Popescu
Popescu is a family name for the following people:
- Adela Popescu (* 1986), Romanian actress and singer
- Adrian Popescu (* 1960), Romanian football player
- Adriana Popescu (* 1980), German-speaking author
- Alexandru Popescu (* 1935), Romanian swimmer
- Ana Maria Popescu (* 1984), Romanian sword fencer
- Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (* 1952), Romanian politician
- Cristian Tudor Popescu (* 1956), Romanian journalist and writer
- Cornel Popescu (* 1960), Romanian bobsledder
- Cornelia Popa (born Popecsu; * 1950), Romanian athlete
- Cosmin Alin Popescu (* 1974), Romanian environmental scientist and university rector
- Cristina-Georgiana Popescu (* 1996), Romanian rower
- Dania Popescu (* 1956), Romanian equestrian
- Daniel Popescu (Turner) (* 1983), Romanian gymnast
- Daniel Popescu (soccer player) (* 1988), Romanian soccer player
- Dimitrie Popescu (* 1961), Romanian rower
- Dinu Popescu (* 1949), Romanian water polo player
- Doru Popescu (actor) (1938–2005), Romanian actor
- Doru Popescu (soccer player) (* 1949), Romanian soccer player
- Dumitru Popescu (* 1928), Romanian politician (PMR / PCR), journalist and writer
- Elena Popescu (* 1935), Romanian artistic gymnast, see Elena Leuștean
- Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), Romanian actress
- Florin Popescu (* 1974), Romanian canoeist
- Gabriel Popescu (dancer) (1932–2004), Romanian dancer and choreographer
- Gabriel Popescu (soccer player) (* 1973), Romanian soccer player
- Georgian Popescu (* 1984), Romanian boxer
- Gheorghe Popescu (football player, 1919) (1919–2001), Romanian football player, coach and official
- Gheorghe Popescu (athlete) , Romanian javelin thrower
- Gheorghe Popescu (soccer player, 1967) (* 1967), Romanian soccer player and businessman
- Gheorghe Popescu (diplomat) (* 1942), Romanian diplomat
- Ioan-Iovitz Popescu (* 1932), Romanian professor, physics, linguistics
- Ion Popescu (wrestler) (born 1929), Romanian wrestler
- Ion Popescu (handball player) (born 1941), Romanian handball player
- Ion Popescu-Gopo (1923–1989), Romanian film director, screenwriter and actor
- Ion Popescu-Sibiu (1901–1974), Romanian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Iustin Popescu (* 1993), Romanian football goalkeeper
- Maria Popescu (1919–2004), victim of a Swiss judicial scandal
- Marin Gigi Popescu (* 1973), Romanian canoeist
- Mărioara Popescu (* 1962), Romanian rower
- Mihai Popescu (* 1993), Romanian football player
- Mihail Lucian Popescu (* 1960), Romanian ice hockey player
- Mitică Popescu (* 1936), Romanian actor
- Nicolae Popescu (1937-2010), Romanian mathematician
- Ovidiu Popescu (* 1994), Romanian football player
- Rucsandra Popescu (* 1980), Romanian composer and pianist
- Sandu Popescu (* 1956), Romanian-Israeli physicist
- Simion Popescu (* 1940), Romanian wrestler
- Stela Popescu (1935-2017), Romanian actress
- Stelian Popescu (1874–1954), Romanian politician and journalist
- Vasile Popescu (1925-2003), Romanian basketball player
Popescu is also the name of a person in the film The Third Man
