List of Famous people born in Skopje, North Macedonia

Viktor Trenevski is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Goce Smilevski is a Macedonian writer. He was born in Skopje. He studied at the Sts Kiril and Metodij University in Skopje, at Charles University in Prague and at the Central European University in Budapest. Two of his novels have been translated into English: Conversation with Spinoza which won the Macedonian Novel of the Year Award in 2003, and Freud's Sister, which won the EU Prize for Literature in 2010.

Lidija Dimkovska is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught at the University of Bucharest and the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. She now lives in Ljubljana, working as a freelance writer and translator of Romanian and Slovenian literature.

Vasil Tupurkovski is a Macedonian academic, politician and the current president of the Olympic Committee of North Macedonia.

Dušanka Sifnios, also known as Duška Sifnios, was a Serbian ballerina and choreographer, considered one of the most distinguished and internationally most successful Serbian ballerinas. The pinnacle of her career was in the 1960s, achieved through her work with Maurice Béjart when she was one of the most popular ballerinas in the world.

Boban Babunski is a Macedonian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and a coach.

Vlado Bučkovski is a former prime minister of the Republic of Macedonia, elected by parliament on 17 December 2004. He was previously the defense minister of Macedonia from May 2001 to November 2001 and from November 2002 to December 2004. He was president of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. After the 2006 election defeat by the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, Radmila Šekerinska took over the party's leadership.

Predrag Laković was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 1997.

Elena Risteska, sometimes known as simply Elena, is a Macedonian recording artist. She represented North Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the song "Ninanajna", and finished in 12th place; this was the highest ever finish for the country until Risteska's record was beaten in 2019.

Tihomir "Pop" Asanović is a Croatian jazz-rock and fusion keyboardist, Hammond organ player and composer.