Arbëreshë people are ethnic Albanians settled in Southern Italy, or their descendants. Some have achieved notability in a wide variety of fields, in Italy or in other countries.
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- Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening[16]
- Giulio Variboba – Poet
- Giuseppe Serembe – Lyric poet.
- Carmine Abate – Novelist and short story writer.
- Domenico Bellizzi a.k.a. Vorea Ujko – Priest and poet
- Mario Bellizzi – Poet
- Bernardo Bilotta – Priest, poet and folklorist[17]
- Demetrio Camarda – Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian, and philologist
- Nicola Chetta – Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet[18]
- Giuseppe Crispi – Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time[1][2][3]
- Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century[19]
- Gabriele Dara – Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
- Leonardo Lala – Italian writer
- Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio – Poet, journalist, essayist, playwright and writer, among the most influential and prolific exponents of contemporary Arbëreshë literature
- Eleuterio Francesco Fortino – Priest of the Italo-Albanian Church in Calabria and writer of the Bizantine and Albanian culture
- Angelo Masci – Writer
- Luca Matranga – Byzantine rite priest, one of the first writers in Albanian
- Francesco Antonio Santori – Writer, playwright and poet of the Albanian National Awakening
- Ferruccio Baffa Trasci – Bishop, theologian and philosopher
- Vincenzo Dorsa – scholar, writer and translator
- Tom Perrotta – American novelist and screenwriter
- Marco La Piana – Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin
- Ernesto Sabato – Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist[20]
- Maria Antonia Braile – Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian
- Francesco Altimari – Italian scholar in the field of Albanology
- Pasquale Scutari – Italian linguist and Albanologist
- Giuseppe Schirò (junior) – Italian scholar and literary historian
- Marco Basaiti – Renaissance painter
- Michael Bellusci – Musician and Drummer
- Olivier Berggruen – German-American art historian and curator
- Bino – Italian rock percussionist and actor
- Gabriella Cilmi – Australian singer-songwriter[30][31]
- Claudia Conserva – Chilean television hostess
- Drita D'Avanzo – television personality
- Kara DioGuardi – American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality[13][14]
- Enzo Domestico Kabregu – Italian-Uruguayan painter and art educator
- Salvatore Frega – Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music[32]
- Mônica Kabregu Bernasconi – Uruguayan visual artist and ceramicist
- Joe Lala – American rock percussionist and actor
- Cosimo Damiano Lanza – Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer
- Soledad Onetto – Chilean TV presenter
- Steven Parrino – American artist and musician associated with energetic punk nihilism
- Michele Perniola – Italian singer, best known for representing San Marino at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013
- Renzo Rubino – Italian pop singer songwriter
- Bobbi Starr – pornographic actress
- Tito Schipa – Italian tenor[33]
- Tito Schipa Jr. – Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor[33]
- Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
(in Italian) Crispi, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 30 (1984)
(in Italian) Brunetti, La piazza della rivolta, pp. 71-72
Di Marco & Musco, Aspetti della cultura bizantina ed albanese in Sicilia, p. 85
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