List of Italians of Albanian descent

These are lists of prominent Italo-Albanians, arranged by field of activity.

History and politics

 * Francesco Crispi –  Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.
 * 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
 * Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci –  politician.
 * Nicola Barbato –  Doctor and politician, among the founders of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani Workers.
 * Giacomo Vuxani –  Italian politician
 * Joseph J. DioGuardi –  Former US Congressman.
 * Stefano Rodotà –  Italian Politician.
 * Antonio Rodotà –  Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), serving from 1997 until 2003
 * Victor Hugo Schiro –  Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Terenzio Tocci –  Politician
 * Sal Albanese –  Politician
 * Richard Caliguiri – politician

Business

 * Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction
 * Nicolas Berggruen – Philanthropist and investor
 * Anselmo Lorecchio – Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer
 * Ercole Lupinacci – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Lungro.
 * Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist
 * Bernardino Vitali - printer

Academics

 * 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
 * Ernest Koliqi – Writer, poet, playwright and university teacher in Rome.
 * Gabriele Dara  –  Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
 * Ernesto Sabato –  Argentine painter, physicist, and influential writer of Arbëreshë and Italian ethnicity
 * 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
 * Laura Mersini-Houghton –  American cosmologist
 * Ferruccio Baffa Trasci –  Bishop, theologian and philosopher
 * Tom Perrotta –  American novelist and screenwriter
 * Marco La Piana –  Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin
 * 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

Military

 * Mercurio Bua –   Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
 * Hadji Alia –    Albanian pirate lord
 * Theodore Bua –   Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
 * Demetrio Reres –   Calabrian nobleman
 * Graitzas Palaiologos –   Commander of the Byzantine garrison
 * Gjon Markagjoni –   Albanian Catholic clan chieftain
 * Khoja Zufar –   Captain, governor, merchant and General
 * Demetrio Capuzzimati –   Stradiot captain in Puglia

Religious

 * Pope Clement XI –  Pope from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721. part from the noble Albani family which had established itself in Urbino from northern Albania in the 15th century.
 * Sotir Ferrara –  Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi
 * 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
 * Alessandro Albani –  Prominent jurist and papal administrator
 * Annibale Albani –  Italian Cardinal
 * Ernest Simoni –  Cardinal
 * Gian Girolamo Albani –  Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
 * Gian Francesco Albani –  Roman Catholic Cardinal
 * Giuseppe Albani –  Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal
 * 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

Artists

 * Marco Basaiti –  Renaissance painter
 * Michele Greco da Valona - Albanian painter of the Adriatic Renaissance
 * Nik Spatari –  Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
 * Ibrahim Kodra – Painter
 * Alborosie - Italian Reggae Ambassador
 * Xhovalin Delia - Painter, publicist and film director

Arts and entertainment

 * Tito Schipa –  Italian tenor
 * Nik Spatari –  Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
 * Salvatore Frega - Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music
 * Anna Oxa – Italian-Albanian singer, actress and television presenter
 * Ermal Meta – Italian-Albanian singer
 * Elhaida Dani – Italian-Albanian singer

Sportspeople

 * Giovanni Paramithiotti - founder and first Chairman of FC Inter Milan
 * Igli Tare  –  Football player
 * Emanuele Ndoj –  Albanian professional footballer
 * Giacomo Vrioni –  Italian-Albanian football player
 * Andrea Isufaj  –  Italian football player
 * Marash Kumbulla –  Italian-born Albanian professional footballer
 * Irlian Ceka –  Albanian professional footballer
 * Kastriot Dermaku –  Albanian professional footballer
 * Entonjo Elezaj –  Italian-Albanian football player
 * Ador Gjuci –  Italian-Albanian football player
 * Alessio Hyseni –  Italian-Albanian football player
 * Antonio Candreva –  Italian footballer
 * Ardit Gashi –  Italian-Kosovar footballer
 * Giuseppe Bellusci –  Italian footballer
 * Luca Rizzo –  Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Bologna.
 * Daniel Caligiuri –  German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga.
 * Marco Caligiuri –  German footballer
 * Stefano Fiore –  Italian football manager and former player, who played as an attacking midfielder or on the wing
 * Federico Zenuni –  Albanian professional footballer
 * Shaqir Tafa –  Albanian professional footballer
 * Ismet Sinani –  Footballer
 * Kleto Gjura –  Footballer
 * Fabio Sakaj –  Footballer
 * Alessio Ruçi –  Footballer
 * Nicola Legrottaglie –   Italian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and is the current assistant manager at Cagliari Calcio
 * Andrea Tripicchio –     Italian professional footballer
 * Angelo Ndrecka –     Italian-Albanian professional footballer
 * Francesco Pianeta –  Italian professional boxer
 * Antonio Giovinazzi –  Italian racing driver
 * Luigi Mastrangelo –    Italian men's volleyball player
 * Andy Parrino –    American former professional baseball player
 * Noel Borshi –  Albanian swimmer
 * Ornel Gega –  Rugby union player
 * Engjel Makelara –  Rugby union player
 * Luca Shytaj –  Albanian-Italian chess grandmaster and virologist
 * Klodeta Gjini –  Albanian track and field athlete
 * Abramo Canka –  Italian professional basketball player

Writers

 * Irma Kurti