Popa
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People
Popa is a common family name in RomaniaRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. Persons named Popa include:
- Celestina PopaCelestina PopaCelestina Popa-Toma is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast, who competed in international events between 1985 and 1988. She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world gold and silver medalist with the team...
, Romanian, artistic gymnast - Constantin PopaConstantin PopaConstantin Popa is a 2.22 m retired Romanian-Israeli professional basketball player.Popa played for Dinamo Bucureşti in his native Romania before going overseas to play college basketball in the United States for the University of Miami...
, Romanian-Israeli basketball player - Gabriel PopaGabriel PopaGabriel Popa was a Romanian painter.Popa was born on July 18, 1937 in Ploiești, Romania. He graduated from the Art Institute in Cluj Napoca. He moved to Timişoara in 1961. He was a professor, between 1962–1974, at the city's Art Institute, teaching painting and drawing. Since 1974, Gabriel Popa...
, Romanian painter - Loredan PopaLoredan PopaLoredan Popa, born 1980 in Hunedoara, is a Romanian flatwater canoer and current World and European champion in the Canadian canoe C-4 500m event....
, Romanian canoer - Marius PopaMarius PopaMarius Cornel Popa is a Romanian football player, currently contracted by Universitatea Cluj. He is one of the team's goalkeepers.He started his career at the local team, FC Bihor in 1997 and three years later moved to FC Naţional...
, Romanian footballer - Nicolae PopaNicolae PopaNicolae Popa is a Romanian judge, the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice from 2004 to 2009.Popa, born in Govora, Vâlcea County, graduated the University of Bucharest's Law Faculty in 1960, receiving a Doctorate in Law from that institution in 1975...
, Romanian artist and Romanian judge - Tudor Petrov-PopaTudor Petrov-PopaTudor Petrov-Popa , like Andrei Ivanţoc, is a Moldovan-born Romanian politician, arrested in Tiraspol in June 1992 by the Transnistrian separatists.-Biography:...
, Moldovan-Romanian politician - Valter Popa, Romanian guitarist
- Vasko PopaVasko Popa- Biography :Popa was born in the village of Grebenac , Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna...
, Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent - Victor Ion PopaVictor Ion PopaVictor Ion Popa , in Moldavia, Romania – March 30, 1946 in Bucharest) was a Romanian dramatist.He went to primary school in the village of Călmăţui where his father was a teacher. At Iaşi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school and his last two years of high school at the...
, Romanian playwright
Places
- Mount PopaMount PopaMount Popa is a volcano 1518 metres above sea level, and located in central Burma about southeast of Bagan in the Pegu Range. It can be seen from the River Ayeyarwady as far away as in clear weather. Mount Popa is perhaps best known for the nearby stunningly picturesque Popa Taungkalat...
, a volcano in central Burma (Myanmar) - Patriarch Evtimiy SquarePatriarch Evtimiy SquarePatriarch Evtimiy Square , more popularly known as Popa , is a small urban square and a busy intersection in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...
in Sofia, Bulgaria, commonly known as Popa - PopaPopa, LesothoPopa is a community council located in the Mokhotlong District of Lesotho. Its population in 2006 was 6,725.-Villages:The community of Popa includes the villages of Botsola, Ha Koatake, Ha Konki, Ha Lesoeja, Ha Letaba, Ha Letjama, Ha Mathibeli, Ha Nyoko, Ha Phohla, Ha Ramohale, Ha Tipi, Ha Tšese,...
, a community in Lesotho - PopocatépetlPopocatépetlPopocatépetl also known as "Popochowa" by the local population is an active volcano and, at , the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba...
, a volcano in central Mexico
Biology
- Popa (genus), a genus of praying mantises containing the species Popa spurca