List of Albanian Americans

Avni Abazi - actor/film producer^[1]
James Belushi - actor^[2]
John Belushi - actor^[3]
Joseph J. DioGuardi - congressman^[4]
Arben Perlleshi - Social Services ^[5]
Tony Dovolani - professional dancer^[6]
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)^[7] (Albanian father, Danish mother)
Gjevalin Gegaj - businessman/activist^[8]
Bill Kovach - journalist/editor^[9]
Donald Lambro - journalist^[10]
Masiela Lusha (1985 - ) television actress (George Lopez)^[11]
Gjon Mili - photographer^[12]
Andi Mitre - mural artist
Ferid Murad - Nobel Prize winner^[13] (Albanian father)
Regis Philbin - TV-show host^[14] (Albanian mother)
Stan Dragoti- Film director, Producer, Artist

[edit] Footnotes

^ [1] "Avni Abazi did not come to Nicholls State University on Tuesday to share his memories as a young man growing up in war-stricken Kosovo. Instead, he wanted to share stories of survival among the worst kind of ethnic feuding naturally emerged during a discussion of his ambitious films"
^ [2] "John and James Belushi are Albanian as well."
^ [3] "John Belushi, the Albanian-American actor..."
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^ [7] "...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." [8] "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." [9] "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."
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^ [11] "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 Balkins 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.""
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^ Lusha - [13] "Albanian - born beauty Masiela Lusha of ABC ’ s George Lopez show is concerned about ending child hunger in America."
^ [14] "The Institute bears the name of the Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili, who lived and worked in the US and is considered by some to be a significant..."
^ [15] "Ferid Murad: Albanian-American Nobel Prize Winner"
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