player Sokol Maliqi - Swiss-Albanian football player Valdet Rama - football player born in Mitrovica Valon Behrami - Swiss football player and former player of West Ham United, Premier League, born in Mitrovica Xherdan Shaqiri - Swiss football player, born in Kosovo Xhevat Prekazi - football manager and former player of Kosovar Albanian descent. Basketball Edmond Azemi - Kosovo Albanian professional basketball player who plays for Sigal Prishtina in Kosovo Basketball Superleague Handball Taip Ramadani - head coach of the Australian national handball team, parents are from Kosovo American Football Lirim Hajrullahu - Kosovar-born Canadian placekicker in both the CFL and NFL, 2017 Grey Cup champion Boxing, Kickboxing and Wrestling Luan Krasniqi - German professional boxer, born in Junik Robin Krasniqi - German professional boxer, born in Junik Xhavit Bajrami - Swiss former kickboxer, born in Dumosh Aziz Salihu - professional boxer, born in Prishtina Naim Terbunja - Swedish amateur boxer, born in Pristina Rezar - professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist Elvis Gashi - professional boxer in America, born in Peja Ilir Latifi - professional UFC fighter for Sweden, his parents come from Kosovo Elvir Muriqi - American-Albanian boxer, born in Kosovo Azem Maksutaj - Swiss former kickboxer, born in Kosovo Donjeta Sadiku - Kosovar female boxer, born in Pristina Besar Nimani - former professional boxer, IBF European intercontinental champion Judo Majlinda Kelmendi - Judoka, 2013 and 2014 World Champion (52 kg), won the 2019 European Games, three European Championships (2014, 2016, 2017), the 2013 Judo World Masters, seven IJF Grand Slams, 10 IJF Grand Prix, and conquered the gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics Distria Krasniqi - Judoka, won three IJF World Masters (2018, 2019, 2021), two IJF Grand Slams (2020 Paris and Hungary), six IJF Grand Prix (2015 Samsun, 2017 Antalya and The Hague, 2018 Antalya and Tashkent, 2019 Antalya), one European Championship and a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics Nora Gjakova - Judoka, won two IJF Grand Slams (2018, 2021), five IJF Grand Prix (2017 Antalya, 2018 Tunis, 2018 Antalya, 2019 Tbilisi), one European Championship, a gold medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, and conquered the gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics See also Albanian diaspora List of Albanian Americans List of people from Pristina Lists of Albanians References + Kosovo Albanian