Georgescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Andrei Georgescu, soccer player
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Dudu Georgescu
Dudu Georgescu (born 1 September 1950) is a retired Romanian footballer who played as a forward and a former coach.
Club career
Dudu Georgescu was born in Bucharest on 1 September 1950. He started his career at Progresul București, making his ...
, soccer player
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Dumitru Georgescu-Kiriac, composer and conductor
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Elena Georgescu
Elena Georgescu ( Nedelcu, born 10 April 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian coxswain who has won five Olympic medals in the women's eight event. She competed until 1991 under her maiden name.
See also
* List of multiple Olympic medalists in one ...
, coxswain
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Haralamb H. Georgescu
Haralamb H. Georgescu (1908–1977), also known as Harlan Georgesco, was a twentieth century Romanian-American modernist architect. He had a 44-year career spanning time in both Romania and the United States before dying in California in 1977.
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, architect
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George Georgescu
George Georgescu (September 12, 1887 – September 1, 1964) was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associa ...
, conductor
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George Georgescu (mathematician)
George Georgescu (September 12, 1887 – September 1, 1964) was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associ ...
, mathematician
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George Georgescu (water polo), water polo athlete
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Judith Georgescu, can-can dancer
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Justin Georgescu Justin Georgescu (June 11, 1922 – August 1942) was a Romanian Communism, communist activist and Anti-fascism, anti-fascist militant assassinated in police custody during World War II.
Born in Bucharest, Romania's capital, in 1922, Justin Georgesc ...
, communist activist and anti-fascist militant
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Mihai Georgescu Mihai () is a Romanian given name for males or a surname. It is equivalent to the English name Michael. A variant of the name is Mihail. Its female form is Mihaela.
As a given name
*Mihai I of Romania (1921–2017), King of Romania until 1947
* Mi ...
, rock music singer
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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 ''The Entropy Law and the Economic Process'', in which he argu ...
, economist and statistician
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Paul Georgescu
Paul Georgescu (; November 7, 1923 – October 15, 1989) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure. Remembered as both a main participant in the imposition of Socialist Realism in its Romanian form ...
, literary critic, novelist and communist activist
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Peter Georgescu Peter Andrew Georgescu (born March 9, 1939 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-American business executive, author, and the Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam.
Early life and education
Peter's father, Valeriu C. Georgescu was the manager of the Romanian ...
(1939- ), former Young & Rubicam executive
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Pimen Georgescu Pimen (Russian Пи́мен, Пими́н) ( gr , ποιμήν — shepherd) is a Greek male given name. Used by Russian Orthodox church monastics.
It may refer to:
* Pimen, Metropolitan of Moscow, aka Pimen the Greek, Metropolitan of Moscow from 13 ...
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Metropolitan of Moldavia
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Teohari Georgescu
Teohari Georgescu (January 31, 1908 – December 31, 1976) was a Romanian statesman and a high-ranking member of the Romanian Communist Party.
Early life
Born in Chitila, near Bucharest, he was the third of seven children of Constantin and An ...
, communist politician
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Vlad Georgescu
Vlad Georgescu (October 20, 1937–November 13, 1988), was a Romanian historian and the director of the Romanian-language department of Radio Free Europe between 1983 and 1988.
Biography
Born in Bucharest, Georgescu studied history at the Uni ...
, historian and journalist
Georgesco
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Christopher Georgesco
Christopher Georgesco ( ro, Georgescu; born 1950 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American sculptor. He is the son of modernist architect Haralamb H. Georgescu.
He began his career in Venice, California in 1968, where he worked until 1980. His stud ...
See also
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Gheorghe
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Gheorghiu
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Romanian-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names