Famous people on Kosovo's street names

Hasan Prishtina

16 Hasan bey Prishtina,, was an Ottoman, later Albanian politician, who served as the 8th prime minister of Albania in December 1921.

Adem Jashari

14 Adem Jashari was one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a Kosovo Albanian separatist militia which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

Skanderbeg

12 Gjergj Kastrioti, commonly known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian feudal lord and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia.

Mother Teresa

10 Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC, better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, at the age of 18 she moved to Ireland and later to India, where she lived most of her life. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is her feast day.

Ibrahim Rugova

9 Ibrahim Rugova was a Kosovo-Albanian politician, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President of Kosovo from 2002 until his death in 2006. He oversaw a popular struggle for independence, advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support, especially during the Kosovo War.

Teuta

8 Teuta was the queen regent of the Ardiaei tribe in Illyria, who reigned approximately from 231 BC to 228/227 BC.

Jusuf Gërvalla

8 Jusuf Gërvalla was a Kosovo Albanian activist, writer, musician, Marxist-Leninist and the founder of the group called National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo.

Luan Haradinaj

7 Luan Haradinaj was a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier who died during the fight with Serbian/Yugoslav forces in Qafë Prush, at the border of that time of Yugoslavia and Albania.

Isa Boletini

7 Isa Boletini was an Albanian revolutionary commander and politician and rilindas from Kosovo.       

Fehmi Agani

7 Fehmi Agani was a sociologist and politician in Kosovo who was considered to be the leading thinker and political strategist of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in the 1990s. He represented the LDK in international negotiations prior to the 1998–1999 Kosovo War, but was murdered, apparently by Serbian soldiers, during the war because his political attitudes.

Zahir Pajaziti

7 Zahir Pajaziti was an Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He was the first Commander of the KLA, known as "First Gun of Freedom". He was killed on 31 January 1997 in a gunfight with Serbian forces.

Faik Konica

6 Faik Bey Konica was an important figure in Albanian language and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. As the Albanian minister to Washington, D.C., his literary review Albania became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad. Faik Konica wrote little in the way of literature, but he was an influential stylist, critic, publicist and political figure in Albanian culture.

Gazmend Zajmi

6 Gazmend Zajmi është nje studiues dhe figurë publike.                                               

Enver Maloku

6 Enver Maloku was a Kosovar Albanian journalist and writer and head of the Kosovo Information Centre. He was killed in Pristina on 11 January 1999.

Anton Çetta

6 Anton Çetta was an Albanian folklorist, academic and university professor from Kosovo.             

Tahir Sinani

6 Tahir Sinani was one of the commanders for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and National Liberation Army (NLA).

Luigj Gurakuqi

6 Luigj Gurakuqi was an Albanian writer and politician. He was an important figure of the Albanian National Awakening and was honoured with the People's Hero of Albania medal.

Ismail Qemali

6 Ismail Qemali, sometimes spelled as Ismail Kemal in old diplomatic correspondence, was an Albanian politician and statesman who is regarded as the founder of modern Albania. He served as the first prime minister of Albania from December 1912 until his resignation in January 1914.

Bill Clinton

6 William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy, became known as a New Democrat.

Agim Ramadani

5 Agim Ramadani also known with nickname "KATANA", was an Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian paramilitary organization that sought the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. He was killed in action during the Battle of Košare. After the war, he was declared Hero of Kosovo.

Gjergj Fishta

5 Gjergj Fishta was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, rilindas, politician, translator and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century, particularly for his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís, and he was the editor of two of the most authoritative magazines after Albania's independence, Posta e Shypniës and Hylli i Dritës.

Afrim Zhitia

4 Afrim Zhitia, lindi më 14 shkurt të vitit 1965 dhe ra dëshmorë më 2 nëntor 1989, është dëshmor i popullit shqiptar.

Lekë Dukagjini

4 Lekë III Dukagjini (1410–1481), mostly known as Lekë Dukagjini, was a 15th-century member of the Albanian nobility, from the Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a code of law instituted among the tribes of northern Albania. Dukagjini is believed to of been born in Lipjan, Kosova

Ndue Përlleshi

4 Ndue Përlleshi was a Kosovar-Albanian military leader, local and national hero, known as "Trimi i Dukagjinit". He was the Commander of the "Dukagjini Band" during World War II. On 8 March 1948, during the Battle of Bokshiq, Ndue Përlleshi, along Shaban Dema and Ndrec Nikolla, fought Montenegrin and Albanian communist forces numbering 600. Përlleshi killed 27 communists, and wounded many others, and both his comrades died. He survived with four wounds and returned to his home until Janko Boric, the local community leader, spotted him and threw a grenade through his window. Përlleshi quickly grabbed it and tossed it back to Boric wounding him. Ndue Përlleshi was killed on 29 August, 1949 in Albania by the communist forces of Mehmet Shehu. Ndue Përlleshi is a much honoured hero amongst the Albanians of Dukagjin and Peja-region. He is mentioned in Albanian epic folklore.

