List of people on the postage stamps of Liberia
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This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Liberia, including the years in which they appeared on a stamp.[1][2][3][4]
The list is complete through 1974.
- Jehudi Ashmun, missionary (1949, 1952)
- Arthur Barclay, president (1906, 1949)
- Edwin J. Barclay, president (1937, 1949, 1966)
- Stephen Benson, president (1949, 1966)
- Thomas Buchanan, governor (1940, 1952)
- Lott Carey, governor (1952)
- Joseph J. Cheeseman, president (1949, 1969)
- Winston Churchill, UK prime minister (1966, 1975)
- William D. Coleman, president (1950, 1967)
- A. W. Gardner, president (1950)
- Garretson W. Gibson, president (1949)
- Robert Goodloe Harper (1952)
- Dag Hammarskjöld, UN secretary general (1962)
- Daniel Howard, president (1921, 1949, 1966)
- Hilary Johnson, president (1892, 1949, 1967)
- John F. Kennedy, US president (1964, 1966)
- Charles D. B. King, president (1923, 1928, 1949, 1966)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
- Abraham Lincoln, US president (1959)
- Edgar D. Mitchell, US astronaut (1971)
- Napoleon I of France (1970)
- Matilda Newport, defender (1947)
- Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana president (1960)
- James S. Payne, president (1949, 1967)
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts, president (1948, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966)
- Stuart Roosa, US astronaut (1971)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president (1945)
- Edward J. Roye, president (1949, 1966)
- A. F. Russell, president (1950)
- Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (1972)
- Alan B. Shepard, US astronaut (1971)
- William R. Tolbert, Jr., president (1971, 1972, 1974)
- Sekou Toure, Guinea president (1960)
- William Tubman, president (1957, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971)
- Daniel B. Warner, president (1949, 1966)
After 1973[edit]
From 1973 on, Liberia issued mostly stamps honoring non-Liberians.
- Aristotle (1973)
- Emil von Behring (1973)
- Valeriy Borzov, Soviet sprinter (1973)
- George W. Bush, elected US president (2000)
- Eugene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1973)
- Klaus Dibiasi, diver (1973)
- Ronald Evans, US astronaut (1973)
- Alexander Fleming (1973)
- Sigmund Freud, psychologist (1973)
- Al Gore, US vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate (2000)
- Edward Jenner, physician (1973)
- Kipchoge Keino, steeplechase (1973)
- Richard Meade, equestrian (1973)
- Louis Pasteur (1973)
- Ptolemy (1973)
- Jonas Salk, physician (1973)
- Harrison Schmitt, US astronaut (1973)
- Mark Spitz, swimmer (1973)
- Hans Winkler, jumper (1973)
- Hideaki Yanagida, wrestler (1973)
- Mohandas Gandhi, Leader of India's Independence Movement (1998)
- Barack Obama, First African-American elected US president (2008)
References[edit]
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- ↑ "Postage stamps of Liberia | StampData". stampdata.com. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ "Liberia - Postage stamps (1860 - 2020) - Page 1". www.stampworld.com. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ "Republic of Liberia". postalmuseum.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ "Philately of Liberia: Stamps". philib.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
