title: Dervishi (surname)
text: # Dervishi (surname)
  
  Dervishi is a modern Albanian surname of Persian origin from "darvish (درویش, Darvīsh or "Darwish" in Arabic), that entered Albanian from the Turkish adaption "Derviş" (Dervish). Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Erald Dervishi (born 1979), Albanian chess grandmaster
  * Qazim Dervishi (1908–1994), Albanian soccer player and international referee
  * Teki Dervishi (1943–2011), ethnic-Albanian poet, novelist and playwright
  