List of people from Vlorë
Businessmen
• Sinan Idrizi - businessman and major shareholder of Air Albania, Albania’s flag carrier.
Politics
- Ismail Qemali – Albanian Independence Movement[1]
- Ali Asllani – Poet and diplomat
- Mehmed Ferid Pasha-Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire[2]
- Skënder Gjinushi - politician
- Qazim Koculi – Albanian Independence Movement
- Lütfi Pasha-Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Arben Malaj – politician
- Manush Myftiu - Albanian Communist Politician
- Harilla Papajorgji - politician
- Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha - Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Eqrem Vlora – Albanian Independence Movement
- Syrja Vlora - Albanian Independence Movement signatory and major Albanian landowner
Religious leaders
- Ahmet Myftar - 6th Dedebaba of the Bektashi Order (born in Brataj, Vlorë County)
- Baba Mondi - Bektashi World Leader and Albanian Bektashi Cleric
Cinema
- Kristaq Mitro – Film director
- Ibrahim Muçaj – Film director
- Drita Pelingu – film and stage actress
- Orli Shuka - British-Albanian actor born in Vlorë.
- Agim Shuka - (April 1942–May 20, 1992) Was a famous Albanian film and stage actor. Lived in Vlore for 16 years and was educated and became a teacher there, also where his two kids were born.
Musicians
- Alban Skenderaj – Singer
- Aurela Gaçe – Singer
- Kristaq Paspali – Operatic tenor
Sports
- Aldo Guna — football player
- Sokol Kushta – Former football player of Partizani, Flamurtari and of Albania's national team
- Viktor Mitrou – Weightlifter
- Perlat Musta – Former football goalkeeper of Partizani's team, and of Albania's national team
- Geri Cipi – Former football player of Albania's national team
- Igli Tare – Former football player of Albania's national team
- Suela Mëhilli - alpinist
References
- Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. pp. 475–476. ISBN 9780810861886.
- Skendi, Stavro (1967). The Albanian national awakening. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 411. ISBN 9781400847761.
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