Popkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Anne Hunter Popkin, founding member of Bread and Roses Barry Popkin (born 1944), professor of nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill Cedric Popkin (1890–1968), suspected killer of the Red Baron Gary Popkin, professor at New York City College of Technology Lenka Popkin (born 1978), Czech trampolinist Richard Popkin (1923–2005), academic philosopher Samuel L. Popkin (born 1942), political scientist Zelda Popkin (1898–1983), fiction author

See also

Popkins, a British racehorse Popkin, a term meaning "sandwich" used in Stephen King's book The Drawing of the Three Pupkin