• 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