List of people on stamps of the United States: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This article lists people who have been featured on stamps of the United States. For this purpose "featured" is not limited to portraits of the person, but includes any identifiable representation of their works. Thus the "Whistler's Mother" stamp of 1934 is considered to feature its painter (see also Artists of stamps of the United States). The date after the name refers to the year when that person first appeared on a stamp of the United States.

The United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, but several cities had previously issued their own provisional stamps. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - Quotation

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• Edwin Austin Abbey (2001)
• Bud Abbott (1991)
• Dean Acheson (1993)
• Abigail Adams (1985)
• Ansel Adams (2002)
• John Adams (1938)
• John Quincy Adams (1938)
• Jane Addams (1940)
• Josef Albers (1980)
• Louisa May Alcott (1940)
• Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. (1969 Airmail)
• Horatio Alger, Jr. (1982)
• Dante Alighieri (1965)
• Ethan Allen (1955)
• Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy Anderson) (1998)
• Susan B. Anthony (1936)
• Antonello da Messina (1990)
• Virginia Apgar (1994)
• Harold Arlen (1996)
• Edwin Armstrong (1983)
• Louis Armstrong (1995)
• Neil A. Armstrong, (1969 Airmail)
• Desi Arnaz (1999)
• Henry Harley Hap Arnold (1988)
• Chester Alan Arthur, (1938)
• John James Audubon (1940)
• Stephen F. Austin (1936)

• Liberty Hyde Bailey (1958)
• Mildred Bailey (1994)
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1913)
• Abraham Baldwin (1985)
• Lucille Ball (2001)
• Thomas Ball (1940)
• Giotto di Bandone (1995)
• Benjamin Banneker (1980)
• Theda Bara (1994)
• Francis Barbé-Marbois (1953)
• Samuel Barber (1997)
• John Barry (1745-1803) (1936)
• Ethel Barrymore (1982)
• John Barrymore (1982)
• Lionel Barrymore (1982)
• Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, (1923)
• Clara Barton (1948)
• John Bartram (1999)
• William Bartram (1999)
• William Count Basie (1996)
• David Battle (1972)
• Jim Beckwourth (1994)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1940)
• Giovanni Bellini (1992)
• George Bellows (1998)
• Ruth Benedict (1995)
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1998)
• Jack Benny (1991)
• Thomas Hart Benton (1971)
• Edgar Bergan (1991)
• Irving Berlin (2002)
• Leonard Bernstein (2001)
• Mary McLeod Bethune (1985)
• George M. Bibb (1940 Revenue)
• Albert Bierstadt (1998)
• George Caleb Bingham (1998)
• Emily Bissell (1980)
• Hugo L. Black (1986)
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1974)
• Montgomery Blair (1963 Airmail)
• Eubie Blake (1995)
• Nellie Bly, (2002)
• Humphrey Bogart (1997)
• Simon Bolivar (1958)
• Daniel Boone (1942)
• Gutzon Borglum (1952)
• Sandro Botticelli (1940)
• Clara Bow (1994)
• Omar N. Bradley (2000)
• Mary Breckenridge (1998)
• Fanny Brice (1991)
• Jim Bridger (1994)
• William Jennings Bryan (1986)
• Paul William Bryant (Bear Bryant) (1997)
• William Cullen Bryant (1998)
• James Buchanan (1938)
• Leffert L. Buck (1901)
• Pearl S. Buck (1983)
• Charles Bulfinch (1979)
• Ralph Bunche (1982)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1958)
• Luther Burbank (1940)
• John Burgoyne (1927)
• Chester Burnett (a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf) (1994)
• Floyd Burroughs (2002)
• Richard E. Byrd (1933)

