Popescu
Popescu (
Francisized as
Popesco) is a family name common in
Romania (derived from ''popă'', meaning priest). Notable people with the surname include:
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Adrian Popescu, football (soccer) player
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Alexandru Candiano-Popescu, soldier, journalist, and political conspirator
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Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, politician
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Cezar Popescu, rugby union player
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Constantin Popescu, politician
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Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator
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Cosmin Alin Popescu, university rector
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Cristian Popescu (poet), poet
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Cristian Dumitru Popescu, Romanian-American mathematician
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Cristian Tudor Popescu, journalist and writer
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Cristian Popescu Piedone, politician
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Dan Popescu, comic book artist
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Dan Ioan Popescu, politician
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Daniel Popescu, footballer
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David Popescu, soldier and politician
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Dimitrie Popescu, rower
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Dumitru Radu Popescu, writer and communist activist
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Elvira Popescu, actress
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Eufrosina Marcolini (born ''Eufrosina Popescu''), actress and singer
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Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper
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Florin Popescu, canoer
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Gabriel Popescu (footballer), football player
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Gabriel Popescu (scientist), scientist and engineer
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Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, engineer
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Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1919), football (soccer) player
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Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1967), football (soccer) player
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Ilie Daniel Popescu, artistic gymnast
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Ion Popescu-Gopo, animator and cartoonist
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Irinel Popescu, surgeon
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Liliana Popescu, middle-distance runner
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Lucian Popescu, boxer
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Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error
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Marioara Popescu, rower
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Mihai Popescu, actor
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Mircea Popescu, British engineer
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Mircea Popescu (table tennis), Romanian table tennis player
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Mitică Popescu, actor
* ''Moş Ion Popescu'', pseudonym of writer
Ion Călugăru
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N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer
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Nicolae Popescu, mathematician
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Nicu Popescu, diplomat
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Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress
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Sandu Popescu, Physicist (quantum information)
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Spiridon Popescu, writer
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Ştefan Popescu, painter
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Stela Popescu, actress
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Stelian Popescu, journalist and fascist activist
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Vasile Popescu, painter
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Vlad Popescu, politician
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