Petrescu
Language(s) | Romanian |
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Origin | |
Meaning | son of Petre |
Petrescu is a patronymic family name common in Romania, meaning "son of Petre". Notable people with this surname include:
- Anca Petrescu, architect and politician
- Arcadie Petrescu, neurologist
- Barbu Petrescu, mayor of Bucharest (1989–1990)
- Camil Petrescu, writer
- Cezar Petrescu, writer
- Constantin Titel Petrescu, social-democratic politician
- Costin Petrescu, painter
- Costin Petrescu, rock music drummer
- Cristian Petrescu, politician
- Dan Petrescu (disambiguation)
- Daniela Petrescu, long-distance runner
- Dimitrie Petrescu-Stelaru, writer
- Dumitru Petrescu, communist politician
- Emil Petrescu, mayor of Bucharest (1914–1916; 1918)
- Emilia Petrescu, soprano
- Ghenadie Petrescu, deposed Romanian Metropolitan Patriarch
- Gică Petrescu, singer
- Horia Petra-Petrescu, literary critic
- Marian Petrescu (born 1970), Romanian jazz pianist
- Nicolae Petrescu (1886–1954), philosopher and sociologist
- Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, diplomat and politician
- Nicolae Petrescu Găină, painter
- Teodosie Petrescu, Archbishop of Tomi
- Virgil Petrescu, politician
- Zaharia Petrescu, physician
It is also the maiden name of:
- Elena Ceaușescu, communist politician and wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Rodica Mateescu, triple jumper
See also
- All pages with titles containing Petrescu
Surname list
This page lists people with the surname Petrescu. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
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Surnames associated with the given name Peter
- Petrak
- Petrakov
- Petráš
- Petrash
- Petrashov
- Petrashevsky
- Petrek
- Petrecki
- Petrenko
- Petrić
- Petříček
- Petrick
- Petrik
- Petrikov
- Petrishin
- Petrof
- Petrov
- Petrovič
- Petrović
- Petrovich
- Petrovski
- Petrovsky
- Petrovykh
- Petrowski
- Petrunin
- Petrusewicz
- Petrushin
- Petryak
- Petryuk
- Petryk
- Petunin
- Pietrusiewicz
- Piotrowicz
- Piotrkowski
- Piotrowski
- Peterffy
- Petras
- Petre
- Petriashvili
- Petrosyan (multiple spellings)
- Petrus