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The likeness of a person,

The name of a person, or

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).

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Edwin Austin Abbey (2001) Illustrator

Bud Abbott (1991) Comedian

Dean Acheson (1993) Secretary of State

Roy Acuff (2003) Country musician

Abigail Adams (1985) First Lady

Ansel Adams (2002) Photographer

John Adams (1938) 2nd President

John Quincy Adams (1938) 6th President

Jane Addams (1940) Social Worker

Alvin Ailey (2004) Choreographer

Louisa May Alcott (1940) Author

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1982) Author

Dante Alighieri (1965) Poet

Ethan Allen (1955) Green Mountain Boys leader

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

Marian Anderson (2005) Contralto

Susan B. Anthony (1936) Suffragist

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

Desi Arnaz (1999) Actor

Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1988) Air Force General

Chester Alan Arthur (1938) 21st President

Arthur Ashe (2005) Tennis player

John James Audubon (1940) Naturalist, painter

Stephen F. Austin (1936) Texas colonizer

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Mildred Bailey (1994) 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) Astronomer Theda Bara (1994) Actress Francis Barbé-Marbois (1953) Louisiana Purchase negotiator Samuel Barber (1997) Composer John Barry (1745-1803) (1936) Naval officer Ethel Barrymore (1982) Actress John Barrymore (1982) Actor Lionel Barrymore (1982) Actor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1985) Statue of Liberty sculptor Clara Barton (1948) American Red Cross founder John Bartram (1999) Botanist William Bartram (1999) Botanist Count Basie (1996) Jazz musician John Basilone (2005) Marine, Medal of Honor recipient Jim Beckwourth (1994) Explorer Alexander Graham Bell (1940) 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 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 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 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 Omar N. Bradley (2000) WWII Army General Mary Breckinridge (1998) Frontier Nursing Services founder Fanny Brice (1991) Comedian Jim Bridger (1994) Western pioneer William Jennings Bryan (1986) Lawyer, politician Paul "Bear" Bryant (1997) Football coach James Buchanan (1938) 15th President Pearl S. Buck (1983) Author Charles Bulfinch (1979) Architect Ralph Bunche (1982) Diplomat, Nobel Laureate Luther Burbank (1940) Horticulturist John Burgoyne (1927) Revolutionary War General Richard E. Byrd (1988) Antarctic explorer

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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1992) Explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1951) Explorer James Cagney (1999) Actor Alexander Calder (1998) Sculptor Walter Camp (2003) Football coach Roy Campanella (2006) Baseball player Zachary Canter (2000) Child stamp design contest winner Hattie Caraway (2001) 1st female Senator Chester Carlson (1988) Xerox inventor Hoagy Carmichael (1996) Composer, musician Andrew Carnegie (1960) Philanthropist Ludovico Carracci (1989) Painter Kit Carson (1994) Frontiersman Rachel Carson (1981) Environmentalist Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1993) Country musician Maybelle Carter (1993) Country musician Sara Carter (1993) Country musician Philip Carteret (1964) Explorer Enrico Caruso (1987) Tenor George Washington Carver (1948 & 1998) 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 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) (1966) Conservationist Carrie Chapman Catt (1948) Suffragist Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1974) Painter 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 Frederic Edwin Church (1998) Painter Winston Churchill (1965) British Prime Minister Giovanni Battista Cima (1993) Painter George Rogers Clark (1929) Revolutionary War officer Grenville Clark (1985) Author William Clark (1954) Explorer Henry Clay (1870) Statesman Samuel L. Clemens (1940) Author Roberto Clemente (1984) Baseball player Grover Cleveland (1923) 22nd & 24th President Patsy Cline (1993) Country musician David Cobb (1976) Congressional Representative Ty Cobb (2000) Baseball player Alvin Langdon Coburn (2002) Photographer Jackie Cochran (1996) Aviator Mickey Cochrane (2000) Baseball player Buffalo Bill Cody (1988) Wild West showman George M. Cohan (1978) Actor, playwright Nat King Cole (1994) Singer Bessie Coleman (1995) 1st African American female pilot Eddie Collins (2000) Baseball player John Coltrane (1995) Jazz musician Christopher Columbus (1893) Explorer Henry Comstock (1959) Prospector James Cook (1978) Explorer Calvin Coolidge (1938) 30th President Gary Cooper (1990) Actor James Fenimore Cooper (1940) Author Nicolaus Copernicus (1973) Astronomer Elizabeth Clarke Copley (1965) Portrait subject on a stamp honoring John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley (1965) Painter Charles Cornwallis (1930) Revolutionary War General Dean Cornwell (2001) Illustrator Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1940) Explorer Lorenzo Costa (2001) Painter Lou Costello (1991) Comedian Crazy Horse (1982) Oglala Sioux warrior Davy Crockett (1967) Alamo defender Bing Crosby (1994) Singer, actor Percy Crosby (1997) Cartoonist Jim Crowley (1998) Football player Imogen Cunningham (2002) Photographer Nathaniel Currier (1976) Lithographer Glenn Curtiss (1980) Aviation pioneer Harvey Cushing (1988) Neurosurgeon Manasseh Cutler (1937) Northwest Territory pioneer

