Radu

Radu is a relatively common Romanian given name for males. It could also be a Romanian surname, although it is a less frequent surname than many others.

Radu is a name of Slavonic origin, meaning "the happy one".

People named Radu

• Radu Beligan (b. 1918), academician, actor, educator, professor and theatre director
• Radu Florescu, historian and academic of Romanian origin, Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College
• 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 Lupu (b. 1945), pianist
• Radu Manicatide (1912–2004), engineer and aircraft constructor
• Radu Ştefan Mazăre (b. 1968), politician
• Radu Mihăileanu,actor, film maker
• Radu Sîrbu (b. 1978), pop singer, formerly of the boy band O-Zone
• Radu Tudoran (1910–1992), novelist and translator
• Radu Vasile (b. 1942), politician, historian and poet, former prime minister of Romania

Romanian rulers

• Radu Negru, (Radu the Black)(~ the 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 Ţepeş of Drăculeşti (Dracula).
• Radu cel Mare (Radu the Great) - son of Vlad Călugărul, September 1495 - April 1508
• 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 Bădică - son of Radu cel Mare, November 1523 - January 1524
• Radu Paisie - son of Radu cel Mare, September - November 1534; June 1535 - March 1545
• Radu Ilie, November 1552 - May 1553
• Radu Mihnea - son of Mihnea Turcitul, September 1601 - March 1602, March - May 1611, September 1611 - August 1616, August 1620 - August 1623
• Radu Şerban, August 1602 - December 1610, June - September 1611
• Radu Iliaş - son of Alexandru Iliaş, July 1632 - September 1632
• Radu Leon, December 1664 - March 1669

Other

• Radu (god), in ancient Arabic mythology, the god of the evening star
• Radu (codename), the codename of a radiation weapon by Ceauşescu's Romania against critics and dissenters