Popescu
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Popescu is a family name common in Romania
(derived from popă, meaning priest). Used on its own, it may refer to:
Romania
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(derived from popă, meaning priest). Used on its own, it may refer to:
- Adrian PopescuAdrian PopescuAdrian Mihai Popescu is a retired Romanian football defender.-Career:He was born in Craiova and debuted in Divizia A with Universitatea Craiova in 1981. He gradually became their first-choice libero, and helped win the league championship in 1991 as well as the Romanian Cup with the same club in...
, football (soccer) player - Alexe Popescu, chemist
- Augustin Popescu, comic book artist
- Bogdan Popescu, basketball player
- Călin Popescu-TăriceanuCalin Popescu-TariceanuCălin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Romania between 29 December 2004 and 22 December 2008...
, politician - Cezar PopescuCezar PopescuCezar Popescu is a Romanian rugby union player. He plays as a prop.He first played at CSA Steaua Bucureşti , moving to Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby in 2003. He moved in 2005 to SU Agen, where he would play two seasons...
, rugby union player - Constantin Popescu, World War II flying ace
- Constantin Popescu, politician
- Constantin Popescu, filmmaker
- Corneliu M. PopescuCorneliu M. PopescuCorneliu M. Popescu was a Romanian translator of poetry who died at the age of 19 in the earthquake of 1977.A poetry translation prize was established in 2003 in commemoration of his work. Called the Popescu Prize, it is awarded bi-annually by the Poetry Society 'for poetry translated from a...
, poet and translator - Cristian PopescuCristian PopescuCristian Dumitru Popescu is a Romanian-American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in Algebraic Number Theory, and in particular, in special values of L-functions. He formulated and proved function-field versions of the Gras conjectures and Rubin's...
, poet - Cristian Dumitru Popescu, Romanian-American mathematician
- Cristian Tudor PopescuCristian Tudor PopescuCristian Tudor Popescu is a Romanian journalist, essayist and short-story writer. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he has also hosted talk shows for various television stations, and had contributions as a literary critic and translator...
, journalist and writer - Cristian Popescu Piedone, politician
- Dan Popescu, comic book artist
- Dan Ioan PopescuDan Ioan PopescuDan Ioan Popescu is a Romanian businessman and politician. A chemical engineer, he served between 2001 and 2003 as Minister of Industry and between 2003 and 2004 as Minister of Economy, both in the Adrian Năstase cabinet...
, politician - Dan Mircea Popescu, politician
- David PopescuDavid Popescu (Brigadier-General)David Popescu was the brigadier general of the 11th Infantry Division of the Romanian Armed Forces from January 1 1940 to August 31 1941. Before this, he served briefly as the Minister of Internal Affairs from July 4, 1940 to September 4, 1940. He was arrested and held in custody in 1950 and...
, soldier and politician - David Popescu, perennial candidate in Canadian elections
- Dimitrie PopescuDimitrie PopescuDimitrie Popescu is a retired Romanian rower. During his career Popescu won four medals in the Olympic games, including two medals in Barcelona.-References:...
, rower - Dorin Popescu, mathematician
- Dorin Gheorghe Popescu, archaeologist and historian
- Dumitru PopescuDumitru PopescuDumitru Popescu in Râmnicu Vâlcea is the president of Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association. In 1997 he studied at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest – Aerospace Engineering. In 1998, together with a group of students, he created ARCA and soon, rockets as Demonstrator 2 and 2B...
, writer and communist activist - Dumitru Popescu, politician
- Dumitru I. Popescu, general and politician
- Dumitru Radu PopescuDumitru Radu PopescuDumitru Radu Popescu is a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, short story writer, and formerly communist politician. A former member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party , he is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of...
, writer and communist activist - Elena Liliana Popescu, poet and translator
- Elvira PopescuElvira PopescuElvira Popescu was a Romanian-born French stage and movie actress and theatre director.-Life and career:Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Conservatorul de Artă Dramatică, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. She made her debut at the National Theatre...
, actress - Eugen Cristian PopescuEugen Cristian PopescuEugen Cristian Popescu is a retired Romanian high jumper.He finished seventh at the 1983 European Indoor Championships and at the 1986 European Championships, eighth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships and eleventh at the 1994 European Indoor Championships. He became national champion in...
