Rizo Šurla, born on this day in 1922, was a Yugoslav photographer, actor, and anti-fascist who fought with the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. Šurla was a prominent member of the Afro-Albanian community in the town of Ulcinj.

According to journalist Mustafa Canka, Šurla was a boxer and waiter in Zagreb, as well as a partisan fighter on the Srem Front. Canka quotes Ulcinj chronicler Ismet Karamanaga: "He was striking, unusually beautiful, kind of like the famous Muhammad Ali, radiating charm and positive energy".

Canka also cites a Ulcinj resident, Daudet Abazovic, who called Šurla "a symbol of Ulcinj and Ulcinj's Black community."