Albert T. Belay (born May 24, 1925) is a Gottschee German cultural activist in New York City.
[1] Belay was born in Livold (German: Lienfeld), Slovenia.
[1][2] He left the Gottschee region as a teenager, becoming a displaced person in Austria after the Second World War,[3] and then emigrated to the United States in 1951, where he worked as a civil engineer.
[4] He is also the chairman of the Gottschee German Men's Choir in New York.
[8] His son, the Late Roland Belay 1955 - 2020, was a member of the board of Gottscheer Central Holding, which runs Gottscheer Hall in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York City.