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