List of Albanians in South America

Main article: Albanians in South America

This list features prominent Argentinian and Chilean people of full or partial Albanian descent, arranged by occupation.

Politics

• Amalia Granata – Argentine politician and former model

Science and academia

• Alfonso Roque Albanese – Pioneer of cardiac and vascular surgery in Latin America

Writers

• Ernesto Sabato – Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist ^[1]
• Enrique Cadícamo – Argentine lyricist, poet and novelist ^[2]

Cinema

• Mario Sábato – Argentine film director and screenwriter ^{[3] [4]}
• Claudia Conserva – Chilean actress, model and television presente ^[5]

Arts and entertainment

• Soledad Onetto – Chilean TV presenter ^[6]
• Aníbal Troilo – Argentine tango musician
• Mônica Kabregu – Uruguayan visual artist

Models

• 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

• 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

1. Sábato, Ernesto (1992). The Angel of Darkness. Cape. p. 364. ISBN   9780224033060.
2. Pipa, Arshi (1978). Albanian Literature: Social Perspectives (19–20 ed.). University of California: R. Trofenik. p. 273.
3. "Juana María Ferrari, de ascendencia italiana y albanesa. Francisco Sabato, de origen italiano" Archived 2012-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
4. Antes del fin, Ernesto Sabato; Capítulo I, ISBN   978-84-322-0766-2
5. Profile Archived 2015-06-22 at the Wayback Machine , miss17.cl; accessed 8 January 2016.(in Spanish)
6. Biografía animadora Soledad Onetto
7. "Bolocco family in Chile". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
8. "camibrrz". Camila Barraza. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
9. "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.
10. "Tomas Guidara te Shqipëria? Qartësohet gjithçka" (in Albanian). sportekspres. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.