List of Albanian Americans
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The following is a list of Albanian Americans, or people born in the United States with Albanian heritage.
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- Anthony Athanas - Famous Restauranteur
- James Belushi - actor[1]
- John Belushi - actor[2]
- Regis Philbin - Television
- Lee Elia - baseball player, coach and manager
- Nuhi DeStani-Film director, Producer & writer of the Kosova Film "my blood my compromise" He was born in New Jersey in 1973 to ethnic Albanian parents who immigrated from Yugoslavia in the early 1970's [3]
- Joseph J. DioGuardi - congressman[4]
- Kara DioGuardi - songwriter
- Ferid Murad - medical researcher Nobel laureate
- Florin Krasniqi- Business man
- Stan Dragoti- Film director, Producer, Artist
- Eliza Dushku (1980 - ) actress, has appeared in the television hit series Buffy and Angel and several Hollywood films (i.e. Bring It On and Wrong Turn)[5] (Albanian father, Danish mother)
- Agim Kaba - Agim Kaba (born February 16, 1980, New York) is an Emmy nominated Albanian-American actor and film producer. He attended St. Johns University majoring in Fine Arts
- Bill Kovach - journalist/editor[6]
- Donald Lambro - journalist[7]
- Ekrem Bardha - Honorary Consul of Albania in Michigan. He is also a business man owning more than 20 mcdonals in SE michigan.
- Gjeke Marinaj - poet/writer/journalist/pedagogue.[8]
- Chris Sinoimeri - Soccer player for AC Milan, Born in Albania and moved to the United States at age 2.
- Masiela Lusha - actress
- Alex Rudaj - mobster
- Tony Dovolani professional dancer, (currently dancing with the stars)
- Donald Suxho-is a professional volleyball player, he is best known for playing in the summer olympics in the US team along Lloy Ball(www.usavolleyball.org/national/profiles/men/player.asp?number=7 - 17k - ) very good player with doubles.
[edit] References
- ^ [1] "John and James Belushi are Albanian as well."
- ^ [2] "John Belushi, the Albanian-American actor..."
- ^ [3]"My Blood My Compromise reveals a vivid portrait of Kosova’s conditions after eight years of UN intervention: the security, the enduring pain and the ongoing struggle for independence."
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ [4] "...she was recently invited to visit Albania, where she has become something of a national symbol, being the most famous American Albanian -- or at least half-Albanian since her mother's heritage is Danish -- actor since John Belushi." [5] "There is a joke in our family that the Dushku's and the Belushi's are the only Albanians in show business. Who knows? That might be true." [6] "One issue which hits close to home for her is the plight of the Albanian refugees, being of Albanian and Danish descent herself. "It's hard with all this war stuff. They're helping the Albanians, but you can never say you're happy about bombing. I don't know how I feel on the issue. I watch the news, I'm watching Albanian refugees piling onto trains, and they look like me and my brothers. I feel like I'm watching my family, and it's so disturbing."
- ^ [7] "Kovach, who was Washington bureau chief for the New York Times and for two years edited the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, uses himself as an example. "I'm Albanian-American," he says, "and things that happen in the Balkans are inherently important to me. No matter how good an editor I am, I'm not going to follow African news in the same way.""
- ^ Albanian Americans
- ^ [8].
[edit] External links
- National Albanian American Council
- Alb-Net.Com - The Albanian Connection
- - Albanian Film maker Nuhi De Stani
Edi Mehana-actor from kosova