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Daniel Daly (2005) Marine; Medal of Honor recipient

Virginia Dare (1937) 1st European child born in America

Gerard David (1979) Painter

Alexander Jackson Davis (1980) Architect

Allison Davis (1994) Educator, anthropologist

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1997) Army General

Jefferson Davis (1970) Confederate President

Agnes de Mille (2004) Choreographer

Dizzy Dean (2000) Baseball player

James Dean (1996) Actor

Stephen Decatur (1936) Naval officer

Lee De Forest (1973)

Andrea della Robbia (1978) Sculptor

Luca della Robbia (1985) Sculptor

Cecil B. DeMille (2003) Motion picture producer

Jack Dempsey (1998) Boxer

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) Senator

Walt Disney (1968) Motion picture producer, animator

Dorothea Dix (1983) Mental health advocate

Jimmy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician

Tommy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician

Stephen A. Douglas (1958) Politician

Frederick Douglass (1967) Abolitionist

Charles R. Drew (1981) Surgeon

W. E. B. Du Bois (1992) Civil Rights advocate

John Foster Dulles (1960) Secretary of State

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1975) Poet

Harvey Dunn (2001) Illustrator

Asher B. Durand (1998) Painter

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Eddie Eagan (1990) Boxer, bobsledder

Thomas Eakins (1967) Painter, sculptor

Amelia Earhart (1963) Aviator

Wyatt Earp (1994) Gunfighter

George Eastman (1954) Roll film inventor

Thomas Alva Edison (1947) Inventor

Albert Einstein (1966) Physicist

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969) 34th President

Charles W. Eliot (1940) Educator

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1986) Poet

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1986) Jazz musician

Lincoln Ellsworth (1988) Antarctic explorer

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1940) Author

John Ericsson (1926) Inventor

Leif Erikson (1968) Explorer

Walker Evans (2002) Photographer

Ray Ewry (1990) Track & field athlete

Jan van Eyck (1968) Painter

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Douglas Fairbanks (1984) Actor

