Editing Rexhep Meidani (section)

{{Short description|Albanian politician (born 1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}{{BLP sources|date=February 2010}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Rexhep Meidani
| image               = Илир Мета, Румен Радев и Реджеп Мейдани (06-03-2020) (cropped).jpg
| honorific-prefix    = 
| nationality         = [[Albanians|Albanian]]
| order               = [[President of Albania]]
| term_start          = 24 July 1997
| term_end            = 24 July 2002
| primeminister       = [[Fatos Nano]]<br />[[Pandeli Majko]]<br />[[Ilir Meta]]<br />[[Pandeli Majko]]
| predecessor         = [[Sali Berisha]]
| successor           = [[Alfred Moisiu]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1944|8|17|df=y}}
| birth_name          = Rexhep Qemal Meidani
| birth_place         = [[Tirana]], [[Albanian Kingdom (1943–1944)|German Occupied Albania]] (modern [[Albania]])
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| spouse              = Lidra Karagjozi
| children            = 2 (Adea, Denion)
| party               = [[Socialist Party of Albania|Socialist Party]]
| profession          = [[Physicist]]
| signature           = Rexhep Meidani (nënshkrim).svg
| caption             = Meidani in 2020
}}

'''Rexhep Qemal Meidani''' ({{Audio|Rexhep Meidani.ogg|listen}}; born on 17 August 1944) is an [[Albanians|Albanian]] [[physicist]], professor, diplomat and politician. Meidani was the [[president of Albania]] from 1997 to 2002, and the second to be elected after the [[1991 Albanian parliamentary election|first multi-party elections]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|last=Meidani|first=Rexhep|title=President|url=http://www.president.al/?p=293&lang=en|publisher=Albanian Presidency|access-date=2013-01-25|archive-date=2017-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929135116/http://president.al/?p=293&lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Rexhep Meidani  |url=https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Rexhep_Meidani/132622|access-date=2021-10-05|publisher=Éditions Larousse|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Once a physicist: Rexhep Meidani|url=http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/2015/01/28/once-a-physicist-rexhep-meidani/|date=2015-01-28|access-date=2021-10-05|website=Physics World}}</ref>