Below is a list of notable people born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia, or its surroundings.
Sports Naser Aliji (born 1993), football player Armend Alimi (born 1987), football player Saša Ćirić (born 1968), former football striker Stole Dimitrievski (born 1993), football goalkeeper Marko Dujković (born 1990), basketball player Nikola Karakolev (born 1987), basketball player Stefan Kimevski (born 1990), handball player Mensur Kurtisi (born 1986), football player Vlade Lazarevski (born 1983), football player Kristijan Manević (born 1987), basketball player Igor Mihajlovski (born 1973), former basketball player Nataša Mladenovska (born 1986), handball player Orhan Mustafi (born 1990), football striker Boban Nikolovski (born 1977), football player Redžep Redžepovski (born 1962), former boxer Ace Rusevski (born 1956), former boxer Taulant Seferi (born 1996), football player Vujadin Stanojković (born 1962), football coach
Politics Dragan Bogdanovski (1929–1998), émigré, activist and one of the founders of VMRO-DPMNE Jezdimir Bogdanski (1930–2007), president of SR Macedonia (1988–1990) Boris Chushkarov (1916–1982), first director of OZNA for SR Macedonia Zoran Damjanovski (born 1956), former mayor of Kumanovo Maksim Dimitrievski (born 1975), politician and mayor of Kumanovo Teodosiy Dzhartov, mayor Ilir Hasani (born 1977), politician and member of Assembly of Macedonia Tode Ilich (1943–2014), mayor of Kumanovo (1984–1986) Blage Kiprijanovski (born 1948), mayor of Kumanovo (1993–1996) Slobodan Kovachevski, mayor of Kumanovo (2000–2005) Trajko Loparski, former mayor of Kumanovo Stanko Mladenovski (1937–), politician; speaker of the People's Assembly Mara Naceva,Dimitar Bechev, Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, Edition 2, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, , p. 215. (1920–2013), Macedonian communist, participant in the World War II in Yugoslavia and a national hero Filip Petrovski (born 1972), politician, member of Assembly of Macedonia, civil right activist, director of the National Archives of Macedonia. Boris Protikj (1941–2002), mayor of Kumanovo (1996–2000) Saltir Putinski, mayor of Kumanovo (1951–1961) Oliver Spasovski (born 1976), minister of interior of Macedonia (2015–2016) Mirvan Xhemaili (born 1974), politician and member of Assembly of Macedonia
Arts
Venko Andonovski (born 1964), writer Vladimir Antonov Bodan Arsovski (born 1956), rock band member Ivan Babanovski (born 1941), intelligence officer and writer Bardhi, rapper, singer Vanja Bulić (born 1947), journalist and TV presenter Jordan Cekov (1921–2019), partisan, journalist, writer Slavko Dimevski (1920–1994), writer Danilo Kocevski (born 1947), writer Toni Mihajlovski (born 1967), actor Trajko Prokopiev (1909–1979) writer Arif Şentürk (born 1941), folk singer and compiler
Military Velika Begovica ( 1876–78), rebel leader Jovan Dovezenski (1873–1935), commander (vojvoda) Goran Georgievski (1969–2005), member of Lions ( 2001–04) Ismet Jashari (1967–1998), commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš (1921–1944), communist partisan during the Second World War Xhemail Rexhepi, commander of the National Liberation Army Pavle Mladenović, Čiča Pavle (–1905), commander (vojvoda) Boban Trajkovski (1973–2001), member of Wolves
Religion
Hadži-Zaharija (1760–1830) metropolitan of Raška and Prizren ( 1819–30) Hilarion of Bregalica (1973–), current metropolitan of Diocese of Bregalnica ( 2006–present) Denko Krstić (1824–1882), influential merchant, born in Mlado Nagoričane Dimitrije Mladenović (1794–1890), Orthodox archpriest, born in Proevce ( 1833–90) Timotej of Debar and Kichevo (born 1951), current metropolitan of Diocese of Debar and Kuchevo ( 1995–present)
Business Valentin Ilievski, general director of the Messer Group for BiH Denko Krstić
Crime Nezim Allii, leader of Nezim gang ( 2004–2014) Bajrush Sejdiu, (born 1968), leader of Bajrush gang ( 1990–2008) Romeo Zhivikj, Roki, (1962–2004), crime boss ( 1980–2004)
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