The main purpose of this paper is to establish a boundedness result for strong maximal functions with respect to certain non-doubling measures in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ . More precisely, let $d\mu(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n})=d\mu_{1}(x_{1})\cdots d\mu_{n}(x_{n})$ be a product measure which is not necessarily doubling in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ (only assuming $d\mu_{i}$ is doubling on $\mathbb{R}$ for $i=2, \ldots, n$ ), and let ω be a nonnegative and locally integral function such that $\omega _{i}(\cdot)=\omega(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{i-1}, \cdot, x_{i+1}, \ldots, x_{n})$ is in $A_{\infty}^{1}(d\mu_{i})$ uniformly in $x_{1}, \ldots, x_{i-1}, x_{i+1}, \ldots, x_{n}$ for each $i=1, \ldots, n-1$ , let $d\nu=\omega \,d\mu$ , $\nu(E)=\int_{E} \omega(y)\,d\mu(y)$ , and $M_{\omega \,d\mu}^{n}$ be the strong maximal function defined by $$M_{\omega \,d\mu}^{n} f(x)=\sup_{x\in R\in\mathcal{R}} \frac{1}{\nu (R)} \int_{R} \bigl\vert f(y) \bigr\vert \omega(y)\,d\mu(y), $$ where $\mathcal{R}$ is the collection of rectangles with sides parallel to the coordinate axes in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ . Then we show that $M_{\omega \,d\mu}^{n} $ is bounded on $L^{p}_{\omega \,d\mu}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ for $1< p<\infty$ . This extends an earlier result of Fefferman (Am. J. Math. 103:33-40, 1981) who established the $L^{p}$ boundedness when $d\mu=dx$ is the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $d\nu=\omega \,d\mu$ is doubling with respect to rectangles in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ , ω satisfies a uniform $A^{1}_{\infty}$ condition in each of the variables except one. Moreover, we also establish some boundedness result for the Cordoba maximal functions (Cordoba A. in Harmonic Analysis in Euclidean Spaces, pp. 29-50, 1978) associated with the Cordoba-Zygmund dilation in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ with respect to some non-doubling measures. This generalizes the result of Fefferman-Pipher (Am. J. Math. 119:337-369, 1997).