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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. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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  Francesco Crispi

Politics

• Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
• Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy ^{[10] [11]}
• 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 ^[12]
• Joseph J. DioGuardi – Former US Congressman ^{[13] [14]}
• Victor Hugo Schiro – Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
• Terenzio Tocci – Politician ^[15]
• 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

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  Giorgio Basta
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  Antonio Gramsci
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  Terenzio Tocci
• 
  Anthony Albanese

Science and academia

• Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening ^[16]
• 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 ^[17]
• Demetrio Camarda – Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian, and philologist
• Nicola Chetta – Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet ^[18]
• Giuseppe Crispi – Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century ^[19]
• 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 ^[20]
• 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

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  Girolamo de Rada
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  Giulio Variboba
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  Giuseppe Schirò
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  Ernesto Sabato

Literature

• Daniela Gioseffi – poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer
• Pema Browne – American abstract artist
• Kristina Gentile Mandala – Albanian writer ^{[21] [22] [23]}

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 ^{[24] [25][ circular reference]}

• 
  Mercurio Bua
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  Khoja Zufar

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. ^[26]

• 
  Anselmo Lorecchio
• 
  Luigi Giura

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 ^[27]
• 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

• 
  Sotir Ferrara
• 
  Donato Oliverio

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 ^[28]
• 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 ^[29]

• 
  Aleksandër Moisiu
• 
  Nick Mancuso
• 
  Mike Bongiorno

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 ^{[30] [31]}
• 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 ^{[13] [14]}
• Enzo Domestico Kabregu – Italian-Uruguayan painter and art educator
• Salvatore Frega – Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music ^[32]
• 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 ^[33]
• Tito Schipa Jr. – Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor ^[33]
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar

• 
  Michele Perniola
• 
  Joe Lala
• 
  Tito Schipa
• 
  Gabriella Cilmi
• 
  Salvatore Frega
• 
  Mónica Kabregu Bernasconi

Models

• Cecilia Bolocco – Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987 ^[34]
• Diana Bolocco – Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987 ^[34]
• 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 ^[35]
• 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 ^[36]
• Marco Caligiuri – German footballer ^[36]
• Tomás Guidara – Argentine professional footballer
• Andy Varipapa – Professional trick bowler

• 
  Daniel Caligiuri
• 
  Mateo Musacchio

References