List of people on the postage stamps of the United States - wikipedia List of people on the postage stamps of the United States Jump to : navigation , search This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps , listed by their name , the year they were first featured on a stamp , and a very short description of their notability . 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 . For the purpose of this list , `` featured '' may mean : The likeness of a person , The name of a person , or People who have neither their likeness nor name on a stamp , but are documented by the United States Postal Service as being the subject of a stamp ( see Reference ) . Contents J O Q V X Y Z See also References John Quincy Adams on a 1938 stamp Edwin Austin Abbey ( 2001 ) Illustrator Bud Abbott ( 1991 ) Comedian Edward R. Abrams ( 2008 ) Actor Dean Acheson ( 1993 ) Secretary of State Roy Acuff ( 2003 ) Country singer , musician , and songwriter Abigail Adams ( 1985 ) First Lady Ansel Adams ( 2002 ) Photographer John Adams ( 1938 ) 2nd President Jane Addams on a 1940 stamp John Quincy Adams ( 1938 ) 6th President Samuel Adams ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Jane Addams ( 1940 ) Social Worker Alvin Ailey ( 2004 ) Choreographer Josef Albers ( 1980 ) Artist Louisa May Alcott ( 1940 ) Author Buzz Aldrin ( 1994 ) Astronaut , engineer Horatio Alger , Jr. ( 1982 ) Author Dante Alighieri ( 1965 ) Poet Louisa May Alcott on a 1940 stamp Ethan Allen ( 1955 ) Green Mountain Boys leader Gracie Allen ( 2009 ) Comedian Richard Allen ( 2016 ) African - American bishop , founder of AME Church Steve Allen ( 2009 ) Comedian Fran Allison ( 2009 ) Actress C. Alfred `` Chief '' Anderson ( 2014 ) Aviator Gilbert M. Anderson ( Broncho Billy Anderson ) ( 1998 ) Actor Marian Anderson ( 2005 ) Contralto Susan B. Anthony ( 1936 ) Suffragist , feminist , and abolitionist Antonello da Messina ( 1990 ) Painter Maya Angelou ( 2015 ) African American writer Virginia Apgar ( 1994 ) Physician Dante Alighieri on a 1965 stamp Johnny Appleseed ( 1966 ) Conservationist Harold Arlen ( 1996 ) Composer Johnny Appleseed on a 1966 stamp Edwin Armstrong ( 1983 ) FM radio inventor Louis Armstrong ( 1995 ) Jazz singer , musician , and songwriter Neil Armstrong ( 1969 ) Astronaut Desi Arnaz ( 1999 ) Actor , producer and singer Henry Harley `` Hap '' Arnold ( 1988 ) Air Force General Chester A. Arthur ( 1938 ) 21st President Arthur Ashe ( 2005 ) Tennis player Susan B. Anthony on a 1955 stamp John James Audubon ( 1940 ) Naturalist , painter John James Audubon on a 1940 stamp Stephen F. Austin ( 1936 ) Texas colonizer Gene Autry ( 2010 ) Actor John Barry and John Paul Jones as featured on a postage stamp Mildred Bailey ( 1994 ) Jazz singer Ella Baker ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Josephine Baker ( 2008 ) 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 ) Surveyor , astronomer , mathematician and almanac author Theda Bara ( 1994 ) Actress Francis Barbé - Marbois ( 1953 ) Louisiana Purchase negotiator Samuel Barber ( 1997 ) Composer John Bardeen ( 2008 ) Physicist John Barry ( 1745 -- 1803 ) ( 1936 ) Naval officer Ethel Barrymore ( 1982 ) Actress John Barrymore ( 1982 ) Actor Clara Barton on a 1948 stamp Lionel Barrymore ( 1982 ) Actor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( 1985 ) Statue of Liberty sculptor Josiah Bartlett ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Clara Barton ( 1948 ) American Red Cross founder John Bartram ( 1999 ) Botanist William Bartram ( 1999 ) Botanist Count Basie ( 1996 ) Jazz musician , bandleader , and composer John Basilone ( 2005 ) Marine , Medal of Honor recipient Daisy Bates ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader James Beard ( 2014 ) Chef , TV personality , cookbook author Romare Bearden ( 2011 ) Artist The Beatles ( 1999 ) Rock music band Jim Beckwourth ( 1994 ) Explorer Norman Bel Geddes ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Alexander Graham