Popescu

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

 * Alexandru Candiano-Popescu, soldier, journalist, and political conspirator
 * Eufrosina Marcolini (born Eufrosina Popescu), actress and singer
 * Moş Ion Popescu, pseudonym of writer Ion Călugăru