Xhemal Aranitasi (aka Xhemal Araniti; 1886 in Aranitas, Mallakastër District, Fier County, Ottoman Empire, modern Albania, then — 1961 in Turkey) was a general and commander in chief of the Royal Albanian Army. He was the son of Ibrahim Aranitasi, an army colonel of the Ottoman Empire and Esma Jahobegaj. He graduated from the Monastir Military High School (now in modern North Macedonia), and then at the military academy in Istanbul, Turkey. During the Balkan wars he fought in the Ottoman army, as the leader of a machine gun unit. He was awarded the Grand Ribbon of the Order of Skanderbeg.