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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