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1992)
• Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1951)
• James Cagney (1999)
• Alexander Calder (1998)
• George Washington Campbell (1940 Revenue)
• Zachary Canter (2000)
• Ludovico Caracci (1989)
• Hattie Caraway (2000)
• Andrew Carnegie (1960)
• Chester Carlson (1988)
• Hoagy Carmichael (1996)
• Kit Carson (1994)
• Rachel Carson (1981)
• Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1993)
• Maybelle Carter (1993)
• Sara Carter (1993)
• Philip Carteret (1964)
• Enrico Caruso (1987)
• George Washington Carver (1948)
• Nellie Cashman (1994)
• Mary Cassatt (1966)
• Gerald Cassidy (1940)
• Willa Sibert Cather (1973)
• George Catlin (1998)
• Carrie C. Catt (1948)
• Lon Chaney, Jr. (1997)
• Lon Chaney, Sr. (1994)
• Octave Chanute (1979 Airmail)
• Charlie Chaplin (1994)
• John Chapman a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed (1966)
• Kenneth M. Chapman (1946)
• Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, (1974)
• Martha Chase (1997)
• Salmon P. Chase (1940 Revenue)
• Dennis Chavez (1991)
• Claire Chennault (1990)
• Mary Chesnut (1995)
• Frederic Edwin Church (1998)
• Winston Churchill (1965)
• Giovanni Batista Cima (1993)
• George Rogers Clark (1929)
• Grenville Clark (1985)
• William Clark (1954)
• Henry Clay (1870)
• Samuel L. Clemens, (1940)
• Roberto Clemente (1984)
• Grover Cleveland (1923)
• Patsy Cline (1993)
• David Cobb (1976)
• Howell Cobb (1940 Revenue)
• Ty Cobb (2000)
• Alvin Langdon Coburn (2002)
• Jacqueline Cochran (1996)
• Mickey Cochrane (2000)
• Buffalo Bill Cody, (1988)
• George M. Cohan (1978)
• Nat King Cole (1994)
• Thomas Cole (1998)
• Bessie Coleman (1995)
• Eddie Collins (2000)
• Michael Collins (1969 Airmail)
• John Coltrane (1995)
• Henry Comstock (1959)
• James Cook (1928)
• Calvin Coolidge (1938)
• Gary Cooper (1990)
• James Fenimore Cooper (1940)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1973)
• Elizabeth Clarke Copley (1965)
• John Singleton Copley (1965)
• Charles Cornwallis
• Dean Cornwell (2001)
• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1940)
• Thomas Corwin (1940 Revenue)
• Bill Cosby (2000)
• Lorenzo Costa (2001)
• Lou Costello (1991)
• Thomas Crawford (1923)
• William H. Crawford (1940 Revenue)
• Crazy Horse (1982)
• Gustaf Philip Creutz (1983)
• Davy Crockett (1967)
• Bing Crosby (1994)
• Percy Crosby (1997)
• Imogen Cunningham (2002)
• Nathaniel Currier (1974)
• Glenn Curtiss (1980 Airmail)
• Harvey Cushing (1988)
• Manasseh Cutler (1937)

• Alexander Dallas (1940 Revenue)
• Nathaniel Dance (1978)
• Virginia Dare (1937)
• Jay N. Darling (1984)
• Gerard David (1979)
• Alexander Jackson Davis (1980)
• Allison Davis (1994)
• Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1997)
• Jefferson Davis (1995)
• Stuart Davis (1964)
• Stephen Daye (1939)
• Dizzy Dean (2000)
• James Dean (1996)
• Stephen Decatur (1937)
• Lee De Forest (1973 Airmail)
• Luca Della Robia (1985)
• Jack Dempsey (1998)
• George Dewey (1937)
• John Dewey (1965)
• Samuel Dexter (1940 Revenue)
• Emily Dickinson (1971)
• John Dickinson (1976)
• Everett Dirksen (1981)
• William Dickson (1996)
• Walt Disney (1968)
• Dorothea Dix (1983)
• John Adams Dix (1940 Revenue)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1996)
• Tommy Dorsey (1996)
• Mrs. John Douglas (1974)
• Stephen A. Douglas (1958)
• Frederick Douglass (1965)
• Francis Drake (1915)
• Charles R. Drew (1981)
• William J. Duane (1940 Revenue)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1992)
• John Foster Dulles (1960)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1975)
• Harvey Dunn (1985)
• Asher B. Durand (1998)

