Popescu is a family name very common in Romania. Used on its own, it may refer to:Adrian Popescu, football (soccer) player Alexe Popescu, chemist Augustin Popescu, comic book artist Bogdan Popescu, basketball player Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, politician Cezar Popescu, rugby union player Constantin Popescu, World War II flying ace Constantin Popescu, politician Constantin Popescu, filmmaker Corneliu M. Popescu, poet and translator Cosmin Popescu, Rector of the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USABTM) in Timișoara 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 Dan Mircea Popescu, politician Daniel Popescu, footballer David Popescu, soldier and politician David Popescu, perennial candidate in Canadian elections Dimitrie Popescu, rower Dorin Popescu, mathematician Dorin Gheorghe Popescu, archaeologist and historian Dumitru Popescu, politician Dumitru I. Popescu, general and politician Dumitru Radu Popescu, writer and communist activist Elena Liliana Popescu, poet and translator Elvira Popescu, actress Eugen-Cristian Popescu, high jumper Florin Popescu, canoer Gabriel Popescu, football (soccer) player Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, engineer Gheorghe Popescu, football (soccer) player Gheorghe Popescu-Ciocănel, World War II flying ace Ilie Daniel Popescu, artistic gymnast Ioan-Ioviţ Popescu, physicist Ion Popescu-Gopo, 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 Popescu, middle distance runner Lucian Popescu, boxer Maria Popesco, victim of an alleged Swiss judicial error Marin Popescu-Spineni, geographer Marioara Popescu, rower Mihai Popescu, actor Mircea Popescu, British engineer Mircea Popescu, Romanian table tennis player Mitică Popescu, actor N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, writer Nicolae Popescu, mathematician Nicu Popescu, diplomat Radu Popescu, Wallachian chronicler Răsvan Popescu, journalist Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, actress Smaranda Popescu, actress Sorin Popescu, mathematician Spiridon Popescu, writer Ştefan Popescu, painter Stela Popescu, actress Stelian Popescu, journalist and fascist activist Tudor Popescu, writer Valerian C. Popescu, stomatologist Vasile Popescu, painter
