actor, director, and essayist, with an activity of over 70 years in theatre, film, television, and radio. On 15 December 2013, confirmed by Guinness World Records, the actor receiv ...

(1918–2016), Romanian actor and director * Radu Berceanu (born 1953), Romanian engineer and politician * Radu Gioan Bey (1613–1660), Prince of Moldavia * Radu Bîrzan (born 1999), Romanian football player * Radu Boboc (born 1999), footballer * Radu Boureanu (1906–1997), Romanian poet and writer *

Radu Budișteanu Constantin-Radu Budișteanu (October 11, 1902–1991) was a Romanian lawyer and activist of the Iron Guard. Born in Târgu Jiu,Philippe Henri Blasen, "The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Iași and the Jews (1941-1944)", in ''Archiva Moldaviae'', vol ...

(1902–1991), activist of the Iron Guard * Radu Buzescu (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

c. 1593–1601), boyar of Wallachia during the reign of Michael the Brave

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* Radu Câmpeanu (1922–2016), Romanian politician and jurist * Radu Catan (born 1989), Moldovan football player * Radu Chiriac (born 2000), Romanian football player * Radu Ciobanu (born 1975), Romanian football player *

Radu Ciuceanu Radu Ciuceanu (16 April 1928 – 12 September 2022) was a Romanian historian and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party and later the Greater Romania Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2000 t ...

(1928–2022), Romanian historian and politician * Radu Crișan (born 1996), Romanian football player

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Radu Dărăban Radu Dărăban (born 26 June 1983) is a Romanian fencer. In the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil, but was defeated in the second round. Career Dărăban began fencing at age 9 at his local club, CSM Cluj, where he was train ...

(born 1983), Romanian fencer * Traian Rafael Radu Demetrescu (1866–1896), Romanian writer *

Radu Doicaru Radu Doicaru (born 26 February 1979) is a Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to t ...

(born 1979), Romanian football player * Radu Drăgușin (born 2002), Romanian football player * Radu Dudescu (1894–1983), Romanian architect

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Radu Filipescu Radu Filipescu (born December 26, 1955cpcadcr.presidency.ro/upload/Radu_Filipescu.pdf) is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident. Radu Filipescu's maternal uncle, Victor Groza, is the brother of Petru Groza, the first Communist Prime Ministe ...

(born 1955), Romanian anti-communist dissident *

Radu Florescu Radu Florescu (23 October 1925 – 18 May 2014) was a Romanian academic who held the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College. His work on Vlad Dracula includes a series of bestselling books that he co-authored with his colle ...

(1925–2014), Romanian historian and academic, professor at Boston College

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Radu Gabrea Radu Gabrea (20 June 1937 – 9 February 2017) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than twenty films between 1969 and 2016. He showed his first film in the Locarno Festival. Selected filmography * ' (1981) * ' (1984) ...

(1937–2017), Romanian filmmaker * Radu Pavel Gheo (born 1969), Romanian writer * Radu Ghiță (born 1990), Romanian handball player * Radu Gînsari (born 1991), Moldovan football player *

Radu Goldiș Radu Goldiş (born 1947 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian-born American jazz guitarist and composer. Goldiş is a graduate of the Bucharest Music Conservatory in the musicology department. He was Influenced by Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Wes Mo ...

(born 1947), Romanian-American jazz guitarist * Adrian Radu Gontariu (born 1984), Romanian volleyball player *

Radu Grigorovici Radu Grigorovici (November 20, 1911 – August 2, 2008) was a Romanian physicist. Biography Radu Grigorovici was born on November 20, 1911 in Chernivtsi, being the only son of the Bucovina Social Democrats Gheorghe and Tatiana Grigorovici. Af ...

(1911–2008), Romanian physicist *

Radu Gyr Radu Gyr (; pen name of Radu Ștefan Demetrescu ; March 2, 1905, Câmpulung-Muscel – 29 April 1975, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, essayist, playwright and journalist. Biography Early life Gyr was the son of actor Ștefan "Coco" Dumitresc ...

(pen name of Radu Demetrescu; 1905–1975), Romanian poet and writer

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* Radu Irimescu (1890–1975), Romanian businessman, politician, and diplomat *

Radu Ivan Radu Ivan (born 17 July 1969) is a Romanian judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【� ...