Bell ( 1940 ) Scientist , engineer , and telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell on a 1940 stamp 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 Milton Berle ( 2009 ) Comedian Irving Berlin ( 2002 ) Composer Montgomery Blair on a 1963 stamp 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 Simón Bolívar on a 1958 stamp Elizabeth Bishop ( 2012 ) Poet Emily Bissell ( 1980 ) Social Worker Hugo L. Black ( 1986 ) Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Blackwell ( 1974 ) 1st U.S. female physician Elizabeth Blackwell on a 1974 stamp Montgomery Blair ( 1963 ) Lawyer , politician , postmaster general Eubie Blake ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and songwriter Harlon Block ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima 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 William Boyd ( 2009 ) Actor Elizabeth Boyer ( 2008 ) Actress John Bradley ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima Omar N. Bradley ( 2000 ) World War II Army General Louis Brandeis ( 2009 ) Supreme Court justice Mary Breckinridge ( 1998 ) Frontier Nursing Services founder William Brennan Jr. ( 2009 ) Supreme Court justice Fanny Brice ( 1991 ) Comedian Jim Bridger ( 1994 ) Western pioneer Joseph Brodsky ( 2012 ) Poet Gwendolyn Brooks ( 2012 ) Poet 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 Julia de Burgos ( 2010 ) Poet Arleigh Albert Burke ( 2010 ) Admiral Luther Burbank on a 1940 stamp John Burgoyne ( 1927 ) Revolutionary War General George Burns ( 2009 ) Comedian Raymond Burr ( 2009 ) Actor Edgar Rice Burroughs ( 2012 ) Author Richard E. Byrd ( 1988 ) Antarctic explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo ( 1992 ) Explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac on a 1951 stamp Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ( 1951 ) Explorer James Cagney ( 1999 ) Actor Alexander Calder ( 1998 ) Sculptor Melvin Calvin ( 2011 ) Chemist Walter Camp ( 2003 ) Football coach Roy Campanella ( 2006 ) Baseball player Zachary Canter ( 2000 ) Child stamp design contest winner Frank Capra ( 2012 ) Motion picture director Hattie Caraway ( 2001 ) 1st female senator Chester Carlson ( 1988 ) Xerox inventor Hoagy Carmichael ( 1996 ) Musician , composer , and actor Andrew Carnegie on a 1960 stamp Andrew Carnegie ( 1960 ) Philanthropist Art Carney ( 2009 ) Actor Ludovico Carracci ( 1989 ) Painter Charles Carroll of Carrollton ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Kit Carson ( 1994 ) Frontiersman Rachel Carson ( 1981 ) Environmentalist George Washington Carver on a 1948 stamp Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter ( 1993 ) Country musician Maybelle Carter ( 1993 ) Country singer and musician Sara Carter ( 1993 ) Country singer and musician Philip Carteret ( 1964 ) Explorer Enrico Caruso ( 1987 ) Tenor George Washington Carver ( 1948 ) Botanist Johnny Cash ( 2013 ) Singer Nellie Cashman ( 1994 ) Prospector Mary Cassatt on a 1966 stamp Mary Cassatt ( 1966 ) Painter John Cassavetes ( 2003 ) Motion picture director Willa Cather on a 1973 stamp Willa Sibert Cather ( 1973 ) Author George Catlin ( 1998 ) Painter Wilt Chamberlain ( 2014 ) Basketball player Carrie Chapman Catt ( 1948 ) Suffragist 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 Dave Chapman ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Jean - Baptiste - Siméon Chardin ( 1974 ) Painter Ray Charles ( 2013 ) Musician Samuel Chase ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Martha Chase ( 1997 ) Doll designer César Chávez ( 2003 ) Labor rights leader Dennis Chavez ( 1991 ) Senator Joyce Chen ( 2014 ) Chef , TV personality , cookbook author Claire Chennault ( 1990 ) Aviator Mary Chesnut ( 1995 ) Civil War diarist Charles W. Chesnutt ( 2008 ) Writer Julia Child ( 2014 ) Chef , TV personality , cookbook author Shirley Chisholm ( 2014 ) Congresswoman Frederic Edwin Church ( 1998 ) Painter Winston Churchill on a 1965 stamp Winston Churchill ( 1965 ) British