List of people on stamps of the United States

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This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a very short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured. Many of these people (especially the earlier Presidents) have been featured on multiple stamps. This list is complete through all announced 2013 issues. [1]

For the purpose of this list, "featured" may mean:

  1. The likeness of a person,
  2. The name of a person, or
  3. People who have neither their likeness or name on a stamp, but are documented by the United States Postal Service as being the subject of a stamp (see Reference).
John Quincy Adams on a 1938 stamp
Jane Addams on a 1940 stamp
Louisa May Alcott on a 1940 stamp
Dante Alighieri on a 1965 stamp
Johnny Appleseed on a 1966 stamp
Susan B. Anthony on a 1955 stamp
John James Audubon on a 1940 stamp
John Barry and John Paul Jones as featured on a postage stamp
Clara Barton on a 1948 stamp
Alexander Graham Bell on a 1940 stamp
Montgomery Blair on a 1963 stamp
Simón Bolívar on a 1958 stamp
Elizabeth Blackwell on a 1974 stamp
Luther Burbank on a 1940 stamp
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac on a 1951 stamp
Andrew Carnegie on a 1960 stamp
Mary Cassatt on a 1966 stamp
Willa Cather on a 1973 stamp
Winston Churchill on a 1965 stamp
Henry Clay, 1902 stamp
Grover Cleveland on a 1923 stamp
Calvin Coolidge on a 1938 stamp
Nicolaus Copernicus on a 1973 stamp


