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This is a list of historical and living Albanians (ethnic Albanian people or people of full or partial Albanian ancestry) who are famous or notable, sorted by occupation and name.
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[edit] Prominent Albanians
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) [1][2] – Nobel Peace Prize winner and beatified nun
- Musine Kokalari, the first (recorded) female writer of Albania,an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period
- Tinka Kurti, prominent Albanian actress
- Melihate Ajeti, prominent Albanian actress
- Inva Mula, an Albanian opera soprano and actress (the voice behind the Diva Plavalaguna (the very tall, blue alien performer) in the film The Fifth Element)
- Eliza Dushku, US actress of Albanian origin
- Rita Ora, Singer with Roc Nation Label
- Masiela Lusha, Albanian actress
- Lejla Agolli, Albanian composer
- Dritero Agolli, prominent Albanian poet and writer
- Ferid Murad (Ejupi), US scientist of Albanian origin, a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo
- Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914 - 1999) Great Muslim Scholar
- Bekim Fehmiu, former Albanian actor and the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War
- Faruk Begolli, famous former Albanian actor
- John Belushi, American actor of Albanian origin
- James Belushi, American actor of Albanian origin
- Cesk Zadeja, famous Albanian composer, "The Father of Albanian music"
- Avni Mula,composer and father of Albanian opera sopranio Inva Mula
- Zef Kolombi
- Ibrahim Kodra
- Simon Gjoni, composer
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - 1938) [3][4][5][6][7][8]
- Ibrahim Rugova (1944 - 2006)
- Ismail Kadare (born 1936)
- Adem Jashari (1955 - 1998)
- Sidni Hoxha (born 1991)
[edit] Historical figures
- Skanderbeg(Skenderbeg,Skenderbeu), Gjergj Kastrioti,
- Pal Engjelli, Albanian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Durrës and Cardinal of Albania who in 1462 wrote the first known sentence retrieved so far in Albanian
- Leke Dukagjini,Albanian prince and member of Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a code of law instituted in northern Albania.
- Marin Barleti, Albanian historian and Catholic priest, considered the first Albanian historian, especially because of his biography on Skanderbeg, translated in many languages in the 16th to the 18th centuries
- Hamza Kastrioti
- Iljaz Hoxha (1408 - 1512)
- Davud Pasha (? - 1498)
- Sedefkar Mehmed Agha (1540 - 1617)
- Nezim Frakulla (1680 - 1760)
- Ali Pasha (1740 - 1822)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769 - 1849)
- Mahmud Dramali Pasha (1780 - 1822)
- Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (1575 - 1661)
- Kara Mahmud Bushati (1740 - 1796)
- Edhem Pasha (1851 - 1909)
- Gjergj Fishta, (1871-1940), Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, rilindas, and a translator. Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.
- Shtjefen Gjecovi (1873-1929), born Mëhill Kostandin Gjeçi-Kryeziu in Kosovo was an Albanian Catholic priest, ethnologist and folklorist. He is known for being the father of Albanians' folklore studies.
- Fan S. Noli, better known as Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965) was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.
- Abdyl Frasheri (1839-1892), an Albanian diplomat, politician, writer, and a first political ideologue of the Albanian National Awakening, through the League of Prizren. He is the elder brother of other nationalist Albanian activists, Naim and Sami* Ismail Qemali (1844-1919), (in Turkish İsmail Kemal Bey or İsmail Kemal Vlora), was a distinguished leader of the Albanian national movement, founder of the modern Albanian state and its first head of state and government.
- Faik Konica (1875-1942), one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, Albania, became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroadž
- Aleksander Moisiu (1879-1935), Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent, the first in Europe to interpret characters from August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.In Berlin Moisiu was acclaimed for his 1906 performance of Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts and in the premiere of Wedekind's Spring Awakening.
- Omer Vrioni
- Haxhi Shehreti
- Ali Pasha of Gucia (1828 - 1885)
- Ibrahim Pasha of Berat
- Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed (1635 - 1676)
- Kara Murad Pasha
- Ahmet Kurt Pasha
- Hodo Sokoli (1836 - 1883)
- Mustafa Bushati
- Ibrahim Bushati
- Mustafa Reshit Pasha
- Mehmed Pasha Bushati
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Spink, Kathryn (1997). Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography. New York. HarperCollins, pp.16. ISBN 0-06-250825-3.
- ^ Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997)
- ^ "Turkey: The land a dictator turned into a democracy". Time. 12 October 1953. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860057-2,00.html. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Mango, Andrew, Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey, (Overlook TP, 2002), p. 27.
- ^ Lou Giaffo: Albania: Eye of the Balkan Vortex[page needed]
- ^ Jackh, Ernest, The Rising Crescent, (Goemaere Press, 2007), p. 31, Turkish mother and Albanian father]
- ^ Isaac Frederick Marcosson, Turbulent years, Ayer Publishing, 1969, p. 144.
- ^ Richmond, Yale, From Da to Yes: understanding the East Europeans, (Intercultural Press Inc., 1995), 212.
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