Top 10 most important and famous people from Albania and Macedonia

Writer considered the national poet of Albania

Albanian writer, author of The General of the Dead Army

Albanian feudal lord and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in XV century

Albanian ruler who served as pasha of a large part of western Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territories

Albanian statesman who served as prime minister then as president and finally as king

Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985

Indian-Albanian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1979

Founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a Kosovo Albanian separatist militia which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s

President of Kosovo from 2002 to 2006, declared a Hero of Kosovo

Macedonian footballer, who played in Lazio, Inter Milan, Napoli and Genoa