Prime Minister Giovanni Battista Cima ( 1993 ) Painter Abraham Clark ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer George Rogers Clark ( 1929 ) Revolutionary War officer Grenville Clark ( 1985 ) Author William Clark ( 1954 ) Explorer Henry Clay , 1902 stamp Henry Clay ( 1870 , 1902 ) Statesman Samuel L. Clemens ( 1940 ) Author Roberto Clemente ( 1984 & 2000 ) Baseball player Grover Cleveland on a 1923 stamp Grover Cleveland ( 1923 ) 22nd & 24th President J.R. Clifford ( 2009 ) Attorney Patsy Cline ( 1993 ) Country singer and musician George Clinton ( 1976 ) Continental Congressman George Clymer ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer David Cobb ( 1976 ) Congressional Representative , 3rd U.S. Congress Ty Cobb ( 2000 ) Baseball player Alvin Langdon Coburn ( 2002 ) Photographer Jacqueline Cochran ( 1996 ) Aviator Mickey Cochrane ( 2000 ) Baseball player Victoria Codona ( 2014 ) Circus performer Buffalo Bill Cody ( 1988 ) Wild West showman George M. Cohan ( 1978 ) Actor , playwright Claudette Colbert ( 2012 ) Actress Nat King Cole ( 1994 ) Singer , musician , and songwriter Bessie Coleman ( 1995 ) 1st African American female pilot Eddie Collins ( 2000 ) Baseball player John Coltrane ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer Christopher Columbus ( 1893 ) Explorer Henry Comstock ( 1959 ) Prospector James Cook ( 1978 ) Explorer Calvin Coolidge on a 1938 stamp Calvin Coolidge ( 1938 ) 30th President Anna Julia Cooper ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Gary Cooper ( 1990 , 2009 ) Actor James Fenimore Cooper ( 1940 ) Author Nicolaus Copernicus on a 1973 stamp Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1973 ) Astronomer Elizabeth Clarke Copley ( 1965 ) Portrait subject on a stamp honoring John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley ( 1965 ) Painter Gerty Cori ( 2008 ) Biochemist Charles Cornwallis ( 1930 ) Revolutionary War General Dean Cornwell ( 2001 ) Illustrator Francisco Vásquez de Coronado ( 1940 ) Explorer Lorenzo Costa ( 2001 ) Painter Lou Costello ( 1991 ) Comedian Crazy Horse ( 1982 ) Oglala Sioux warrior Gustaf Philip Creutz ( 1983 ) Swedish statesman , poet and diplomat Davy Crockett ( 1967 ) Alamo defender Davy Crockett on a 1966 stamp Bing Crosby ( 1994 ) Singer , actor Percy Crosby ( 1997 ) Cartoonist Jim Crowley ( 1998 ) Football player Celia Cruz ( 2011 ) Musician E.E. Cummings ( 2012 ) Poet Imogen Cunningham ( 2002 ) Photographer Nathaniel Currier ( 1976 ) Lithographer Glenn Curtiss ( 1980 ) Aviation pioneer Harvey Cushing ( 1988 ) Neurosurgeon Manasseh Cutler ( 1937 ) Northwest Territory pioneer John Dewey on a 1968 stamp Daniel Daly ( 2005 ) Marine ; Medal of Honor recipient Virginia Dare ( 1937 ) First white child born in the English American colonies Gerard David ( 1979 ) Painter Alexander Jackson Davis ( 1980 ) Architect Walt Disney on a 1968 stamp Allison Davis ( 1994 ) Educator , anthropologist Benjamin Oliver Davis , Sr. ( 1997 ) Army General Bette Davis ( 2008 ) Actress Jefferson Davis ( 1970 ) Confederate President Miles Davis ( 2012 ) Jazz musician Stuart Davis ( 2013 ) Modern artist Julia de Burgos ( 2010 ) Puerto Rican writer and poet Agnes de Mille ( 2004 ) Choreographer Dizzy Dean ( 2000 ) Baseball player James Dean ( 1996 ) Actor Stephen Decatur ( 1936 ) Naval officer Lee De Forest ( 1973 ) Vacuum Tube Inventor Willem de Kooning ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Andrea della Robbia ( 1978 ) Sculptor Frederick Douglass on a 1967 stamp Luca della Robbia ( 1985 ) Sculptor Cecil B. DeMille ( 2003 ) Motion picture producer Jack Dempsey ( 1998 ) Boxer Charles Demuth ( 2013 ) Modern artist Donald Deskey ( 2011 ) Industrial designer John Foster Dulles on a 1960 stamp 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 Joe DiMaggio ( 2012 ) Baseball player Walt Disney ( 1968 ) Motion picture producer , animator Dorothea Dix ( 1983 ) Mental health advocate Larry Doby ( 2012 ) Baseball player Jimmy Dorsey ( 1996 ) Jazz musician and bandleader Tommy Dorsey ( 1996 ) Jazz musician and bandleader Aaron Douglas ( 2013 ) Modern artist Stephen A. Douglas ( 1958 ) Politician Frederick Douglass ( 1967 ) Abolitionist Arthur Dove ( 2013 ) Modern artist Charles R. Drew ( 1981 ) Surgeon Henry Dreyfuss ( 2011 ) Industrial designer W.E.B. Du Bois ( 1992 ) Civil Rights advocate Marcel Duchamp ( 2013 ) Modern Artist John Foster Dulles ( 1960 ) Secretary of State Paul Laurence Dunbar ( 1975 ) Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar on a 1975 stamp Isadora Duncan ( 2012 ) Dancer Katherine Dunham ( 2012 ) Choreographer Harvey Dunn ( 2001 ) Illustrator Asher B. Durand ( 1998 ) Painter Thomas Eakins on a 1967 stamp Eddie Eagan ( 1990 ) Boxer , bobsledder Thomas Eakins ( 1967 ) Painter , sculptor Amelia Earhart on a 1963 stamp Charles and Ray Eames ( 2008 ) Industrial design , furniture design Amelia Earhart ( 1963 ) Aviator Wyatt Earp ( 1994 ) Gunfighter George Eastman on a 1954 stamp George Eastman ( 1954 ) Roll film inventor Thomas Alva Edison ( 1947 ) Inventor Albert Einstein ( 1966 ) Physicist Albert Einstein on a 1966 stamp Billy Eisengrein ( 2002 ) Ground Zero firefighter Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ) 34th President Charles W. Eliot ( 1940 ) Educator Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1986 ) Poet Dwight D. Eisenhower on a 1970 stamp William Ellery ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Edward Kennedy `` Duke '' Ellington ( 1986 ) Jazz musician and composer Ralph Ellison ( 2014 ) Author and literary critic Lincoln Ellsworth ( 1988 ) Antarctic explorer Leif Ericson on a 1968 stamp Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1940 ) Author John Ericsson ( 1926 ) Inventor Leif Ericson ( 1968 ) Explorer Jaime Escalante ( 2016 ) Educator Walker Evans ( 2002 ) Photographer Medgar Evers ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Ray Ewry ( 1990 ) Track & field athlete Jan van Eyck ( 1968 ) Painter Millard Fillmore on a 1938 stamp 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 Henry Ford on a 1968 stamp Robert Fawcett ( 2001 ) Illustrator Edna Ferber ( 2002 ) Author Perry Ferguson ( 2003 ) Motion picture art director Peter Francisco on a 1975 stamp Enrico Fermi ( 2001 ) Physicist José Ferrer ( 2012 ) Actor Richard Feynman ( 2005 ) Physicist Arthur Fiedler ( 1997 ) Conductor Dorothy Fields ( 1996 ) Lyricist W.C. Fields ( 1980 ) Actor , comedian Millard Fillmore ( 1938 ) 13th President John C. Fremont on an 1898 stamp Ella Fitzgerald ( 2007 ) Jazz singer F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1996 ) Author James Montgomery Flagg ( 2001 ) Illustrator Robert Frost , 1974 Father Edward J. Flanagan ( 1986 ) Orphan advocate William Floyd ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Henry Fonda ( 2005 ) Actor Lynn Fontanne ( 1999 ) Actress Gerald R. Ford ( 2007 ) President of the United States John Ford ( 2012 ) Motion picture director Henry Ford ( 1968 ) Industrialist Bob Fosse ( 2012 ) Choreographer John Foster ( 1998 ) Printer Rube Foster ( 2010 ) Baseball player Stephen Collins Foster ( 1940 ) Composer Four Chaplains ( 1948 ) Died during the Dorchester sinking George L. Fox , Chaplain ( 1st Lt . ) , U.S. Army ( 1948 ) Jimmie Foxx ( 2000 ) Baseball player Saint Francis of Assisi ( 1982 ) Franciscan Order founder Peter Francisco ( 1975 ) Revolutionary War soldier Felix Frankfurter ( 2009 ) Supreme Court justice Benjamin Franklin ( 1847 ) 1st Postmaster , statesman , scientist Benjamin Franklin on the first US stamp , 1847 Elizabeth Freake ( 1998 ) Portrait subject Mary Freake ( 1998 ) Portrait subject John C. Fremont ( 1898 ) and ( 1994 ) Explorer , Senator Daniel Chester French ( 1940 ) Sculptor Arthur Burdett Frost ( 2001 ) Illustrator Robert Frost ( 1974 ) Poet Buckminster Fuller ( 2004 ) Inventor Robert Fulton on a 1965 stamp Robert Fulton ( 1909 ) Steamboat inventor Frank Furness ( 1980 ) Architect Albert Gallatin on a 1967 stamp Clark