List of people on the postage stamps of the United States

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 short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office (now United States Postal Service or USPS) issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured. People have been featured on multiple stamps in one issue, or over time, such as various Presidents of the United States. Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stampsuch as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp commemorating four people (three then-still alive) who collectively formed The Beatles.

For the purpose of this list, "featured" may mean: The likeness of a person, The name of a person, or People who have neither their likeness nor name on a stamp, but are documented by the United States Postal Service as being the subject of a stamp (see Reference).

A

Hank Aaron (2024) Black American baseball player Edwin Austin Abbey (2001) Illustrator Bud Abbott (1991) Comedian and actor Edward R. Abrams (2008) Film actor Dean Acheson (1993) 51st Secretary of State Roy Acuff (2003) Country singer, musician, and songwriter Abigail Adams (1985) First Lady Ansel Adams (2002) Photographer Jane Addams (1940) Social Worker John Adams (1938) 2nd president John Quincy Adams (1938, 1986) 6th president Samuel Adams (1976) Declaration of Independence signer Alvin Ailey (2004) Choreographer Louisa May Alcott (1940) Author

Buzz Aldrin (1994),"First Moon Landing, 1969" 29¢ United States postage stamp , based on a photograph of Aldrin captured by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 (July 21, UTC). (2019)"1969 First Moon Landing" 54¢ 'forever' United States postage stamp, reproducing Neil Armstrong's famed July 20, 1969 (July 21, UTC) photograph of Aldrin on the Moon, with Armstrong reflected in the center Aldrin's visor. Aldrin's name tag is legible on the life support system in front of his chest. Astronaut, engineer Horatio Alger Jr. (1982) Author Muhammad Ali (2026) American professional boxer and activist Dante Alighieri (1965) Poet Gracie Allen (2009) Comedian Richard Allen (2016) African-American bishop, founder of AME Church Steve Allen (2009) Comedian Fran Allison (2009) Actress C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson (2014) Aviator Marian Anderson (2005) Contralto Susan B. Anthony (1936) Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist Virginia Apgar (1994) Inventor of the Agpar score Johnny Appleseed (1966) Conservationist Harold Arlen (1996) Composer

Edwin Armstrong (1983) FM radio inventor Louis Armstrong (1995) Jazz singer, musician, and songwriter Neil Armstrong (1969),"First Man on the Moon" 10₵ United States Air Mail stamp does not identify Armstrong by name but simply as the "first man on the Moon", depicting him as he made his "one small step". (2019)"1969 First Moon Landing" 54¢ 'forever' United States postage stamp, reproducing Neil Armstrong's famed July 20, 1969 (July 21, UTC) photograph of Aldrin on the Moon, with Armstrong himself reflected in the center Aldrin's visor. Armstrong is not named on the stamp, though Aldrin's name tag is legible. Astronaut, engineer Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1988) Air Force General Chester A. Arthur (1938) 21st President Ruth Asawa (2020) Sculptor, artist Arthur Ashe (2005) Tennis player John James Audubon (1940) Naturalist, painter Gene Autry (2010) Actor

B 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 Bartholdi (1985) Sculptor and painter Clara Barton (1948) Nurse John Bartram (1999) Botanist William Bartram (1999) Botanist Count Basie (1996) Big band leader John Basilone (2005) Marine, Medal of Honor recipient Daisy Bates (2009) Civil rights leader James Beard (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author Romare Bearden (2011) Artist The Beatles (1999) Rock music band Jim Beckwourth (1994) Explorer Norman Bel Geddes (2011) Industrial designer Alexander Graham Bell (1940) Inventor Saul Bellow (2024) Novelist Ruth Benedict (1995) Anthropologist Stephen Vincent Benét (1998) Author Jack Benny (1991) Comedian Edgar Bergen (1991) Ventriloquist Ingrid Bergman (2015) Actress Milton Berle (2009) Comedian Irving Berlin (2002) Composer

Leonard Bernstein (2001) Conductor, composer Yogi Berra (2021) Baseball player Mary McLeod Bethune (1985) Educator and civil rights leader Albert Bierstadt (1998) Painter Hiram Bingham IV (2006) Diplomat George Caleb Bingham (1998) Painter

Elizabeth Bishop (2012) Poet Emily Bissell (1980) Social worker, introduced Christmas Seals to U.S. Hugo Black (1986) Supreme Court justice Elizabeth Blackwell (1974) 1st U.S. female physician Montgomery Blair (1963) Maryland politician Eubie Blake (1995) Jazz pianist and composer

Nellie Bly (2002) Journalist Humphrey Bogart (1997) Actor Charles E. Bohlen (2006) Diplomat Simón Bolívar (1958) South American revolutionary Daniel Boone (1968) Pioneer and frontiersman Sandro Botticelli (1981) Painter Clara Bow (1994) Actress William Boyd (2009) Actor Elizabeth Boyer (2008) Actress 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) Actress, singer and comedian Jim Bridger (1994) Explorer Joseph Brodsky (2012) Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2012) Poet William Jennings Bryan (1986) 3-time presidential candidate Paul "Bear" Bryant (1997) Football coach James Buchanan (1938) 15th President Pearl S. Buck (1983) Author William Frank Buckley Jr. (2025) Political commentator and novelist Ralph Bunche (1982) Diplomat Luther Burbank (1940) Botanist Julia de Burgos (2010) Poet Arleigh Albert Burke (2010) Admiral George Burns (2009) Comedian Raymond Burr (2009) Actor Edgar Rice Burroughs (2012) Author Barbara Bush (2025) former First Lady George H. W. Bush (2019) 41st president Richard E. Byrd (1988) Antarctic explorer

