Popa (''priest'' in

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People

* Alina Popa (born 1978), Romanian-Swiss, IFBB professional bodybuilder *

Anatolie Popa Anatolie Popa (, ''Anatoliy Vasilievich Popa''; 15 March 1896 – 25 June 1920) was a Bessarabian-born military commander active during World War I and the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, Civil War, one of the organisers of the Moldavian ...

(1896–1920), Moldavian military commander * Celestina Popa (born 1970), Romanian, artistic gymnast *

Constantin Popa ''Not to be confused with Constantin Popa (military officer), a Romanian general who was awarded the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau in 1975.'' Constantin Popa (; born February 18, 1971) is a Romanian-Israeli professional basketball coach and forme ...

(born 1971), Romanian-Israeli basketball player * Gabriel Popa (painter) (1937–1995), Romanian painter * Grigore T. Popa (1892–1948), Romanian physician * Ilie Popa (1907–1983), Romanian mathematician * Ion Popa (disambiguation), several people * Loredan Popa (born 1980), Romanian canoer *

Marius Popa Marius Cornel Popa (born 31 July 1978) is a Romanian former professional footballer who serves as a goalkeeping coach for Liga I club FCSB. Club career He started his career at the local team, Bihor Oradea in 1997 and three years later moved t ...

(born 1978), Romanian footballer * Mihnea Popa (born 1973), Romanian-American mathematician *

Nicolae Popa (judge) Nicolae Popa (1 September 1939 – 26 November 2024) was a Romanian judge, the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice from 2004 to 2009. Life and career Popa, born in Govora, Vâlcea County, graduated the University of Bucharest' ...

(born 1939), Romanian judge *

Nicolae Popa (businessman) Nicolae Popa (born 1965) is a Romanian criminal. In 2006 he was sentenced ''in absentia'' to 15 years in jail for fraud and embezzlement related to the 2000 collapse of the Fondul Național de Investiții (FNI) Ponzi scheme, with an estimated ...

(born 1965), Romanian businessman * Roxana Popa (born 1997), Romanian born Spanish artistic gymnast *

Sorin Popa Sorin Teodor Popa (born 24 March 1953) is a Romanian American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025. Biograph ...

(born 1953), Romanian-American mathematician *

Stela Popa Stela Popa (born 7 August 1982) is a journalist and author from Moldova. She works for Romanian National Television, Jurnal TV and Vocea Basarabiei. Biography Stela Popa was born on 7 August 1982 in Coșcodeni, Sîngerei District. She studied a ...

(born 1982), Moldovan-Romanian journalist * Toma Popa (1908–1962), Romanian chess master * Tudor Petrov-Popa (born 1963), Moldovan-Romanian politician * Valter Popa, Romanian guitarist *

Vasko Popa Vasile "Vasko" Popa ( sr-Cyrl, Васко Попа; 29 June 1922 – 5 January 1991) was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of Romanian ethnicity. Biography Popa was born in the village of Grebenac (), Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia) into a Banat ...

(1922–1991), Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent

Places

Mount Popa Mount Popa (, ) is a dormant volcano 1518 metres (4981 feet) above sea level, and located in central Myanmar in the region of Mandalay Region, Mandalay about southeast of Bagan (Pagan) in the Pegu Range. It can be seen from the Irrawaddy Ri ...

, a volcano in central Burma (Myanmar) *

Patriarch Evtimiy Square Patriarch Evtimiy Square (, ''ploshtad Patriarh Evtimiy''), more popularly known as Popa (Попа, "The Priest"), is a small urban square and a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The square was named after Evtimiy ...

, Sofia, Bulgaria, commonly known as Popa * Popa Falls, rapids in the

Okavango River The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa. It is known by this name in Botswana, and as Cubango in Angola, and Kavango in Namibia. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, runni ...

Popa, Lesotho Popa is a community council located in the Mokhotlong District of Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the la ...

Popocatépetl Popocatépetl ( , , ; ) is an active stratovolcano located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and Mexico in central Mexico. It lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. At it is the second highest peak in Mexico, after Ci ...

, a volcano in central Mexico

Other uses

* ''Popa'' (mantis), a genus of praying mantises in the family Deroplatyidae *

Porin Palloilijat Porin Palloilijat or formerly FC PoPa is a Finnish football club, based in the city of Pori in Finland. The club currently plays in the Vitonen, the seventh highest level of Finnish football. The club was established in 1925 but did not opera ...

(PoPa), a Finnish football club *Pop All General-Purpose Registers (popa), an instruction in

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*"Popa", a 2024 song by Ice Spice from ''

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