Bahri Fazliu

4 Bahri Fazliu (1971–1998) was a Kosovo Albanian poet, publicist, and nationalist.                   

Marin Barleti

4 Marin Barleti was a historian, humanist and Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Zog I

4 Zog I was the leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939. At age 27, he first served as Albania's youngest ever Prime Minister (1922–1924), then as president (1925–1928), and finally as king (1928–1939).

Ukshin Hoti

4 Ukshin Hoti was a Kosovo Albanian philosopher and activist. Hoti was a professor of international law and later philosophy at the University of Pristina and founder of UNIKOMB, a political party of Kosovo. Since 1982 he had been arrested several times by Yugoslav authorities. In 1994 he was convicted to five years in the Dubrava prison. In May 1999, when his sentence ended and he was to be released, the prison guards transferred him to an unknown location. His whereabouts remain unknown and many human rights activists consider him dead.

Idriz Seferi

4 Idriz Seferi was an Albanian leader and guerrilla fighter (rebel). During his 56-year military career, he fought in 35 battles. A member of the League of Prizren and League of Peja, he was the right-hand man of Isa Boletini, with whom he organized the 1910 Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in the Kosovo Vilayet. After the suppression of the uprising, Seferi continued warfare, in the 1912 Uprising. In the First Balkan War, Boletini and Seferi rose up against Serbia, with whom they had previously been allies to during the 1910 and 1912 Uprisings, and continued to attack Serbian posts in the subsequent occupation and initial phase of World War I (1913–1915). In the second phase of the war (1916–1918), he led troops against Bulgarian forces.

Ćamil Sijarić

4 Ćamil Sijarić was a Yugoslav novelist and short story writer. He enrolled in law school in 1936 and earned his degree four years later. Sijarić died in a car crash at the age of 75. His literally work introduced region of Sandžak and its rural Bosniak population into Yugoslav literature.

Justinian I

3 Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.     

Mujo Ulqinaku

3 Mujo Ulqinaku was an Albanian sergeant of the Royal Albanian Navy, known for his resistance on 7 April 1939 to the Italian forces during the Italian invasion of Albania. He was given the People's Hero of Albania award posthumously.

Isa Kastrati

3 Isa Kastrati u lind më 9 prill të vitit 1947 në fshatin Hogosht të Komunës së Dardanës. Rrjedh nga një familje me traditë të pasur si në aspektin kulturor, patriotik ashtu edhe në atë atdhetaro-kombëtar, thjeshtë rrjedh nga familja e cila kurrë s’pranoj ligjet e një shteti që njihej me emrin Jugosllavia.

Rexhep Krasniqi

3 Rexhep Krasniqi was an Albanian-American historian, teacher, nationalist, and anti-communist politician and activist. A Kosovar Albanian, he is remembered for his role in the Second League of Prizren, and long time leadership of the "Free Albania" National Committee.

Peter I of Serbia

3 Peter I was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later. Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbians as King Peter the Liberator and also as the Old King.

Fan Noli

3 Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli, was an Albanian writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, Archbishop, Metropolitan and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America who served as Prime Minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.

Rexhep Mala

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Sevasti Qiriazi

3 Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako was an Albanian patriot, educator, Protestant missionary, author, pioneer of Albanian female education, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.

Muharrem Fejzo

3 Muharrem Fejzo was an Albanian film director.                                                       

Ahmet Krasniqi

3 Ahmet Krasniqi ishte një Kolonel i Ushtrisë Çlirimtare të Kosovës (UÇK) dhe komandant i Forcave të Armatosura të Republikës së Kosovës (FARK) gjatë Luftës në Kosovë. Lindi më 15 janar 1948 në fshatin Zhilivodë të Komunës së Vushtrrisë në Kosovë dhe u vra në tradhëti më 21 shtator 1998 në Tiranë, Shqipëri. Gjatë Luftërave të Jugosllavisë, ai luftoi në Luftën Kroate të Pavarësisë dhe në Luftën e Kosovës. Pas përfundimit të luftës në Kosovë, ai u shpall Hero i Kosovës. Njihet si "Ministri i Luftës" për nder të veprës së tij patriotike.

