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

See also

• Pop (surname), Romanian surname of similar etymology