Pajazit Nushi (January 8, 1933 – September 2, 2015) was a Kosovan university professor, psychologist and scientific and social-political worker.
He crowned his higher studies on June 8, 1983, when he defended his doctoral dissertation thesis entitled, "Development of psychological terminology and the semantic basis of its definition in the Albanian language" (Albanian: Zhvillimi i terminologjisë psikologjike dhe baza semantike e përcaktimit të saj në gjuhën shqipe)[3] at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pristina.
In the meantime, he exercised various administrative and political duties at the level of the municipality, the district, Kosovo and the former – Yugoslav Federation, in which the task was mainly concerned with the organization of the educational system, scientific work and cultural and artistic creativity.
From 1982, he worked at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb, in the Kosovo Editorial Office, where he was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia of the Albanian language edition.
On September 31, 1991, due to political reasons, he was forced to retire early, but continued his educational and scientific work at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pristina].