Bajram Kelmendi

3 Bajram Kelmendi (1937–1999) was an ethnic Albanian lawyer and human rights activist in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.

Mic Sokoli

3 Mic Sokoli was an Albanian guerrilla fighter from the Highlands of Gjakova. He was a noted guerrilla leader during the years of the League of Prizren and took part in the fighting in Gjakova against Mehmet Ali Pasha. He fought in the Battle of Nokshiq against the Montenegrins. He is remembered by Albanians for an act of heroism in April 1881, in which he sacrificed himself by pressing his body against the mouth of an Ottoman cannon.

Bislim Bajgora

3 Bislim Kadri Bajgora was an Albanian nationalist and Axis collaborator, Adjutant for the Balli Kombëtar forces of Kosovo during World War II. He is known for killing Albanian communist Vasil Shanto.

Tahir Zemaj

3 Tahir Zemaj, born in Strellc region, Gjakova, SFR Yugoslavia was an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosova (FARK) and general of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo War (1998–1999).

Selman Kadria

3 Selman Kadri Hasanaj (1906–1938), known as Selman Kadria, was an ethnic Albanian land worker and folk singer from the village of Cerrca in Istog, present-day Kosovo. He was linked with the Albanian independence movement in Kosovo. In 1938, he killed the Yugoslav Serbian Chetnik vojvoda (captain), Milić Krstić for his repressive measures against local Albanians. A few months later, he was himself killed. Numerous folk songs have been composed for his deed. His tomb in Cerrca has become a monument and in June 2019, the constitutional process for him to be named Hero of Kosovo began.

Haxhi Zeka

3 Haxhi Zekë Byberi mostly known as Haxhi Zeka was an Albanian nationalist leader, a member of the League of Prizren, while in 1899 he was part of the establishment and leadership of the League of Peja, another organization seeking protection of Albanians territories from Balkan states. Zeka was assassinated by a Serbian agent in 1902.

Avni Rustemi

3 Avni Rustemi was an Albanian patriot, militant, teacher, activist and member of the Albanian parliament. Rustemi was the leader of both democratic organisations "Atdheu" and "Bashkimi", and also a member of the democratic opposition in the Albanian National Assembly preceding the Revolution of June 1924. He is also known for having assassinated Essad Pasha Toptani.

Fehmi Lladrovci

3 Fehmi Lladrovci ishte njëri nga komandantët dhe luftëtarët më të shquar të Ushtrisë Çlirimtare të Kosovës (UÇK-së). Lindi më 15 Maj 1956 në fshatin Gllanasellë të Komunës së Drenasit dhe ra dëshmorë më 22 Shtator 1998 gjatë luftimeve të ashpra me forcat serbe, dhe bashkë me të ra dëshmorë edhe bashkëshortja e tij Xhevë Krasniqi - Lladrovci. Pas përfundimit të luftës ata u shpallën Heronjtë e Kosovës.

Shote Galica

3 Shote Galica, born as Qerime Radisheva, was a Kachak Albanian insurgent. She has been declared a People's Heroine of Albania.

Agron of Illyria

3 Agron was an Illyrian king of the Ardiaean Kingdom in the 3rd century BC, ruling c. 250–231 BC. The son of Pleuratus II, Agron succeeded in reconquering southern Illyria, which had been under the control of Epirus since the time of Pyrrhus, and in extending Illyrian rule over many cities in the Adriatic region, including Corcyra, Epidamnos, and Pharos.

Feriz Krasniqi

3 Feriz Krasniqi lindi më 4 janar 1931 në Tërpezë të Malishevës. Shkollën fillore e kreu në vendlindje, Gjimnazin e Ulët e mbaroi në Prishtinë, kurse Shkollën Normale në Gjakovë.

Enver Hadri

2 Enver Hadri was a Kosovo Albanian human rights activist. According to an Albanian blog AACL, he was assassinated while he stopped at a traffic light in Brussels, by three Yugoslavs working for State Security Administration (UDBA) according to the verdict handed down on Mardi, Veselin Vukotic and Andrija Draskovic were found guilty of carrying out the crime and Bozidar Spacic of ordering it. This happened in the commune of Saint-Gilles, at the crossroads between the rue St Bernard and the rue de la Victoire. Hadri had with him the list of 32 Albanians killed in Kosovo by Serbia, which he would submit to the European Parliament's Human Rights Committee the next day. He lived in Brussels since 1972 where he worked to put on agenda the human rights of Albanians in Kosovo.