• Eddie Eagan (1990)
• Thomas Eakins (1967)
• Amelia Earhart (1963 Airmail)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• George Eastman (1954)
• Thomas Alva Edison, (1929)
• Albert Einstein (1965)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969)
• Charles W. Eliot, (1940)
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (1986)
• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1986)
• Lincoln Ellsworth (1988)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1940)
• John Ericsson (1926)
• Leif Erikson (1968)
• Walker Evans (2002)
• Thomas Ewing (1940 Revenue)
• Ray Ewry (1990)
• Jan van Eyck (1968)

• Douglas Fairbanks (1984)
• Cal Farley (1996)
• Philo T. Farnsworth, (1983)
• David G. Farragut, (1903)
• William Cuthbert Faulkner (1987)
• Robert Fawcett (2001)
• Edna Ferber (2002)
• Enrico Fermi (2001)
• Arthur Fiedler (1997)
• Dorothy Fields (1996)
• W. C. Fields (1980)
• Luke Fildes (1947)
• Millard Fillmore (1938)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1996)
• James Montgomery Flagg (2001)
• Father Edward Joseph Flanagan (1986)
• Lynn Fontanne (1999)
• Henry Ford (1965)
• Walter Forward (1940 Revenue)
• John Foster (1998)
• Stephen Collins Foster (1940)
• George L. Fox (1948)
• Jimmy Foxx (2000)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1982)
• Peter Francisco (1975)
• Benjamin Franklin (1847)
• Elizabeth Freake (1998)
• Mary Freake (1998)
• Daniel Chester French (1925)
• John C. Fremont (1898)
• Arthur Burdett Frost (2001)
• Robert Frost (1974)
• Robert Fulton (1909)
• Frank Furness (1980)

• Clark Gable (1990)
• Thomas Gainsborough (1974)
• Albert Gallatin (1940 Revenue) (1965)
• Thomas H. Gallaudet (1983)
• Bernardo de Galvez (1980)
• Mohandas Gandhi (1961)
• James A. Garfield, (1882)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (1960)
• Judy Garland (1990)
• Errol Garner (1995)
• Lou Gehrig (1989)
• Theodor Seuss Geisel, (1999)
• Walter F. George (1960)
• Geronimo (1994)
• George Gershwin (1973)
• Ira Gershwin (1999)
• Domenico Ghirlandaio (1975)
• Amadeo P. Giannini (1973)
• Josh Gibson (2000)
• John Gilbert (1994)
• Lillian M. Gilbreth (1984)
• Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione (1971)
• John H. Glenn, Jr. (1962)
• Robert H. Goddard (1964 Airmail)
• George W. Goethals (1939)
• Samuel Gompers (1950)
• Alexander D. Goode (1948)
• Benny Goodman (1996)
• Charles Goodnight (1994)
• Jan Gossaert (2002)
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1997)
• Francisco Goya (1974)
• Cary Grant (2002)
• Ulysses S. Grant (1890)
• François Joseph Paul Grasse (1931)
• Adolphus W. Greely (1986)
• Horace Greeley (1961)
• Nathanael Greene (1936)
• Ludwig Greiner (1997)
• David Wark Griffith, (1975)
• Ferde Grofé (1997)
• Walter Gropius (1982)
• Thomas Grosvenor (1968)
• Lefty Grove (2000)
• Johnny Gruelle (1997)
• Johann Gutenberg (1952)
• James Guthrie (1940 Revenue)
• Woody Guthrie (1998)