Cal Farley (1996) Boys Ranch founder

Philo T. Farnsworth (1983) TV camera inventor

David G. Farragut (1903) 1st Navy Admiral

William Cuthbert Faulkner (1987) Author

Robert Fawcett (2001) Illustrator

Edna Ferber (2002) Author

Perry Ferguson (2003) Motion picture art director

Enrico Fermi (2001) Physicist

Richard Feynman (2005) Physicist

Arthur Fiedler (1997) Conductor

Dorothy Fields (1996) Lyricist

W. C. Fields (1980) Actor, comedian

Millard Fillmore (1938) 13th President

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996) Author

James Montgomery Flagg (2001) Illustrator

Father Edward J. Flanagan (1986) Orphan advocate

Henry Fonda (2005) Actor

Lynn Fontanne (1999) Actress

Henry Ford (1968) Industrialist

John Foster (1998) Painter

Stephen Collins Foster (1940) Composer

Four Chaplains (1948) Died during the Dorchester sinking

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

Jimmie Foxx (2000) Baseball player

Saint Francis of Assisi (1982) Franciscan Order founder

Peter Francisco (1975) Revolutionary War soldier

Benjamin Franklin (1847) 1st Postmaster, statesman, scientist

Elizabeth Freake (1998) Portrait subject

Mary Freake (1998) Portrait subject

John Fremont (1994) Explorer, Senator

John C. Fremont (1898) Explorer, Senator

Daniel Chester French (1940) Sculptor

Arthur Burdett Frost (2001) Illustrator

Robert Frost (1974) Poet

Buckminster Fuller (2004) Inventor

Robert Fulton (1909) Steamboat inventor

Frank Furness (1980) Architect

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Clark Gable (1990) Actor

Thomas Gainsborough (1974) Painter

Albert Gallatin (1967) Secretary of the Treasury

Thomas H. Gallaudet (1983) Educator

Bernardo de Galvez (1980) Revolutionary War General

Mohandas Gandhi (1961) Indian patriot

Greta Garbo (2005) Actress

James A. Garfield (1882) 20th President

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1960) Italian patriot

Judy Garland (1990) Actress

Errol Garner (1995) Jazz musician

Lou Gehrig (1989) Baseball player

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1999) Author & illustrator

Walter F. George (1960) Senator

Geronimo (1994) Apache leader

George Gershwin (1973) Composer

Ira Gershwin (1999) Lyricist

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1975) Painter

Amadeo P. Giannini (1973) Bank of America founder

Josiah Willard Gibbs (2005) Thermodynamicist

Josh Gibson (2000) Baseball player

John Gilbert (1994) Actor

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1984) Industrial engineer

Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione (1971) Painter

Giotto di Bondone (1995) Painter

Robert H. Goddard (1964) Rocket scientist

George W. Goethals (1939) Panama Canal engineer

Samuel Gompers (1950) Labor union leader

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

Benny Goodman (1996) Jazz musician

Charles Goodnight (1994) Cattle rancher

Jan Gossaert (2002) Painter

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1997) Composer

Francisco Goya (1974) Painter

Martha Graham (2004) Choreographer

Red Grange (2003) Football player

Cary Grant (2002) Actor

Ulysses S. Grant (1890) 18th President

François Joseph Paul Grasse (1931) Revolutionary War Admiral

Horace Greeley (1961) Journalist

Adolphus W. Greely (1986) Arctic explorer

Hank Greenberg (2006) Baseball player

Nathanael Greene (1936) Revolutionary War General

Ludwig Greiner (1997) Doll designer

David Wark Griffith (1975) Motion picture producer

Ferde Grofé (1997) Composer

Walter Gropius (1982) Architect

Thomas Grosvenor (1968) Revolutionary War soldier

Lefty Grove (2000) Baseball player

Johnny Gruelle (1997) Doll designer

Johann Gutenberg (1952) Printing press inventor

Woody Guthrie (1998) Folk singer

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Philip Habib (2006) Diplomat

George Halas (1997) Football coach

Nathan Hale (1925) Revolutionary War officer

Bill Haley (1993) Rock and roll musician

Alexander Hamilton (1870) Statesman

Alice Hamilton (1995) Physician

Dag Hammarskjold (1962) United Nations Secretary General

Oscar Hammerstein II (1999) Musical theater writer

John Hancock (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Winfield Hancock (1995) Civil War General

William Christopher Handy (1969) Blues composer

John Hanson (1981) President of 1st Continental Congress

Yip Harburg (2005) Lyricist

Warren G. Harding (1923) 29th President

Oliver Hardy (1991) Comedian

William Harnett (1969) Painter

Joel Chandler Harris (1948) Journalist

Patricia Roberts Harris (2000) Presidential Cabinet member, ambassador

Benjamin Harrison (1902) 23rd President

William Henry Harrison (1938) 9th President

Lorenz Hart (1999) Lyricist

Moss Hart (2004) Playwright

Bret Harte (1987) Author

David Hartley (1983) Treaty of Paris signatory

John Harvard (1986) Harvard College benefactor

Josiah Johnson Hawes (2002) Photographer

Coleman Hawkins (1995) Jazz musician

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983) Author

Rutherford B. Hayes (1922) 19th President

Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher) (1928) Battlefield volunteer

