# List of Kosovo Albanians

This is a list of historical and living notable Kosovar Albanians (ethnic Albanian people from Kosovo or people of full or partial Kosovar Albanian ancestry), sorted by occupation and name:

## Military personnel

* Idriz Seferi - nationalist guerrilla fighter
* Azem Galica - nationalist resistance fighter
* Isa Boletini - nationalist guerrilla fighter
* Asim Vokshi - volunteer in Spanish Civil War
* Sulejman Vokshi - military leader and commander of the League of Prizren
* Haxhi Zeka - nationalist leader
* Bislim Bajgora - nationalist leader
* Shote Galica - nationalist guerrilla fighter who was declared as the People's Heroine of Albania
* Mic Sokoli - nationalist figure and guerrilla fighter
* Shaban Polluzha - military leader
* Idriz Gjilani - KLA commander
* Zahir Pajaziti - KLA commander
* Adem Jashari - KLA commander
* Agim Ramadani - KLA commander
* Njazi Azemi - KLA commander

## Academics

* Islam Dobra - historian and writer
* Anton Berisha - scholar and folklorist
* Anton Berishaj - academic, from Malsia, Montenegro living in Kosovo
* Flora Brovina - poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist from Drenica, raised in Pristina
* Din Mehmeti - poet, from Gjakova
* Ali Podrimja - poet, from Gjakova
* Adem Zaplluzha - poet, from Prizren

## Visual arts and design

* Argjend Dobra - photographer
* Rifo Dobra - photographer
* Gazmend Freitag - painter
* Lirika Matoshi - fashion designer
* Teuta Matoshi - fashion designer
* Burim Myftiu - American contemporary photographer, born in Prizren
* Ramadan Ramadani - painter and artist
* Mustafa Presheva - Turkish film editor

## Models

* Diana Avdiu - Kosovar Albanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Kosovo 2012
* Marigona Dragusha - model who was crowned Miss Universe Kosovo in 2009; second runner-up in Miss Universe 2009
* Donika Emini - Kosovar Albanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Kosovo
* Zana Krasniqi - Kosovar Albanian fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Kosovo 2008
* Camila Barraza - Argentinian-Kosovar model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Kosovo 2016 and represented Kosovo at Miss Universe 2016.
* Mirjeta Shala - Kosovar Albanian model
* Zana Berisha - Kosovar Albanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Kosovo 2018

## Business and entrepreneurship

* Florin Krasniqi - American businessman and political activist
* Shkëlzen Shala - veganism activist and entrepreneur
* Ramiz Tafilaj - American businessman, activist, visionary and publisher

## Politics

* Albin Kurti - current Prime Minister of Kosovo
* Vjosa Osmani - current President of Kosovo
* Lulzim Basha - Albanian politician. He is the chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania, the main opposition party, since 2013.
* Agim Çeku - minister of security forces for the Republic of Kosovo
* Bajram Curri - minister of defence of Albania, member of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo, independence activist
* Nexhat Daci - member of the Assembly of Kosovo
* Nexhip Draga - politician and deputy of the Ottoman and later of the Yugoslav parliament
* Jakup Krasniqi - spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army (during the Kosovo war); Former Chairman of the Assembly of Kosovo (2007–2014); Former Acting President of Kosovo.
* Ramush Haradinaj - former Prime Minister of Kosovo (2004–05)
* Sinan Hasani - former president of Yugoslavia (1986–1987), novelist, statesman and diplomat
* Ali Kelmendi - communist organiser
* Hasan Prishtina - former Prime Minister, nationalist, organizer of Albanian movements against Ottomans and other regimes installed in Kosovo, during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century
* Ymer Prizreni - cleric, jurist, politician, scholar and patriot, head leader of the Albanian League of Prizren
* Bajram Rexhepi - Prime Minister of Kosovo 2002-2004
* Ibrahim Rugova - first president of Kosovo (1992–2000) and (2002–2006)
* Fatmir Sejdiu - first president of the Republic of Kosovo (2006–2010)
* Hashim Thaçi - former Prime Minister and President of Kosovo
* Azem Vllasi - senior politician and lawyer

## Sports
### Basketball

* Edmond Azemi - Kosovo Albanian professional basketball player who plays for Sigal Prishtina in Kosovo Basketball Superleague

### Handball

* Taip Ramadani - head coach of the Australian national handball team, parents are from Kosovo
Ice Hockey
* Arber Xhekaj - Defenseman for the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens; father is from Kosovo

### American football

* Lirim Hajrullahu - Kosovar-born Canadian placekicker in both the CFL and NFL, 2017 Grey Cup champion