Popescu

Popescu (Francisized as Popesco) is a family name very common in Romania (derived from popă, meaning priest). Used on its own, it may refer to:

• Adrian Popescu, football (soccer) player
• Alexe Popescu, chemist
• Augustin Popescu, comic book artist
• Bogdan Popescu, basketball player
• Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, politician
• Cezar Popescu, rugby union player
• Constantin Popescu, World War II flying ace
• Constantin Popescu, politician
• Constantin Popescu, filmmaker
• Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator
• Cosmin Popescu (environmental scientist), Rector of the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USABTM) in Timișoara
• Cristian Popescu (poet), poet
• Cristian Dumitru Popescu, Romanian-American mathematician
• Cristian Tudor Popescu, journalist and writer
• Cristian Popescu Piedone, politician
• Dan Popescu, comic book artist
• Dan Ioan Popescu, politician
• Dan Mircea Popescu, politician
• Daniel Popescu, footballer
• David Popescu, soldier and politician
• David Popescu, perennial candidate in Canadian elections
• Dimitrie Popescu, rower
• Dorin Popescu, mathematician
• Dorin Gheorghe Popescu, archaeologist and historian
• Dumitru Popescu, politician
• Dumitru I. Popescu, general and politician
• Dumitru Radu Popescu, writer and communist activist
• Elena Liliana Popescu, poet and translator
• Elvira Popescu, actress
• Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper
• Florin Popescu, canoer
• Gabriel Popescu, football (soccer) player
• Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, engineer
• Gheorghe Popescu, football (soccer) player
• Gheorghe Popescu-Ciocănel, World War II flying ace
• Ilie Daniel Popescu, artistic gymnast
• Ioan-Ioviţ Popescu, physicist
• Ion Popescu-Gopo, animator and cartoonist
• Ion Popescu-Pasărea, musician, musicologist, and schoolteacher
• Ion Popescu-Puţuri, communist activist and historian
• Ion Popescu-Voiteşti, geologist
• Ionuţ Popescu, politician
• Iulia Popescu, actress
• J. David Popescu, Canadian politician
• Liliana Popescu, middle distance runner
• Lucian Popescu, boxer
• Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error
• Marin Popescu-Spineni, geographer
• Marioara Popescu, rower
• Mihai Popescu, actor
• Mircea Popescu, British engineer
• Mircea Popescu (table tennis), Romanian table tennis player
• Mitică Popescu, actor
• N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer
• Nicolae Popescu, mathematician
• Nicu Popescu, diplomat
• Radu Popescu, Wallachian chronicler
• Răsvan Popescu, journalist
• Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress
• Smaranda Popescu, actress
• Sorin Popescu, mathematician
• Spiridon Popescu, writer
• Ştefan Popescu, painter
• Stela Popescu, actress
• Stelian Popescu, journalist and fascist activist
• Tudor Popescu, writer
• Valerian C. Popescu, stomatologist
• Vasile Popescu, painter

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