Radu (given name)

People named Radu

• Radu Albot, Moldovan tennis player
• Radu Aldulescu , Romanian-Italian cellist
• Radu Aldulescu
• Radu Almășan, singer
• Radu Aricescu, Romanian-British molecular neuroscientist
• Radu Barbu, footballer
• Radu Băldescu, Lieutenant-General during World War II
• Radu Bălescu, Romanian and Belgian physicist
• Radu Beligan, academician, actor, educator, professor and theatre director
• Radu Berceanu, engineer and politician
• Radu Bîrzan, footballer
• Radu Boboc, footballer
• Radu Boureanu, poet, prose writer and translator
• Radu Budișteanu, activist of the Iron Guard
• Radu Buzescu, boyar of Wallachia during the reign of Michael the Brave
• Radu Florescu, historian and academic of Romanian origin, professor at Boston College
• Radu Grigorovici, physicist
• Radu Gyr, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist
• Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen, member of the Romanian Royal Family
• Radu Irimescu, businessman, politician, and diplomat
• Radu Korne, general
• Radu Lupu, pianist
• Radu Manicatide, engineer and aircraft constructor
• Radu Mareș, writer and journalist
• Radu Ștefan Mazăre, politician
• Radu Mihăileanu, actor and film maker
• Radu Simion, pan flute player
• Radu Sîrbu, pop singer, formerly of the boy band O-Zone
• Radu Stanca, poet, playwright, theatre director
• Radu Stroe, navigational engineer and politician
• Radu Timofte, soldier, politician, and spy chief
• Radu Troi, football player
• Radu Tudoran, novelist and translator
• Radu Varia, art critic and art historian
• Radu Vasile, politician, historian and poet, former prime minister of Romania
• Radu Voina, handball player
• Radu Zaharia, football player

  Romanian rulers

• Radu Negru , Also known as Radu Negru Voievod or Radu Vodă
• Radu I of Wallachia, a ruler of the principality of Wallachia,
• Radu II Chelul, a ruler of the principality of Wallachia in the 15th Century, ruling for 4 terms, each time preceded by Dan II
• Radu cel Frumos, , was the younger brother of Vlad III the Impaler
• Radu cel Mare, son of Vlad Călugărul, September 1495 – April 1508
• Radu Bădica, son of Radu IV the Great and Prince of Wallachia, November 1523 – January 1524
• Radu de la 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