List of Arbëreshë people explained

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]}

Politics

• Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
• Linda S. Mullenix - Legal author, Rita and Morris Atlas Chair in Advocacy, and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.^[10]
• Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy^{[11] [12]}
• 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^[13]
• Joseph J. DioGuardi – Former US Congressman^{[14] [15]}
• Victor Hugo Schiro – Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
• Terenzio Tocci – Politician^[16]
• 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
• Anthony Albanese - Prime Minister of Australia

Science and academia

• Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening^[17]
• 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^[18]
• Demetrio Camarda – Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian, and philologist
• Nicola Chetta – Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet^[19]
• 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^[20]
• 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^[21]
• 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

Literature

• Daniela Gioseffi – poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer
• Pema Browne – American abstract artist
• Kristina Gentile Mandala – Albanian writer^{[22] [23] [24]}

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^{[25] [26]}

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.^[27]

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^[28]
• 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

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^[29]
• 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^[30]

Arts and entertainment

• 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^{[31] [32]}
• 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
• Enzo Domestico Kabregu – Italian-Uruguayan painter and art educator
• Salvatore Frega – Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music^[33]
• 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^[34]
• Tito Schipa Jr. – Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor
• Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar

Models

• Cecilia Bolocco – Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987^[35]
• Diana Bolocco – Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987
• 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^[36]
• 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^[37]
• Marco Caligiuri – German footballer
• Tomás Guidara – Argentine professional footballer
• Andy Varipapa – Professional trick bowler

Notes and References

1. Wright, Conflict on the Nile, p. 61
2. Crispi, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 30 (1984)
3. Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy
4. Book: The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, and His Subjects in the Thirty Years' War. Hanlon, G.. 2014. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-968724-4.
5. Book: Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers [2 Volumes]: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers. Coetzee, D.. Eysturlid, L.W.. 2013. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-07033-4.
6. Book: A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy ... Sixth edition [of the work originally written by Octavian Blewitt], revised and corrected on the spot. [The editor's preface signed: J. B. P., i.e. Joseph B. Pentland.]. Murray, J.. BLEWITT, O.. PENTLAND, J.B.. 1868.
7. Book: The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560–1800. Hanlon, G.. Hanlon, U.R.P.G.. 2008. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-36143-3.
8. Book: The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603–1645. Lawrence, D.R.. 2009. Brill. 9789004170797.
9. Book: Metamorphosis Transylvaniae. 2014. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-85664-1.
10. Book: Mullenix, Linda S. . Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier . 2023-11-16 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-009-33492-1 . en.
11. Web site: IGSN 9 – Nuove notizie sulla famiglia paterna di Gramsci. www.internationalgramscisociety.org. 15 March 2017.
12. Web site: Italiani di origine albanese che si sono distinti nei secoli Il Torinese Quotidiano on line di Informazione Società Cultura. www.iltorinese.it. it-IT. 2018-05-05. 8 January 2016.
13. Brunetti, La piazza della rivolta, pp. 71-72
14. Web site: The DioGuardi Family Story. August 12, 2015.
15. Web site: Kara DioGuardi. CBS Interactive. TV.com. August 12, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090505212840/http://www.tv.com/kara-dioguardi/person/462042/biography.html. May 5, 2009. mdy-all.
16. Web site: Marchianò. Francesco. Terenzio Tocci: una vita per l'Albania. Nga Gajdhuret. 2014-04-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140422232455/http://www.ngagajdhuret.com/home/archivio-2013/terenzio-tocci-una-vita-per-l-albania/. 2014-04-22. dead.
17. Book: Historical Dictionary of Albania . Robert Elsie . Robert Elsie . 2010 . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 . 978-0-8108-6188-6 . 106109 . English.
18. Book: Albanian literature: an outline of prose, poetry, and drama, by Stuart Edward Mann, p.111. Mann. Stuart Edward. 1955.
19. Albanian literature: a short history Authors Robert Elsie, Centre for Albanian Studies (London, England) Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2005, p. 46-48 https://books.google.com/books?id=ox3Wx1Nl_2MC&pg=PA48
20. Di Marco & Musco, Aspetti della cultura bizantina ed albanese in Sicilia, p. 85
21. "Juana María Ferrari, de ascendencia italiana y albanesa. Francisco Sabato, de origen italiano" http://www.me.gov.ar/efeme/sabato/familia.html
22. Web site: Halla. Barbara. 2019-02-20. Barren Landscape: Who is Afraid of Albanian Women?. 2021-03-17. Asymptote. en.
23. Web site: Shukriu. Edi. 2016-08-17. Kristina Gentile Mandala, one of the first Albanian writers. 2021-03-17. Gentlewomen. en.
24. Book: Shukriu, Edi. Gra të shquara shqiptare: I. 2000. Forumi i Gruas i LDS-së. sq.
25. Web site: Some Sicilian History-The Arberesh. genealogy. English. 2020-02-11.
26. Web site: Contessa Entellina. wikipedia. English. 2020-02-11.
27. Web site: Andrew Kaczynski To Arbëreshë in the Coming Times. Albanian. Institute. June 12, 2020.
28. Web site: Eparchia di Lungro degli Italo–Albanesi dell'Italia Continentale. webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it. 7 July 2015. 17 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141217024532/http://www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it/cci_new/allegati/38075/comunicato%20stampa%205%20dicembre.pdf. dead.
29. Web site: Mike Bongiorno war vielleicht albanischer Herkunf. 2009-09-04. 2018-11-06.
30. Web site: Albanese Surname Meaning & Albanese Family History at Ancestry.com. www.ancestry.com.
31. Web site: Dalgarno . Paul . A PIECE OF MY MIND: Gabriella Cilmi, singer-songwriter . . . 19 July 2008 . 18 October 2013.
32. News: Gabriella Cilmi: Meet the teen queen who is the sound of summer . . 19 July 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080729034216/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/gabriella-cilmi-meet-the-teen-queen-who-is-the-sound-of-summer-870601.html . 29 July 2008 . 18 October 2013.
33. Web site: Official Website. October 17, 2020.
34. Book: Tito Schipa. 25. 2004. 9788882340407. Schipa. Tito.
35. Web site: Bolocco family in Chile . 2010-02-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714165545/http://tpino.netfirms.com/bolocco.htm . 2011-07-14 . dead .
36. Web site: Calciomercato Roma, Musacchio è il primo rinforzo. Calciomercato Roma, Musacchio is first addition. Roma Today. Italian. 27 April 2012. 1 September 2014.
37. Web site: Lojtari i Schalkes me origjinë shqiptare, Panucci i bën ftesën. Schalke player with Albanian origin, Panucci calls him up. Jeta osh qef. Albanian. 22 November 2018. 23 November 2018.