Name Year Issued Occupation/Achievement
Edwin Austin Abbey 2001 Illustrator
Bud Abbott 1991 Comedian
Edward R. Abrams 2008 Actor
Dean Acheson 1993 United States Secretary of State
Roy Acuff 2003 Country musician and songwriter
Abigail Adams 1985 First Lady
Ansel Adams 2002 Photographer
John Adams 1938 2nd President of the United States
John Quincy Adams 1938 6th President of the United States
Samuel Adams 1976 Declaration of Independence signer
Jane Addams 1940 Social worker
Alvin Ailey 2004 Choreographer
Josef Albers 1980 Artist
Louisa May Alcott 1940 Author
Horatio Alger, Jr. 1982 Author
Dante Alighieri 1965 Poet
Ethan Allen 1955 Green Mountain Boys leader
Gracie Allen 2009 Comedian
Steve Allen 2009 Comedian
Fran Allison 2009 Actress
Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy Anderson) 1998 Actor
Marian Anderson 2005 Contralto
Susan B. Anthony 1936 Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist
Antonello da Messina 1990 Painter
Virginia Apgar 1994 Physician
Johnny Appleseed 1966 Conservationist
Harold Arlen 1996 Composer
Edwin Armstrong 1983 FM radio inventor
Louis Armstrong 1995 Jazz musician and songwriter
Desi Arnaz 1999 Actor, producer and singer
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold 1988 Air Force General
Chester A. Arthur 1938 21st President of the United States
Arthur Ashe 2005 Tennis player
John James Audubon 1940 Naturalist, painter
Stephen F. Austin 1936 Texas colonizer
Gene Autry 2010 Actor
Mildred Bailey 1994 Jazz singer
Ella Baker 2009 Civil rights leader
Josephine Baker 2008 Singer
George Balanchine 2004 Choreographer
Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1913 Explorer
Abraham Baldwin 1985 Statesman
James Baldwin 2004 Author
Lucille Ball 2001 Actress
Benjamin Banneker 1980 Surveyor, astronomer, mathematician, and almanac author
Theda Bara 1994 Actress
Francis Barbé-Marbois 1953 Louisiana Purchase negotiator
Samuel Barber 1997 Composer
John Bardeen 2008 Physicist
John Barry 1936 Naval officer
Ethel Barrymore 1982 Actress
John Barrymore 1982 Actor
Lionel Barrymore 1982 Actor
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi 1985 Statue of Liberty sculptor
Josiah Bartlett 1976 Declaration of Independence signer
Clara Barton 1948 American Red Cross founder
John Bartram 1999 Botanist
William Bartram 1999 Botanist
Count Basie 1996 Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
John Basilone 2005 Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
Daisy Bates 2009 Civil rights leader
Romare Bearden 2011 Artist
The Beatles 1999 Rock music band
Jim Beckwourth 1994 Explorer
Norman Bel Geddes 2011 Industrial designer
Alexander Graham Bell 1940 Scientist, engineer, and telephone inventor
Giovanni Bellini 1992 Painter
Ruth Benedict 1995 Anthropologist
Stephen Vincent Benét 1998 Author
Jack Benny 1991 Comedian
Thomas Hart Benton 1971 Painter
Edgar Bergen 1991 Ventriloquist
Milton Berle 2009 Comedian
Irving Berlin 2002 Composer
Leonard Bernstein 2001 Conductor, composer
Mary McLeod Bethune 1985 Civil rights advocate
Albert Bierstadt 1998 Painter
Hiram Bingham IV 2006 Diplomat
George Caleb Bingham 1998 Painter
Elizabeth Bishop 2012 Poet
Emily Bissell 1980 Social worker
Hugo L. Black 1986 Supreme Court Justice
Elizabeth Blackwell 1974 1st U.S. female physician
Montgomery Blair 1963 Lawyer, politician, postmaster general
Eubie Blake 1995 Jazz musician and songwriter
Harlon Block 1945 One of the Iwo Jima flagraisers
Nellie Bly 2002 Journalist
Humphrey Bogart 1997 Actor
Charles E. Bohlen 2006 Diplomat
Simón Bolívar 1958 South American revolutionary
Daniel Boone 1942 Frontiersman
Sandro Botticelli 1981 Painter
Clara Bow 1994 Actress
William Boyd 2009 Actor
John Bradley 1945 One of the Iwo Jima flagraisers
Omar N. Bradley 2000 World War II army general
Louis Brandeis 2009 Supreme Court Justice
Mary Breckinridge 1998 Frontier Nursing Services founder
William Brennan Jr. 2009 Supreme Court Justice
Fanny Brice 1991 Comedian
Jim Bridger 1994 Western pioneer
Joseph Brodsky 2012 Poet
Gwendolyn Brooks 2012 Poet
William Jennings Bryan 1986 Lawyer, politician
Paul "Bear" Bryant 1997 Football coach
James Buchanan 1938 15th President of the United States
Pearl S. Buck 1983 Author
Charles Bulfinch 1979 Architect
Ralph Bunche 1982 Diplomat, Nobel Laureate
Luther Burbank 1940 Horticulturist
Julia de Burgos 2010 Poet
Arleigh Albert Burke 2010 Admiral
John Burgoyne 1927 Revolutionary War general
George Burns 2009 Comedian
Raymond Burr 2009 Actor
Edgar Rice Burroughs 2012 Author
Richard E. Byrd 1988 Antarctic explorer
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo 1992 Explorer
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac 1951 Explorer
James Cagney 1999 Actor
Alexander Calder 1998 Sculptor
Melvin Calvin 2011 Chemist
Walter Camp 2003 Football coach
Roy Campanella 2006 Baseball player
Zachary Canter 2000 Child stamp design contest winner
Frank Capra 2012 Motion picture director
Hattie Caraway 2001 1st female senator
Chester Carlson 1988 Xerox inventor
Hoagy Carmichael 1996 Musician, composer, and actor
Andrew Carnegie 1960 Philanthropist
Art Carney 2009 Actor
Ludovico Carracci 1989 Painter
Charles Carroll of Carrollton 1976 Declaration of Independence signer
Kit Carson 1994 Frontiersman
Rachel Carson 1981 Environmentalist
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter 1993 Country musician
Maybelle Carter 1993 Country singer and musician
Sara Carter 1993 Country singer and musician
Philip Carteret 1964 Explorer
Enrico Caruso 1987 Tenor
George Washington Carver 1948 Botanist
Nellie Cashman 1994 Prospector
Mary Cassatt 1966 Painter
John Cassavetes 2003 Motion picture director
Willa Sibert Cather 1973 Author
George Catlin 1998 Painter
Ignacio Chacón 2006 Painter
Samuel de Champlain 2006 Explorer
Lon Chaney, Jr. 1997 Actor
Lon Chaney, Sr. 1994 Actor
Octave Chanute 1979 Aviation pioneer
Charlie Chaplin 1994 Actor
Carrie Chapman Catt 1948 Suffragist
Dave Chapman 2011 Industrial designer
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 1974 Painter
Samuel Chase 1976 Declaration of Independence signer
Martha Chase 1997 Doll designer
César Chávez 2003 Labor rights leader
Dennis Chavez 1991 Senator
Claire Chennault 1990 Aviator
Mary Chesnut 1995 Civil War diarist
Davy Crockett on a 1966 stamp

Contents

D [edit]

John Dewey on a 1968 stamp
Walt Disney on a 1968 stamp
Frederick Douglass on a 1967 stamp
John Foster Dulles on a 1960 stamp
Paul Laurence Dunbar on a 1975 stamp

