Famous People from Macedonia

Tose Proeski

He was popular across the Balkans and was considered a top act of the local Macedonian and Balkan music scene

Goran Stefanovski

Goran Stefanovski  was a leading Macedonian dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, lecturer and public intellectual. He was an international figure, whose work deals with issues of migration.

Kiril Dzajkovski

Kiril Dzajkovski is without a doubt one of the most respected and critically acclaimed electronic artists from the Eastern European region

Milcho Mancevski

Milcho Manchevski, New York-based film director, writer, photographer and artist, is born in Macedonian capital Skopje on October 18, 1959.

Goran Pandev

Goran Pandev is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Genoa. He is the captain of Macedonia national football team, and is the country’s all-time top scorer with 33 goals.

Slave Dimitrov

Slave Dimitrov (born June 1, 1946) is a Macedonian composer, singer and record producer. He composed and sang “Chija si”, labeled as the “song of the millennium” in the Republic of Macedonia.

Olivera Nikolova

Olivera Nikolova is a Macedonian author who is considered to be one of the top novelists of her country. She was born is 1936 in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.

Vaska Ilieva

Vaska Ilieva was a Macedonian leading folk singer from Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia. She started her career as a dancer and singer in the State Ensemble Tanec in the early 1950s.

Katarina Ivanovska

Katarina Ivanovska is a Macedonian model and actress. She began her modeling career in 2004, appearing at Milan Fashion Week after winning the Look Models International model search in Macedonia.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary, founder of the order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor.