Ismet Toto (Progonat, 1908 – Gjirokastër, July 12, 1937) was an Albanian bureaucrat, publicist, writer and political activist.

Along with Vangjel Koça, Branko Merxhani and Nebil Çika, he was one of the main representatives of the Neo-Albanianism (neo-shqiptarizma) school of thought in the '30s.

[1] Toto was born on 1908 in Progonat, Kurvelesh, Labëria into an Albanian Bektahsi Muslim family.

He graduated in the American Technical School in Tirana and went on to study in economics in the Sapienza University of Rome.

[2] He joined the failed Delvina uprising of 1937, and was captured by government forces.