Albanians around the world 2/3

Day 2,987, 07:46 • Published in Albania USA • by Top Channel 8


Hi everyone, this is an article about the famous albanians all around the world, hope you enjoy it.

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC,[3] was an Albanian Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary.[4] She was born in Skopje (modern Republic of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for some eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

Sedefkar Mehmed Agha- Albanian architect of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (the "Blue Mosque") in Istanbul.

Ibrahim Rugova - Writter and ex President of Republic of Kosova

Fatmire Bajramaj- Famous Woman Albanian Football player. She has announced to move to 1. FFC Frankfurt for the 2011–12 season. The transfer is the most expensive in women's Bundesliga history

Giorgio Basta- Italian general of Arbëreshë descent, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of 1591–1606 and later to administer Transylvania as an Imperial vassal to restore Catholicism as a predominant religion in Transylvania.

James Belushi- Albanian-American famous Hollywood actor

John Belushi- Albanian-American famous Hollywood actor
(Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)Mother Teresa – was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.

Ermal Frasheri - International law and development expert. He received his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School.

Lorik Cana- Famous Albanian Football player

Edgar Cani-Footballer

Francesco Crispi- Italian politician of Albanian Arberesh ancestry. He was instrumental in the formation of the united country and was its 17th and 20th Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896.

Joe DioGuardi- Albanian-American certified public accountant and a Republican politician.


Tie Domi- Canadian professional ice hockey player of Albanian heritage. During a sixteen-year NHL career when he was known for his role as an enforcer, he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets.

Eliza Dushku- American-Albanian actress known for her television roles.

Lee Elia- Albanian-American former professional baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball.

Farouk I of Egypt- (11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965), Tenth ruler (Muhammad Ali Dynasty) and penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, 1936, was of Albanian descent as well as native Egyptian and Turkish

Mit’hat Frashëri- Albanian diplomat, writer and politician. The son of Abdyl Frashëri, one of the most important activists of the Albanian National Awakening in 1908 he participated in the Congress of Monastir

Mark Gjonaj - United States politician in the New York State Assembly.

Antonio Gramsci- Arbereshe writer, politician, political theorist, linguist and philosopher.

William G. Gregory- First American-Albanian in space.

Ismail Kadare- Famous Albanian writer

Kledi Kadiu- Dancer and choreographer

Giorgio Kastriota Scanderbeg (~Iskander Bey)- as a 15th-century Albanian lord[D], who as leader of the federation of the League of Lezhë defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

Luan Krasniqi- German boxer of Kosovo Albanian descent.

Mirela Manjani- is a retired Albanian javelin thrower that represented Greece.

Aleksander Moisiu- Famous Albanian stage actor.

Inva Mula- Inva Mula is an Albanian opera soprano. She comes from an artistic family. She began her soprano career at a very early age.

Ferid Murad- Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Muhammad Ali Pasha- Regarded as the founder of modern Egypt, was an Albanian commander of the Ottoman Sultan's, Mahmud II, army sent to drive Napoleon's forces out of Egypt, upon French withdrawal, became Governor of Egypt (1805), then Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan. He founded a dynasty.

Klaudio Ndoja- Basketballer

Anna Oxa- Singer born as Anna Hoxha, niece of Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha

Regis Philbin- Albanian-American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows from the 1960s to the present.

Klaudia Popa- Dancer

Rexhep Qosja- prominent Albanian politician and literary critic.

Oruç Reis- Oruç Reis (also called Barbarossa or Redbeard) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean with Albanian descent

Girolamo de Rada (Arbëresh: Jeronim de Rada) (1814–1903) was an Italian writer of Italo-Albanian literature of Arbëreshë descent he was the foremost figure of the Albanian National Awakening in 19th Italy.

Rita Ora - Kosovar Albanian singer born in Kosovo, Albania. Ora's family emigrated to London in 1991, when she was a year old.
Anbeta Toromani- Dancer and coreographer

And the last but not least the four Albanian popes: Pope Saint Eleutherius (175-189); Pope Saint Caius (283-296); Pope John IV (640-642); Pope Clement XI (1700-1721).