# List of Albanians in Italy

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

## History and politics

* Francesco Crispi – Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.
* Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist; founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy
* 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 – General of Holy Roman Empire
* Mercurio Bua – Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
* Hadji Alia – Albanian pirate lord
* Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
* Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman
* Graitzas Palaiologos – Commander of the Byzantine garrison
* Gjon Markagjoni – Albanian Catholic clan chieftain
* Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General
* Demetrio Capuzzimati – Stratioti captain in Puglia
* Attanasio Dramis – captain commander of the Calabrian national guard

## Business and finance

* Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction
* 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
* Giulio Variboba – Poet
* Giuseppe Serembe – Lyric poet.
* Carmine Abate – Novelist and short story writer.
* Vorea Ujko – Priest and poet
* Mario Bellizzi – Poet
* Bernardo Bilotta – Priest, poet and folklorist
* 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
* 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

## Writers

* 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
* 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 – Pope from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721. part from the noble Albani family which had established itself in Urbino from northern Albania in the 15th century.
* Sotir Ferrara – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi
* 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

* Tito Schipa – Italian tenor
* Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
* Enzo Domestico Kabregu – painter
* Salvatore Frega - Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music
* Anna Oxa – Italian-Albanian singer, actress and television presenter
* Ermal Meta – Italian-Albanian singer
* Elhaida Dani – Italian-Albanian singer
* Marco Basaiti – Renaissance painter
* Michele Greco da Valona - Albanian painter of the Adriatic Renaissance
* Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
* Ibrahim Kodra – Painter
* Alborosie - Italian Reggae Ambassador
* Xhovalin Delia - Painter, publicist and film director

## Sports

* Giovanni Paramithiotti – founder and first Chairman of FC Inter Milan
* 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
* 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.
* Marco Caligiuri – German footballer
* 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
* 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
* Noel Borshi – Albanian swimmer
* Ornel Gega – Rugby union player
* Engjel Makelara – Rugby union player
* Luca Shytaj – Albanian-Italian chess grandmaster and virologist
* Klodeta Gjini – Albanian track and field athlete
* Abramo Canka – Italian professional basketball player