Stelian Popescu (February 19, 1874, in Lacu Turcului, Prahova County – March 8, 1954, in Madrid, Spain) was a nationalist Romanian journalist.

He criticized the governments of the time, came into conflict with King Carol II of Romania, and at the beginning of the 1940s he unconditionally supported Marshal Ion Antonescu.

Regarding this naming, Marta Breaban wrote the following in her journal:[6] “It was called Stelian Popescu because the director of the Universe newspaper at that time was born in this commune, his father being a priest here.

The church was painted by the painter Norocea who followed the design of Curtea de Argeș.” Popescu had a house in Bucharest, on Dionisie Lupu street (today Tudor Arghezi) no.

[9] The Student House of Culture in Bucharest, on Calea Plevnei, was built by public subscription of Popescu, who donated it to the University, on November 18, 1937, with the same destination that it has today.