List of Albanians in Italy

Main article: Albanians in Italy

This list features prominent Italian people of full or partial Albanian descent, arranged by occupation.

History and politics

Francesco Crispi served as Italy's prime minister from 1887 until 1891.

• Francesco Crispi – Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.^[1]
• Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist; founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy^[2][3]
• Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci – politician.
• Nicola Barbato – Doctor and politician, among the founders of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani Workers.
• Giacomo Vuxani – Italian politician.
• Stefano Rodotà – Italian Politician.
• Terenzio Tocci – Politician

Military

Giorgio Basta became Field Marshal and Governor of Upper Hungary under Emperor Rudolf II, later being granted the title of Imperial Count in 1605.

• Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire^[4]
• Mercurio Bua – Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
• Hadji Alia – Albanian pirate lord^[5][6]
• Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
• Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman^[7]
• Graitzas Palaiologos – Commander of the Byzantine garrison
• Gjon Markagjoni – Albanian Catholic clan chieftain
• Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General^[8][9]
• Demetrio Capuzzimati – Stratioti captain in Puglia
• Attanasio Dramis – captain commander of the Calabrian national guard

Business and finance

Enrico Cuccia was the founder of Mediobanca SpA and a significant figure in the history of capitalism in Italy.

• Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction ^[10]
• Nicolas Berggruen – Philanthropist and investor
• Anselmo Lorecchio – Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer
• Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist
• Bernardino Vitali – printer

Science and academia

• Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening^[11]
• Giulio Variboba – Poet
• Giuseppe Serembe – Lyric poet.
• Carmine Abate – Novelist and short story writer.
• Vorea Ujko – Priest and poet
• Mario Bellizzi – Poet

Luigi Giura designed the first suspension bridge in Continental Europe, in 1832.

• Bernardo Bilotta – Priest, poet and folklorist^[12]
• Demetrio Camarda – Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian and philologist
• Nicola Chetta – Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet
• Carmelo Candreva – writer
• Giuseppe Crispi – Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time.
• Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century^[13]
• Gabriele Dara – Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
• Giovanni Emanuele Bidera – 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
• Gabriele Buccola – psychologist
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia – philosopher
• 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
• Marco La Piana – Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin
• 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
• Costantino Mortati – jurist and constitutionalist
• Antonio Rodotà – Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), serving from 1997 until 2003

Literature

Girolamo de Rada is regarded as the most influential Arbëreshë writer of the 19th century who played an essential role in the Albanian National Revival movement.

• Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening
• Giulio Variboba – Poet
• Giuseppe Serembe – Lyric poet.
• Carmine Abate – Novelist and short story writer.
• Vorea Ujko – Priest and poet
• Mario Bellizzi – Poet
• Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century^[14]
• Gabriele Dara – Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
• Leonardo Lala – Italian writer
• Gennaro Placco – poet
• 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
• Kristina Gentile Mandala – writer
• 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
• Vincenzo Dorsa – scholar, writer and translator
• Tom Perrotta – American novelist and screenwriter
• Maria Antonia Braile – Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian
• Fabio Stassi – writer

Religion

Pope Clement XI was head of the papal states from 1700 until his passing in 1721.

• Pope Clement XI – Pope from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721.^[15][16] part from the noble Albani family which had established itself in Urbino from northern Albania in the 15th century.^[17][18]
• Sotir Ferrara – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi

Stefano Durazzo served as Archbishop of Genoa for three decades. His family lineage produced nine Doges and established the earliest theatres in the Republic.

• Stefano Durazzo – cardinal and Archbishop of Genoa
• Giorgio Guzzetta – priest
• Donato Oliverio – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy
• Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro – Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy
• Nicola Figlia – Arbëreshë Byzantine rite priest, and writer of the 18th century
• Antonio Ciliberti – Roman Catholic archbishop
• Alessandro Albani – Prominent jurist and papal administrator
• Annibale Albani – Italian Cardinal
• Ernest Simoni – Cardinal
• Ercole Lupinacci – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Lungro.
• Gian Girolamo Albani – Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• Gian Francesco Albani – Roman Catholic Cardinal
• Giuseppe Albani – Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal
• Ferruccio Baffa Trasci – Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher
• Eleuterio Francesco Fortino – Italian priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
• Pietro Parente – Long-serving theologian in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church
• Raffaele Castielli – Italian bishop
• Arberia Parish – Eastern Orthodox Christian parish
• Angelo Massafra – Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult

Arts and entertainment

Anna Oxa is a two-time winner of the Sanremo Music Festival.

• Tito Schipa – Italian tenor^[19]
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
• Enzo Domestico Kabregu – painter
• Salvatore Frega - Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music^[20]
• Anna Oxa – Italian-Albanian singer, actress and television presenter^[21]
• Ermal Meta – Italian-Albanian singer
• Elhaida Dani – Italian-Albanian singer

Anna Maria Bugliari was crowned Miss Italia in 1950, edging Sophia Loren who took second place.

• Marco Basaiti – Renaissance painter^{[22][23][24][25][26][27]}
• Michele Greco da Valona - Albanian painter of the Adriatic Renaissance
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
• Ibrahim Kodra – Painter^[28]
• Alborosie - Italian Reggae Ambassador
• Xhovalin Delia - Painter, publicist and film director

Sports

Giovanni Paramithiotti was the founder of Inter Milan and served as the club's first chairman.

• Giovanni Paramithiotti – founder and first Chairman of FC Inter Milan^[29]
• Igli Tare – Football player
• Emanuele Ndoj – Albanian professional footballer
• Giacomo Vrioni – Italian-Albanian football player
• Andrea Isufaj – Italian football player
• Marash Kumbulla – Italian-born Albanian professional footballer^[30]
• Irlian Ceka – Albanian professional footballer
• Kastriot Dermaku – Albanian professional footballer
• Entonjo Elezaj – Italian-Albanian football player
• Ador Gjuci – Italian-Albanian football player
• Alessio Hyseni – Italian-Albanian football player
• Antonio Candreva – Italian footballer
• Ardit Gashi – Italian-Kosovar footballer
• Giuseppe Bellusci – Italian footballer
• Luca Rizzo – Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Bologna.
• Daniel Caligiuri – German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga.^[31]
• Marco Caligiuri – German footballer^[31]
• Stefano Fiore – Italian football manager and former player, who played as an attacking midfielder or on the wing
• Federico Zenuni – Albanian professional footballer
• Shaqir Tafa – Albanian professional footballer
• Ismet Sinani – Footballer
• Kleto Gjura – Footballer
• Fabio Sakaj – Footballer
• Alessio Ruçi – Footballer

Antonio Candreva was capped 54 times for Italy's national football team.

• Nicola Legrottaglie – Italian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and is the current assistant manager at Cagliari Calcio
• Andrea Tripicchio – Italian professional footballer
• Angelo Ndrecka – Italian-Albanian professional footballer
• Francesco Pianeta – Italian professional boxer
• Antonio Giovinazzi – Italian racing driver
• Luigi Mastrangelo – Italian men's volleyball player
• Andy Parrino – American former professional baseball player^[32]
• Noel Borshi – Albanian swimmer^[33]
• Ornel Gega – Rugby union player^[34]
• Engjel Makelara – Rugby union player^[35]
• Luca Shytaj – Albanian-Italian chess grandmaster and virologist^[36][37]
• Klodeta Gjini – Albanian track and field athlete^[38]
• Abramo Canka – Italian professional basketball player ^[39][40]