- Has dinner with the rest of his original Boy Meets World (1993) cast members every six months.
- Strong graduated magna cum laude (Latin honors) from Columbia University in 2004 as an English major. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in Fiction and Literature in June 2009 at Bennington College.
- Boy Meets World (1993) cast member Will Friedle, Anthony Tyler Quinn, and producer April Kelly attended his 2013 wedding.
- One of his close friends is Will Friedle, who was one of the other cast members of the show Boy Meets World (1993). They see each other often.
- Donated money to support a wolf cub and the integration of wolves back into Yellowstone National Park.
- He has played the same character (Shawn Hunter) on three different series: Boy Meets World (1993), Maybe This Time (1995) and Girl Meets World (2014).
- Is good friends with former Boy Meets World star Ben Savage.
- Disliked his famous Boy Meets World (1993) haircut, but producer Michael Jacobs would not let him cut or change it.
- Along with Ben Savage, he is one of the only two actors to appear in all 158 episodes of Boy Meets World (1993).
- Rider and his wife Alexandra welcomed their first child, a boy named Indigo "Indy" Barreto Strong, on December 28, 2014.
- Married only one day after his Boy Meets World (1993) co-star Danielle Fishel.
- Is very good friends with former _Boy Meets World_ co-star Jason Marsden. Rider attended his 2004 wedding to Christy Marsden.
- Parents: Lin and King Arthur Strong.
- Started acting at age 5, doing small plays around town.
- Served on the Jury of the 2009 BendFilm Festival alongside writer/director Dennis Hauck and Oscar winning make-up artist Jeff Dawn.
- His family formed their own production company called Redwood Shire Productions
- Both he and his elder brother Shiloh Strong made guest appearances in Maybe This Time (1995).
- attending Bennington college in Bennington, Vermont (January 2008)
- Playing Benjamin Braddock in the stage National Tour of "The Graduate" (September 2003)
- In 2000 Strong moved to New York to attend Columbia University. At that time, actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles and Anna Paquin were all registered students at the university.
- Began working on Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) at the end of February. The movie is being filmed in North Carolina. (February 2007)
- Currently in New Mexico filming Spy School (2008) (aka "Doubting Thomas"). Will soon to be shooting episodes of Pepper Dennis (2006) in the Spring. (November 2005)
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