(born 1969), Romanian judo practitioner

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* Radu Jercan (1945–2012), Romanian football player * Radu Jude (born 1977), Romanian filmmaker

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* Radu Klapper (1937–2006), Romanian-Israeli poet and author * Radu Korne (1895–1949), Romanian general during World War II

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* Radu Lazăr (born 1947), Romanian water polo player *

Radu Lecca Radu D. Lecca (February 15, 1890–1980) was a Romanian spy, journalist, civil servant and convicted war criminal. A World War I veteran who served a prison term for espionage in France during the early 1930s, he was a noted supporter of ant ...

(1890–1980), Romanian spy and journalist * Radu Lefter (born 1970), Romanian football player * Radu Leonte (born 1991), Romanian football player * Radu Lupu (born 1945), Romanian pianist

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* Radu Malfatti (born 1943), Austrian trombone player and composer * Radu Manicatide (1912–2004), Romanian engineer and aircraft constructor * Radu Marculescu, electrical engineer * Radu Mareș (1941–2016), Romanian writer and journalist *

Radu Marian Radu Marian (; born in 1977) is a Moldavian male soprano or sopranist. He possesses a pure soprano voice in the range of C4 to C6, and he is considered an important singer in Baroque music. His repertoire incorporates cantatas written for sopra ...

(born 1977), Moldavian singer sopranist * Radu Ștefan Mazăre (born 1968), Romanian politician * Radu Mihăileanu (born 1958), Romanian-French actor and filmmaker * Radu Mîțu (born 1994), Romanian football player * Radu Motreanu (born 1998), Romanian football player *

Radu Muntean Radu Muntean (; born 8 June 1971 in Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He is a central figure of the Romanian New Wave.

(born 1971), Romanian filmmaker

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* Radu Negulescu (born 1941), Romanian table tennis player * Radu Neguț (born 1981), Romanian football player * Radu Niculescu (born 1975), Romanian football player *

Radu Nunweiller Radu Nunweiller (born 16 November 1944) is a former Romanian central midfield football player and manager. Club career Radu Nunweiller was born in Bucharest on 16 November 1944. He had an Austrian father named Johann Nunweiller, who settled in ...

(born 1944), Romanian football player

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Radu Paladi Radu Paladi (16 January 1927- 30 May 2013) was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor. His compositions include stage and film music, choral works, vocal music and vocal-symphonic works, chamber music, symphonic music as well as concertos. ...

(1927–2013), Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor * Radu Paliciuc (born 1988), Romanian basketball player *

Radu Pamfil Radu Pamfil (21 August 1951, in Baia Mare – 22 March 2009) was a Romanian football player who played for FC Baia Mare and Dinamo Bucureşti. In 1982, playing for FC Baia Mare, he started in both the European Cup Winners' Cup matches against ...

(1951–2009), Romanian football player *

Miron Radu Paraschivescu __NOTOC__ Miron Radu Paraschivescu (; 2 October 1911 – 17 February 1971) was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Born in Zimnicea, Teleorman County, he went to high school in Ploiești, after which he studied fine arts, first ...

(1911–1971), Romanian writer * Radu Petrescu (born 1980), Romanian rugby referee * Radu Marian Petrescu (born 1982), Romanian football referee * Radu Podgorean (born 1955), Romanian politician *

Radu Poklitaru Radu Poklitaru (born 1972 in Chișinău, Moldova) – choreographer-director working in Ukraine and many other countries of the world, the Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine (2017), the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine winner (2016), ''T ...

(born 1972), Moldovan choreographer * Dumitru Radu Popa (born 1949), Romanian-American writer *

Dumitru Radu Popescu Dumitru Radu Popescu (; 19 August 1935 – 2 January 2023) was a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and short story writer. He was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of the Romanian Wr ...

(born 1935), Romanian writer * Mihai Radu Pricop (1950–2018), Romanian politician

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* Radu Rebeja (born 1973), Moldovan football player * Radu Rogac (born 1995), Moldovan football player * Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960 as Radu Duda), husband of Margareta of Romania, pretender to the Romanian throne * Radu Rosetti (1853–1926), Moldavian and Romanian politician and writer * Radu D. Rosetti (1874–1964), Romanian writer * Radu R. Rosetti (1877–1949), Romanian general and historian

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* Radu Sabău (born 1968), Romanian water polo player * Radu Sabo (born 1971), Romanian football player * Radu Scîrneci (1926−2015), Romanian alpine skier * Radu Scoarță (born 1999), Romanian football player * Radu Simion (1940–2015), Romanian pan flute player * Radu Sîrbu (born 1978), Moldovan pop singer, formerly of the boy band O-Zone *

Radu Stanca Radu Stanca (March 5, 1920 – December 26, 1962) was a Romanian poet, playwright, theatre director, theatre critic and theoretician. He was born in Sebeș and died in Cluj-Napoca. Stanca was member of the Sibiu Literary Circle, a movement of ...

