- Joseph J. Dioguardi
Joseph J. DioGuardi is an American Republican politician from the state of New York. Born in the Bronx, New York, Joseph J. DioGuardi moved to Westchester County with his immigrant parents, brother, and sister in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham Preparatory School, and in 1962 he graduated with honors from Fordham University. His parents were of Arbëreshë origin. DioGuardi served for twenty-two years, twelve of them as a tax partner, …
- John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24 1949 - March 5 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers".
- Florin Krasniqi
Florin Krasniqi (born 1964 in Kosovo, Yugoslavia) is a Kosovan Albanian nationalist/gunrunner and naturalized United States citizen. Krasniqi was a teacher in Vranoc, Kosovo, when he fled to the USA, sneaking into the country from Mexico in the trunk of a white Cadillac on Christmas Eve, 1988, aged 24. He started out as a roofer and is currently the owner of Triangle General Contractors, a roofing company in Brooklyn.
- Masiela Lusha
Masiela Lusha (born 23 October, 1985) is an Albanian-born actress and writer. She was born in Tirana, Albania and her family moved to the United States when she was seven. At the age of twelve, she published a book of her poetry written in both Albanian and English. She became an actress and played Carmen Lopez in the first five seasons of ABC's "The George Lopez Show". Her character on the show also writes poetry.
- James Belushi
James Edgar Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, musician and younger brother of the late comedian John Belushi. Belushi stars in the sitcom "According to Jim".
- Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Whiting, Indiana to John Murad (born Xhabir Murat Ejupi), an Albanian and Henrietta Bowman, an American. He received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University in 1958 and MD and pharmacology Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1965, …
- Eliza Patricia Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American film actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as "True Lies", "The New Guy", "Bring It On", and "Wrong Turn". She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" as Faith, as well as the main character in the series "Tru Calling".
- Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality best known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, singer and presenter at various events. Appearing on television since the late 1950s, Philbin is often called (somewhat tongue-in-cheek and alternately attributed to James Brown), …
- Emina Cunmulaj
Emina Cunmulaj is an Montenegrin - American supermodel famous for her appearances in advertisements by reputable fashion companies.
- Inva Mula
Inva Mula is an opera singer born in Tirana, Albania. She is perhaps best-known to the American pop culture as the soprano voice behind the Diva (the very tall, blue space alien singing Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor) in the film "The Fifth Element" (where she is credited as Inva Mulla Tchako). She comes from an artistic family and began her opera career at a very early age. Her father, Avni Mula, is a famous Albanian singer and composer.
- Tony Dovolani
Driton "Tony" Dovolani (Born jul 17,1973, in Kosovo) is a professional ballroom dancer based in New York City. He is known for his involvement in the American version of "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC. He was partnered with Stacy Keibler in the second season, where they made it to the finals and ended up coming in third place. In the third season of Dancing with the Stars he partnered with country music star Sara Evans.
- Gjon Mili
Born in Korça, Albania in 1904, (his father was Vasil Mili and his mother Viktori Cekani), Gjon Mili (1904 – 1984) came to the United States in 1923. Fifteen years later he was photographing for LIFE magazine (a relationship that continued until his death in 1984), and his assignments took him to the Riviera (Picasso); to Prades, France (Pablo Casals in exile); to Israel (Eichmann in captivity); to Florence, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Venice, Rome, …
- Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956) is an American actress and producer. She is the wife of actor Tom Hanks. Wilson was born as Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California. Her father, a Pomak who worked at a racetrack, was born in Bulgaria. Before immigrating to the USA he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey; her mother, Dorothy, was born and raised in a Greek village on the Albanian border, with a Greek father and Albanian mother..
- Agim Kaba
Agim Kaba (born February 16 1980, New York) is an American actor and film producer. He attended St. Johns University majoring in Fine Arts and a minor in Liberal Arts. He moved with his family to Tampa Bay, Florida. He also enrolled in the University of Central Florida Drama and Liberal Arts Programme before returning to New York to pursue acting.
- Gjevalin Gegaj
Gjevalin Gegaj is one of the first members of the Board of Trustees of the National Albanian American Council (NAAC). He lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He is a successful businessman and long time activist in the Albanian-American community. He also contributed to the campaign of Wesley Clark, retired American general and commander of the NATO campaign to save Kosovo in 1999.
- Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels "Election" (1998) and "Little Children" (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of "Little Children" with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
- Peter Malota
Peter Malota is best known for his appearances in 3 films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 1985, Peter made his film debut as a member of a syndicate gang in the action movie "Los Angeles Streetfighter". In 1991, Peter began to work with Van Damme. The first on the 3 films was 1991's Double Impact, where he played an assassin with kicking skills with knives in his shoes. The second movie would be "Nowhere to Run", …
- James Biberi
James Biberi is an American-Albanian actor. He was born in Kosovo, Serbia. He has lived in New York since he was two.
- Laureta Meci
Laureta Meci is an actress and model. She was born in Kucove, Albania on August 30, 1977, where she lived until she finished high school. She and her family moved to Athens, Greece in 1995. In 1998, she came to the United States to pursue her college studies and, in the past two years, has begun to follow a career path in performing arts.
- Laura Mersini
Dr. Laura Mersini is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since January 2004. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tirana in her native Albania, and she was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has worked on a variety of topics on the particle physics-cosmology interface.
