Post Page Rank

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. The following entries list the name of

the person, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a very short description of

their notability.

This list is complete upto 2007 issues:

Abigail Adams (1985) First Lady
 
Abraham Baldwin (1985) Statesman

Abraham Lincoln (1866) 16th President

Adlai E. Stevenson II (1965) UN Ambassador and presidential candidate

Adolphus W. Greely (1986) Arctic explorer

Agnes de Mille (2004) Choreographer

Al Jolson (1994) Singer and actor

Al Parker (2001) Illustrator
 
Alan Jay Lerner (1999) Lyricist

Albert Bierstadt (1998) Painter

Albert Einstein (1966) Physicist

Albert Gallatin (1967) Secretary of the Treasury
 
Albert Schoenhut (1997) Doll designer

Albert Southworth (2002) Photographer

Alden Partridge (1985) Educator

Alexander Calder (1998) Sculptor

Alexander D. Goode (1948) One of the Four Chaplains

Alexander Graham Bell (1940) Telephone inventor

Alexander Hamilton (1870) Statesman

Alexander Jackson Davis (1980) Architect

Alfred E. Smith (1945) New York Governor

Alfred Hitchcock (1998) Motion picture director

Alfred Lunt (1999) Actor

Alfred Newman (1999) Composer

Alfred Nobel (2001) Philanthropist

Alfred Stieglitz (2002) Photographer

Alfred V. Verville (1985) Aviation pioneer

Alice Hamilton (1995) Physician

Alice Paul (1995) Suffragist

Allison Davis (1994) Educator, anthropologist
 
Alvin Ailey (2004) Choreographer

Alvin C. York (2000) World War I soldier, Medal of Honor recipient

Alvin Langdon Coburn (2002) Photographer

Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1993) Country musician

Amadeo P. Giannini (1973) Bank of America founder

Amelia Earhart (1963) Aviator

Ammi Phillips (1998) Painter

André Kertész (2002) Hungarian photographer
 
Andrea della Robbia (1978) Sculptor

Andrew Carnegie (1960) Philanthropist

Andrew Jackson (1861) 7th President

Andrew Johnson (1938) 17th President
 
Andrew W. Mellon (1955) Financier

Andy Warhol (2002) Painter

Anna Mary Robertson Moses “Grandma Moses” (1969) Painter

Anne Sullivan (1980) Educator

Annie Oakley (1994) Sharpshooter

Ansel Adams (2002) Photographer

Anthony Wayne (1929) Revolutionary War General

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1951) Explorer

Antonello da Messina (1990) Painter

Antoniazzo Romano (1991) Painter

Arthur Ashe (2005) Tennis player

Arthur Burdett Frost (2001) Illustrator

Arthur Fiedler (1997) Conductor

Arturo Toscanini (1989) Conductor

Asa Philip Randolph (1989) Labor & Civil Rights advocate

Asher B. Durand (1998) Painter

Ashley Young (2000) Child stamp design contest winner

Audie L. Murphy (2000) World War II soldier, actor

Audrey Hepburn (2003) Actress

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1940) Sculptor

Ayn Rand (1999) Author

Babe Zaharias (1981) Track & field athlete

Barbara McClintock (2005) Geneticist

Bartolomeo Vivarini (1999) Painter

Bat Masterson (1994) U.S. Marshal

Bela Lugosi (1997) Actor

Belva Ann Lockwood (1986) Lawyer, feminist

Ben Picket (1994) brother of Bill Picket, accidentally placed on stamp when his brother

