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, film maker
* [http://www.radupamant.ro Radu Pământ] (b. 1977) visual artist
* 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