Velimir "Bata" Živojinović was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of the best actors in former Yugoslavia.
Nada Obrić is a Bosnian Serb folk singer.
Fabijan Šovagović was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer.
Bjørn Richard Sundquist is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles.
Fadil Hoxha was a Yugoslavian ethnic-Albanian communist revolutionary and politician from Kosovo. He was a member of the Communist Party and fought in the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. After the war, he was the first President of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija (1945–1963) and later member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1974–1984).
Football Club Prishtina, commonly known as Prishtina, is a professional football club based in Prishtina, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, is the most successful club in Kosovo, and is also the only Kosovar club to have never have been relegated from the league.
Nuredin Loxha (1935–1992) was a Kosovar Albanian librettist, set designer, production designer and costume designer. He was born in Peja, Kosovo, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and died in Pristina.
The National Center of Cinematography is the largest film distributor and film production company in the cinema of Albania connected with over 700 films between 1947 and 2012. The studio has produced and distributed the vast majority of Albanian films. Especially important was its work in the 1970s and 1980s when the studio averaged 75–80 movies per year.
Bharat Kapoor is an Indian film and television actor.
Adem Mikullovci was a Kosovan actor and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo. As an actor, he participated in the constellation of the actors of the former People's Provincial Theater of Kosovo. After dropping out of studies at the Academy of Theater and Film in Belgrade in 1968, he returned to Pristina and started working at the theater. From that year (1968) to July 1990, Adem Mikullovci made a career with 45 main roles and about 70 roles in theatrical performances.
Enver is both a masculine given name and a surname. In Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian and Crimean Tatar, it is the transliteration of the Arabic name Anwar, which means "luminous". Notable people with the name include:
Parashqevi Simaku is an Albanian singer noted for her work in the 1980s. She has won numerous awards and worked with some of the best composers and musicians in Albania. Simaku participated in Festivali i Këngës in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990. In 2006 she signed a contract with Sony and BMG for her Albanian-language CD entitled Echoes from Iliria. Simaku has an Aromanian background.
The Cinematography in Kosovo in the Albanian language began its activities after the foundation of Kosovafilm, which produced short films, documentaries, cartoons and later feature films. Since 2008, the central authority for cinematography in Kosovo has been Kosova’s Cinematography Center (KCC) though numerous independent film companies are active in Kosovo. Before Kosovafilm, there were no fully Kosovan films.
Xhevahir Spahiu is an Albanian poet.
Viktor Gjika was an Albanian director, filmmaker and screenwriter. For his distinguished and remarkable contribution to the cinema, he was awarded the highest title as People's Artist in 1985. He graduated from VKIG Cinematographic Institute of Moscow in Russia. Together with a classmate, presenting their academic degree when graduated, they shot the short film Nobody Ever Dies, based on Ernest Hemingway's story of the same name, which was awarded the First Prize at the Worldwide Cinematographic Institutes Film Festival in the Netherlands in 1961. He created more than 15 movies and over 25 documentary films.
Snežana Đurišić is a Serbian folk singer. Her career spans more than half a century. She was dubbed "Queen of folk music" in both her home and neighbouring countries, and is considered one of the best interpreters of her genre.
Miljen "Kreka" Kljaković, is a Serbian production designer and art director. He was awarded César Award and European Film Award for Best Production Design for his work in Delicatessen. Kljaković is a full member of Art Directors Guild. He is considered to be Serbia's best-known film production designer.
Tefta Cami Cani is an Albanian politician of the Albanian Party of Labour. She served as a Minister of Culture and Minister of Education, Sports and Youth at the same time from 1976 to 1987.