Bill was meant to appear; stamp recalled and replaced

Benjamin Banneker (1980) Astronomer

Benjamin Franklin (1847) 1st Postmaster, statesman, scientist
 
Benjamin Harrison (1902) 23rd President

Benjamin Latrobe (1979) Architect

Benjamin Lincoln (1976) Revolutionary War General

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1997) Army General

Benjamin West (1956) Painter

Benny Goodman (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader

Bernard Herrmann (1999) Composer

Bernard Maybeck (1981) Architect

Bernard Revel (1986) Educator

Bernardino Luini (2007) Painter

Bernardo de Galvez (1980) Revolutionary War General

Bessie Coleman (1995) 1st African American female pilot

Bessie Smith (1994) Blues singer

Betsy Ross (1952) American flag creator

Bette Davis (2008) Actress

Bill Haley (1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter

Bill Pickett (1994) Wild West performer

Bill Tilghman (1994) Southwest lawman

Billie Holiday (1994) Jazz singer

Billy Mitchell (1999) Air Force General

Bing Crosby (1994) Singer, actor

Blanche Stuart Scott (1980) Aviator

Bob Wills (1993) Country musician and songwriter
 
Bobby Jones (1981) Golfer

Booker T. Washington (1940) Educator

Boris Karloff (1997) Actor

Bret Harte (1987) Author

Brien McMahon (1962) Atomic Energy Act author

Bronco Nagurski (2003) Football player

Buckminster Fuller (2004) Inventor

Bud Abbott (1991) Comedian

Buddy Holly (1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter

Buffalo Bill Cody (1988) Wild West showman

Buster Keaton (1994) Actor

C.G.E. Mannerheim (1960) Finnish President

Cal Farley (1996) Boys Ranch founder

Calvin Coolidge (1938) 30th President

Carl Sandburg (1978) Poet

Carl Schurz (1983) Journalist

Carleton Watkins (2002) Photographer

Carrie Chapman Catt (1948) Suffragist

Carter G. Woodson (1984) Historian

Cary Grant (2002) Actor

Casey Jones (1950) Railroad engineer

Cecil B. DeMille (2003) Motion picture producer

César Chávez (2003) Labor rights leader

Charles and Ray Eames (2008) Industrial design, furniture design

Charles Bulfinch (1979) Architect

Charles Cornwallis (1930) Revolutionary War General

Charles E. Bohlen (2006) Diplomat

Charles Evans Hughes (1962) Chief Justice

Charles Goodnight (1994) Cattle rancher

Charles Horace Mayo (1964) Surgeon

Charles Ives (1997) Composer

Charles Lindbergh (1927) Aviator

Charles M. Russell (1961) Painter

Charles R. Drew (1981) Surgeon

Charles Sheeler (1998) Painter

Charles Steinmetz (1983) Electrical inventor

Charles Thomson (1976) Continental Congress Secretary

Charles W. Eliot (1940) Educator

Charles Wilkes (1988) Antarctic explorer

Charles Willson Peale (1955) Painter

Charlie Chaplin (1994) Actor

Charlie Mingus (1995) Jazz musician and composer

Charlie Parker (1995) Jazz musician and composer

Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter

Chester Alan Arthur (1938) 21st President

Chester Carlson (1988) Xerox inventor

Chester W. Nimitz (1985) World War II Admiral

Chief Joseph (1968) Nez Perce warrior

Chief Shadoo (1930) Kiowa Chief

Christopher Columbus (1893) Explorer

Christy Mathewson (2000) Baseball player

Claire Chennault (1990) Aviator

Clara Barton (1948) American Red Cross founder

Clara Bow (1994) Actress

Clara Maass (1976) Yellow fever victim

Clara Ward (1998) Gospel singer and songwriter

Clark Gable (1990) Actor

Clark V. Poling (1948) One of the Four Chaplains

Claude Pepper (2000) Senator

Clifton R. Wharton, Sr. (2006) Diplomat
 
Clyde McPhatter (1993) R&B singer

Cole Porter (1991) Composer and songwriter

Coleman Hawkins (1995) Jazz musician

Coles Phillips (2001) Illustrator

Comte de Rochambeau (1931) Revolutionary War General

Cordell Hull (1963) Secretary of State

Count Basie (1996) Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
 
Crawford W. Long (1940) Physician

Crazy Horse (1982) Oglala Sioux warrior

Cy Young (2000) Baseball player

Cyrus Hall McCormick (1940) Mechanical reaper inventor

Dag Hammarskjold (1962) United Nations Secretary General

Daniel Boone (1942) Frontiersman

Daniel Chester French (1940) Sculptor

Daniel Daly (2005) Marine; Medal of Honor recipient

Daniel Webster (1870) Statesman

Dante Alighieri (1965) Poet