Pashko Vasa

2 Pashko Vasa, known as Vaso Pasha or Wassa Pasha, was an Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening, and Ottoman mutasarrif of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate from 1882 until his death.

Tringe Smajli

2 Tringë Smajl Martini Ivezaj , known simply as Tringe Smajli, and as Yanitza outside Albania, was an Albanian guerrilla fighter who fought against the Ottoman Empire in the Malësia region. She was the daughter of Smajl Martini, a Catholic clan leader of the Grudë tribe of Malësia.

Agim Hajrizi

2 Agim Hajrizi was a Kosovo Albanian human rights activist and the president of the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosova (BSPK). Agim Hajrizi was murdered by Serb paramilitary soldiers in his home in Mitrovica on 24 March 1999, during the Kosovo War, with his mother Nazmie and 12-year-old son Ilir. It is thought he was targeted for his political activities, similar to other prominent Kosovo Albanians killed by Serbian forces at the same time.

Xheladin Shyqri Hana

2 Xheladin Shyqri Hana lindi në Gjakovë, vritet më 1948 në një zyrë të shërbimit sekret jugosllav, ishte aktivist shqiptar gjatë Luftës së Dytë Botërore.

Xhavit Ahmeti

2 Xhavit Ahmeti, lindi më 25 tetor të vitit 1952 në fshatin Përlepnicë të Gjilanit dhe vdiq më 21 nëntor të vitit 1996, në një aksident, si këshilltar politik i Presidentit Dr. Ibrahim Rugova. Ishte profesor i kimisë në Fakultetin e Shkencave Matematiko Natyrore të Universitetit të Prishtinës, anëtarë i Lidhjes Demokratike të Kosovës që nga themelimi dhe këshilltar për arsim i Presidentit Dr. Ibrahim Rugova.

Shefqet Nebih Gashi

2 Shefqet Nebih Gashi, aktivist dhe luftëtar i Luftës së Dytë Botërore, shqiptar nga Kosova.         

Rexhep Luci

2 Rexhep Luci ishte Drejtor i Departamentit të Planifikimit Hapësinor, Rindërtimit dhe Zhvillimit në Komunën e Prishtinës dhe arkitekt i cili u vra në një vrasje të llojit mafioz për kundërshtimin e ndërtimeve të paligjshme në Prishtinën e pas-luftës.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

2 Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe.

Ganimete Tërbeshi

2 Ganimete Tërbeshi është heroinë e popullit shqiptar, e cila u përfshi në Luftën Antifashiste Nacionalçlirimtare (LANÇ), në Kosovë.

Zija Shemsiu

2 Zija Shemsiu lindi në vitin 1950 në Përlepnicë të Gjilanit, vritet në 5 maj 1985 në burgun e Beogradit, ishte veprimtar politik.

Enver Gjerqeku

2 Akademik Enver Gjerqeku ka qenë poet dhe studiues i letërsisë.                                     

Hyrije Hana

2 Hyrije Hana ishte një atdhetare dhe aktore. Ajo ishte motra e aktivistit gjakovar Xheladin Hana.   

Sadik Rama

2 Sadik Rama was a Kosovo Albanian kaçak guerrilla fighter who fought against the Serbian annexation of Kosovo in 1912. Following the Ottoman defeat, he continued to participate along Isa Boletini and Bajram Curri in the national revolt of 1913–14 in Llapushe. He joined the kaçak guerrillas in 1919 with support from the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo. He fought alongside Azem Bejta during his lifetime.

Enver Zymberi

2 Enver Zymberi është polici i 14-të i rënë në detyrë. Ai u vra në operacionin e madh të Policisë së Kosovës kundër strukturave kriminale në Veri të Kosovës.

Bekim Fehmiu

2 Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War, and one of the internationally best-known ethnic Albanian actors.

Hamëz Jashari

2 Hamëz Jashari was a Kosovar Albanian combatant and the brother of Adem Jashari. He was also a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He accompanied his brother Adem during the Kosovo War, in 1998.

Kadri Zeka

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Jakup Ferri

2 Jakup Ferri was an Albanian fighter from Plav-Gusinje who served as a local leader in the League of Prizren's resistance during the Principality of Montenegro's attempt to subjugate his homeland in 1879. He was distinguished in the Battle of Novšiće, where he died.

Rexhep Bislimi

2 Emri i Rexhep Bislimit lidhet me formimin e njësive të parë ushtarak të UÇK-së-se dhe krismes së parë të pushkëve të organizuara çlirimtare në Ferizaj dhe rrethinë.