C

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 Frank Capra (2012) Motion picture director Hattie Caraway (2001) 1st female senator Chester Carlson (1988) Inventor Hoagy Carmichael (1996) Composer, singer and actor Andrew Carnegie (1960) Entrepreneur and philanthropist Art Carney (2009) Actor Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1976) Declaration of Independence signer

Kit Carson (1994) Frontiersman Rachel Carson (1981) Writer and conservationist A. P. Carter (1993) Singer and songwriter Jimmy Carter (2025) 39th US President Maybelle Carter (1993) Country musician Sara Carter (1993) Country musician Enrico Caruso (1987) Opera tenor George Washington Carver (1948) Botanist Johnny Cash (2013) Singer Nellie Cashman (1994) Gold prospector Mary Cassatt (1966) Painter Willa Cather (1973) Writer George Catlin (1998) Painter Wilt Chamberlain (2014) Basketball player Carrie Chapman Catt (1948) Suffragist Ignacio Chacon (2006) Painter Samuel de Champlain (2006) Explorer Lon Chaney (1997) Actor Lon Chaney Jr. (1997) Actor Octave Chanute (1979) Aviation pioneer Charlie Chaplin (1994) Actor Dave Chapman (2011) Industrial designer Ray Charles (2013) Musician Samuel Chase (1976) Declaration of Independence signer Cesar Chavez (2003) Labor rights leader Dennis Chavez (1991) U.S. Senator from New Mexico Joyce Chen (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author Claire Lee Chennault (1990) World War II General Mary Chestnut (1995) Civil War diarist Charles W. Chesnutt (2008) Writer Julia Child (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author Shirley Chisholm (2014) Congresswoman Frederic Edwin Church (1998) Painter

Winston Churchill (1965) British Prime Minister Eugenie Clark (2022) American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver Grenville Clark (1985) Lawyer George Rogers Clark (1929) Military officer William Clark (1954) Explorer

Henry Clay (1870, 1902) Statesman Roberto Clemente (1984 & 2000) Baseball player Grover Cleveland (1923) 22nd & 24th president J. R. Clifford (2009) Attorney Patsy Cline (1993) Country singer George Clymer (1976) Declaration of Independence signer David Cobb (1976) Congressional Representative, 3rd U.S. Congress Ty Cobb (2000) Baseball player Alvin Langdon Coburn (2002) Photographer Jacqueline Cochran (1996) Aviator Mickey Cochrane (2000) Baseball player Victoria Codona (2014) Circus performer Buffalo Bill Cody (1988) Showman Catharine Coffin (2024) Underground Railroad Quaker operative based in Indiana and Ohio George M. Cohan (1978) Actor, singer, composer and playwright Nat King Cole (1994) Singer Bessie Coleman (1995) Aviator Eddie Collins (2000) Baseball player John Coltrane (1995) Jazz saxophonist and composer Christopher Columbus (1893) Explorer Maureen Connolly (2019) Tennis player James Cook (1978) Explorer Calvin Coolidge (1938) 30th president Anna Julia Cooper (2009) Civil rights leader Gary Cooper (1990, 2009) Actor James Fenimore Cooper (1940) Author

Nicolaus Copernicus (1973) Astronomer John Singleton Copley (1965) Painter Gerty Cori (2008) Biochemist Dean Cornwell (2001) Illustrator Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1940) Explorer Lorenzo Costa (2001) Painter Lou Costello (1991) Comedian and actor Crazy Horse (1982) Lakota war leader Davy Crockett (1967) Alamo defender Bing Crosby (1994) Singer and actor Jim Crowley (1998) Notre Dame football player Celia Cruz (2011) Musician E. E. Cummings (2012) Poet Imogen Cunningham (2002) Photographer Glen Curtiss (1980) Aviator Harvey Cushing (1988) Neurosurgeon Manasseh Cutler (1937) Northwest Territory pioneer

D

Daniel Daly (2005) Marine; Medal of Honor recipient

Virginia Dare (1937) First child born in the Americas to English parents Allison Davis (1994) Educator, anthropologist Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (1997) Army General Bette Davis (2008) Actress Jefferson Davis (1970) Confederate president Miles Davis (2012) Jazz musician Stuart Davis (2013) Modern artist Julia de Burgos (2010) Puerto Rican writer and poet Agnes de Mille (2004) Choreographer Dizzy Dean (2000) Baseball player James Dean (1996) Actor Stephen Decatur (1937) Navy commodore Willem de Kooning (2010) Abstract expressionist artist Oscar de la Renta (2017) Fashion designer Andrea della Robbia (1978) Sculptor

Jack Dempsey (1998) Boxer Charles Demuth (2013) Modern artist Tomie dePaola (2023) Children's book author and illustrator Donald Deskey (2011) Industrial designer George Dewey (1936) Navy Admiral John Dewey (1968) Educator Emily Dickinson (1971) Poet John Dickinson (1976) American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania William Dickson (1996) Motion picture camera inventor Everett Dirksen (1981) Senate Minority Leader Dorothea Dix (1983) Social reformer Joe DiMaggio (2012) Baseball player Walt Disney (1968) Motion picture producer, animator Larry Doby (2012) Baseball player Jimmy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader Tommy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader Aaron Douglas (2013) Modern artist Stephen A. Douglas (1958) Politician Frederick Douglass (1967, 2024) Abolitionist