List of people on the postage stamps of Hawaii  This is a list of people depicted on the postage stamps issued by the Kingdom of Hawaii (from 1851 to 1893) and Republic of Hawaii (1894 to 1898). After becoming the Territory of Hawaii in 1898 and then US State of Hawaii in 1959, it used postage stamps of the United States. There are some Hawaiian people depicted on the postage stamps of the United States, as, for example, the King Kamehameha Statue on a 1937 stamp.