Edith Durham

2 Mary Edith Durham, was a British artist, anthropologist and writer who is best known for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Her advocacy on behalf of the Albanian cause and her Albanophilia gained her the devotion of many Albanians who consider her a national heroine.

Xhevat Jusufi

2 Xhevat Jusufi ishte veprimtar i dalluar i çështjes kombëtare. Dëshmor shqiptar i Luftës së Kosovës. Ai mban titullin "Hero i Kosovës".

Elena Gjika

2 Elena Gjika ishte shkrimtare dhe publiciste përparimtare rumune me origjinë shqiptare.             

Fazli Grajçevci

2 Fazli Grajçevci (1935-1964) ishte një aktivist shqiptar, poet, intelektual dhe patriot i cili u bë i njohur si "simbol i flamurit" midis shqiptarëve gjatë viteve 1960 në Jugosllavi.

Abdullah Tahiri

2 Abdullah Tahiri was an Albanian born in Malishevë, a village located in Gjilan. He was an Albanian leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Xhelal Hajda-Toni

2 Xhelal Bajram Hajda (19.7.1967-6.11.1998), i njohur si "Kolonel Toni" si "Komandant Toni" e si "Toni" është i lindur më 19 korrik të vitit 1967. Ishte "sugar" i nënë-Xhylës e cila kishte gjashtë fëmijë, pesë djemë dhe vetëm një vajzë.

Shkelzën Haradinaj

2 Shkëlzen Haradinaj was a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) soldier and commander who died during the battle against Serbian forces in the Maznik Mountains near Deçan.

Tony Blair

2 Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. He is the second-longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history and the longest-serving Labour politician to have held the office.

Emin Duraku

2 Emin Duraku was an Albanian Yugoslav partisan active during World War II in Yugoslavia as an organizer of the liberation struggle in Kosovo. He was posthumously proclaimed a national hero of Albania and Yugoslavia.

Ekrem Rexha

2 Ekrem Rexha i njohur si Komandant Drini ishte luftëtari dhe komandanti i Ushtrisë Çlirimtare të Kosovës (UÇK), i cili i shpëtoi burgut dhe plumbit të pushtuesit serb para dhe gjatë luftës, por që nuk i shpëtoi dot plumbit të krimit të pasluftës. Ai u vra më 8 Maj të vitit 2000 afër shtëpisë së tij nga bandat kriminale të Kosovës.

Bedri Pejani

2 Bedri Pejani was 20th century Albanian politician. During World War II, he was one of the founders of the Second League of Prizren.

Hakif Zejnullahu

2 Hakif Zejnullahu lindi në fshatin Lladoc të Podujevës. Ishte bashkëluftëtar i komandantit Zahir Pajaziti. U vra në një pritë të organizuar nga forcat serbe më 31 janar të vitit 1997 në fshatin Pestovë të Vushtrrisë së bashku me Zahir Pajazitin dhe Edmond Hoxhën.

George H. W. Bush

2 George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, and in various other federal positions prior to that.

Filip Shiroka

2 Filip Shiroka was a classical Rilindja poet.                                                       

Bardhyl Çaushi

2 Bardhyl Çaushi (1936–1999) was a Kosovo Albanian human rights lawyer and activist. Highly active in cases of human rights abuses in Kosovo, Çaushi was the dean of the school of law of the University of Pristina and the first head of the Independent Jurists of Kosovo. During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia he was abducted by Yugoslav forces and held in prisons in Serbia. Çaushi's state was unknown until 2005 when his remains were found and identified. His body was returned to Kosovo, where he was reburied with presidential honours.

Richard Holbrooke

2 Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.

Azem Shkreli

2 Azem Shkreli was an Albanian writer, poet, director and producer of Albanian ethnicity. He was head of the Kosovo Writers' Association, president of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia, manager of the National Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina and founder and manager of Kosovafilm, a film production, distribution and screening company.

Tahir Zajmi

2 Tahir Zajmi ka qenë aktivist politik në Shqipëri në periudhën e mesluftërave botërore dhe ndër themeluesit e drejtuesit të Lidhjes së Dytë të Prizrenit.

Pjetër Bogdani

2 (Italian: Pietro Bogdano; 1627 – 6 December 1689) was the most original writer of Old Albanian literature. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum, 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in (Gheg) Albanian. He organized a resistance against the Ottomans and a pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo in 1689 that included Muslim and Christian Albanians.

