Costa ChekreziW
Costa Chekrezi

Costa Chekrezi, also known as Constantin Anastas Chekrezi was an Albanian patriot, historian, and publicist.

Arta DadeW
Arta Dade

Arta Dade is a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Socialist Party. She has been an MP since 1997. During her political career she served as Minister of Culture and Minister of Foreign Affairs, being the first women to be appointed as a Foreign minister. She is currently Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Policy.

Ibrahim DalliuW
Ibrahim Dalliu

Hafiz Ibrahim Dalliu was an Albanian alim, writer, publisher, educator, and activist of the Albanian national cause. He is remembered as one of the best mufassirs in Albania.

Shaban DemirajW
Shaban Demiraj

Shaban Demiraj (1920–2014) was an Albanian albanologist, linguist, professor at the University of Tirana from 1972-1990, and chairman of the Academy of Sciences of Albania during the period of 1993-1997.

Visar DodaniW
Visar Dodani

Visar Dodani (1857-1939) was a wealthy Albanian journalist and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.

Aleksandër Stavre DrenovaW
Aleksandër Stavre Drenova

Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, commonly known by the pen name Asdreni, was an Albanian poet, rilindas, translator, writer and the author of the poem which later became the national anthem of Albania. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century and composed most of his Albanian Renaissance-inspired known works during that period.

Robert ElsieW
Robert Elsie

Robert Elsie was a Canadian-born German scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore.

Gjergj FishtaW
Gjergj Fishta

Gjergj Fishta was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, politician, rilindas, translator and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century due to his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís and the editor of two of the most autoritative magazines after Albania's independence, Posta e Shypniës and Hylli i Dritës.

Kristo FloqiW
Kristo Floqi

Kristo Floqi was an Albanian patriot, playwright, politician, and lawyer.

Mid'hat FrashëriW
Mid'hat Frashëri

Mid'hat Frashëri was an Albanian diplomat, writer and politician. The son of Abdyl Frashëri, one of the most important activists of the Albanian National Awakening in 1908 he participated in the Congress of Monastir. In 1942 he became the president of Balli Kombëtar, an Albanian anti-fascist and anti-communist resistance movement. Frashëri was one among others, a father of Albanian Nationalism.

Naim FrashëriW
Naim Frashëri

Naim Bey Frashëri, more commonly Naim Frashëri, was an Albanian patriot, historian, journalist, poet, rilindas and translator who was proclaimed national poet of Albania. He is regarded as the pioneer of modern Albanian literature and one of the most influential Albanian cultural icons of the 19th century.

Lola GjokaW
Lola Gjoka

Lola Gjoka or Lola Aleksi was an Albanian pianist.

Pjetër GjokaW
Pjetër Gjoka

Pjetër Gjoka was an Albanian movie and theatre actor.

Gregory IV of AthensW
Gregory IV of Athens

Gregory IV, was a Greek or Albanian scholar and cleric who became Metropolitan of Athens in 1827–1828.

Milto Sotir GurraW
Milto Sotir Gurra

Milto Sotir Gurra (1884–1972) was an Albanian journalist and short story writer of the 20th-century. He first works came out during the last period of the Albanian National Awakening and continued for a 50-year period. Although simple in character and at times permeated by naive sentimental notes, Gurra's work reserves a certain importance within the Albanian literature due to its social context and thematics. Beside his own creations, Gurra translated to Albanian some of the masterpieces of the classic Russian literature.

Zef JubaniW
Zef Jubani

Zef Jubani was an Albanian folklorist, philosopher and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. He is known for the publication of a Collection of Albanian Folk Songs and Rhapsodies in the Gheg Albanian dialect. Jubani advocated the creation of a unique alphabet of the Albanian language. For his political activities, which often were anti-clericalist, Jubani was denounced to the Holy See by the Jesuit missionaries of Shkodër.

Vedat KokonaW
Vedat Kokona

Vedat Kokona was an Albanian translator, writer and lexicologist of the 20th century, well known for his dual dictionaries English-Albanian and French-Albanian and his contributions in Albanian lexicology and lexicography.

Ernest KoliqiW
Ernest Koliqi

Ernest Koliqi was an Albanian journalist, politician, translator, teacher and writer. Along with Mitrush Kuteli he is considered as the founder of modern Albanian prose commonly known by the pen names Borizani, Hilushi or Hilush Vilza.

Shahin KolonjaW
Shahin Kolonja

Shahin bey Kolonja was an Albanian journalist, politician, and member of the Ottoman Parliament during its Second Constitutional Era.

