Popescu
Popescu (Francisized as Popesco) is a family name common in Romania (derived from popă, meaning priest). Notable people with the surname include:
Adrian Popescu (born 1960), football (soccer) player
Alexandru Candiano-Popescu (1841–1901), soldier, journalist, and political conspirator
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (born 1952), politician
Cezar Popescu (born 1976), rugby union player
Constantin Popescu, politician
Corneliu M. Popescu (1958–1977), poet and translator
Cosmin Alin Popescu (born 1974), university rector
Cristian Popescu (poet) (c. 1959–1995), poet
Cristian Dumitru Popescu (born 1964), Romanian-American mathematician
Cristian Tudor Popescu (born 1956), journalist and writer
Cristian Popescu Piedone (born 1963), politician
Dan Popescu (born 1988), comic book artist
Dan Ioan Popescu (born 1948), politician
Daniel Popescu, footballer
David Popescu (1886–1955), soldier and politician
Dimitrie Popescu (1961–2023), rower
Dumitru Radu Popescu (1935–2023), writer and communist activist
Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), actress
Eufrosina Marcolini (born Eufrosina Popescu, 1821–1900), actress and singer
Eugen-Cristian Popescu (born 1962), high jumper
Florin Popescu (born 1974), canoer
Gabriel Popescu (footballer) (born 1973), football player
Gabriel Popescu (scientist) (1971–2022), scientist and engineer
Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu (1907–1982), engineer
Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1919) (1919–2001), football (soccer) player
Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1967), football (soccer) player
Ilie Daniel Popescu (born 1983), artistic gymnast
Ion Popescu-Gopo (1923–1989), animator and cartoonist
Irinel Popescu (born 1953), surgeon
Liliana Popescu (born 1982), middle-distance runner
Lucian Popescu (1912–1982), boxer
Maria Popesco (1919–2004), victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error
Marioara Popescu (born 1962), rower
Mihai Popescu (born 1985), handballer
Mircea Popescu, British engineer
Mircea Popescu (table tennis), Romanian table tennis player
Mitică Popescu (1936–2023), actor
Moş Ion Popescu (1902–1956), pseudonym of writer Ion Călugăru
N. D. Popescu-Popnedea (1843–1921), writer
Nicolae Popescu (1937–2010), mathematician
Nicu Popescu (born 1981), diplomat
Rodica Popescu Bitănescu (born 1938), actress
Sandu Popescu, Physicist (quantum information)
Spiridon Popescu (1864–1933), writer
Ştefan Popescu (born 1993), painter
Stela Popescu (1935–2017), actress
Stelian Popescu (1874–1954), journalist and fascist activist
Vasile Popescu (1925–2003), painter
Vlad Popescu (born 1989), politician
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