List of Famous people born in Kosovska Mitrovica District, Kosovo

Valon Behrami is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Genoa. His previous clubs include Stabio, Chiasso, Lugano, Genoa, Verona, Lazio, West Ham United, Fiorentina, Napoli, Hamburg, Watford, Udinese and Sion.

Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu is a Kosovan jurist who is the Chairwoman of the Assembly of Kosovo and acting President of Kosovo. She is a professor at the University of Pristina, RIT Kosovo; she has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Osmani was the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party's candidate for prime minister in the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election. In the 2021 Kosovan presidential election she will be the joint candidate for president of the Vetëvendosje party and her initiative.

Milot Rashica is a Kosovan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen and the Kosovo national team.

Mara Branković or Mara Despina Hatun, also known as Sultana Marija or Amerissa, was the daughter of Serbian monarch George Branković and Eirene Kantakouzene. She entered the harem of Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire.

Hashim Thaçi is a Kosovar politician who was the President of Kosovo from April 2016 until his resignation on 5 November 2020. He was the first Prime Minister of Kosovo and the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the new cabinet led by Isa Mustafa, which assumed office on 12 December 2014.

Adem Mikullovci, born in Vučitrn, Albanian Kingdom, was a Kosovan actor and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo. As an actor, he participated in the constellation of the actors of the former People's Provincial Theater of Kosovo. After dropping out of studies at the Academy of Theater and Film in Belgrade in 1968, he returned to Pristina and started working at the theater. From that year (1968) to July 1990, Adem Mikullovci made a career with 45 main roles and about 70 roles in theatrical performances.

Isa Boletini was an Albanian commander, guerrilla, politician and rilindas from Kosovo.

Bajram Rexhepi, was a Kosovar politician who served as the first elected post-war prime minister and later as interior minister of Kosovo and as a member of the Kosovo Assembly. He was a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

Azem Bejta, commonly known as Azem Galica, was an Albanian nationalist and rebel who fought for the unification of Kosovo with Albania.

Miloš Krasić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a winger. He represented the Serbia national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and at one point in his career, he was named by FourFourTwo as one of the 100 best players in the world.