Kostandin KristoforidhiW
Kostandin Kristoforidhi

Kostandin Nelko, known as Kostandin Kristoforidhi, was an Albanian translator and scholar. He is mostly known for having translated the New Testament into Albanian for the first time in the Gheg Albanian dialect in 1872. He also provided a translation in Tosk Albanian in 1879 thereby improving the 1823 tosk version of Vangjel Meksi. By providing translation in both dialects, he has the merit of founding the basis of the unification of both dialects into a national language.

Mirela KumbaroW
Mirela Kumbaro

Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi, is an Albanian politician. In 2013 she was nominated Minister of Culture of Albania.

Mitrush KuteliW
Mitrush Kuteli

Mitrush Kuteli, born Dhimitër Pasko was a well-known Albanian writer, literary critic and translator. Along with Ernest Koliqi he is considered as the founder of modern Albanian prose; in Albanian literature his pen name for which he gained fame was Mitrush Kuteli.

Henrik LacajW
Henrik Lacaj

Henrik Lacaj (1909–1991) was an Albanian humanitarian, linguist, and translator. He authored textbooks, plays, and various studies on historical figures such as Scanderbeg and Luigj Gurakuqi, but in Albania he is most venerated for his numerous translations of Latin and Greek masterpieces.

Loni LogoriW
Loni Logori

Loni Logori (1871–1929) was an Albanian-Egyptian entrepreneur, poet, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.

Skënder LuarasiW
Skënder Luarasi

Skënder Luarasi (1900-1982) was an Albanian scholar, writer and anti-fascist activist.

Gjekë MarinajW
Gjekë Marinaj

Gjekë Marinaj is an Albanian–American poet, writer, translator, literary critic, and founder of the Protonism Theory. Currently living in the United States, he has been the first president of the Society of Albanian-American Writers, established in 2001 and has published several books of poetry, prose, and literary criticism. In 2008, Marinaj was awarded the Pjetër Arbnori Award for literature by QNK part of the Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports of Albania.

Ndre MjedaW
Ndre Mjeda

Ndre Mjeda was an Albanian philologist, poet, priest, rilindas, translator and writer of the Albanian Renaissance. He was a member of the Mjeda family.

Betim MuçoW
Betim Muço

Betim Muço was an Albanian writer, poet, translator, and seismologist.

Arshi PipaW
Arshi Pipa

Arshi Pipa was an Albanian-American philosopher, writer, poet and literary critic.

Aurel PlasariW
Aurel Plasari

Aurel Plasari is an Albanian, lecturer, scholar, writer, translator and professor.

Lasgush PoradeciW
Lasgush Poradeci

Llazar Sotir Gusho, commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.

Athanas SinaW
Athanas Sina

Athanas Sina, also known as Thanas Sina, was an Albanian journalist, teacher and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Sina was the second headmaster of the Mësonjëtorja, the first officially recognized Albanian-language school in the Ottoman Empire. He was also member of the Bashkimi organization, whose alphabet proposal in the Congress of Monastir would become the official alphabet of Albania.

Misto TreskaW
Misto Treska

Misto Treska was an Albanian translator, diplomat (Ambassador), writer and politician of Albania during communist regime. He has translated French authors such as Hugo, Maupassant, Stendhal and Diderot into Albanian. He has served in the Albanian diplomacy, particularly in exchanges of cultural relations of Albania with foreign countries. He has notably been Ambassador in Paris. Treska was also one of the prosecutors of the military trial in which Axis collaborators Lef Nosi, Anton Harapi, Maliq Bushati were sentenced to death.

Ardian VehbiuW
Ardian Vehbiu

Ardian Vehbiu is an Albanian author and translator. He was born in Tirana, Albania in 1959 and now resides in New York City. He is the author of 12 non-fiction and fiction books, as well as of a number of research papers in linguistics and semiotics. He is the winner of the 2009 "Gjergj Fishta" national non-fiction award with "Shqipja totalitare", (2009), as well as the winner of the 2014 "Ardian Klosi" non-fiction award, with "Sende që nxirrte deti", (2013).

Jusuf VrioniW
Jusuf Vrioni

Jusuf Vrioni (1916–2001) was an Albanian athlete, translator, diplomat, and Albanian ambassador to UNESCO.

Tajar ZavalaniW
Tajar Zavalani

Tajar Zavalani known later in his life as Thomas-Henry Zavalani (1903–1966) was an Albanian historian, publicist, and writer.