Born of Albanian parents who emigrated from the Korca Region in the 1920s, Professor Christopher always had a keen interest in Albania, but he was not granted the opportunity to visit the country until 1990. In 1992 – in the early years of transition to Democracy – Peter Christopher and his wife spent nine months […]
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., is an Albanian American Physician and Pharmacologist, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Phsycology, and a world-renowned pioneer in biochemistry. In 1998, Dr. Murad and two other scientists received the Nobel Prize Medicine and Phsycology for their discovery of the role of nitric oxide in the body as […]
Ekrem Bardha (born 13 May 1933) is an Albanian American businessman, leader of the Albanian National Front in Michigan, co-founder of the National Albanian American Council, and former owner of Illyria Newspaper. He is currently serving as Albania’s Honorary Consul in Michigan and is regarded as one of the most successful Albanians in America.
Bardha has a lifetime as a human rights activist and has met with […]
Rita Ora was born in 1990 in Pristina. When she was one year old, her family decided to move to the United Kingdom. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from a performing arts school, Sylvia Young Theatre School, […]
Laura Mersini-Houghton is a cosmologist and theoretical physicist and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis, which holds that our universe is one of many. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug […]
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental […]
Saimir Pirgu figures among the brightest stars in today’s international operatic firmament and has been celebrated at every major international operatic venue, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, the Zurich Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu, the San […]
Joseph DioGuardi (born September 20, 1940) is an American certified public accountant and a Republican politician. DioGuardi served in the House of Representatives representing the 20th Congressional district of New York from 1985 to 1989. He was also the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in New York during the 2010 special election.
DioGuardi, a former partner at Arthur Andersen & Co., also serves as president of the Albanian American Civic League, […]
Anthony Athanas (born 1911- 2015 in Korça, Albania), was an Albanian immigrant who moved to New York when he was 5 and who turned a stretch of abandoned landfill on Boston’s waterfront into one of the most successful restaurants in the country. Besides being a successful businessman, Anthony Athanas was well-known in the Albanian community […]
James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Chicago, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant and his mother was also of Albanian descent. He grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. He attended the College of DuPage and Southern Illinois University, where he graduated with […]
