Mark Krasniqi (9 October 1920 – 28 August 2015) was a Kosovar Albanian ethnographist, publicist, writer and translator who did most of his work while residing in Yugoslavia.

He was born on 19 October 1920 near Peja, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (modern-day Kosovo).

After writing an article related to Marije Shllaku, he was accused of overpassing the nationalistic boundaries and his scholarship got cancelled.

Since 1961 he lectured at the University of Pristina; he was also a member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.

[5] He has also served as President of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Dean at the Faculty of Law and Economics, President of Albanian Christian Democratic Party (PShDK), and First Head of the Association of Writers of Kosovo.