(1920–1962), poet, playwright, theatre director *

Radu Stroe Radu Stroe (born August 31, 1949) is a Romanian navigational engineer and politician. An independent, he was formerly a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). He was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Maramureș County from 20 ...

(born 1949), Romanian navigational engineer and politician * Radu Lucian Sulica, Romanian-American physician and laryngologist

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* Radu Țârle (born 1967), Romanian politician * Radu Timofte (1949–2009), Romanian soldier, politician, and spy chief * Radu Troi (born 1949), Romanian football player * Radu Țuculescu (born 1949), Romanian novelist and playwright *

Radu Tudoran Radu Tudoran (; born Nicolae Bogza; March 8, 1910 – November 18, 1992) was a popular Romanian novelist. He was born Nicolae Bogza in Blejoi, Prahova County, the younger brother of Geo Bogza, and son of . After graduating from the military hi ...

(1910–1992), Romanian novelist

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* Radu Varia (born 1940), art critic and historian * Radu Vasile (1942–2013), former prime minister of Romania * Radu G. Vlădescu (1886–1964), Romanian professor of veterinary medicine * Radu Voina (born 1950), Romanian handball player

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* Radu Zaharia (born 1989), football player

Romanian rulers

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(''Radu the Black''; born 1269), legendary founder of Wallachia * Radu I of Wallachia (

c. 1377–1383), Voivode of Wallachia, sometimes identified as Radu Negru * Radu II of Wallachia (''Radu II Praznaglava'', ''Radu II Empty Head'', ''Radu the Bald''; died c. 1428), reigned intermittently from 1420–1427 *

Radu the Handsome Radu III of Wallachia, commonly called Radu the Handsome or Radu the Fair ( ro, Radu cel Frumos; tr, Radu Bey; 1437/1439 — January 1475), was the younger brother of Vlad III and Prince of the principality of Wallachia. They were both sons o ...

(''Radu cel Frumos'', Radu III of Wallachia; 1437/1439–1475), the younger brother of Vlad III the Impaler * Radu IV the Great (''Radu cel Mare''; 1467–1508), son of Vlad Călugărul, reigned 1495–1508 *

Radu Bădica Radu Bădica (? – 19 January 1524) was the son of Radu IV the Great Radu IV the Great ( ro, Radu cel Mare), (1467 – 23 April 1508) was a Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia from September 1495 to April 1508. He succeeded his father, Vlad Călu ...

(died 1524), son of Radu IV the Great, reigned 1523–1524 *

Radu of Afumați Radu of Afumați (? – 2 January 1529) was Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia between January 1522 and January 1529 (with intermittences in the first year, because he lost the throne between April–June and August–October 1522). He began his rei ...

(''Radu de la Afumaţi''; died 1529), son of Radu cel Mare, reigned intermittently from 1522–1529 *

Radu Paisie Radu VII Paisie, officially Radul (Church Slavonic: Радул воєвода), also known as Radu vodă Măjescul, Radu vodă Călugărul, Petru I, and Petru de la Argeș (ca. 1500 – after 1545), was Prince of Wallachia almost continuously fr ...

(''Radu VII Paise'', ''Petru I'';

1534-1545), son of Radu cel Mare, reigned almost continuously from 1535–1545 * Radu Ilie Haidăul (died 1558), son of Radu of Afumați, reigned 1552–1553 * Radu Mihnea (1586–1626), son of Mihnea Turcitul, reigned from 1601–1602, 1611, 1611–1616, and 1620–1623 * Radu Șerban (died 1620), reigned from 1602–1610 and in 1611 *

Radu Iliaș Radu Iliaș (b.? - d. 1632) was Prince of Wallachia, between July 21/31, 1632 and September 20/30, 1632. Biography He was the son of Alexandru Iliaș, Prince of Wallachia between 1616–1618 and 1627–1629. The date of his birth and the date o ...

(died 1632), son of Alexandru Iliaș, reigned in 1632 * Radu Leon (also ''Radu the Oyster-seller''; died 1669), son of Leon Tomșa, reigned 1664–1669

Other uses

* Radu Barvon, a character in the light novel series '' Trinity Blood'' * George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist who used the pen name "Radu Vardaru" * Sofronie Drincec, Romanian Orthodox bishop born "Radu Ștefan Drincec"

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