, high jumper - Florin PopescuFlorin PopescuFlorin Popescu is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică Pricop...
, canoer - Gabriel PopescuGabriel PopescuGabriel Popescu is a Romanian former footballer.Popescu went on to represent the Romanian national team 21 times and scored four goals, he was also capped 37 times for the U-21 side...
, soccer player - Gheorghe PopescuGheorghe PopescuGheorghe Gică Popescu is a former Romanian footballer who played as a defender, and was a key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in an illustrious career that saw him amass many honours...
, soccer player - Gheorghe Popescu-Ciocănel, World War II flying ace
- Ioan-Ioviţ Popescu, physicist
- Ion Popescu-GopoIon Popescu-GopoIon Popescu-Gopo was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, movie director and actor born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a prominent personality in the Romanian cinematography and the founder of the modern Romanian cartoon school. He was, together with Liviu Ciulei and Mirel...
, animator and cartoonist - Ion Popescu-Pasărea, musician, musicologist, and schoolteacher
- Ion Popescu-Puţuri, communist activist and historian
- Ion Popescu-Voiteşti, geologist
- Ionuţ Popescu, politician
- Iulia Popescu, actress
- J. David Popescu, Canadian politician
- Liliana PopescuLiliana PopescuLiliana Popescu, née Barbulescu is a Romanian middle distance runner, who specializes in the 800 metres.Her personal best is 1:59.34 minutes, achieved in May 2008 in Bucharest. She has 4:00.35 minutes in the 1500 metres, also achieved in May 2008 in Bucharest...
, middle distance runner - Lucian Popescu, boxer
- Maria PopescoMaria PopescoMaria Popesco, born Maria Popescu , was a Romanian-born socialite, convicted murderer and memoirist, whose case was at the center of one of the few judicial scandals in Switzerland....
, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error - Marin Popescu-Spineni, geographer
- Marioara PopescuMarioara PopescuMarioara Popescu is a Romanian rower who has won two Olympic gold medals.-External links:*...
, rower - Mihai Popescu, actor
- Mitică Popescu, actor
- N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer
- Nicolae PopescuNicolae PopescuNicolae Popescu was a Romanian mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Popescu was elected a Member of the Romanian Academy in 1992. He is best known for his contributions to Algebra and the theory of Abelian categories. Since 1964 and until 2007 he collaborated on the characterization of abelian...
, mathematician - Radu Popescu, Wallachian chronicler
- Răsvan Popescu, journalist
- Rodica Popescu BitănescuRodica Popescu BitanescuRodica Popescu Bitănescu is a Romanian actress. Currently, she works in the National Theatre of Bucharest.-Filmography:*"Ministerul comediei" *Cu materialul clientului *Harababura *Coana Chirita *Aripi de zapada...
, actress - Smaranda Popescu, actress
- Sorin Popescu, mathematician
- Ştefan Popescu, painter
- Stela Popescu, actress
- Stelian PopescuStelian PopescuStelian Popescu was a nationalist Romanian journalist.From 1914 to 1943, Popescu was director of Universul....
, journalist and fascist activist - Tudor Popescu, writer
- Valerian C. Popescu, stomatologist
- Vasile PopescuVasile PopescuVasile Popescu was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....
, painter
Others
- Alexandru Candiano-PopescuAlexandru Candiano-PopescuAlexandru Candiano-Popescu was a Romanian army general, lawyer, journalist, and poet, best known for his role in the Republic of Ploieşti conspiracy.-Biography:...
, soldier, journalist, and political conspirator - Eufrosina Marcolini (born Eufrosina Popescu), actress and singer
- Sandra RomainSandra RomainSandra Romain is a Romanian pornographic actress. She became well known for her aggressive and domineering approach to sexuality in her films...
(born Maria Popescu), pornographic actress - Moş Ion Popescu, pseudonym of writer Ion CălugăruIon CălugăruIon Călugăru was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and critic. As a figure on Romania's modernist scene throughout the early interwar period, he was noted for combining a picturesque perspective on the rural Jewish-Romanian community, to which he belonged, with traditionalist and...