David Cobb (1976) Congressional Representative, 3rd U.S. Congress
 
David D. Porter (1937) Civil War naval officer

David G. Farragut (1903) 1st Navy Admiral

David Hartley (1983) Treaty of Paris signatory

David O. Selznick (2003) Motion picture producer

David Wark Griffith (1975) Motion picture producer

Davy Crockett (1967) Alamo defender

Dean Acheson (1993) Secretary of State

Dean Cornwell (2001) Illustrator

Dennis Chavez (1991) Senator

Desi Arnaz (1999) Actor, producer and singer

DeWitt Wallace (1998) Publisher

Dimitri Tiomkin (1999) Composer

Dinah Washington (1993) Blues singer
 
Dizzy Dean (2000) Baseball player

Dolley Madison (1980) First Lady

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1975) Painter

Don Miller (1998) Football player

Dorothea Dix (1983) Mental health advocate

Dorothea Lange (2002) Photographer

Dorothy Fields (1996) Lyricist

Dorothy Parker (1992) Author

Douglas Fairbanks (1984) Actor

Douglas MacArthur (1971) Army General

Dr. Seuss (1999) Author & illustrator

Duke Kahanamoku (2002) Surfer, swimmer

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969) 34th President

Eadweard Muybridge (1996) Photographer

Earl Warren (1992) Chief Justice

Eastman Johnson (1976) Painter

Eddie Collins (2000) Baseball player

Eddie Eagan (1990) Boxer, bobsledder

Eddie Rickenbacker (1995) World War I fighter pilot

Edgar Allan Poe (1949) Author

Edgar Bergen (1991) Ventriloquist
 
Edgar Lee Masters (1970) Poet

Edith Head (2003) Costume designer
 
Edith Wharton (1980) Author

Edna Ferber (2002) Author

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1981) Poet

Edward G. Robinson (2000) Actor

Edward Hopper (1970) Painter

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1986) Jazz musician and composer
 
Edward MacDowell (1940) Composer

Edward R. Murrow (1994) Journalist

Edward Rudledge (1976) Painter

Edward Steichen (2002) Photographer
 
Edward Weston (2002) Photographer

Edwin Armstrong (1983) FM radio inventor

Edwin Austin Abbey (2001) Illustrator

Edwin Hubble (2000) Astronomer

Edwin M. Stanton (1871) Secretary of War

Eero Saarinen (1982) Architect

Eleanor Roosevelt (1963) First Lady

Eli Whitney (1940) Cotton gin inventor

Elias Howe (1940) Inventor

Elisabetta Sirani (1994) Painter

Elisha Kent Kane (1986) Arctic explorer
 
Elizabeth Blackwell (1974) 1st U.S. female physician

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1948) Suffragist

Elizabeth Clarke Copley (1965) Portrait subject on a stamp honoring John Singleton Copley

Elizabeth Freake (1998) Portrait subject
Ella Fitzgerald (2007) Jazz singer

Elmer Layden (1998) Football coach

Elmer Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer Note: the wrong photograph was used as the basis for

the stamp, which actually pictures Elmer Sperry’s father.

Elvis Presley (1993) Rock and roll singer and musician

Emanuel Leutze (1976) Painter

Emily Bissell (1980) Social Worker
 
Emily Dickinson (1971) Poet

Emily Post (1998) Author

Enrico Caruso (1987) Tenor

Enrico Fermi (2001) Physicist

Ephraim McDowell (1959) Surgeon

Erich Korngold (1999) Composer

Ernest E. Just (1996) Biologist

Ernest Hemingway (1989) Author

Ernest Taylor Pyle (1971) Journalist

Ernie Nevers (2003) Football player

Ernst Reuter (1959) Berlin Mayor

Erroll Garner (1995) Jazz musician and composer

Ethan Allen (1955) Green Mountain Boys leader

Ethel Barrymore (1982) Actress

Ethel L. Payne (2002) Journalist

Ethel Merman (1994) Singer, actress
 
Ethel Waters (1994) Blues singer and actress

Ethelbert Nevin (1940) Composer

Eubie Blake (1995) Jazz musician and songwriter

Everett Dirksen (1981) Senator

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996) Author

Fanny Brice (1991) Comedian

Father Edward J. Flanagan (1986) Orphan advocate

Félix Varela (1997) Social reformer

Ferde Grofé (1997) Composer

Fiorello H. La Guardia (1972) New York City Mayor

Four Chaplains (1948) Died during the Dorchester sinking
 
Fra Filippo Lippi (1984) Painter

Frances E. Willard (1940) Educator

Frances E. Willis (2006) Diplomat
 
Frances Perkins (1980) Secretary of Labor
 
Francis Barbé-Marbois (1953) Louisiana Purchase negotiator

Francis Lewis (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Francis Parkman (1965) Historian

