List of Arbëreshë people

Arbëreshë people are ethnic Albanians settled in Southern Italy, or their descendants. Some have achieved notability in a wide variety of fields, in Italy or in other countries.

Prime Ministers of Italy

 * Francesco Crispi –  Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.

Politics

 * Giorgio Basta –  General of Holy Roman Empire
 * Antonio Gramsci –  Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy
 * Juan Pedro Aladro Kastriota – Spanish-Arbereshe nobleman, diplomat, and pretender of the throne of Albania
 * Francesco Crispi - Former Prime minister of Italy, Noted for his role in Italian unification
 * Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci – Politician.
 * Nicola Barbato –  Doctor and politician, among the founders of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani Workers
 * Joseph J. DioGuardi –  Former US Congressman
 * Victor Hugo Schiro –  Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Terenzio Tocci –  Politician
 * Sal Albanese –  Politician
 * Mario Tanassi – Italian politician, who was several times Minister of the Italian Republic
 * Richard Caliguiri – Politician
 * Basilio Giordano – Italian and Canadian politician and journalist
 * Gennaro Placco – poet and prominent activist of the Risorgimento
 * Stefano Rodotà – jurist and politician
 * Marco Osnato – Italian politician

Science and academia

 * Girolamo de Rada –  Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening
 * Giulio Variboba –  Poet
 * Giuseppe Serembe –  Lyric poet.
 * Carmine Abate –  Novelist and short story writer.
 * Domenico Bellizzi a.k.a. Vorea Ujko –  Priest and poet
 * Mario Bellizzi –  Poet
 * Bernardo Bilotta –  Priest, poet and folklorist
 * Demetrio Camarda –  Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian, and philologist
 * Nicola Chetta –  Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet
 * Giuseppe Crispi –  Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time
 * Giuseppe Schirò –  Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century
 * Gabriele Dara  –  Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
 * Leonardo Lala –  Italian writer
 * Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio –  Poet, journalist, essayist, playwright and writer, among the most influential and prolific exponents of contemporary Arbëreshë literature
 * Eleuterio Francesco Fortino –  Priest of the Italo-Albanian Church in Calabria and writer of the Bizantine and Albanian culture
 * Angelo Masci –  Writer
 * Luca Matranga – Byzantine rite priest, one of the first writers in Albanian
 * Francesco Antonio Santori –  Writer, playwright and poet of the Albanian National Awakening
 * Ferruccio Baffa Trasci –  Bishop, theologian and philosopher
 * Vincenzo Dorsa –  scholar, writer and translator
 * Tom Perrotta –  American novelist and screenwriter
 * Marco La Piana –  Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin
 * Ernesto Sabato –   Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist
 * Maria Antonia Braile –  Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian
 * Francesco Altimari –  Italian scholar in the field of Albanology
 * Pasquale Scutari –  Italian linguist and Albanologist
 * Giuseppe Schirò (junior) –  Italian scholar and literary historian

Literature

 * Daniela Gioseffi – poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer
 * Pema Browne – American abstract artist
 * Kristina Gentile Mandala – Albanian writer

Military

 * Mercurio Bua –   Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
 * Theodore Bua –   Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
 * Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman
 * Khoja Zufar –    Captain, governor, merchant and General
 * Demetrio Capuzzimati –   Stradiot captain in Puglia
 * Joseph N. Macaluso Sr. – veteran of World War II

Business and civil society

 * Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction.
 * James J. Schiro – American business man
 * Nicolas Berggruen – Philanthropist and investor
 * Anselmo Lorecchio – Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer
 * Luigi Giura – Engineer and architect.
 * Ercole Lupinacci – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Lungro.
 * Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist
 * Vaccaro brothers –  Italian-American businessmen
 * Andrew Kaczynski – Journalist and editor for CNN.

Religious

 * Sotir Ferrara –  Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.
 * Pope Clement XI Pope of Italy during the early 1700s
 * Giovanni Mele – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy
 * Donato Oliverio –  Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy
 * Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro –  Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy
 * Nikollë Filja –  Arbëreshë Byzantine rite priest, and writer of the 18th century
 * Antonio Ciliberti –  Roman Catholic archbishop
 * Gian Girolamo Albani –  Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
 * Giuseppe Schirò (archbishop) –  Arbëreshë writer of the 18th century
 * Ferruccio Baffa Trasci –  Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher
 * Eleuterio Francesco Fortino –  Italian priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
 * Pietro Parente –  Long-serving theologian in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Raffaele Castielli –  Italian bishop
 * Arberia Parish –  Eastern Orthodox Christian parish

Cinema

 * Danny DeVito – American actor
 * Regis Philbin –  American media personality and occasional actor and singer
 * Aleksandër Moisiu –  Austrian stage actor
 * Stanley Tucci – American actor
 * Bettina Moissi –  German stage and film actress
 * Gedeon Burkhard –  German film and television actor
 * Nick Mancuso –  Italian-born Canadian actor and playwright
 * Alan Barillaro –  Canadian director, animator and writer
 * J. J. Philbin –   American producer and screenwriter
 * Aroldo Tieri –  Italian actor
 * Robert De Niro –  American actor
 * Mario Sábato –  Argentine film director and screenwriter
 * Mike Bongiorno –  Italian-American television host
 * Mitchel Musso –  American actor, musician, and singer
 * Tracee Chimo – actress
 * Greg Cipes – American actor, voice actor, singer, musician, and professional surfer
 * Antonio Albanese – Italian comedian, actor, director and writer

Arts and entertainment

 * Ernesto Baffa – Argentine Tango musician
 * Marco Basaiti –  Renaissance painter
 * Michael Bellusci – Musician and Drummer
 * Olivier Berggruen –  German-American art historian and curator
 * Bino –  Italian rock percussionist and actor
 * Gabriella Cilmi –  Australian singer-songwriter
 * Claudia Conserva – Chilean television hostess
 * Drita D'Avanzo – television personality
 * Kara DioGuardi –  American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality
 * Enzo Domestico Kabregu – Italian-Uruguayan painter and art educator
 * Salvatore Frega – Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music
 * Giannina Kabregu Bernasconi – Uruguayan ceramicist and visual artist
 * Mônica Kabregu Bernasconi – Uruguayan visual artist and ceramicist
 * Joe Lala –  American rock percussionist and actor
 * Cosimo Damiano Lanza –  Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer
 * Soledad Onetto –  Chilean TV presenter
 * Steven Parrino – American artist and musician associated with energetic punk nihilism
 * Michele Perniola –  Italian singer, best known for representing San Marino at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013
 * Renzo Rubino –  Italian pop singer songwriter
 * Bobbi Starr – pornographic actress
 * Tito Schipa –  Italian tenor
 * Tito Schipa Jr. –  Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor
 * Nik Spatari –  Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar

Models

 * Cecilia Bolocco –  Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987
 * Diana Bolocco –  Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987
 * Valeria Mazza –  Argentine model
 * Graciela Alfano –  Argentine artist, model, actress and vedette
 * Amalia Granata –  Argentine model and politician

Sports

 * Tatiana Búa –  Argentine tennis player
 * Giuseppe Bellusci –  Italian footballer
 * Mateo Musacchio –  Argentine footballer
 * Darío Benedetto –  Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Boca Juniors
 * Daniel Caligiuri –  German professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for FC Augsburg in the Bundesliga
 * Marco Caligiuri –  German footballer
 * Tomás Guidara –  Argentine professional footballer
 * Andy Varipapa –  Professional trick bowler