WAg Apolloni is an Albanian writer, poet, playwright, scholar and essayist. He is a professor at the University of Prishtina. His literary works are distinguished for their dramatic dimension, philosophical treatment and critical attitude towards history, politics and society.
WDhimitër Beratti or Berati was an Albanian politician and journalist. One of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence Berati served as secretary of the Albanian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
WTahir Nasuf Dizdari (1900–1972) was an Albanian orientalist, folklorist, and scholar. He was the main orientalist in Albania, and contributed in identifying and studying oriental words borrowed from the Albanian language.
WLlazar (Zai) Fundo was an Albanian Communist, later social-democratic journalist and writer. He was a former member of the Comintern and the Balkan Communist Federation. He was associated with the Fan S. Noli government in 1924 and became the leader of the Bashkimi organization after the death of Avni Rustemi in 1924. In 1928 he helped establish the Korçë Communist Group. In the fierce rivalry for power control within the Communist Party, he was branded a Trotskyist and purged from the party.
WFatmir Gjata (1922–1989) was a prominent Albanian writer of Socialist Realism.
WMihal Grameno was an Albanian nationalist, politician, writer, freedom fighter, and journalist. He was one of the four initial appointed delegates from Korçë to the Albanian National Congress that proclaimed the Independence of Albania on 28 November 1912.
WMilto 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.
WGazmend Kapllani is an Albanian-born writer and journalist. He is the author of the best-selling novel A Short Border Handbook. Kapllani lives in Chicago, Illinois.
WTeodor Keko (1958–2002) was an Albanian writer, journalist, and politician.
WShahin bey Kolonja was an Albanian journalist, politician, and member of the Ottoman Parliament during its Second Constitutional Era.
WAndrokli Kostallari (1922–1992) was an Albanian linguist and scholar. He was one of the central figures of the Albanian language studies and founding member and director of the Albanian Institute of History and Linguistics, and later Institute of Linguistics and Literature. Kostallari is remembered for being one of the key expert contributor to the present Albanian language orthography established by the Congress of Orthography of 1972.
WMitrush 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.
WAnselmo Lorecchio was an Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer of Albanian descent, founder of the La Nazione Albanese newspaper, and author of several literary works in praise of the independence of Albania.
WKristo Luarasi (1876–1934) was an Albanian nationalist figure and publisher. He was one of the activists of the Albanian National Awakening.
WPetro Nini Luarasi was an Albanian rilindas activist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist. His father, Nini Petro Kostallari, had also been active in the Albanian National Revival as a publicist and teacher.
WFatos Lubonja is an Albanian writer, analyst and dissident.
WThimi (Efthim) Mitko was an activist of the Albanian National Awakening and folklorist.
WSali Nivica or Sali Nivitza was a politician, a patriot, an Albanian journalist and a teacher. For his patriotic activity he received the highest Albanian award, 'Honour of the Nation' as well as that of 'Teacher of the People'.
WAstrit Patozi is an Albanian politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania. As one of the closest associates of former prime minister Sali Berisha, he served as deputy leader of the Democratic Party and also as head of its parliamentary group. On 23 April 2019, he became the coordinator of the newly born political party on the center-right of the Albanian political scene, called "Convinction for Democracy".
WErmal Peçi is an Albanian television host. He hosted his first television program in 2006. In September 2020, Ermal Peçi moved to ABC News Albania, hosting daily show ‘ABC e pasdites’.
WBedri Pejani was 20th century Albanian politician. During World War II, he was one of the founders of the Second League of Prizren.
WMarigo Posio (1882–1932) was one of the most distinguished Albanian women, an activist of the Albanian National Awakening and Independence Movement, and consolidating the social status of Albanian women. She is mostly remembered for sewing the flag raised by Ismail Qemali during the Albanian Declaration of Independence in Vlorë on 28 November 1912.
WLeon Qafzezi is an Albanian writer and cineaste.
WGirolamo de Rada was an Arbëreshë folklorist, journalist, lawyer, playwright, poet, rilindas and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 19th century who played an essential role in the Albanian Renaissance.
WKristo Sulidhi, full name Kristo Panajot Sulidhi, also known as Kristo Shuli, (1858-1938), was an Albanian photographer and writer of the 19th and early 20th century. He was born in the village of Marjan of the region of Opar. He emigrated to Greece where he wrote in Anastas Kullurioti's weekly The Voice of Albania,. One of his most important poems was a ballad of 150 verses entitled The Albanians who fight in Gucia. He returned to Albania and worked in Korçë as a photographer. One of his most important photos is the one that documented the first Albanian school, opened in 1887.
WAthanas 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.
WAuron Tare is an Albanian historian, journalist and cultural heritage manager. Currently, he is general director for the Albanian National Coastal Agency. He was a member of Parliament for Tirana and a member of the Media and Cultural Committee for the Albanian Parliament. In May 2018 he was elected chairman of UNESCO Scientific and Technical Commity on Underwater World Heritage. Tare is a well-known public figure in the field of Albanian cultural heritage, government, and journalism. Championing the cause of cultural preservation, Tare has worked for many years mobilizing support for the preservation of Albania's rich historical background. He is well known for his efforts to protect the ancient city of Butrint in the mid-1990s when Albania was going through difficult economic and political transitions. He was one of the founders of Butrint National Park and its first director from 1999 to 2005
WMisto 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.
WMihal Zallari was an Albanian historian, politician, journalist and poet. He served as Chairman of the National Parliament of Albania from 1943–44.
WTajar Zavalani known later in his life as Thomas-Henry Zavalani (1903–1966) was an Albanian historian, publicist, and writer.