E [edit]

Thomas Eakins on a 1967 stamp
Amelia Earhart on a 1963 stamp
George Eastman on a 1954 stamp
Albert Einstein on a 1966 stamp
Dwight D. Eisenhower on a 1970 stamp
Leif Ericson on a 1968 stamp

F [edit]

Millard Fillmore on a 1938 stamp
Henry Ford on a 1968 stamp
Peter Francisco on a 1975 stamp
John C. Fremont on an 1898 stamp
Robert Frost, 1974
Benjamin Franklin on the first US stamp, 1847
Robert Fulton on a 1965 stamp

G [edit]

Albert Gallatin on a 1967 stamp
Walter F. George on a 1960 stamp
Amadeo P. Giannini on a 1973 stamp
Robert H. Goddard on a 1964 stamp
Samuel Gompers on a 1950 stamp
Horace Greeley on a 1961 stamp
David Wark Griffith on a 1975 stamp

H [edit]

Nathan Hale on a 1925 stamp
Dag Hammarskjöld on a 1962 stamp
William Christopher Handy on a 1969 stamp
Benjamin Harrison on a 1902 stamp
William Harnett on a 1969 stamp
Oliver Wendell Holmes, on a 1968 stamp
Herbert Hoover, on a 1965 stamp
Mark Hopkins on a 1940 stamp
Sam Houston on a 1963 stamp
Elias Howe, on a 1940 stamp
Charles Evan Hughes on a 1962 stamp
Cordell Hull on a 1964 stamp

I [edit]

Washington Irving on a 1940 stamp

J [edit]

Thomas Jefferson on a 1922 stamp
Andrew Jackson on a 1967 stamp
Lyndon B. Johnson on a 1973 stamp
Chief Joseph on a 1968 stamp

K [edit]

Kamehameha I of Hawaii on a 1937 stamp
John F. Kennedy on a 1964 stamp

L [edit]

Fiorello LaGuardia on a 1972 stamp
Sidney Lanier on a 1972 stamp
Robert E. Lee on a 1955 stamp
Abraham Lincoln on a 1960 stamp
Juliette Gordon Low on a 1948 stamp
Sybil Ludington on a 1975 stamp

M [edit]

Clara Maass, on a 1976 stamp
Ramon Magsaysay, on a 1957 stamp
George Catlett Marshall on a 1967 stamp
Edgar Lee Masters on a 1970 stamp
Ephraim McDowell, on a 1959 stamp
Brien McMahon on a 1962 stamp
Moina Michael on a 1948 stamp
John Bassett Moore on a 1965 stamp
Grandma Moses on a 1969 stamp
John Muir on a 1964 stamp

N [edit]

James Naismith on a 1961 stamp
Ethelbert Nevin on a 1940 stamp

O [edit]

Adolph S. Ochs on a 1976 stamp
Eugene O’Neill on a 1967 stamp

P [edit]

Thomas Paine on a 1969 stamp
Franklin Pierce on a 1938 stamp
Pocahontas on a 1907 stamp
Salem Poor on a 1975 stamp
Kazimierz Pułaski on a 1931 stamp
Ernest Taylor Pyle on a 1971 stamp

Q [edit]

R [edit]

Sam Rayburn on a 1962 stamp
Ernst Reuter on a 1958 stamp
Paul Revere on a 1958 stamp
Eleanor Roosevelt on a 1963 stamp
Franklin D. Roosevelt on a 1945 stamp
Theodore Roosevelt on a 1922 stamp

S [edit]

Haym Salomon on a 1975 stamp
William Shakespeare on a 1938 stamp
William Tecumseh Sherman on an 1893 stamp
John French Sloan on a 1971 stamp
Edwin M. Stanton on an 1871 stamp
Adlai Stevenson on a 1965 stamp
Lucy Stone on a 1968 stamp

T [edit]

Robert A. Taft on a 1960 stamp
Henry Ossawa Tanner on a 1973 stamp
Henry David Thoreau on a 1967 stamp

U [edit]

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V [edit]

W [edit]

Booker T. Washington on a 1940 stamp
George Washington on 1847 stamp
Martha Washington on an 1923 stamp
Daniel Webster on an 1890 stamp
Walt Whitman on a 1940 stamp
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1966

X [edit]

Y [edit]

Sun Yat-sen on a 1961 stamp

Z [edit]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  • United States Postal Service (2008). The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps (35th ed.). Washington, D.C.: HarperResource. ISBN 978-0-06-166263-8.
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