Francis Scott Key (1948) Star-Spangled Banner composer
 
Francisco Goya (1974) Painter

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1940) Explorer

François Joseph Paul Grasse (1931) Revolutionary War Admiral

Frank C. Laubach (1984) Educator
 
Frank Furness (1980) Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright (1965) Architect

Frank Loesser (1999) Composer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945) 32nd President

Franklin Pierce (1938) 14th President

Franklin Sousley (1945) Iwo Jima

Franz Kline (1998) Painter

Franz Waxman (1999) Composer

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1985) Statue of Liberty sculptor

Frederic E. Ives (1996) Halftone printing inventor

Frederic Edwin Church (1998) Painter

Frederic Remington (1940) Sculptor, painter

Frederick Douglass (1967) Abolitionist

Frederick Loewe (1999) Composer

Frida Kahlo (2001) Painter

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1930) Revolutionary War general
 
Garry Winogrand (2002) Photographer

Gary Cooper (1990) Actor

George Balanchine (2004) Choreographer

George Caleb Bingham (1998) Painter

George Catlett Marshall (1965) Secretary of State, Army General

George Catlin (1998) Painter

George Dewey (1936) Navy Admiral

George Eastman (1954) Roll film inventor

George Gershwin (1973) Composer and musician

George Halas (1997) Football coach

George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1983) Baseball player

George L. Fox (1948) One of the Four Chaplains

George M. Cohan (1978) Actor, playwright

George Mason (1958) Statesman

George Meany (1994) Labor union leader

George Papanicolaou (1978) Cytologist

George Read (1976), lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

George Rogers Clark (1929) Revolutionary War officer

George Ross (delegate) (1952) Relative of Betsy Ross

George S. Patton, Jr. (1953) World War II Army General

George Sisler (2000) Baseball player

George Szell (1997) Conductor, composer

George W. Goethals (1939) Panama Canal engineer

George W. Norris (1961) Senator

George Washington (1847) 1st President

George Washington Carver (1948 & 1998) Botanist

Gerald R. Ford (2007) President of the United States (stamp released within eight months of

his death; US President stamps are permitted upon the death of the President)

Gerard David (1979) Painter

Gerard Terborch (1974) Painter

Geronimo (1994) Apache leader

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1994) Blues singer

Gertrude Käsebier (2002) Photographer

Giambattista Tiepolo (1982) Painter

Gilbert Charles Stuart (1940) Painter

Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy Anderson) (1998) Actor

Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione (1971) Painter

Giotto di Bondone (1995) Painter

Giovanni Battista Cima (1993) Painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1987) Painter
 
Giovanni Bellini (1992) Painter

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1960) Italian patriot

Glenn Curtiss (1980) Aviation pioneer

Glenn Miller (1996) Jazz musician

Grace Kelly (1993) Actress

Grant Wood (1996) Painter

Grenville Clark (1985) Author

Greta Garbo (2005) Actress

Grover Cleveland (1923) 22nd & 24th President

Hank Greenberg (2006) Baseball player

Hank Williams (1993) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
 
Hans Memling (1966) Painter

Harlan Fiske Stone (1948) Chief Justice

Harlon Block (1945) Iwo Jima

Harold Arlen (1996) Composer

Harold Lloyd (1994) Actor

Harriet Quimby (1991) Pilot

Harriet Tubman (1978) Abolitionist

Harry Houdini (2002) Magician

Harry S. Truman (1973) 33rd President

Harry Stuhldreher (1998) Football player
 
Harvey Cushing (1988) Neurosurgeon

Harvey Dunn (2001) Illustrator

Harvey W. Wiley (1956) Chemist

Hattie Caraway (2001) 1st female Senator
 
Hattie McDaniel (2006) Actress

Haym Salomon (1975) Revolutionary War financier

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1990) Tennis player

Helen Keller (1980) Author, disability advocate
 
Helene Madison (1990) Swimmer

Henry Clay (1870, 1902) Statesman 

Henry Comstock (1959) Prospector

Henry David Thoreau (1967) Author

Henry Fonda (2005) Actor

Henry Ford (1968) Industrialist

Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold (1988) Air Force General