• George Halas (1997)
• Nathan Hale (1925)
• Bill Haley (1993)
• Cyrenius Hall (1968)
• Alexander Hamilton (1870)
• Alice Hamilton (1995)
• Dag Hammarskjold, (1962)
• Oscar Hammerstein II (1999)
• John Hancock (1976)
• Winfield Hancock (1995)
• William Christopher Handy (1969)
• John Hanson (1981)
• Warren G. Harding (1923)
• Oliver Hardy (1991)
• William M. Harnett (1969)
• Joel Chandler Harris (1948)
• Patricia Roberts Harris (2000)
• Benjamin Harrison (1902)
• William Henry Harrison (1938)
• Lorenz Hart (1999)
• Bret Harte (1987)
• David Hartley (1983)
• John Harvard (1986)
• Josiah Johnson Hawes (2002)
• Coleman Hawkins (1995)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983)
• Rutherford B. Hayes (1922)
• Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher) (1928)
• George Healy (1959)
• John Held, Jr. (2001)
• Ernest Hemingway (1989)
• Patrick Henry (1955)
• Matthew Alexander Henson (1986)
• Victor Herbert (1940)
• Nicholas Herkimer (1977)
• Milton S. Hershey (1995)
• Wild Bill Hickok (1994)
• Marguerite Higgins (2002)
• Morgan Hill (2000)
• Lewis Hine (2002)
• John L. Hines (2000)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1998)
• James Hoban (1981)
• Katsushita Hokusai (1974)
• Billie Holiday (1994)
• Buddy Holly (1993)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (1965)
• Winslow Homer (1962)
• Herbert Hoover (1965)
• Johns Hopkins (1989)
• Mark Hopkins (1940)
• Edward Hopper (1970)
• Rogers Hornsby (2000)
• Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss) (2002)
• Sam Houston (1936)
• Elias Howe (1940)
• Julia Ward Howe (1987)
• Henry Hudson (1909)
• Charles Evans Hughes (1962)
• Langston Hughes (2002)
• Cordell Hull (1963)
• Hubert H. Humphrey (1991)
• Richard Morris Hunt (1981)
• Samuel Huntington (1976)

• Robert Indiana (1973)
• Samuel D. Ingham (1940 Revenue)
• Washington Irving (1940)
• Isabella of Castile (1893)
• Charles Ives (1997)
• Frederic E. Ives (1996)
• James Ives (1974)

• Andrew Jackson (1861)
• Mahalia Jackson (1998)
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1937)
• John Jay (1958)
• Robinson Jeffers (1973)
• Thomas Jefferson (1861)
• Andrew Johnson (1938)
• Eastman Johnson (1976)
• James P. Johnson (1995)
• James Weldon Johnson (1988)
• Joshua Johnson (1998)
• Lyndon B. Johnson, (1973)
• Robert Johnson (1994)
• Walter Johnson (2000)
• Joseph E. Johnston (1995)
• Louis Jolliet (1968)
• Al Jolson (1994)
• Bobby Jones (1998)
• Casey Jones (1950)
• John Paul Jones (1936)
• Robert Tyre Jones "Bobby" (1981)
• Scott Joplin (1983)
• Chief Joseph (1968)
• Percy Lavon Julian (1993)
• Ernest E. Just (1996)

• Duke Kahanamoku (2002)
• Frida Kahlo (2001)
• Kamehameha I of Hawaii (1937)
• Elisha Kent Kane (1986)
• Boris Karloff (1997)
• Theodore von Kármán (1992)
• Gertrude Kasebeir (2002)
• Stephen Watts Kearny (1946)
• Buster Keaton (1994)
• Helen Keller (1980)
• Grace Kelly (1993)
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (1964)
• Robert F. Kennedy (1979)
• Rockwell Kent (2001)
• Jerome Kern, (1985)
• Andre Kertesz (2002)
• Francis Scott Key (1948)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., (1979)
• Franz Kline (1998)
• Henry Knox (1985)
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1933)
• Lajos Kossuth (1958)

