Historical Figures
- Skanderbeg (6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468) was a 15th-century Albanian lord.'Hero of Christianism' he initiated and organized the League of Lezhë, which proclaimed him Chief of the League of the Albanian people.
- Mustafa Kemal, known as Atatürk ("father of the Turks") (1881–1938), Turkish statesman and founder and first president of the Republic
- Pal Engjelli, Albanian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Durrës and Cardinal of Albania who in 1462 wrote the first known sentence retrieved so far in Albanian
- Leke Dukagjini,Albanian prince and member of Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a code of law instituted in northern Albania.
- Marin Barleti, Albanian historian and Catholic priest, considered the first Albanian historian, especially because of his biography on Skanderbeg, translated in many languages in the 16th to the 18th centuries
- Hamza Kastrioti
- Iljaz Hoxha (1408–1512)
- Davud Pasha (? - 1498)
- Sedefkar Mehmed Agha (1540–1617)
- Nezim Frakulla (1680–1760)
- Ali Pasha (1740–1822)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769–1849)
- Mahmud Dramali Pasha (1780–1822)
- Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (1575–1661)
- Kara Mahmud Bushati (1740–1796)
- Edhem Pasha (1851–1909)
- Gjergj Fishta, (1871–1940), Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, rilindas, and a translator. Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.
- Shtjefen Gjecovi (1873–1929), born Mëhill Kostandin Gjeçi-Kryeziu in Kosovo was an Albanian Catholic priest, ethnologist and folklorist. He is known for being the father of Albanians' folklore studies.
- Fan S. Noli, better known as Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965), Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.
- Abdyl Frasheri (1839–1892), Albanian diplomat, politician, writer, and a first political ideologue of the Albanian National Awakening, through the League of Prizren. He is the elder brother of other nationalist Albanian activists, Naim and Sami.
- Ismail Qemali (1844–1919), (in Turkish İsmail Kemal Bey or İsmail Kemal Vlora), was a distinguished leader of the Albanian national movement, founder of the modern Albanian state and its first head of state and government.
- Faik Konica (1875–1942), one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, Albania, became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroadž
- Aleksander Moisiu (1879–1935), Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent, the first in Europe to interpret characters from August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.In Berlin Moisiu was acclaimed for his 1906 performance of Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts and in the premiere of Wedekind's Spring Awakening.
- Omer Vrioni
- Haxhi Shehreti
- Ali Pasha of Gucia (1828–1885)
- Ibrahim Pasha of Berat
- Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed (1635–1676)
- Kara Murad Pasha
- Ahmet Kurt Pasha
- Hodo Sokoli (1836–1883)
- Mustafa Bushati
- Ibrahim Bushati
- Mustafa Reshit Pasha
- Mehmed Pasha Bushati
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