Bashkim Gazidede (2 February 1952 – 25 October 2008) was an Albanian mathematician, author, politician, and a chief of the national intelligence agency.

During the riots in Albania in the spring of 1997 after the failure of the Albanian Ponzi schemes, Gazidede led an unsuccessful operation to restore public order.

Speaking in a parliamentary questioning session, he blamed the authorities of Greece, the CIA, and the U.S. embassy in Tirana for the creation of the military escalation in the south of the country.

On 21 August 1998, the then Attorney General of Albania, Aleksander Goga, issued nine arrest orders against high officials including Gazidede, accused of committing genocide and other crimes against humanity in 1997.

In 2005 he returned to Albania after eight years in hiding and joined the administration of Sali Berisha as the vice-president of the Albanian National Real Estate Registration Office.