• Marquis de Lafayette, (1952)
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1972)
• Dorothea Lange (2002)
• Samuel Pierpont Langley (1988 Airmail)
• Sidney Lanier (1972)
• Benjamin Latrobe (1979)
• Frank C. Laubach (1984)
• Stan Laurel (1991)
• John Laurens (1976)
• Mademoiselle Lavergne (1974)
• Lee Lawrie (1954)
• Huddie Ledbetter, (1998)
• Jason Lee (1948)
• Robert E. Lee (1937)
• Vivien Leigh (1990)
• Ponce de Leon (1982)
• Alan Jay Lerner, (1999)
• Emanuel Leutze (1976)
• Francis Lewis (1976)
• Meriwether Lewis (1954)
• Sinclair Lewis (1985)
• Joseph Christian Leyendecker (2001)
• Abraham Lincoln (1866)
• Benjamin Lincoln (1976)
• Tad Lincoln (1984)
• Charles Lindbergh (1927)
• Jean-Etienne Liotard (1974)
• Fra Filippo Lippi (1984)
• Walter Lippmann (1985)
• Sarah Lipsey (2000)
• Robert R. Livingston (1904)
• Harold Lloyd (1994)
• Belva Ann Lockwood (1986)
• Frank Loesser (1999)
• Frederick Loewe, (1999)
• Vince Lombardi (1990 Stamped Envelope) (1997)
• Jack London (1986)
• Crawford W. Long (1940)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1940)
• Lorenzo Lotto (1970)
• Louis XVI of France (1978)
• Joe Louis (1993)
• Juliette Gordon Low (1948)
• James Russell Lowell (1940)
• Henry R. Luce (1998)
• Thaddeus Lowe (1995 Air Letter Sheet)
• Sybil Ludington (1975)
• Bela Lugosi (1997)
• Alfred Lunt (1999)
• Martin Luther (1983)
• Mary Lyon (1987)

• Clara Maass (1976)
• Douglas MacArthur (1971)
• Thomas Macdonough (1937)
• Edward MacDowell (1940)
• Dolley Madison (1980)
• Helene Madison (1990)
• James Madison (1894)
• Ramon Magsaysay (1957)
• Horace Mann (1940)
• Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1960)
• Rocky Marciano (1999)
• Luis Muñoz Marín (1990)
• Roger Maris (1999)
• Jacques Marquette (1898)
• George Catlett Marshall (1965)
• John Marshall (1894)
• Roberta Martin (1998)
• Richard Mather (1998)
• Tomas Masaryk (1960)
• George Mason (1958)
• Edgar Lee Masters (1970)
• Bat Masterson (1994)
• Christy Mathewson (2000)
• Paolo de Matteis (1996)
• Jan E. Matzeliger (1991)
• Bernard Maybeck (1981)
• Charles Mayo (1964)
• William Mayo (1964)
• Philip Mazzei (1980 Airmail)
• John McCormack (1984)
• Cyrus Hall McCormick (1940)
• Ephraim McDowell (1959)
• William McKinley (1904)
• Louis McLane (1940 Revenue)
• John McLoughlin (1948)
• Brien McMahon (1962)
• Neysa McMein (2001)
• Clyde McPhatter (1993)
• John McQuarrie (1944)
• Margaret Mead (1998)
• George Meany (1994)
• Andrew W. Mellon (1955)
• Herman Melville (1970 Stamped Envelope) (1984)
• Hans Memling (1966)
• Johnny Mercer (1996)
• Ottmar Mergenthaler (1996)
• William M. Meredith (1940 Revenue)
• Ethel Merman (1994)
• Moina Michael (1948)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1981)
• Glenn Miller (1996)
• Robert Milliken (1982)
• Charlie Mingus (1995)
• Margaret Mitchell (1986)
• William L. Mitchell (1999)
• Thelonious Monk (1995)
• James Monroe (1904)
• Marilyn Monroe (1995)
• John Bassett Moore (1965)
• Marianne Craig Moore (1990)
• Thomas Moran (1998)
• Giovanni Battista Moroni (1987)
• Justin S. Morrill (1999)
• Robert Morris (1952)
• Samuel F. B. Morse, (1940)
• Jelly Roll Morton (originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe) (1995)
• Julius Sterling Morton (1932)
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses "Grandma Moses" (1969)
• Horace Moses (1984)
• Lucretia Mott (1948)
• John Muir (1964)
• Audie L. Murphy (2000)
• Eadweard Muybridge (1996)
• Edward R. Murrow (1994)
• Myron of Boeotia (1996)

