This article lists people who have been featured on Cuban postage stamps. Note that many of these people have been featured on multiple stamps. The following entries list the name of the person, the first year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability.
The list is complete through 2014.
A
Angel Arturo Aballi, physician (1958) Eduardo Agramonte, physician and revolutionary (1972) Ignacio Agramonte, revolution leader (1910) Joaquín de Agüero, freedom fighter and patriot (1957) Julián Aguirre, Argentina charango musician (1991) José María Aguirre, general (1956) Miguel Aldama, Cuban politician (1956) Eloy Alfaro Delgado, president of Ecuador (1943) Alfonso XII of Spain, king of Spain (1876) Alfonso XIII of Spain, king of Spain (1890) Salvador Allende, president of Chile (1974) Tony Aloma, revolution leader (1966) Daniel Alomia, Peru flute musician (1991) Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish navigator, governor and conquistador (1992) Alicia Alonso, ballet dancer (2006) Dora Alonso, writer (2010) Fernando Alonso, ballet director (2012) Alonso Alvarez de la Campa, medical student (1952) Paulina Álvarez, singer (2012) Santiago Álvarez, filmmaker (2009 ) Amadeo I, king of Spain (1873) Ángel Ameijeiras Delgado, Cuban revolutionary fighter (1998) Jorge Ankermann, Cuban composer (1966) Rey Vincente Anglada, Cuban baseball player (2004) Vincenta Antonio de Castro, physician (1958) Carlos Aponte, revolutionary (1985) Manuel José Arce, El Salvador Independence leader (1988) Marta Abreu Arenabio de Estévez, philanthropist and humanitarian (1947) José Gervasio Artigas, national hero of Uruguay (1988) Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (1989) Atlácatl, last ruler of Cuzcatlan, El Salvador (1937)
B
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician (1997) Robert Baden-Powell, creator of the Boy Scouts (1957) Manuel Balanzategui, postal clerk (1950) Quintin Bandera, military leader (1996) Enrique B. Barnet, public health expert (1952) Bartholomew of Constantinople, archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church (2013) Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (1997) Juan B. Hernandez Barreiro, lawyer (1958) Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar (1944) Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland (1969) Pavel I. Belyayev, cosmonaut (1965) Mario Benedetti, writer (2013) Benedict XVI, pope (2012) Anacleto Bermudez, medical student (1952) Ramón Emeterio Betances, doctor and revolution leader (1968) Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, president (1959) Conrado Benitez, educator (1981) Hubert de Blanck, composer (1956) Jose D. Blino, aviation pioneer (1970) Humphrey Bogart, actor (1995) Simón Bolívar, liberator of Venezuela (1937) Francisco Bolognesi, Peruvian military hero (1988) Elisa Bonaparte, princess of Lucca and Piombino (1969) Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France (1969) Bernardo Juan Borrell, rebel leader (1964) Leonid Illyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1974) Antonio Briones Montoto, guerrilla (2012) Tamara "Tania" Bunke, revolutionary (1972) Richard Burton, film star (2001) Valery F. Bykovsky, cosmonaut (1963) Bonifacio Byrne, poet (1986)
C
Eduardo Caba, Bolivia composer and antara musician (1991) Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau revolutionary (1974) Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator and explorer (1992) Maria Magdalena Cabrales, aided Cuban revolution (1998) Francisco Cajigal de la Vega, governor of Cuba (1956) Cantinflas, Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter (1995) José Raúl Capablanca, world chess titlist (1951) Federico Capdevila, defense lawyer (1952) Enrique Caravia, artist (1951) Carlos III, king of Spain (1972) Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (1989) Francisco Carrillo, Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army (1955) Julián del Casal, poet and writer (1956) Luis G. Casanova, Cuban baseball player (2004) Luis de Las Casas, governor-general of Cuba (1945) Cascarita, Cuban singer (2004) Adolfo del Castillo Sánchez, general (1997) Ricardo Castillo, Guatemala composer (1991) Fidel Castro, president (1974) Raúl Castro, Cuban president (2012) Catherine of Alexandria, saint (1971) Alejandro G. Caturia, Cuban composer (1966) Juan P. Cebreco, general of the army of liberation (1957) José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran writer (1989) Ignacio Cervantes, musician (1958) Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (2005) Ismael de Céspedes, director of the Bayamo telegraph (1949) Jose Maria Chacon y Calvo, historian (1992) Tomas Romay Chacón, physician (1958) Charlie Chaplin, actor and director (1995) Carlos Chávez, México guitar musician (1991) Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela (2014) Eduardo Chibás, Cuban politician (2001) Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (1997) Saint Christopher, (1971) Camilo Cienfuegos, revolutionary hero (1960) Jacqueline Cochran, female aviator (2011) Nat King Cole, singer (2013) Emelina Collazo, sister of Guillermo Collazo (1976) Enrique Collazo, general (1950) Guillermo Collazo, painter and advocate for independence (1976) Boris Luis Santa Coloma, revolutionary (1983) Christopher Columbus, discover of America (1899, 1944) Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés Plácido, poet (1946) Juan Corzo, chess master (1988) Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics (1984) Adolfo Flor Crombet, general (1959) Jaime González Crocier, pilot (1955) Julio Cueva, Cuban trumpeter, composer and band leader (2004) Miguelito Cuni, singer (2007) Marie Curie, physical chemist (1994) Pierre Curie, chemist (1994)
D
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (1937) Charles Darwin, English naturalist and geologist (1996) James Dean, film star (2001) Luis A. Delgadillo, Nicaragua maracas musician (1991) Juan Delgado González, Cuban patriot (2013) Alberto Delgado Delgado, undercover agent (2014) Claudio Delgado, physician (1965) Martín Morúa Delgado, patriot (1956) Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution (1988) Diana, Princess of Wales (1998) Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (1992) José Eduvigis Díaz Vera, Paraguayan general (1988) Marlene Dietrich, actress (1995) Martín Dihigo, Cuban baseball player (2004) Georgi Dimitrov, prime minister of Bulgaria (1982) Lidia Doce, revolutionary (1965) María Luisa Dolz, educator and defender of women's rights (1954) Manuel Ascunce Domenech, educator (1975) Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic (1988) D. Castillo Duany, general of the army of liberation (1957) Vidal Ducasse Reeve, brigadier general (1997) Manuel Duchesne Cuzán, general director of the National Symphonic Orchestra (2010)
E
Amelia Earhart, female aviator (2011) Jose A. Echeverria, guerrilla (1963) Albert Einstein, physicist and mathematician (1994) Ruth Elder, female aviator (2011) Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, musician (1958) Vilma Espin Guillois, wife of Fidel Castro (2008) Nicolás Estévanez, military officer, politician and poet (1952) José Dolores Estrada, Nicaraguan national hero (1988)
F
Miguel Faílde, Cuba claves musician (1991) Juan Manuel Fangio, race car driver (2013) Michael Faraday, physicist (1994) Eduardo Farini, Uruguay drums musician (1991) Maria Felíx, actress (2013) Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut (1966) Antonio Fernández, revolution leader (1966) Joseíto Fernández, singer (2008) Juan Fernández Ruz, general (1996) Ibrahim Ferrer, singer and musician (2007) Domingo Figarola Caneda, director of the National Library of Cuba (1957) Fernando Figueredo, intellectual and Cuban revolutionary fighter (1951) Pedro Figueredo, composer of the Cuban national anthem (1979) Carlos J. Finlay, discoverer of yellow fever transmission (1934) Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist (2013) José Asunción Flores, Paraguay harp musician (1991) Carlos Fonseca, Nicaraguan revolutionary (1986) Ernesto Fonts Sterling, secretary of the Exchequer (1956) Rafael Forún, sprinter (2014) Benjamin Franklin, author, postmaster, scientist, and statesman (1899) Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst (1993)
