List of Italians of Albanian descent

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These are lists of prominent Italo-Albanians, arranged by field of activity.^[1][2]

• Francesco Crispi – Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.^[3][4][5]
• Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}
• Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy^[12][13]
• 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

• 
  Giorgio Basta
• 
  Antonio Gramsci

• Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction ^[14]
• 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

• 
  Anselmo Lorecchio
• 
  Luigi Giura

• Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening^[15]
• 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^[16]
• 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^[17]
• 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^[18]
• 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^[19][20]
• 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

• 
  Girolamo de Rada
• 
  Giuseppe Serembe
• 
  Giuseppe Crispi
• 
  Giuseppe Schirò

• Mercurio Bua – Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
• Hadji Alia – Albanian pirate lord^[21][22]
• Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
• Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman^[23]
• Graitzas Palaiologos – Commander of the Byzantine garrison
• Gjon Markagjoni – Albanian Catholic clan chieftain
• Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General^[24][25]
• Demetrio Capuzzimati – Stradiot captain in Puglia

• 
  Mercurio Bua
• 
  Khoja Zufar

• Pope Clement XI – Pope from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721.^[26][27] part from the noble Albani family which had established itself in Urbino from northern Albania in the 15th century.^[28][29]
• 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

• 
  Pope Clement XI
• 
  Sotir Ferrara
• 
  Donato Oliverio

• Marco Basaiti – Renaissance painter^{[30][31][32][33][34][35]}
• Michele Greco da Valona - Albanian painter of the Adriatic Renaissance
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
• Ibrahim Kodra – Painter^[36]
• Alborosie - Italian Reggae Ambassador
• Xhovalin Delia - Painter, publicist and film director

• Tito Schipa – Italian tenor^[37]
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
• Salvatore Frega - Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music^[38]
• Anna Oxa – Italian-Albanian singer, actress and television presenter^[39]
• Ermal Meta – Italian-Albanian singer
• Elhaida Dani – Italian-Albanian singer

• 
  Anna Oxa

• 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^[40]
• 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.^[41]
• Marco Caligiuri – German footballer^[41]
• 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^[42]
• Noel Borshi – Albanian swimmer^[43]
• Ornel Gega – Rugby union player^[44]
• Engjel Makelara – Rugby union player^[45]
• Luca Shytaj – Albanian-Italian chess grandmaster and virologist^[46][47]
• Klodeta Gjini – Albanian track and field athlete^[48]
• Abramo Canka – Italian professional basketball player ^[49][50]

• 
  Antonio Candreva

• Irma Kurti

• 
  Irma Kurti