List of Albanians in South America
This list features prominent Argentinian and Chilean people of full or partial Albanian descent, arranged by occupation.
Politics
[edit]- Amalia Granata – Argentine politician and former model
Science and academia
[edit]- Alfonso Roque Albanese – Pioneer of cardiac and vascular surgery in Latin America
Writers
[edit]- Ernesto Sabato – Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist[1]
- Enrique Cadícamo – Argentine lyricist, poet and novelist[2]
Cinema
[edit]- Mario Sábato – Argentine film director and screenwriter[3][4]
- Claudia Conserva – Chilean actress, model and television presente[5]
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Soledad Onetto – Chilean TV presenter[6]
- Aníbal Troilo – Argentine tango musician
- Mônica Kabregu – Uruguayan visual artist
Models
[edit]- Cecilia Bolocco – Chilean actress, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universo Chile 1987 and Miss Universe 1987[7]
- Diana Bolocco – Chilean journalist, known as sister of Cecilia Bolocco, Miss Universe 1987[7]
- Graciela Alfano – Argentine artist, model, actress and vedette
- Camila Barraza – Beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Kosovo 2016[8]
Sports
[edit]- Mateo Musacchio – Argentine footballer[9]
- Tomás Guidara – Argentine professional footballer [10]
- Darío Benedetto – Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Boca Juniors.
- Tatiana Búa – Argentine tennis player
- Fernando Belluschi – Argentine footballer
- Diego Albanese – former Argentine rugby union player
References
[edit]- ^ Sábato, Ernesto (1992). The Angel of Darkness. Cape. p. 364. ISBN 9780224033060.
- ^ Pipa, Arshi (1978). Albanian Literature: Social Perspectives (19–20 ed.). University of California: R. Trofenik. p. 273.
- ^ "Juana María Ferrari, de ascendencia italiana y albanesa. Francisco Sabato, de origen italiano" [1] Archived 2012-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Antes del fin, Ernesto Sabato; Capítulo I, ISBN 978-84-322-0766-2
- ^ Profile Archived 2015-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, miss17.cl; accessed 8 January 2016.(in Spanish)
- ^ Biografía animadora Soledad Onetto
- ^ a b "Bolocco family in Chile". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "camibrrz". Camila Barraza. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ "Calciomercato Roma, Musacchio è il primo rinforzo" [Calciomercato Roma, Musacchio is first addition] (in Italian). Roma Today. 27 April 2012. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "Tomas Guidara te Shqipëria? Qartësohet gjithçka" (in Albanian). sportekspres. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.