G
Antonio Gades, flamenco dancer (2013) Yuri A. Gagarin, cosmonaut (1963) Maria Galarraga, unknown (1972) Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan writer (1989) Tomas Gamba, military official (1972) Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader (1997) Greta Garbo, actress (1995) Calixto García, general (1910) Rogelio Garcia, Cuban baseball player (2004) Reynold Garcia Garcia, revolutionary (1981) Vicente Garcia y Gonzalez, president (1959) Victor Manuel Garcia, painter (1997) Ava Gardner, film star (2001) Henri Giffard, French engineer (1991) Antonio Ginard Rojas, Communications Association (1954) Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, writer (1914) José Miguel Gómez, Cuban president and general (1937) Raul Gomez Garcia, revolutionary (1964) Candido Gonzalez, revolution leader (1966) , composer (2010) Fernando González del Valle, physician (1958) Fernando González, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Jorge González Allué, composer (2014) René González, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Sergio Gonzalez, rebel leader (1964) Juan Gualberto Gómez, revolutionary leader (1955) Máximo Gómez, military commander (1910) Alfonso Goulet Goulet, Cuban brigadier general (1995) Lourdes Gourriel, Cuban baseball player (2003) Mariana Grajales, women's rights and independence activist (1969) Ulysses S. Grant, president of the United States (1899) John Robert Gregg, inventor of the Gregg shorthand system (1957) Eliseo Grenet, Cuban composer (1966) Angel Guerra Porro, general (1996) José Luis Guerra Agular, director of the Postal Museum (1991) Antonio Guerrero, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolution leader (1968) Nicolás Guillén, poet (2002) Antonio Guiteras y Holmes, politician (1951) Juan Guiteras, Cuban physician and pathologist (1952) Nicolás José Gutiérrez, physician and educator (1940) Pedro Gutiérrez, Cuban revolutionary fighter (1998)
H
Paul Haenlein, German engineer and flight pioneer (1991) Otto Hahn, physical chemist (1994) Gerhard Armauer Hansen, doctor (1948) Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary International (1955) Enrique Hart Ramirez, judge (2010) Rita Hayworth, film star (2001) Dayton Hedges, founder of Cuban textile industry (1958) Ernest Hemingway, American author (1963) Camilo Henríquez, Chilean priest, writer and politician (1937) Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer (1992) Enrique Calleja Hensell, Communications Association (1954) José María Heredia, poet and patriot (1940, 1957) Charles Hernández y Sandrino, colonel (1952) Gerardo Hernández, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Gregorio Hernández Sáez, postal worker (1954) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican War of Independence (1988) Rowland Hill, developer of the postage stamp (1990) Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican writer (1989) Rock Hudson, film star (2001) Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist (1969)
I
Federico Incháustegui Cabrera, general (1995) Jorge Isaacs, Colombian novelist (1989) Isabella I of Spain, queen of Spain (1952) Isabella II of Spain, queen of Spain (1855)
J
Andrew Jackson, president of the United States (1899) Francisco Javier de Céspedes, president (1959) Hu Jintao, Chinese General Secretary (2005) John Paul II, pope (1998) Tomas Jordan, general (1995) José de la Luz y Caballero, educator (1917) Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician (2006) Enrique del Junco Cruz Muñoz, general (1997) Francisco Carrera Justiz, educator and statesman (1953)
K
Orestes Kindelán, Cuban baseball player (2002) Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist (1986) Robert Koch, discoverer of the tuberculosis bacillus (1982) Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (1966) Sergei P. Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1981) Arthur Constantin Krebs, French officer and pioneer in automotive engineering (2000) Pedro Kouri Esmeja, tropical medicine doctor and researcher (2000)
L
Ramón Labañino, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Angel Laborde, medical student (1952)