Radu (given name)

Radu is a masculine Romanian given name of Slavic origin, derived from the word root rad- (cf. радъ "glad"). It may refer to:

Radu

Pronunciation	[ˈradu]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	rad (the happy one)
Region of origin	Romania
Other names
Related names	Rada (female first name), Radoslav

People named Radu

• Radu Albot (b. 1989), Moldovan tennis player
• Radu Aldulescu (musician) (1922–2006), Romanian-Italian cellist
• Radu Aldulescu (novelist) (b. 1954)
• Radu Almășan (b. 1980), singer
• Radu Aricescu, Romanian-British molecular neuroscientist
• Radu Barbu (b. 1989), footballer
• Radu Băldescu (1888–1953), Lieutenant-General during World War II
• Radu Bălescu (1932–2006), Romanian and Belgian physicist
• Radu Beligan (1918–2016), academician, actor, educator, professor and theatre director
• Radu Berceanu (b. 1953), engineer and politician
• Radu Bîrzan (b. 1999), footballer
• Radu Boboc (b. 1999), footballer
• Radu Boureanu (1906–1997), poet, prose writer and translator
• Radu Budișteanu (1902–1991), activist of the Iron Guard
• Radu Buzescu, boyar of Wallachia during the reign of Michael the Brave
• Radu Florescu (1925–2014), historian and academic of Romanian origin, professor at Boston College
• Radu Grigorovici (1911–2008), physicist
• Radu Gyr (pen name of Radu Demetrescu, 1905–1975), poet, essayist, playwright and journalist
• Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen (b. 1960 as Radu Duda), member of the Romanian Royal Family
• Radu Irimescu (1890–1975), businessman, politician, and diplomat
• Radu Korne (1895–1949), general
• Radu Lupu (b. 1945), pianist
• Radu Manicatide (1912–2004), engineer and aircraft constructor
• Radu Mareș (1941–2016), writer and journalist
• Radu Ștefan Mazăre (b. 1968), politician
• Radu Mihăileanu (b. 1958), actor and film maker
• Radu Simion (1940–2015), pan flute player
• Radu Sîrbu (b. 1978), pop singer, formerly of the boy band O-Zone
• Radu Stanca (1920–1962), poet, playwright, theatre director
• Radu Stroe (b. 1949), navigational engineer and politician
• Radu Timofte (1949–2009), soldier, politician, and spy chief
• Radu Troi (b. 1949), football player
• Radu Tudoran (1910–1992), novelist and translator
• Radu Varia (b. 1940), art critic and art historian
• Radu Vasile (1942–2013), politician, historian and poet, former prime minister of Romania
• Radu Voina (b. 1950), handball player
• Radu Zaharia (b. 1989), football player

Romanian rulers

• Radu Negru (Radu the Black) (~13th century), Also known as Radu Negru Voievod or Radu Vodă (Voivod Radu)
• Radu I of Wallachia, a ruler of the principality of Wallachia, (circa 1377 – circa 1383)
• Radu II Chelul (Radu the Bald), a ruler of the principality of Wallachia in the 15th Century, ruling for 4 terms, each time preceded by Dan II
• Radu cel Frumos, (Radu the Handsome) (c. 1437/1439 – 1475), was the younger brother of Vlad III the Impaler (Dracula)
• Radu cel Mare (Radu the Great), son of Vlad Călugărul, September 1495 – April 1508
• Radu Bădica (? – 19 January 1524), son of Radu IV the Great and Prince of Wallachia, November 1523 – January 1524
• Radu de la Afumaţi (Radu of Afumaţi), son of Radu cel Mare, January - April, June - August, October 1522 - April 1523, January – June 1524, September 1524 - April 1525, August 1525 - January 1529
• Radu Paisie, son of Radu cel Mare, September - November 1534; June 1535 - March 1545
• Radu Mihnea, son of Mihnea Turcitul, September 1601 – March 1602, March - May 1611, September 1611 – August 1616, August 1620 – August 1623
• Radu Șerban, August 1602 – December 1610, June – September 1611
• Radu Iliaș, son of Alexandru Iliaș, July 1632 – September 1632
• Radu Leon, December 1664 – March 1669

See also

• Radu (surname)
• Rădulescu (surname)
• Răducan (surname)
• Răducanu (surname)
• Rădeni (disambiguation)
• Rădești (disambiguation)
• Răduțești (disambiguation)
• Rădulești (disambiguation)