• James Naismith (1961)
• Ogden Nash (2002)
• Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1976)
• Louise Nevelson (2000)
• Ethelbert Nevin (1940)
• Jean Nicolet (1934)
• Chester W. Nimitz (1985)
• Richard Nixon (1995)
• Alfred Nobel (2001)
• Antonio Noriega (1974)
• George W. Norris (1961)

• Annie Oakley (1994)
• Adolph S. Ochs (1976)
• James Edward Oglethorpe (1933)
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1996)
• Eugene O'Neill (1973)
• Rose O'Neill (2001)
• William O. O'Neill (1948)
• Eugene Ormandy (1997)
• Timothy O'Sullivan (2002)
• Francis Ouimet (1988)
• Jesse Owens (1990)

• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1960)
• Satchel Paige (2000)
• Thomas Paine (1965)
• Andrea Palladio (1956)
• Nathaniel Palmer (1988)
• Ethel Pane (2002)
• George Papanicolaou (1978)
• Al Parker (2001)
• Charlie Parker (1995)
• Dorothy Parker (1992)
• Francis Parkman (1965)
• Maxfield Parrish (2001)
• Alden Partridge (1985)
• George S. Patton, Jr. (1953)
• Alice Paul (1995)
• Charles Willson Peale (1955)
• Rembrandt Peale (1998)
• Rubens Peale (1998)
• Robert Edwin Peary, (1959)
• Phoebe Pember (1995)
• William Penn (1932)
• Claude Pepper (2000)
• Frances Perkins (1980)
• Matthew Perry (1953)
• Oliver H. Perry (1870)
• John Pershing (1961)
• John Frederick Peto (1974)
• Perugino (1986)
• Ammi Phillips (1998)
• Coles Phillips (2001)
• Bill Pickett (1994)
• Franklin Pierce (1938)
• Sano di Pietro (1997)
• William T. Piper (1991 Airmail)
• Zasu Pitts (1994)
• Pocahontas (1907)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1949)
• Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1987)
• Clark V. Poling (1948)
• James K. Polk, (1938)
• Jackson Pollock (1999)
• Lily Pons (1997)
• Rosa Ponselle (1997)
• Salem Poor (1975)
• Cole Porter (1991)
• David D. Porter (1937)
• Emily Post (1998)
• Wiley Post (1979 Airmail)
• John Wesley Powell (1969)
• Louis Prang (1975)
• Elvis Presley (1993)
• Joseph Priestley (1983)
• A. Phimister Proctor (1951)
• Casimir Pulaski (1931)
• Joseph Pulitzer (1947)
• Rufus Putnam (1937)
• Ernest Taylor Pyle (1971)
• Howard Pyle (1964)

• Harriet Quimby (1991 Airmail)