- Donald Lambro
Donald Lambro is the chief political correspondent of The Washington Times, the author of five books on the government and the economy, and a nationally syndicated columnist. His twice-weekly United Feature Syndicate column appears in newspapers across the United States, including The Washington Times.
- Lee Elia
Lee Constantine Elia (born July 16, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the bench coach for Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles. He previously was a manager of the Chicago Cubs (1982 - 1983) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1987 - 1988). Additionally, he has served as a coach for the Phillies, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Seattle Mariners. Elia was a shortstop for Chicago White Sox in 1966 and a pinch hitter for the Cubs in 1968.
- George Tames
George Tames (born January 21, 1919, in Washington D.C) was an American photographer for "The New York Times" from 1945-1985. As a newspaper photographer, Tames was a regular on Capitol Hill over a span of forty years.
- Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet. After different jobs, he started writing with music magazines, including "Creem" and "Fusion". His second book, "Hellfire", published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, established him as a significant writer on the music scene. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, …
- Ty Treadway
Ty Treadway (born February 11, 1967) is a three-time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and talk show host, most notably as the co-host to Lisa Rinna on "Soap Talk".
- Olsi Rama
Olsi Rama (born 1969) is a scientific researcher and associate manager at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan. Olsi Rama is the son of Kristaq Rama (1932-1998), a well known Albanian sculptor and the brother of Edi Rama, the mayor of Tirana and the Chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania. From 1993-1997 he was Program Officer of the Open Society Foundation for Albania (Soros Foundation) where he was in charge of the Youth, Health, …
- Konstantina Lukes
Konstantina B. Lukes, known as Konnie Lukes, is currently serving as the Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Alma Saraci
Alma Saraci (born April 5, 1984) is an American actress.
- Kevin Scott
The son of an Albanian immigrant restaurant owner, Adam Belushi, and his vivacious wife, Agnes, John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on January 24, 1949. He grew up in Wheaton, where the family moved when he was six. Though a young hellion in grade school, John became the perfect all-American boy during his high school years where he was co-captain of the Wheaton Central High School football team and was elected homecoming king his senior year. He also developed an interest...
- Hashim Thaci
Hashim Thaci , 39, was sworn in as Kosovo's prime minister on January 9th, 2008, nearly two months after his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won the November 17th parliamentary elections, marking its first victory at the polls since the 1998-1999 conflict in the province. He replaced Agim Ceku in the post. Thaci vowed to quickly steer Kosovo to independence from Serbia and to ensure that the rights of all minority groups living in the province will be respected.
- Unikkatil
Unikkatil (born in 1981) (birth name Viktor Palokaj, also known as Rebel is a rapper and producer from Prishtina, Kosova who proclaims himself the "King" of the Albanian hip-hop scene. He has been a prolific pioneer of "Shqip Rap" (Albanian Rap) since his beginnings in 1994. Unikkatil has continued producing successful tunes while living in the Bronx, New York.
- Haris Silajdžić
Dr. Haris Silajdžić is a Bosnian politician and academic. In the elections which were held on October 1, 2006, he was elected as the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the following four years in the rotating presidency. He ran for the position in 2002 but was defeated by Sulejman Tihić, who was in turn ousted by Silajdžić in the 2006 election.
- Eric P. Hamp
Eric P. Hamp is an American linguist. Born November 16 1920, he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1950s and since then he taught at the University of Chicago where he is Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology (Cognition and Communication) and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World).
- Thomas Nassi
Thomas Nassi was an Albanian-American musician and pioneering music educator in both Albania and the United States, his adopted country. Thomas Nassi was born Thoma Nashi (Nasji), in Dardha, Albania. Nassi showed early talent in music, first in violin, and then flute. He emigrated to the United States from Greece in 1914 at age 22, first working at a paper company in Maine. He entered the New England Conservatory (NEC) in 1916, majoring in flute performance and conducting.
- Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman, Jacob Shulman, is notable mainly for his dissatisfaction with the Communist Party USA's turn away from Stalinism following Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956. Following his resignation from the Party Shulman traveled to Albania and China in pursuit of his political objectives. He was born and raised in New York, …
- Robert Browne Hall
Robert Browne Hall (30 June 1858 - 8 June 1907) was a leading composer of marches and other music for brass bands. A principal American composer of marching music, he was born in Bowdoinham and seldom left his native state of Maine during his lifetime, dying in Portland. His music though has traveled around the world. He is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, …
- Piixii kaaroolooriina
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- Susana
Pues yo soy una persona muy afortunada por que .. no se xD tengo una familia estupenda, unas amigas perfectas xD asà que ps ya saben, me gusta mucho compratir y estar con gente... comunmente no estoy sola xD me da hueva estarsola, y si lo llego a estar, me la paso escuchando musica buena!!!! Hi5 Glitter Graphics What Susana Means S is for Strong U is for Useful S is for Sparkling A is for Arty N is for Natural A is for Amorous What Does Your Name Mean?
- Strokeriilla
? m llamo Eliian =] ? tngo 17 añ0z iia qasi 18 ? estoi bn loka. ii? ¬¬ ? mi heroe es Mauricio Garces ? suelo ser orgullosa. alguna reclamacion poser? ? amo las revistas:sonika. filter. rolling stone! ? mnkntan los takos d puestos d la calle n.n ? tngo un trauma qon lo q truene. ? amo al genio norm. es la neta!! ^^ ? soi mui sarkastika.
- Brian
Nobody likes you Every one left you There are all without you Having fun.