# List of Arbëreshë people

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.

## Prime Ministers of Italy

* Francesco Crispi – Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.
* Francesco Crispi

## Politics

* Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire
* Linda S. Mullenix - Legal author, Rita and Morris Atlas Chair in Advocacy, and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
* Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy
* Juan Pedro Aladro Kastriota – Spanish-Arbereshe nobleman, diplomat, and pretender of the throne of Albania
* Francesco Crispi - Former Prime minister of Italy, Noted for his role in Italian unification
* Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci – Politician.
* Nicola Barbato – Doctor and politician, among the founders of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani Workers
* Joseph J. DioGuardi – Former US Congressman
* Victor Hugo Schiro – Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
* Terenzio Tocci – Politician
* Sal Albanese – Politician
* Mario Tanassi – Italian politician, who was several times Minister of the Italian Republic
* Richard Caliguiri – Politician
* Basilio Giordano – Italian and Canadian politician and journalist
* Gennaro Placco – poet and prominent activist of the Risorgimento
* Stefano Rodotà – jurist and politician
* Marco Osnato – Italian politician
* Anthony Albanese - Prime Minister of Australia
* Giorgio Basta
* Antonio Gramsci
* Terenzio Tocci
* Anthony Albanese

## 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.
* Domenico Bellizzi a.k.a. 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
* 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.
* 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
* 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
* Girolamo de Rada
* Giulio Variboba
* Giuseppe Schirò
* Ernesto Sabato

## Literature

* Daniela Gioseffi – poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer
* Pema Browne – American abstract artist
* Kristina Gentile Mandala – Albanian writer

## Military

* Mercurio Bua – Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
* Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
* Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman
* Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General
* Demetrio Capuzzimati – Stradiot captain in Puglia
* Mercurio Bua
* Khoja Zufar

## Business and civil society

* Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction.
* James J. Schiro – American business man
* Nicolas Berggruen – Philanthropist and investor
* Anselmo Lorecchio – Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer
* Luigi Giura – Engineer and architect.
* Ercole Lupinacci – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Lungro.
* Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist
* Vaccaro brothers – Italian-American businessmen
* Andrew Kaczynski – Journalist and editor for CNN.
* Anselmo Lorecchio
* Luigi Giura

## Religious

* Sotir Ferrara – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.
* Pope Clement XI Pope of Italy during the early 1700s
* Giovanni Mele – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy
* 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
* Nikollë Filja – Arbëreshë Byzantine rite priest, and writer of the 18th century
* Antonio Ciliberti – Roman Catholic archbishop
* Gian Girolamo Albani – Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
* Giuseppe Schirò (archbishop) – Arbëreshë writer of the 18th century
* 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
* Sotir Ferrara
* Donato Oliverio

## Cinema

* Danny DeVito – American actor
* Regis Philbin – American media personality and occasional actor and singer
* Aleksandër Moisiu – Austrian stage actor
* Stanley Tucci – American actor
* Bettina Moissi – German stage and film actress
* Gedeon Burkhard – German film and television actor
* Nick Mancuso – Italian-born Canadian actor and playwright
* Alan Barillaro – Canadian director, animator and writer
* J. J. Philbin – American producer and screenwriter
* Aroldo Tieri – Italian actor
* Robert De Niro – American actor
* Mario Sábato – Argentine film director and screenwriter
* Mike Bongiorno – Italian-American television host
* Mitchel Musso – American actor, musician, and singer
* Tracee Chimo – actress
* Antonio Albanese – Italian comedian, actor, director and writer
* Aleksandër Moisiu
* Nick Mancuso
* Mike Bongiorno

## Arts and entertainment

* 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
* 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
* Enzo Domestico Kabregu – Italian-Uruguayan painter and art educator
* Salvatore Frega – Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music
* 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
* Tito Schipa Jr. – Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor
* Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
* Michele Perniola
* Joe Lala
* Tito Schipa
* Gabriella Cilmi
* Salvatore Frega
* Mónica Kabregu Bernasconi

## Models

* Cecilia Bolocco – Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987
* Diana Bolocco – Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987
* Valeria Mazza – Argentine model
* Graciela Alfano – Argentine artist, model, actress and vedette
* Amalia Granata – Argentine model and politician

## Sports

* Tatiana Búa – Argentine tennis player
* Giuseppe Bellusci – Italian footballer
* Mateo Musacchio – Argentine footballer
* Darío Benedetto – Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Boca Juniors
* Daniel Caligiuri – German professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for FC Augsburg in the Bundesliga
* Marco Caligiuri – German footballer
* Tomás Guidara – Argentine professional footballer
* Andy Varipapa – Professional trick bowler
* Antonio Candreva – Footballer
* Daniel Caligiuri
* Mateo Musacchio