Edith Head (2003) Costume designer

Martin Johnson Heade (2004) Painter

John Held, Jr. (2001) Illustrator

Ernest Hemingway (1989) Author

Patrick Henry (1955) American Revolution orator

Jim Henson (2005) Muppets creator

Matthew Alexander Henson (1986) Arctic explorer

Audrey Hepburn (2003) Actress

Victor Herbert (1940) Composer

Nicholas Herkimer (1977) Revolutionary War General

Bernard Herrmann (1999) Composer

Milton S. Hershey (1995) Confectioner

Wild Bill Hickok (1994) Gunfighter

Marguerite Higgins (2002) Journalist

Morgan Hill (2000) Child stamp design contest winner

Lewis Hine (2002) Photographer

John L. Hines (2000) WWI General

Alfred Hitchcock (1998) Motion picture director

James Hoban (1981) White House architect

Katsushika Hokusai (1974) Painter

Billie Holiday (1994) Jazz singer

Hollow Horn Bear (date unknown) Brulé Sioux leader

Buddy Holly (1993) Rock and roll singer

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1968) Supreme Court Justice

Winslow Homer (1962) Painter

Herbert Hoover (1965) 31st President

Johns Hopkins (1989) Philanthropist

Mark Hopkins (1940) Educator

Edward Hopper (1970) Painter

Rogers Hornsby (2000) Baseball player

Harry Houdini (2002) Magician

Sam Houston (1936) Texas Governor

Elias Howe (1940) Inventor

Julia Ward Howe (1987) Abolitionist

Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett (1994) Blues singer

Edwin Hubble (2000) Astronomer

Henry Hudson (1909) Explorer

Charles Evans Hughes (1962) Chief Justice

Langston Hughes (2002) Author

Cordell Hull (1963) Secretary of State

Hubert H. Humphrey (1991) Vice President

Richard Morris Hunt (1981) Architect

Samuel Huntington (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Zora Neale Hurston (2003) Author

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Washington Irving (1940) Author

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

Charles Ives (1997) Composer

Frederic E. Ives (1996) Halftone printing inventor

James Ives (1974) Lithographer

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Andrew Jackson (1861) 7th President

Mahalia Jackson (1998) Gospel singer

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1937) Confederate Army General

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

Robinson Jeffers (1973) Poet

Thomas Jefferson (1861) 3rd President

Jesus (1966) Christianity founder

Andrew Johnson (1938) 17th President

Eastman Johnson (1976) Painter

James P. Johnson (1995) Composer

James Weldon Johnson (1988) Author

Joshua Johnson (1998) Painter

Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) 36th President

Robert Johnson (1994) Blues singer

Walter Johnson (2000) Baseball player

Joseph E. Johnston (1995) Confederate Army General

Louis Jolliet (1968) Explorer

Al Jolson (1994) Singer

Casey Jones (1950) Railroad engineer

John Paul Jones (1936) Revolutionary War Naval Captain

Bobby Jones (1981) Golfer

Scott Joplin (1983) Ragtime musician

Chief Joseph (1968) Nez Perce warrior

Percy Lavon Julian (1993) Chemist

Ernest E. Just (1996) Biologist

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Duke Kahanamoku (2002) Surfer, swimmer

Frida Kahlo (2001) Painter

Kamehameha I of Hawaii (1937) Hawaiian King

Elisha Kent Kane (1986) Arctic explorer

Boris Karloff (1997) Actor

Theodore von Kármán (1992) Aerospace scientist

Gertrude Kasebeir (2002) Photographer

Stephen Watts Kearny (1946) Mexican American War officer

Buster Keaton (1994) Actor

Helen Keller (1980) Author, disability advocate

Grace Kelly (1993) Actress

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964) 35th President

Robert F. Kennedy (1979) Attorney General

Rockwell Kent (2001) Illustrator

Jerome Kern (1985) Composer

Andre Kertesz (2002) Photographer

Francis Scott Key (1948) Star-Spangled Banner composer

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

Franz Kline (1998) Painter

Henry Knox (1985) Revolutionary War General

Erich Korngold (1999) Composer

Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1933) Polish patriot

Lajos Kossuth (1958) Hungarian patriot

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Marquis de Lafayette (1952) Revolutionary War General

Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1972) New York City Mayor

Dorothea Lange (2002) Photographer

Samuel Pierpont Langley (1988) Aviation pioneer

Sidney Lanier (1972) Poet

Benjamin Latrobe (1979) Architect

Frank C. Laubach (1984) Educator

Stan Laurel (1991) Comedian

John Laurens (1976) Revolutionary War soldier

Elmer Layden (1998) Football coach

Huddie Ledbetter (1998) Blues singer

Jason Lee (1948) Oregon Territory missionary

Robert E. Lee (1937) Confederate Army General

Vivien Leigh (1990) Actress

John A. Lejeune (2005) Marine Corps Commandant

Ponce de Leon (1982) Explorer

Alan Jay Lerner (1999) Lyricist

Emanuel Leutze (1976) Painter

Francis Lewis (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Meriwether Lewis (1954) Explorer