Henry Hobson Richardson (1980) Architect

Henry Hudson (1909) Explorer

Henry Knox (1985) Revolutionary War General

Henry Mancini (2004) Composer

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1973) Painter

Henry R. Luce (1998) Publisher

Henry Sandham (1925) Painter

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1940) Poet

Herbert Hoover (1965) 31st President

Herman Melville (1984) Author

Hiram Bingham IV (2006) Diplomat

Hoagy Carmichael (1996) Singer, musician, composer, and actor

Hollow Horn Bear (date unknown) Brulé Sioux leader

Horace Greeley (1961) Journalist

Horace Mann (1940) Educator

Horace Moses (1984) Junior Achievement founder

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1982) Author

Howard Pyle (1964) Illustrator

Hubert Humphrey (1991) Vice President

Huddie Ledbetter (1998) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
 
Hugo L. Black (1986) Supreme Court Justice

Humphrey Bogart (1997) Actor

Ida B. Wells (1990) Civil Rights advocate

Ida Tarbell (2002) Author, journalist

Ignacio Chacón (2006) Painter

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1960) Polish Prime Minister

Igor Sikorsky (1988) Aircraft engineer
 
Igor Stravinsky (1982) Composer

Imogen Cunningham (2002) Photographer

Ira Gershwin (1999) Lyricist

Ira Hayes (1945) Iwo Jima

Irving Berlin (2002) Composer

Isabella of Castile (1893) Queen of Spain, funded Christopher Columbus’s voyage

Isamu Noguchi (2004) Sculptor

Izannah Walker (1997) Doll designer

Jack Benny (1991) Comedian

Jack Dempsey (1998) Boxer

Jack London (1986) Author

Jackie Robinson (1982) Baseball player

Jackson Pollock (1999) Painter

Jacqueline Cochran (1996) Aviator

Jacques Marquette (1898) Explorer

James A. Garfield (1882) 20th President

James Baldwin (2004) Author

James Buchanan (1938) 15th President

James Cagney (1999) Actor

James Cook (1978) Explorer

James Dean (1996) Actor

James Fenimore Cooper (1940) Author

James Hoban (1981) White House architect

James Ives (1974) Lithographer

James K. Polk (1938) 11th President

James Madison (1894) 4th President

James McNeill Whistler (1934) Painter

James Monroe (1904) 5th President

James Montgomery Flagg (2001) Illustrator

James Naismith (1961) Basketball inventor

James P. Johnson (1995) Composer

James Renwick, Jr. (1980) Architect

James Russell Lowell (1940) Poet

James Stewart (2007) Actor

James Thurber (1994) Author, illustrator, humorist

James Van Der Zee (2002) Photographer

James Weldon Johnson (1988) Author

James Whitcomb Riley (1940) Poet

Jan Earnst Matzeliger (1991) Lasting machine inventor

Jan Gossaert (2002) Painter

Jan van Eyck (1968) Painter

Jane Addams (1940) Social Worker

Jason Lee (1948) Oregon Territory missionary

Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1987) Chicago settler

Jean Nicolet (1934) Explorer

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1974) Painter

Jean-Etienne Liotard (1974) Painter

Jefferson Davis (1970) Confederate President
 
Jelly Roll Morton (originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe) (1995) Jazz musician and composer
 
Jerome Kern (1985) Composer

Jessie Willcox Smith (2001) Illustrator
 
Jesus (1966) Christianity founder

Jim Beckwourth (1994) Explorer

Jim Bridger (1994) Western pioneer

Jim Crowley (1998) Football player
 
Jim Henson (2005) Muppets creator

Jim Thorpe (1984) Football player

Jimmie Foxx (2000) Baseball player

Jimmie Rodgers (1978) Country singer, musician, and songwriter

Jimmy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader

Jimmy Rushing (1994) Blues singer

Joe Louis (1993) Boxer

Joel Chandler Harris (1948) Journalist

Johann Gutenberg (1952) Printing press inventor

John A. Lejeune (2005) Marine Corps Commandant

John Adams (1938) 2nd President

John Barry (1745-1803) (1936) Naval officer
 
John Barrymore (1982) Actor

John Bartram (1999) Botanist

John Basilone (2005) Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
 
John Bassett Moore (1965) Jurist

John Bradley (1945) Iwo Jima

John Burgoyne (1927) Revolutionary War General

John C. Fremont (1898) Explorer, Senator

John Cassavetes (2003) Motion picture director

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) (1966) Conservationist

John Coltrane (1995) Jazz musician and composer

John Dewey (1968) Educator

John Dickinson (1976) American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania
 
