Prominent Albanians (born After 1900)
- Melihate Ajeti (1935–2005), prominent Albanian actress
- Faruk Begolli (1944–2007), famous former Albanian actor
- John Belushi (1949–1982), American actor of Albanian origin
- Bekim Fehmiu (1936–2010), former Albanian actor and the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War
- Simon Gjoni (1925–1991), composer
- Adem Jashari (1955–1998), militar in Kosovo
- Musine Kokalari (1917–1983), the first (recorded) female writer of Albania, an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period
- Zef Kolombi (1907–1949), painter
- Ibrahim Kodra (1918–2006), artist
- Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa (1910–1997) – Nobel Peace Prize winner and beatified nun
- Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914–1999) Great Muslim Scholar
- Ibrahim Rugova (1944–2006), president of Kosovo from 1993 to 2006
- Cesk Zadeja (1927–1997), famous Albanian composer, "The Father of Albanian music"
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