Below is a list of notable people born in Gostivar, North Macedonia or its surroundings:

• Petar Novaković Čardaklija, diplomat in the First Serbian Uprising
• Xhem Hasa, nationalist and member of the Balli Kombëtar
• Voisava Tripalda, mother of Skanderbeg

• Amir Bilali, football player
• Argjend Beqiri, football player
• Rudi Gusnić, football manager and former player
• Shaban Ismaili, footballer
• Shkodran Mustafi, footballer
• Admir Mehmedi, football player
• Nazmi Mehmeti, wrestler
• Gentjana Rochi, football player
• Nuri Seferi, boxer, reigning WBO European Cruiserweight Champion
• Nezbedin Selimi, footballer

• Ferid Murad, is a physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Haralampije Polenaković, literary historian
• Jovan Trifunovski, Serbian geographer
• Fadil Hoca, Turkish Literature Professor,Founder and Rector of International Vision University

• Burhan Ahmeti, Artist
• Mladen Srbinović, Serbian painter
• Elyesa Kaso, Turkish Macedonian actor
• Atilla Klinçe, Turkish Macedonian actor, director of Turkish Theatre in Skopje
• İkay Yusuf, Turkish Macedonian Rock musician and Radio DJ
• Yusuf Sabit, Turkish Macedonian writer and poet
• Haris Murić, Bosniak Macedonian graphic designer.^[1]
• Nuri Karaca, Turkish Macedonian musician and vocalist
• Xhezair Rexhepi, Albanian Artist Sculptor
• Tamara Grujeska, Macedonian singer who represented North Macedonia at the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest^[2]

• Hadi Nezir, Turkish Macedonian ex-state minister.
• Furkan Çako, Turkish Macedonian ex-state minister.
• Arben Taravari, Albanian Macedonian doctor and mayor of Gostivar.