John Ericsson (1926) Inventor

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964) 35th President

John Foster (1998) Painter

John Foster Dulles (1960) Secretary of State

John Frederick Peto (1974) Painter

John Fremont (1994) Explorer, Senator

John French Sloan (1971) Painter

John Gilbert (1994) Actor

John Greenleaf Whittier (1940) Poet
 
John Hancock (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

John Hanson (1981) President of 1st Continental Congress
 
John Harvard (1986) Harvard College benefactor

John Held, Jr. (2001) Illustrator

John J. Pershing (1961) World War I General

John James Audubon (1940) Naturalist, painter

John Jay (1958) New York Governor, statesman, Supreme Court justice

John L. Hines (2000) World War I General

John Laurens (1976) Revolutionary War soldier

John Marshall (1894) Chief Justice

John McCormack (1984) Tenor

John McLoughlin (1948) Oregon Territory settler
 
John Muir (1964) Conservationist

John P. Washington (1948) One of the Four Chaplains

John Paul Jones (1936) Revolutionary War Naval Captain

John Philip Sousa (1940) Composer

John Quincy Adams (1938) 6th President

John Sevier (1946) Tennessee Governor

John Singleton Copley (1965) Painter

John Smith (1907) Jamestown settler

John Steinbeck (1979) Author

John Sullivan (1929) Revolutionary War general

John Trumbull (1927) Painter

John Tyler (1938) 10th President

John von Neumann (2005) Mathematician

John Wayne (1990) Actor

John Wesley Powell (1969) Geologist

John Witherspoon (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Johnny Appleseed (1966) Conservationist

Johnny Gruelle (1997) Doll designer

Johnny Mercer (1996) Composer and singer

Johns Hopkins (1989) Philanthropist

Jon Whitcomb (2001) Illustrator

José de San Martin (1959) South American liberator

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (2001) Illustrator

Joseph E. Johnston (1995) Confederate Army General

Joseph Priestley (1983) Chemist

Joseph Pulitzer (1947) Journalist

Joseph W. Stilwell (2000) Army General

Joseph West (1930) Charleston Governor

Joseph Wharton (1981) Wharton School of Business founder
 
Josh Gibson (2000) Baseball player

Josh White (1998) Folk singer, musician, songwriter, and actor

Joshua Johnson (1998) Painter

Josiah Johnson Hawes (2002) Photographer

Josiah Willard Gibbs (2005) Thermodynamicist

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1992) Explorer

Judy Garland (1990) Actress

Julia Ward Howe (1987) Abolitionist

Juliette Gordon Low (1948) Girl Scouts of America founder

Julius Sterling Morton (1932) Arbor Day founder

Junipero Serra (1985) Franciscan mission founder

Justin S. Morrill (1999) Senator

Kamehameha I of Hawaii (1937) Hawaiian King

Katherine Anne Porter (2006) Author

Katsushika Hokusai (1974) Painter

Kazimierz Pulaski (1931) Revolutionary War soldier (spelled Casimir Pulaski on the stamp)

Kit Carson (1994) Frontiersman

Knute Rockne (1988) Football coach

Lajos Kossuth (1958) Hungarian patriot

Langston Hughes (2002) Author

Lawrence Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer

Lawrence Tibbett (1997) Actor, singer

Lee De Forest (1973)

Lefty Grove (2000) Baseball player

Leif Erikson (1968) Explorer

Leonard Bernstein (2001) Conductor, composer

Leopold Stokowski (1997) Conductor

Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller (2005) Marine Corps General