Ali Pasha of Ioannina

2 Ali Pasha, or Ali Pasha of Tepelena, commonly known as Ali Pasha of Ioannina, was an Albanian ruler who served as Ottoman pasha of the Pashalik of Yanina, a large part of western Rumelia. Under his rule, it acquired a high degree of autonomy and even managed to stay de facto independent. The capital of the Pashalik was Ioannina, which, along with Tepelena, was Ali's headquarters. Conceiving his territory in increasingly independent terms, Ali Pasha's correspondence and foreign Western correspondence frequently refer to the territories under Ali's control as "Albania." This, by Ali's definition, included central and southern Albania, and parts of mainland Greece; in particular, most of the district of Epirus and the western parts of Thessaly and Macedonia. He managed to stretch his control over the sanjaks of Yanina, Delvina, Vlora and Berat, Elbasan, Ohrid and Monastir, Görice, and Tirhala. Ali was granted the Sanjak of Tirhala in 1787, and he delegated its government in 1788 to his second-born Veli Pasha, who also became Pasha of the Morea Eyalet in 1807. Ali's eldest son, Muhtar Pasha, was granted the Sanjak of Karli-Eli and the Sanjak of Eğriboz in 1792, stretching for the first time Ali's control down to Livadia and the Gulf of Corinth, except Attica. Muhtar Pasha also became governor of the Sanjak of Ohrid in 1796–7 and of the Sanjak of Vlora and Berat in 1810.

Idriz Ajeti

2 Idriz Ajeti was an Albanologist from Kosovo and one of the main researchers and authorities on the Albanian language studies of post World War II. He was involved for a long period in the academic life of the University of Pristina, and was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, being its chairman for seven years.

Halim Spahia

2 Halim (Shaqir) Spahia lindi në Gjakovë.Ishte tregtar, industrialist, financier dhe mbi te gjitha një patriot.Halim Spahia ishte aktivist i Ballit Kombëtar, kryetar i Kshillit Qëndrorë të LNDSH-së, kryetar i Këshillit Nacionalçlirimtar (KNÇ) të Rrethit të Prizrenit dhe anëtar i Këshillit Krahinor Nacionalçlirimtar të Kosovës.

Anton Çetta

2 Anton Çetta was an Albanian folklorist, academic and university professor from Kosovo.             

Bajram Curri

2 Bajram Curri was an Albanian chieftain, politician and activist who struggled for the independence of Albania, later struggling for Kosovo's incorporation into it following the 1913 Treaty of London. He was posthumously given the title Hero of Albania.

Ali Hadri

2 Ali Hadri është historian, akademik shqiptar. Lindi në mars të vitit 1928 në Lushnjë të Shqipërisë. 

Çerçiz Topulli

2 Çerçiz Topulli was an Albanian revolutionary and guerrilla fighter involved in the Albanian national movement operating in the mountainous areas of southern Albania. He was the younger brother of Bajo Topulli. He was known for fighting the Ottomans before Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, as well as the Greeks and Slavs during the Balkan Wars.

Eqrem Çabej

2 Eqrem Çabej was an Albanian historical linguist and scholar who, through the publication of numerous studies gained a reputation as a key expert in research on Albanian language, literature, ethnology and linguistics.

Xhevë Lladrofci

2 Xhevë Krasniqi - Lladrovci                                                                         

Shtjefën Gjeçovi

2 Shtjefën Konstantin Gjeçov-Kryeziu was an Albanian Catholic priest, ethnologist, and folklorist from Kosovo. He is regarded as the father of Albanian folklore studies.

Azem Galica

2 Azem Bejta, commonly known as Azem Galica, was an Albanian nationalist, resistance fighter and rebel who fought for the unification of Kosovo with Albania. He is known for leading the Kachak Movement against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Oso Kuka

2 Osman Bejtullah Agë Kuka, also known as Oso Kuka, was an Albanian border guard on the Ottoman-Montenegrin border. Surrounded by Montenegrin soldiers in a tower on the island of Vranjina, he blew it up, killing himself and many of the Montenegrin soldiers. In the following decades, he became a rallying figure of the Albanian independence movement and a much-celebrated character in multiple important works in Albanian literature.

Bekim Berisha

2 Bekim Berisha was a Kosovo Albanian soldier who gained prominence in the Yugoslav Wars. He served in the Croatian Army during the Croatian War of Independence. He subsequently fought in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later also in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), where he was named a general. He was killed in 1998, during the Battle of Junik, and was posthumously promoted to Brigadier General.

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