• Gertrude Ma Rainey, (1994)
• Ayn Rand (Alissa Rosenbaum) (1999)
• Asa Philip Randolph (1989)
• Man Ray (2002)
• Sam Rayburn (1962)
• George Read (1976)
• Red Cloud (1987)
• Otis Redding (1993)
• Walter Reed (1940)
• Frederic Remington (1940)
• James Renwick (1980)
• Ernst Reuter (1959)
• Bernard Revel (1986)
• Paul Revere (1958)
• Jan Ribault (1924)
• Henry Hobson Richardson (1980)
• Eddie Rickenbacker (1995)
• James Whitcomb Riley (1940)
• John Ringling (1966)
• Andrea della Robbia (1978)
• Paul Robeson (2004)
• Edward G. Robinson (2000)
• Jackie Robinson (1982)
• Knute Kenneth Rockne (1988)
• Norman Rockwell (1972)
• Jimmie Rodgers (1978)
• Richard Rodgers (1999)
• John Augustus Roebling (1948)
• Will Rogers (1948)
• Antoniazzo Romano (1991)
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1963)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1922)
• Joe Rosenthal (1958)
• Betsy Ross (1952)
• George Ross (1952)
• Mark Rothko (1998)
• Edward Rudledge (1976)
• Richard Rush (1940 Revenue)
• Jimmy Rushing (1994)
• Charles M. Russell (1961)
• Richard Russell (1984)
• George Herman Ruth "Babe" (1983)

• Eero Saarinen (1982)
• Sacagawea (1994)
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1940)
• Pater Salem (1968)
• Haym Salomon (1975)
• William T. Sampson (1937)
• José de San Martin (1959)
• Carl Sandburg (1978)
• Henry Sandham (1925)
• Raphael Santi (1973)
• Winthrop Sargent (1948)
• William Saroyan (1991)
• Charles Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1978)
• Winfield S. Schley (1937)
• Albert Schoenhut (1997)
• Carl Schurz (1983)
• Conrad Schwiering (1990)
• Blanche Stuart Scott (1980 Airmail)
• Winfield Scott (1870)
• Raphael Semmes (1995)
• Sequoyah (1980)
• Junipero Serra (1985 Airmail)
• John Sevier (1946)
• William H. Seward (1873)
• Shadoo of the Kiowa (1930)
• William Shakespeare (1964)
• Charles Sheeler (1998)
• Philip Henry Sheridan (1937)
• Roger Sherman (1976)
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1893)
• Igor Sikorsky (1988 Airmail)
• Elisabetta Sirani (1994)
• George Sisler (2000)
• Sitting Bull (1989)
• John Sloan (1971)
• Alfred E. Smith (1945)
• Bessie Smith (1994)
• Jessie Willcox Smith (2001)
• William A. Smith (1978)
• William Eugene Smith (2002)
• John Philip Sousa (1940)
• John Smith (1907)
• Albert Sands Southworth (2002)
• Tris Speaker (2000)
• John Canfield Spencer (1940 Revenue)
• Elmer Sperry (1985 Airmail)
• Lawrence Sperry (1985 Airmail)
• Edwin M. Stanton (1871)
• Elizabeth Stanton (1948)
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1986)
• Edward Steichen (2002)
• John Steinbeck (1979)
• Charles Steinmetz (1983)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1930)
• Adlai E. Stevenson (1965)
• Walter Stewart (1976)
• Alfred Stieglitz (2002)
• Andrew T. Still (1972)
• Joseph W. Stilwell (2000)
• James Stoddert (1949)
• Harlan Fiske Stone (1948)
• Lucy Stone (1965)
• Leopold Stokowski (1997)

• Paul Strand (2002)
• Igor Stravinsky (1982)
• William Strickland (1979)
• Gilbert Charles Stuart (1940)
• Peter Stuyvesant (1948)
• Anne Sullivan (1980)
• John Sullivan (1929)
• Louis Sullivan (1981)
• Sun Yat Sen, (1940)
• George Szell (1997)

