Popa

Popa may refer to:

People

Popa ("the priest" in Romanian) is a common family name in Romania and Moldova. Persons named Popa include:

• Alina Popa (b. 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Anatolie Popa (1896-1920), Moldavian military commander
• Celestina Popa (b. 1970), Romanian, artistic gymnast
• Constantin Popa (b. 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player
• Gabriel Popa (painter) (1937–1995), Romanian painter
• Grigore T. Popa (1892-1948), Romanian physician
• Loredan Popa (b. 1980), Romanian canoer
• Marius Popa (b. 1978), Romanian footballer
• Mihnea Popa (b. 1973), Romanian-American mathematician
• Nicolae Popa (judge) (b. 1939), a Romanian judge
• Nicolae Popa (businessman) (b. ca. 1965), a Romanian businessman
• Roxana Popa (b. 1997), a Romanian born Spanish artistic gymnast
• Sorin Popa (b. 1953), a Romanian-American mathematician
• Tudor Petrov-Popa (b.1963), Moldovan-Romanian politician
• Valter Popa, Romanian guitarist
• Vasko Popa (1922-1991), Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent

Sports

• Porin Palloilijat (PoPa), Finnish football club

Places

• Mount Popa, a volcano in central Burma (Myanmar)
• Patriarch Evtimiy Square in Sofia, Bulgaria, commonly known as Popa
• Popa, a community in Lesotho
• Popocatépetl, a volcano in central Mexico

Biology

• Popa (genus), a genus of praying mantises containing the species Popa spurca

Computing

• Pop All General-Purpose Registers, an x86 instruction