Sinclair Lewis (1985) Author

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (2001) Illustrator

Abraham Lincoln (1866) 16th President

Benjamin Lincoln (1976) Revolutionary War General

Tad Lincoln (1984) son of Abraham Lincoln

Charles Lindbergh (1927) Aviator

Jean-Etienne Liotard (1974) Painter

Fra Filippo Lippi (1984) Painter

Walter Lippmann (1985) Journalist

Sarah Lipsey (2000) Child stamp design contest winner

Robert R. Livingston (1904) Declaration of Independence drafter

Harold Lloyd (1994) Actor

Belva Ann Lockwood (1986) Lawyer, feminist

Frank Loesser (1999) Composer

Frederick Loewe (1999) Composer

Vince Lombardi (1997) Football coach

Jack London (1986) Author

Crawford W. Long (1940) Physician

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1940) Poet

Lorenzo Lotto (1970) Painter

Joe Louis (1993) Boxer

Louis XVI of France (1978) King of France, Revolutionary War supporter

Juliette Gordon Low (1948) Girl Scouts of America founder

James Russell Lowell (1940) Poet

Henry R. Luce (1998) Publisher

Sybil Ludington (1975) Revolutionary War heroine

Bela Lugosi (1997) Actor

Alfred Lunt (1999) Actor

Martin Luther (1983) Protestant reformer

Mary Lyon (1987) Educator

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Clara Maass (1976) Yellow fever victim

Douglas MacArthur (1971) Army General

Thomas Macdonough (1937) Naval officer

Edward MacDowell (1940) Composer

Dolley Madison (1980) First Lady

Helene Madison (1990) Swimmer

James Madison (1894) 4th President

Ramon Magsaysay (1957) Philippine President

Henry Mancini (2004) Composer

Horace Mann (1940) Educator

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

Mickey Mantle (2006) Baseball player

Rocky Marciano (1999) Boxer

Luis Muñoz Marín (1990) 1st Puerto Rico Governor

Roger Maris (1999) Baseball player

Jacques Marquette (1898) Explorer

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

John Marshall (1894) Chief Justice

Thurgood Marshall (2003) Supreme Court Justice

Roberta Martin (1998) Gospel singer

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

Tomáš Masaryk (1960) President of Czechoslovakia

George Mason (1958) Statesman

Edgar Lee Masters (1970) Poet

Bat Masterson (1994) U.S. Marshal

Richard Mather (1998) Painter

Christy Mathewson (2000) Baseball player

Paolo de Matteis (1996) Painter

Jan Earnst Matzeliger (1991) Lasting machine inventor

Bernard Maybeck (1981) Architect

Charles Horace Mayo (1964) Surgeon

William James Mayo (1964) Surgeon

Philip Mazzei (1980) Revolutionary War supporter

Barbara McClintock (2005) Geneticist

John McCormack (1984) Tenor

Cyrus Hall McCormick (1940) Mechanical reaper inventor

Hattie McDaniel (2006) Actress

Ephraim McDowell (1959) Surgeon

William McKinley (1904) 25th President

John McLoughlin (1948) Oregon Territory settler

Brien McMahon (1962) Atomic Energy Act author

Neysa McMein (2001) Illustrator

Clyde McPhatter (1993) R&B singer

Margaret Mead (1998) Anthropologist

George Meany (1994) Labor union leader

Andrew W. Mellon (1955) Financier

Herman Melville (1984) Author

Hans Memling (1966) Painter

Johnny Mercer (1996) Composer

Ottmar Mergenthaler (1996) Linotype inventor

Ethel Merman (1994) Singer, actress

Moina Michael (1948) Memorial Poppy founder

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1981) Poet

Don Miller (1998) Football player

Glenn Miller (1996) Jazz musician

Robert Millikan (1982) Physicist

Charlie Mingus (1995) Jazz musician

Billy Mitchell (1999) Air Force General

Margaret Mitchell (1986) Author

Lorenzo Monaco (2004) Painter

Thelonious Monk (1995) Jazz musician

James Monroe (1904) 5th President

Marilyn Monroe (1995) Actress

John Bassett Moore (1965) Jurist

Marianne Craig Moore (1990) Poet

Thomas Moran (1998) Painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1987) Painter

Justin S. Morrill (1999) Senator

Robert Morris (1952) Declaration of Independence signatory

Samuel F. B. Morse (1940) Telegraph inventor

Jelly Roll Morton (originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe) (1995) Jazz musician

Julius Sterling Morton (1932) Arbor Day founder

Anna Mary Robertson Moses "Grandma Moses" (1969) Painter

Horace Moses (1984) Junior Achievement founder

Lucretia Mott (1948) Civil Rights advocate

John Muir (1964) Conservationist

Audie L. Murphy (2000) WWII soldier, actor

Robert Daniel Murphy (2006) Diplomat

Edward R. Murrow (1994) Journalist

Eadweard Muybridge (1996) Photographer

Myron of Boeotia (1996) Sculptor

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Bronco Nagurski (2003) Football player