• Robert A. Taft (1960)
• William Howard Taft (1930)
• Roger B. Taney(1940 Revenue)
• Henry Ossawa Tanner (1973)
• Ida Tarbell (2002)
• Zachary Taylor (1875)
• Gerard Terborch (1974)
• Sonny Terry (1998)
• Nikola Tesla (1983)
• Rosetta Tharpe (1998)
• Sylvanus Thayer (1985)
• Philip Francis Thomas (1940 Revenue)
• Charles Thomson (1976)
• Henry David Thoreau (1967)
• Jim Thorpe (1984)
• James Thurber (1994)
• Lawrence Tibbett (1997)
• Giambattista Tiepolo (1982)
• Bill Tilghman (1994)
• Arturo Toscanini (1989)
• Pie Traynor (2000)
• William T. Trego (1976)
• Harry S. Truman (1973)
• John Trumbull (1927)
• Sojourner Truth (1986)
• Richard Tucker (1997)
• Harriet Tubman (1978)
• John Tyler (1938)

• Ritchie Valens (1993)
• Rudolph Valentino (1994)
• Martin Van Buren (1938)
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1982)
• James Van Der Zee (2002)
• Félix Varela (1997)
• Alfred V. Verville (1985 Airmail)
• Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur (Count de Rochambeau) (1931)
• Bartolomeo Vivarini (1999)

Raoul Wallenburg Stamp, 1997

• Honus Wagner (2000)
• Madam C. J. Walker (1998)
• Izannah Walker (1997)
• Mary E. Walker (1982)
• Robert J. Walker (1940 Revenue)
• DeWitt Wallace (1998)
• Lila Wallace (1998)
• Raoul Wallenberg (1997)
• Aaron Montgomery Ward (1972)
• Clara Ward (1998)
• Andy Warhol (2002)
• Glenn Scobey Warner ("Pop" Warner) (1997)
• Earl Warren (1992)
• Booker T. Washington (1940)
• Dinah Washington (1993)
• George Washington - (New York City semi-official, 1842), (Regular issue, 1847)
• John P. Washington (1948)
• Martha Washington (1902)
• Ethel Waters (1994)
• Muddy Waters (1994)
• Stand Watie (1995)
• Carleton Watkins (2002)
• Anthony Wayne (1929)
• John Wayne (1990)
• John Webber (1978)
• Daniel Webster (1870)
• Noah Webster (1958)
• Orson Welles (1999)
• Ida B. Wells (1990)
• Benjamin West (1956)
• Joseph West (1930)
• Edward Weston (2002)
• Edith Wharton (1980)
• Joseph Wharton (1981)
• James McNeill Whistler (1934)
• Jon Whitcomb (2001)
• Gilbert White (1942)
• Josh White (1998)
• Minor White (2002)
• Paul Dudley White (1986)
• Sanford White (1981)
• William Allen White (1948)
• The White Cloud (1998)
• Walt Whitman (1940)
• Eli Whitney (1940)
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1940)
• Kate Douglas Wiggin (1993)
• Hazel Wightman (1990)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1993)
• Thornton Wilder (1997)
• Harvey W. Wiley (1956)
• Charles Wilkes (1988)
• Wendell Willkie (1992)
• Roy Wilkins (2001)
• Archibald M. Willard (1976)
• Frances E. Willard (1940)
• Hank Williams (1993)
• Roger Williams (1936)
• Tennessee Williams (1995)
• Bob Wills (1993)
• Meredith Wilson (1999)
• Woodrow Wilson (1925)
• Garry Winogrand (2002)
• John Witherspoon (1976)
• Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (1940 Revenue)
• Thomas Wolfe (2000)
• Grant Wood (1996)
• Levi Woodbury (1940 Revenue)
• Carter G. Woodson (1984)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1965)
• Orville Wright (1928)
• Wilbur Wright (1928)
• Jamie Wyeth (1971)
• Newell Convers Wyeth (2001)

• Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1999)

• Frederic Coffay Yohn (1977)
• Alvin C. York (2000)
• Ashley Young (2000)
• Cy Young (2000)
• Whitney Moore Young (1981)

• Mildred Didrikson Zaharias "Babe" (1981)
• Rudolph Zallinger (1970)

• "We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead." -- J. Edward Day, Postmaster General, 1962. Day was replying to a request from an individual to be honored with a stamp. The letter was never mailed.