List of Albanians
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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
- Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914 - 1999) Great Muslim Scholar
- 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
- Davud Pasha (? - 1498)
- Hamza Kastrioti
- Iljaz Hoxha (1408 - 1512)
- John Belushi (1949 - 1982)
- Mahmud Dramali Pasha (1780 - 1822)
- Nezim Frakulla (1680 - 1760)
- Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (1575 - 1661)
- Ali Pasha (1740 - 1822)
- Edhem Pasha (1851 - 1909)
- Omer Vrioni
- Haxhi Shehreti
- Ali Pasha of Gucia (1828 - 1885)
- Ibrahim Pasha of Berat
- Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed (1635 - 1676)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769 - 1849)
- Kara Mahmud Bushati (1740 - 1796)
- Kara Murad Pasha
- Ahmet Kurt Pasha
- Hodo Sokoli (1836 - 1883)
- Mustafa Bushati
- Ibrahim Bushati
- Mustafa Reshit Pasha
- Mehmed Pasha Bushati
- Sedefkar Mehmed Agha (1540 - 1617)
[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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