Fatmir Sejdiu

Fatmir Sejdiu

male, 58 years old
Fatmir Sejdiu is the 2nd and current President of Kosovo, a Serbian province under UN administration since the 1999 Kosovo War. He was born in the...
Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

male, deceased (1822)
Ali Pasha of Tepelen or of Yannina, the "Lion of Yannina",, and Turkish: "Tepedelenli Ali Paşa", and Aromanian: "Ali Pãshelu".
Veton Surroi

Veton Surroi

male
Veton Surroi (born July 17, 1961) is a popular Kosovar Albanian publicist and politician. Surroi is the founder and leader of the ORA reformist...
Robert Elsie

Robert Elsie

male, 59 years old
Robert Elsie is an expert in Albanian culture and affairs. Elsie studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma...
Gjon Buzuku

Gjon Buzuku

male
Gjon Buzuku (16th century) was an Albanian Catholic clergyman who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian. Gjon Buzuku was born in the...

Naim Frashëri

male, deceased (1900)
Naim Frashëri was an Ottoman-born ethnic Albanian romantic poet and, together with his brothers Sami and Abdyl, a prominent figure of the "...
Faik Konica

Faik Konica

male, deceased (1942)
Faik Konitza (1875-1942), (in Albanian, "Faik Konica"), was one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth...
Flora Brovina

Flora Brovina

female, 60 years old
Flora Brovina, is a Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women’s rights activist. She was born in the town of Srbica in the Drenica Valley of Ko...

Pjetër Bogdani

male, deceased (1689)
Pjetër Bogdani, known in Italian as "Pietro Bogdano", is the most original writer of early literature in Albania. He is author of the "Cuneus P...
Norbert Jokl

Norbert Jokl

male, deceased (1942)
Norbert Jokl was an Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of albanology. Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz),...