James Naismith (1961) Basketball inventor

Ogden Nash (2002) Poet

Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Louise Nevelson (2000) Sculptor

Ernie Nevers (2003) Football player

Ethelbert Nevin (1940) Composer

Alfred Newman (1999) Composer

Jean Nicolet (1934) Explorer

Chester W. Nimitz (1985) WWII Admiral

Richard Nixon (1995) 37th President

Alfred Nobel (2001) Philanthropist

Isamu Noguchi (2004) Sculptor

George W. Norris (1961) Senator

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Annie Oakley (1994) Sharpshooter

Adolph S. Ochs (1976) New York Times publisher

James Edward Oglethorpe (1933) Georgia founder

Georgia O'Keeffe (1996) Painter

Frederick Law Olmstead (1999) Landscape architect

Eugene O'Neill (1973) Playwright

Rose O'Neill (2001) Illustrator

Eugene Ormandy (1997) Conductor

Timothy O'Sullivan (2002) Photographer

Mel Ott (2006) Baseball player

Francis Ouimet (1988) Golfer

Jesse Owens (1990) Track & field athlete

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1960) Polish Prime Minister

Satchel Paige (2000) Baseball player

Thomas Paine (1965) Journalist

Nathaniel Palmer (1988) Antarctic explorer

George Papanicolaou (1978) Cytologist

Al Parker (2001) Illustrator

Charlie Parker (1995) Jazz musician

Dorothy Parker (1992) Author

Francis Parkman (1965) Historian

Maxfield Parrish (2001) Illustrator

Alden Partridge (1985) Educator

George S. Patton, Jr. (1953) Army General

Alice Paul (1995) Suffragist

Ethel Payne (2002) Journalist

Charles Willson Peale (1955) Painter

Rembrandt Peale (1998) Painter

Robert Edwin Peary (1959) Arctic explorer

Phoebe Pember (1995) Confederate nurse

William Penn (1932) Pennsylvania founder

Claude Pepper (2000) Senator

Frances Perkins (1980) Secretary of Labor

Matthew Perry (1953) Navy Commodore

Oliver Hazard Perry (1870) Naval officer

John J. Pershing (1961) WWI General

Perugino (1986) Painter

John Frederick Peto (1974) Painter

Ammi Phillips (1998) Painter

Coles Phillips (2001) Illustrator

Bill Pickett (1994) Wild West performer

Franklin Pierce (1938) 14th President

Sano di Pietro (1997) Painter

William T. Piper (1990) Aviation pioneer

ZaSu Pitts (1994) Actress

Pocahontas (1907) Algonquin Indian

Edgar Allan Poe (1949) Author

Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1987) Chicago settler

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

James K. Polk (1938) 11th President

Jackson Pollock (1999) Painter

Lily Pons (1997) Soprano

Rosa Ponselle (1997) Soprano

Salem Poor (1975) Revolutionary War soldier

Cole Porter (1991) Composer

David D. Porter (1937) Civil War naval officer

Katherine Anne Porter (2006) Author

Emily Post (1998) Author

Wiley Post (1979) Aviator

John Wesley Powell (1969) Geologist

Elvis Presley (1993) Rock and roll singer

Joseph Priestley (1983) Chemist

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

Joseph Pulitzer (1947) Journalist

Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller (2005) Marine Corps General

Rufus Putnam (1937) Northwest Territory settler

Ernest Taylor Pyle (1971) Journalist

Howard Pyle (1964) Illustrator

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Harriet Quimby (1991) Pilot

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Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1994) Blues singer

