Popa (''priest'' in

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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 we ...

(born 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder *

Anatolie Popa Anatolie Popa (russian: Анатолий Васильевич Попа, ''Anatoliy Vasilievich Popa''; March 15, 1896 – June 25, 1920) was a Bessarabian-born military commander active during World War I and the Russian Revolution and Civil War, o ...

(1896–1920), Moldavian military commander * Celestina Popa (born 1970), Romanian, artistic gymnast *

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 coll ...

(born 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player * Gabriel Popa (painter) (1937–1995), Romanian painter *

Grigore T. Popa Grigore T. Popa (sometimes Anglicized to Gregor T. Popa; May 1, 1892 – July 18, 1948) was a Romanian physician and public intellectual. Of lowly peasant origin, he managed to obtain a university education and become a professor at two of h ...

(1892–1948), Romanian physician * Ilie Popa (1907–1983), Romanian mathematician * Ion Popa (disambiguation), several people * Loredan Popa (born 1980), Romanian canoer *

Marius Popa Marius Cornel Popa (born 31 July 1978) is a retired Romanian football player. He started his career at the local team, Bihor Oradea in 1997 and three years later moved to FC Naţional. He managed to break into the first team in 2003 and his ...

(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. Ac ...

(born 1973), Romanian-American mathematician * Nicolae Popa (judge) (born 1939), Romanian judge * Nicolae Popa (businessman) (born c. 1965), a Romanian businessman * Roxana Popa (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 fo ...

(born 1963), Moldovan-Romanian politician * Valter Popa, 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) River ...

, 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 Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30 ...

* Popa, Lesotho *

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 ...

, a volcano in central Mexico

Other uses

* ''Popa'' (mantis), a genus of praying mantises in the family Deroplatyidae * Porin Palloilijat (PoPa), a Finnish football club *Pop All General-Purpose Registers (popa), an instruction in

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