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 Provided by Wikipedia