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  • Sedefkar Mehmed Agha (1540–1617)
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) – known as Atatürk ("father of the Turks"); Turkish statesman and founder and first president of the Republic[3][4][5][6][7][8]
  • Ballaban Badera – commander of Ottoman Empire
  • Marin Barleti – 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
  • Bekim Berisha
  • Bardhok Biba
  • Isa Boletini
  • Ibrahim Bushati
  • Kara Mahmud Bushati (1740–1796)
  • Mehmed Bushati
  • Mustafa Bushati
  • Prek Cali
  • Dervish Cara – leader of the Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
  • Pope Clement XI (Giovanni Francesco Albani) (1649–1721)
  • Bajram Curri
  • Ali Demi (1918–1943)
  • Lekë Dukagjini – prince and member of Dukagjini family; contemporary ofSkanderbeg; known for the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a code of law instituted in northern Albania
  • Ali Demi
  • Pal Engjëlli – Catholic clergyman; Archbishop of Durrës and Cardinal of Albania; in 1462, wrote the first known sentence retrieved so far in the Albanian language
  • Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873–1936) – of Albanian descent
  • Nezim Frakulla (1680–1760)
  • Shote Galica
  • Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802–1860) – designer of the Semmering Railway
  • George Ghica – founder of Ghica family
  • Shtjefën Gjeçovi (1873–1929) – Catholic priest, ethnologist and folklorist; known for being the father of Albanians' folklore studies
  • Luigj Gurakuqi
  • Ramush Haradinaj (born 1968) – former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army and former Prime Minister of Kosovo
  • Adem Jashari
  • Hamëz Jashari
  • Branko Kadija
  • Hamza Kastrioti
  • Ali Kelmendi
  • Fatmir Limaj – politician from Kosovo; during the 1998–1999 Kosovo War, was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Lapušnik area
  • Ded Gjo Luli
  • Misto Mame
  • Jordan Misja
  • Iljas Mirahori (1408–1512)
  • Aleksandër Moisiu (1879–1935) – Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent; first in Europe to interpret characters from August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; in Berlin, was acclaimed for his 1906 performance of Oswald in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and in the premiere of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening
  • Bule Naipi
  • Zahir Pajaziti
  • Selam Musai
  • Ahmet Kurt Pasha
  • Ali Pasha (1740–1822)
  • Ali Pasha of Gucia (1828–1885)
  • Edhem Pasha (1851–1909)
  • Ibrahim Pasha of Berat
  • Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789–1848)
  • Kara Murat Pasha
  • Koca Davud Pasha (14??–1498)
  • Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (1635–1676)
  • Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (1575–1661)
  • Lütfi Pasha (1488-1564) – grand vizier of Ottoman Empire
  • Mahmud Dramali Pasha (1780–1822)
  • Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769–1849)
  • Ismail Qemali (1844–1919) – leader of the Albanian national movement; founder of the modern Albanian state and its first head of state and government
  • Mustafa Reshiti
  • Perlat Rexhepi
  • Ibrahim Rugova
  • Haxhi Shehreti
  • Hodo Sokoli (1836–1883)
  • Mic Sokoli
  • Qemal Stafa
  • Hashim Thaçi (born 1968) – Prime Minister of Kosovo; leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo; former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army
  • Karl Topia (1331-1388) – prince of Albania
  • Pretash Zekaj Ulaj (known as Pretash Zekaj)
  • Mujo Ulqinaku
  • Muhamet Xhemajli
  • Asim Vokshi
  • Vrana Konti (Count Vrana) (1442–1458) – Skanderbeg's general
  • Omer Vrioni
  • Tahir Zemaj