Below is a list of notable people born in Strumica, North Macedonia or its surroundings.
Džordže Arsov, mayor of Kisela Voda municipality- Zoran Baldovaliev, football striker
Charalambos Boufidis, revolutionary-
Vasil Garvanliev, singer - Vlado Ilievski, basketball player
- Evangelos Koukoudeas, revolutionary and army officer
- Igor Madžirov, Macedonian actor
- Zoran Madžirov, musician
- Goran Maznov, football striker
Blagoj Mučeto, Macedonian and Yugoslav partisan- Goran Pandev, football striker
- Saško Pandev, football striker
- Anton Panov, writer
- Vidoe Podgorec, writer and poet
- Goran Popov, football defender, Sc Heerenveen
- Robert Popov, football defender
- Dimitrios Semsis, virtuoso violinist
- Kiro Stojanov, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Skopje Diocese
- Boris Trajkovski, former Macedonian president
- Goran Trenchovski, film and theatre director; founder and CEO of AsterFest
- Dimitrios Tsitsimis, revolutionary, soldier, and mayor of Kilkis
- Baba Vanga, clairvoyant
- Zoran Zaev, politician