Ayn Rand (1999) Author

Asa Philip Randolph (1989) Labor & Civil Rights advocate

Raphael (1973) Painter

Man Ray (2002) Photographer

Sam Rayburn (1962) Legislator

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

Ronald Reagan (2005) 40th President

Red Cloud (1987) Oglala Sioux Chief

Otis Redding (1993) Soul singer

Walter Reed (1940) Army surgeon

Frederic Remington (1940) Sculptor, painter

James Renwick, Jr. (1980) Architect

Ernst Reuter (1959) Berlin Mayor

Bernard Revel (1986) Educator

Paul Revere (1958) Revolutionary War patriot

Henry Hobson Richardson (1980) Architect

Eddie Rickenbacker (1995) WWI fighter pilot

James Whitcomb Riley (1940) Poet

Paul Robeson (2004) Civil Rights advocate

Edward G. Robinson (2000) Actor

Jackie Robinson (1982) Baseball player

Sugar Ray Robinson (2006) Boxer

Comte de Rochambeau (1931) Revolutionary War General

Knute Rockne (1988) Football coach

Norman Rockwell (1972) Painter

Jimmie Rodgers (1978) Country musician

Richard Rodgers (1999) Composer

Will Rogers (1948) Humorist

Antoniazzo Romano (1991) Painter

Eleanor Roosevelt (1963) First Lady

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945) 32nd President

Theodore Roosevelt (1922) 26th President

Betsy Ross (1952) American flag creator

George Ross (1952) Relative of Betsy Ross

Mark Rothko (1998) Painter

Edward Rudledge (1976) Painter

Wilma Rudolph (2004) Track & field athlete

Jimmy Rushing (1994) Blues singer

Charles M. Russell (1961) Painter

Richard Russell, Jr. (1984) Statesman

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1983) Baseball player

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Eero Saarinen (1982) Architect

Sacagawea (1994) Shoshone guide

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1940) Sculptor

Peter Salem (1968) Revolutionary War soldier

Haym Salomon (1975) Revolutionary War financier

William T. Sampson (1937) Navy Admiral

José de San Martin (1959) South American liberator

Carl Sandburg (1978) Poet

Henry Sandham (1925) Painter

Winthrop Sargent (1948) Mississippi Territory Governor

William Saroyan (1991) Author

Winfield S. Schley (1937) Navy Admiral

Albert Schoenhut (1997) Doll designer

Carl Schurz (1983) Journalist

Blanche Stuart Scott (1980) Aviator

Edwin Scott (1870) Army General

Winfield Scott (1870) Army General

David O. Selznick (2003) Motion picture producer

Raphael Semmes (1995) Naval officer

Sequoyah (1980) Cherokee linguist

Junipero Serra (1985) Franciscan mission founder

John Sevier (1946) Tennessee Governor

William H. Seward (1873) Secretary of State

Chief Shadoo (1930) Kiowa Chief

William Shakespeare (1964) Playwright

Charles Sheeler (1998) Painter

Philip Henry Sheridan (1937) Civil War General

Roger Sherman (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

William Tecumseh Sherman (1893) Civil War General

Igor Sikorsky (1988) Aircraft engineer

Elisabetta Sirani (1994) Painter

George Sisler (2000) Baseball player

Sitting Bull (1989) Hunkpapa Sioux warrior

John French Sloan (1971) Painter

Alfred E. Smith (1945) New York Governor

Bessie Smith (1994) Blues singer

Jessie Willcox Smith (2001) Illustrator

John Smith (1907) Jamestown settler

William Eugene Smith (2002) Photographer

John Philip Sousa (1940) Composer

Albert Southworth (2002) Photographer

Tris Speaker (2000) Baseball player

Elmer Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer. Note: the wrong photograph was used as the basis for the stamp, which actually pictures Elmer Sperry's father.

Lawrence Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer

Edwin M. Stanton (1871) Secretary of War

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1948) Suffragist

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1986) Arctic explorer

Edward Steichen (2002) Photographer

John Steinbeck (1979) Author

Max Steiner (1999) Composer

Charles Steinmetz (1983) Electrical inventor

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1930) Revolutionary War General

Adlai E. Stevenson (1965) Vice President

Walter Stewart (1976) Revolutionary War soldier

Alfred Stieglitz (2002) Photographer

Joseph W. Stilwell (2000) Army General

Leopold Stokowski (1997) Conductor

Harlan Fiske Stone (1948) Chief Justice

Lucy Stone (1965) Suffragist

Paul Strand (2002) Photographer

Igor Stravinsky (1982) Composer

William Strickland (1979) Architect

Gilbert Charles Stuart (1940) Painter

Harry Stuhldreher (1998) Football player

Peter Stuyvesant (1948) New Amsterdam Governor

Dr. Seuss (1999) Author & illustrator

Anne Sullivan (1980) Educator

John Sullivan (1929) Revolutionary War General

Louis Sullivan (1981) Architect

George Szell (1997) Conductor, composer

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Robert A. Taft (1960) Senator