Lewis Comfort Tiffany (2007) Designer

Lewis Hine (2002) Photographer

Lila Wallace (1998) Publisher

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1984) Industrial engineer

Lily Pons (1997) Soprano

Lincoln Ellsworth (1988) Antarctic explorer

Lionel Barrymore (1982) Actor

Lon Chaney, Jr. (1997) Actor

Lon Chaney, Sr. (1994) Actor

Lorenz Hart (1999) Lyricist

Lorenzo Costa (2001) Painter

Lorenzo Lotto (1970) Painter

Lorenzo Monaco (2004) Painter

Lou Costello (1991) Comedian

Lou Gehrig (1989) Baseball player

Louis Armstrong (1995) Jazz singer, musician, and songwriter

Louis Jolliet (1968) Explorer

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1997) Composer

Louis Sullivan (1981) Architect

Louis XVI of France (1978) King of France, Revolutionary War supporter
 
Louisa May Alcott (1940) Author

Louise Nevelson (2000) Sculptor

Luca della Robbia (1985) Sculptor

Lucille Ball (2001) Actress

Lucretia Mott (1948) Civil Rights advocate

Lucy Stone (1965) Suffragist

Ludovico Carracci (1989) Painter

Ludwig Greiner (1997) Doll designer

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1982) Architect

Luis Muñoz Marín (1990) 1st Puerto Rico Governor

Luther Burbank (1940) Horticulturist

Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) 36th President

Lynn Fontanne (1999) Actress

Madam C.J. Walker (1998) Philanthropist

Mahalia Jackson (1998) Gospel singer

Malcolm X (1999) Civil Rights advocate

Man Ray (2002) Photographer

Manasseh Cutler (1937) Northwest Territory pioneer

Margaret Mead (1998) Anthropologist

Margaret Mitchell (1986) Author

Marguerite Higgins (2002) Journalist

Marian Anderson (2005) Contralto

Marianne Craig Moore (1990) Poet

Marilyn Monroe (1995) Actress

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2008) Author

Mark Hopkins (1940) Educator

Mark Rothko (1998) Painter

Mark Twain (1940) Author

Marquis de Lafayette (1952) Revolutionary War General

Martha Chase (1997) Doll designer

Martha Graham (2004) Choreographer

Martha Washington (1902) First Lady

Martin Johnson Heade (2004) Painter

Martin Luther (1983) Protestant reformer

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1979) Civil Rights advocate

Martin Van Buren (1938) 8th President

Mary (The Madonna) (1966) Central figure in Christianity

Mary Breckinridge (1998) Frontier Nursing Services founder

Mary Cassatt (1966) Painter

Mary Chesnut (1995) Civil War diarist

Mary Edwards Walker (1982) Army surgeon

Mary Freake (1998) Portrait subject

Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher) (1928) Battlefield volunteer
 
Mary Lyon (1987) Educator

Mary McLeod Bethune (1985) Civil Rights advocate

Matthew Alexander Henson (1986) Arctic explorer
 
Matthew Perry (1953) Navy Commodore

Max Steiner (1999) Composer

Maxfield Parrish (2001) Illustrator

Maybelle Carter (1993) Country singer and musician
 
Meredith Willson (1999) Composer, playwright

Meriwether Lewis (1954) Explorer

Michael Strank (1945) Iwo Jima

Mickey Cochrane (2000) Baseball player

Mickey Mantle (2006) Baseball player

Mildred Bailey (1994) Jazz singer

Millard Fillmore (1938) 13th President

Milton S. Hershey (1995) Confectioner

Minor White (2002) Photographer

Mohandas Gandhi (1961) Indian patriot

Moina Michael (1948) Memorial Poppy founder

Montgomery Blair (1963) Lawyer, politician, postmaster general

Morgan Hill (2000) Child stamp design contest winner

Moss Hart (2004) Playwright

Muddy Waters (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter

Myron of Boeotia (1996) Sculptor

Nat King Cole (1994) Singer, musician, and songwriter

Nathan Hale (1925) Revolutionary War officer

Nathanael Greene (1936) Revolutionary War General

Nathaniel Currier (1976) Lithographer

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983) Author

Nathaniel Palmer (1988) Antarctic explorer

Nellie Bly (2002) Journalist

Nellie Cashman (1994) Prospector

Newell Convers Wyeth (2001) Illustrator

Neysa McMein (2001) Illustrator

Nicholas Herkimer (1977) Revolutionary War General

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