William Howard Taft (1930) 27th President

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1973) Painter

Ida Tarbell (2002) Author, journalist

Zachary Taylor (1875) 12th President

Gerard Terborch (1974) Painter

Sonny Terry (1998) Blues musician

Nikola Tesla (1983) Induction motor inventor

Rosetta Tharpe (1998) Gospel singer

Sylvanus Thayer (1985) Educator

Charles Thomson (1976) Continental Congress Secretary

Henry David Thoreau (1967) Author

Jim Thorpe (1984) Football player

James Thurber (1994) Humorist

Lawrence Tibbett (1997) Actor, singer

Giambattista Tiepolo (1982) Painter

Bill Tilghman (1994) Southwest lawman

Dimitri Tiomkin (1999) Composer

Arturo Toscanini (1989) Conductor

Pie Traynor (2000) Baseball player

William T. Trego (1976) Painter

Harry S. Truman (1973) 33rd President

John Trumbull (1927) Painter

Sojourner Truth (1986) Abolitionist

Harriet Tubman (1978) Abolitionist

Richard Tucker (1997) Tenor

Mark Twain (1940) Author

John Tyler (1938) 10th President

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Ritchie Valens (1993) Rock and roll musician

Rudolph Valentino (1994) Actor

Martin Van Buren (1938) 8th President

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1982) Architect

James Van Der Zee (2002) Photographer

Félix Varela (1997) Social reformer

Alfred V. Verville (1985) Aviation pioneer

Bartolomeo Vivarini (1999) Painter

John von Neumann (2005) Mathematician

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Honus Wagner (2000) Baseball player

Izannah Walker (1997) Doll designer

Madam C. J. Walker (1998) Philanthropist

Mary Edwards Walker (1982) Army surgeon

DeWitt Wallace (1998) Publisher

Lila Wallace (1998) Publisher

Raoul Wallenberg (1997) Humanitarian

Clara Ward (1998) Gospel singer

Andy Warhol (2002) Painter

"Pop" Warner (1997) Football coach

Earl Warren (1992) Chief Justice

Robert Penn Warren (2005) Poet

Booker T. Washington (1940) Educator

Dinah Washington (1993) Blues singer

George Washington (1847) 1st President

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

Martha Washington (1902) First Lady

Ethel Waters (1994) Blues singer

Muddy Waters (1994) Blues musician

Stand Watie (1995) Confederate General

Carleton Watkins (2002) Photographer

Franz Waxman (1999) Composer

Anthony Wayne (1929) Revolutionary War General

John Wayne (1990) Actor

Daniel Webster (1870) Statesman

Noah Webster (1958) Author

Orson Welles (1999) Motion picture director

Ida B. Wells (1990) Civil Rights advocate

Benjamin West (1956) Painter

Joseph West (1930) Charleston Governor

Edward Weston (2002) Photographer

Clifton R. Wharton, Sr. (2006) Diplomat

Edith Wharton (1980) Author

Joseph Wharton (1981) Wharton School of Business founder

James McNeill Whistler (1934) Painter

Jon Whitcomb (2001) Illustrator

Josh White (1998) Folk musician

Minor White (2002) Photographer

Paul Dudley White (1986) Cardiologist

William Allen White (1948) Newspaper editor

White Cloud (Wabokieshiek) (1998) Iowa Chief

Walt Whitman (1940) Poet

Eli Whitney (1940) Cotton gin inventor

John Greenleaf Whittier (1940) Poet

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1990) Tennis player

Thornton Wilder (1997) Playwright

Harvey W. Wiley (1956) Chemist

Charles Wilkes (1988) Antarctic explorer

Roy Wilkins (2001) Civil Rights advocate

Frances E. Willard (1940) Educator

Hank Williams (1993) Country musician

Roger Williams (1936) Rhode Island co-founder

Tennessee Williams (1995) Playwright

Frances E. Willis (2006) Diplomat

Wendell Willkie (1992) Statesman

Bob Wills (1993) Country musician

Meredith Willson (1999) Composer, playwright

Woodrow Wilson (1925) 28th President

Garry Winogrand (2002) Photographer

John Witherspoon (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

Thomas Wolfe (2000) Author

Grant Wood (1996) Painter

Carter G. Woodson (1984) Historian

Frank Lloyd Wright (1965) Architect

Orville Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer

Wilbur Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer

Newell Convers Wyeth (2001) Illustrator

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Malcolm X (1999) Civil Rights advocate

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Sun Yat-sen (1940) Chinese revolutionary leader

Alvin C. York (2000) WWI soldier, Medal of Honor recipient

Ashley Young (2000) Child stamp design contest winner

Cy Young (2000) Baseball player

Whitney Moore Young (1981) Civil Rights advocate

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Babe Zaharias (1981) Track & field athlete

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United States Postal Service (2004). The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps (31st ed.). Washington, D.C.: HarperResource. ISBN 0-06-052826-5.

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Artists of stamps of the United States

Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States