Gable ( 1990 ) Actor Rene Gagnon ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima 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 Carlos Gardel ( 2011 ) Singer Walter F. George on a 1960 stamp James A. Garfield ( 1882 ) 20th President Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1960 ) Italian patriot Judy Garland ( 1990 ) Actress Erroll Garner ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer Lou Gehrig ( 1989 ) Baseball player Theodor Seuss Geisel ( 1999 ) Author & illustrator Martha Gellhorn ( 2008 ) Journalist Walter F. George ( 1960 ) Senator Geronimo ( 1994 ) Apache leader Elbridge Gerry ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Amadeo P. Giannini on a 1973 stamp George Gershwin ( 1973 ) Composer and musician 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 Althea Gibson ( 2013 ) Tennis player John Gilbert ( 1994 ) Actor Lillian Moller Gilbreth ( 1984 ) Industrial engineer Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione ( 1971 ) Painter Giotto di Bondone ( 1995 ) Painter Jackie Gleason ( 2009 ) Comedian Robert H. Goddard on a 1964 stamp Robert H. Goddard ( 1964 ) Rocket scientist Maria Goeppert - Mayer ( 2011 ) Physicist George W. Goethals ( 1939 ) Panama Canal engineer Rube Goldberg ( 1995 ) Cartoonist Samuel Gompers ( 1950 ) Labor union leader Samuel Gompers on a 1950 stamp Alexander D. Goode , Ph. D. ( 1948 ) Chaplain ( 1st Lt . ) , U.S. Army ( 1948 ) Benny Goodman ( 1996 ) Jazz musician and bandleader Charles Goodnight ( 1994 ) Cattle rancher Arshile Gorky ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Horace Greeley on a 1961 stamp Jan Gossaert ( 2002 ) Painter Adolph Gottlieb ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist 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 Asa Gray ( 2011 ) Botanist Horace Greeley ( 1961 ) Journalist Adolphus W. Greely ( 1986 ) Arctic explorer David Wark Griffith on a 1975 stamp 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 , songwriter , and musician Nathan Hale on a 1925 stamp Philip Habib ( 2006 ) Diplomat George Halas ( 1997 ) Football coach Dag Hammarskjöld on a 1962 stamp Nathan Hale ( 1925 ) Revolutionary War officer Bill Haley ( 1993 ) Rock and roll singer , musician , and songwriter Fannie Lou Hamer ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Alexander Hamilton ( 1870 ) Statesman William Christopher Handy on a 1969 stamp Alice Hamilton ( 1995 ) Physician Dag Hammarskjöld ( 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 musician and composer John Hanson ( 1981 ) President of Continental Congress Yip Harburg ( 2005 ) Lyricist Benjamin Harrison on a 1902 stamp Warren G. Harding ( 1923 ) 29th President Oliver Hardy ( 1991 ) Comedian William Harnett ( 1969 ) Painter William Harnett on a 1969 stamp Joel Chandler Harris ( 1948 ) Journalist Patricia Roberts Harris ( 2000 ) Presidential Cabinet member , ambassador Benjamin Harrison ( 1902 ) 23rd President Benjamin Harrison V ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer William Henry Harrison ( 1938 ) 9th President Ray Harroun ( 2011 ) Racecar driver Lorenz Hart ( 1999 ) Lyricist Oliver Wendell Holmes , on a 1968 stamp Moss Hart ( 2004 ) Playwright William S. Hart ( 2010 ) Actor Bret Harte ( 1987 ) Author David Hartley ( 1983 ) Treaty of Paris signatory Marsden Hartley ( 2013 ) Modern artist John Harvard ( 1986 ) Harvard College benefactor Josiah Johnson Hawes ( 2002 ) Photographer Coleman Hawkins ( 1995 ) Jazz musician Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1983 ) Author Robert Hayden ( 2012 ) Poet Helen Hayes ( 2011 ) Actress Ira Hayes ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima Herbert Hoover , on a 1965 stamp Mary Ludwig Hays ( Molly Pitcher ) ( 1928 ) Battlefield volunteer Rutherford B. Hayes ( 1922 ) 19th President Edith Head ( 2003 ) Costume designer Martin Johnson Heade ( 2004 ) Painter Mark Hopkins on a 1940 stamp John Held , Jr. ( 2001 ) Illustrator Sam Houston on a 1963 stamp Ernest Hemingway ( 1989 ) Author Jimi Hendrix ( 2014 ) Musician O. Henry ( 2012 ) Author Patrick Henry ( 1955 ) American Revolution orator Jim Henson ( 2005 ) Muppets creator Matthew Alexander Henson ( 1986 ) Arctic explorer Elias Howe , on a 1940 stamp Audrey Hepburn ( 2003 ) Actress Katharine Hepburn ( 2010 ) Actress Victor Herbert ( 1940 ) Composer Nicholas Herkimer ( 1977 ) Revolutionary War General Bernard Herrmann ( 1999 ) Composer John Hersey ( 2008 ) Journalist Milton S. Hershey ( 1995 ) Confectioner Charlton Heston ( 2014 ) Actor Joseph Hewes ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Thomas Heyward , Jr. ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer 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 ) World War I General Alfred Hitchcock ( 1998 ) Motion picture director James Hoban ( 1981 ) White House architect Oveta Culp Hobby ( 2011 ) Women 's Army Corps officer Hans Hofmann ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist painter Katsushika Hokusai ( 1974 ) Painter Billie Holiday ( 1994 ) Jazz singer Hollow Horn Bear ( 1923 ) Brulé Sioux leader Buddy Holly ( 1993 ) Rock and roll singer , musician , and songwriter Oliver Wendell Holmes ( 1968 ) Supreme Court Justice Winslow Homer ( 1962 ) Painter William Hooper ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Herbert Hoover ( 1965 ) 31st President Bob Hope ( 2009 ) Comedian Johns Hopkins ( 1989 ) Philanthropist Mark Hopkins ( 1940 ) Educator Stephen Hopkins ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Francis Hopkinson ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Edward Hopper ( 1970 ) Painter Rogers Hornsby ( 2000 ) Baseball player Harry Houdini ( 2002 ) Magician Charles Hamilton Houston ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Sam Houston ( 1963 ) Texas Governor Elias Howe ( 1940 ) Inventor Julia Ward Howe ( 1987 ) Abolitionist Chester `` Howlin ' Wolf '' Burnett ( 1994 ) Blues singer , musician , and songwriter Edwin Hubble ( 2000 ) Astronomer Henry Hudson ( 1909 ) Explorer Charles Evans Hughes ( 1962 ) Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on a 1962 stamp Langston Hughes ( 2002 ) Author Cordell Hull on a 1964 stamp Cordell Hull ( 1963 ) Secretary of State Hubert Humphrey ( 1991 ) Vice President Richard Morris Hunt ( 1981 ) Architect Samuel Huntington ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signatory Ruby Hurley ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Zora Neale Hurston ( 2003 ) Author John Huston ( 2012 ) Motion picture director Washington Irving on a 1940 stamp Washington Irving ( 1940 ) Author Isabella I 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 J ( edit ) Thomas Jefferson on a 1922 stamp Andrew Jackson ( 1861 ) 7th President Andrew Jackson on a 1967 stamp Mahalia Jackson ( 1998 ) Gospel singer Thomas `` Stonewall '' Jackson ( 1937 ) Confederate Army General Lyndon B. Johnson on a 1973 stamp Henry James ( 2016 ) Writer John Jay ( 1958 ) New York Governor , statesman , Chief Justice of Supreme Court Robinson Jeffers ( 1973 ) Poet Thomas Jefferson ( 1861 ) 3rd President Jesus ( 1966 ) Christianity founder Chief Joseph on a 1968 stamp Andrew Johnson ( 1938 ) 17th President Eastman Johnson ( 1976 ) Painter George Johnson ( 2002 ) Ground Zero firefighter James P. Johnson ( 1995 ) Composer James Weldon Johnson ( 1988 ) Author John H. Johnson ( 2012 ) Publisher Joshua Johnson ( 1998 ) Painter Lady Bird Johnson ( 2012 ) First Lady Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ) 36th President Robert Johnson ( 1994 ) Blues singer , musician , and songwriter Walter Johnson ( 2000 ) Baseball player William Johnson ( artist ) ( 2012 ) Artist Joseph E. Johnston ( 1995 ) Confederate Army General Louis Jolliet ( 1968 ) Explorer Al Jolson ( 1994 ) Singer and actor Casey Jones ( 1950 ) Railroad engineer John Paul Jones ( 1936 ) Revolutionary War Naval Captain Bobby Jones ( 1981 ) Golfer Scott Joplin ( 1983 ) Ragtime musician and composer Barbara Jordan ( 2011 ) Congresswoman Louis Jordan ( 2008 ) Musician / singer Chief Joseph ( 1968 ) Nez Perce warrior Percy Lavon Julian ( 1993 ) Chemist Ernest E. Just ( 1996 ) Biologist Duke Kahanamoku ( 2002 ) Surfer , swimmer Frida Kahlo ( 2001 ) Painter Kamehameha I of Hawaii on a 1937 stamp Kamehameha I of Hawaii ( 1937 ) Hawaiian King Elisha Kent Kane ( 1986 ) Arctic explorer Boris Karloff ( 1997 ) Actor Theodore von Kármán ( 1992 ) Aerospace scientist Gertrude Käsebier ( 2002 ) Photographer John F. Kennedy on a 1964 stamp Stephen Watts Kearny ( 1946 ) Mexican American War officer Buster Keaton ( 1994 ) Actor Helen Keller ( 1980 ) Author , disability advocate Grace Kelly ( 1993 ) Actress and Princess of Monaco John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( 1964 ) 35th President Robert F. Kennedy ( 1979 ) Attorney General Rockwell Kent ( 2001 ) Illustrator Jerome Kern ( 1985 ) Composer André Kertész ( 2002 ) Hungarian 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 Kościuszko ( 1933 ) Polish - Lithuanian patriot Lajos Kossuth ( 1958 ) Hungarian patriot Fiorello LaGuardia on a 1972 stamp Marquis de Lafayette ( 1952 ) Revolutionary War General Fiorello H. La Guardia ( 1972 ) New York City Mayor Sidney Lanier on a 1972 stamp Dorothea Lange ( 2002 ) Photographer Samuel Pierpont Langley ( 1988 ) Aviation pioneer Sidney Lanier ( 1972 ) Poet Mary Lasker ( 2009 ) Philanthropist Robert E. Lee on a 1955 stamp Benjamin Latrobe ( 1979 ) Architect Frank C. Laubach ( 1984 ) Educator Stan Laurel ( 1991 ) Comedian Abraham Lincoln on a 1960 stamp John Laurens ( 1976 ) Revolutionary War soldier Elmer Layden ( 1998 ) Football coach Huddie Ledbetter ( 1998 ) Blues singer , musician , and songwriter Jason Lee ( 1948 ) Oregon Territory missionary Juliette Gordon Low on a 1948 stamp Richard Henry Lee ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Robert E. Lee ( 1937 ) Confederate Army General Vivien Leigh ( 1990 ) Actress Lillian Leitzel ( 2014 ) Circus gymnast John A. Lejeune ( 2005 ) Marine Corps Commandant Ponce de León ( 1982 ) Explorer Alan Jay Lerner ( 1999 ) Lyricist Emanuel Leutze ( 1976 ) Painter Denise Levertov ( 2012 ) Poet Edna Lewis ( 2014 ) Chef , cookbook author Francis Lewis ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signatory Sybil Ludington on a 1975 stamp Meriwether Lewis ( 1954 ) Explorer Sinclair Lewis ( 1985 ) Author Joseph Christian Leyendecker ( 2001 ) Illustrator José Limón ( 2012 ) Choreographer Abraham Lincoln ( 1866 , 1954 ) 16th President Benjamin Lincoln ( 1976 ) Revolutionary War General Tad Lincoln ( 1984 ) son of Abraham Lincoln Charles Lindbergh ( 1927 ) Aviator Jean - Étienne Liotard ( 1974 ) Painter Fra Filippo Lippi ( 1984 ) Painter Walter Lippmann ( 1985 ) Journalist Sarah Lipsey ( 2000 ) Child stamp design contest winner Philip Livingston ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer 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 Raymond Loewy ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Vince Lombardi ( 1997 ) Football coach Jack London ( 1986 ) Author Crawford W. Long ( 1940 ) Physician Hillary Long ( 2014 ) Circus performer 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 the USA founder James Russell Lowell ( 1940 ) Poet Henry R. Luce ( 1998 ) Publisher Sybil Ludington ( 1975 ) Revolutionary War heroine Bela Lugosi ( 1997 ) Actor Bernardino Luini ( 2007 ) Painter Alfred Lunt ( 1999 ) Actor Martin Luther ( 1983 ) Protestant reformer Thomas Lynch , Jr. ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Mary Lyon ( 1987 ) Educator Clara Maass , on a 1976 stamp Clara Maass ( 1976 ) Nurse 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 , 1938 ) 4th President Ramon Magsaysay ( 1957 ) Philippine President Henry Mancini ( 2004 ) Composer Horace Mann ( 1940 ) Educator Ramon Magsaysay , on a 1957 stamp C.G.E. Mannerheim ( 1960 ) Finnish President Mickey Mantle ( 2006 ) Baseball player Rocky Marciano ( 1999 ) Boxer John Marin ( 2013 ) Modern artist Roger Maris ( 1999 ) Baseball player Jacques Marquette ( 1898 , 1968 ) Explorer George Catlett Marshall ( 1965 ) Secretary of State , Army general George Catlett Marshall on a 1967 stamp John Marshall ( 1894 ) Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall ( 2003 ) Supreme Court Justice Roberta Martin ( 1998 ) Gospel singer , musician , and songwriter Edgar Lee Masters on a 1970 stamp Mary ( The Madonna ) ( 1966 ) Central figure in Christianity Groucho Marx ( 2009 ) Comedian 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 Bill Mauldin ( 2010 ) Cartoonist Bernard Maybeck ( 1981 ) Architect Charles Horace Mayo ( 1964 ) Surgeon William James Mayo ( 1964 ) Surgeon Philip Mazzei ( 1980 ) Revolutionary War supporter Ephraim McDowell , on a 1959 stamp Barbara McClintock ( 2005 ) Geneticist John McCloy ( 2010 ) Navy sailor John McCormack ( 1984 ) Tenor Cyrus Hall McCormick ( 1940 ) Mechanical reaper inventor Hattie McDaniel ( 2006 ) Actress Ephraim McDowell ( 1959 ) Surgeon Thomas McKean ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer William McKinley ( 1904 ) 25th President John McLoughlin ( 1948 ) Oregon Territory settler Brien McMahon on a 1962 stamp Brien McMahon ( 1962 ) Atomic Energy Act author Neysa McMein ( 2001 ) Illustrator Moina Michael on a 1948 stamp Clyde McPhatter ( 1993 ) R&B singer Dan McWilliams ( 2002 ) Ground Zero firefighter Margaret Mead ( 1998 ) Anthropologist George Meany ( 1994 ) Labor union leader Andrew W. Mellon ( 1955 ) Financier Herman Melville ( 1984 ) Author Hans Memling ( 1966 ) Painter Lydia Mendoza ( 2013 ) Guitarist and singer Johnny Mercer ( 1996 ) Composer and singer Ottmar Mergenthaler ( 1996 ) Linotype inventor Ethel Merman ( 1994 ) Singer , actress Moina Michael ( 1948 ) Memorial Poppy founder Oscar Micheaux ( 2010 ) Motion picture director James Michener ( 2008 ) Writer Arthur Middleton ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Harvey Milk ( 2014 ) Politician Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1981 ) Poet Don Miller ( 1998 ) Football player Doris Miller ( 2010 ) Navy veteran Glenn Miller ( 1996 ) Jazz musician , arranger , and composer Robert Millikan ( 1982 ) Physicist Charlie Mingus ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer Carmen Miranda ( 2011 ) Singer Billy Mitchell ( 1999 ) Air Force general Joan Mitchell ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Margaret Mitchell ( 1986 ) Author Tom Mix ( 2010 ) Actor Lorenzo Monaco ( 2004 ) Painter Thelonious Monk ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer James Monroe ( 1904 ) 5th President Marilyn Monroe ( 1995 ) Actress John Bassett Moore ( 1965 ) Jurist John Bassett Moore on a 1965 stamp Clayton Moore ( 2009 ) Actor Marianne Craig Moore ( 1990 ) Poet Thomas Moran ( 1998 ) Painter Giovanni Battista Moroni ( 1987 ) Painter Justin S. Morrill ( 1999 ) Senator Lewis Morris ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Robert Morris ( financier ) ( 1952 ) Declaration of Independence signatory Samuel F.B. Morse ( 1940 ) Telegraph inventor Jelly Roll Morton ( originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe ) ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer Julius Sterling Morton ( 1932 ) Arbor Day founder Anna Mary Robertson Moses `` Grandma Moses '' ( 1969 ) Painter Grandma Moses on a 1969 stamp Horace A. Moses ( 1984 ) Junior Achievement founder Robert Motherwell ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Lucretia Mott ( 1948 ) Civil Rights advocate John Muir on a 1964 stamp John Muir ( 1964 ) Conservationist Peter Müller - Munk ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Luis Muñoz Marín ( 1980 ) First democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico Audie L. Murphy ( 2000 ) World War II soldier , actor Gerald Murphy ( 2013 ) Modern artist Robert Daniel Murphy ( 2006 ) Diplomat Edward R. Murrow ( 1994 ) Journalist Eadweard Muybridge ( 1996 ) Photographer Myron of Eleutherae ( 1932 ) Sculptor James Naismith on a 1961 stamp Bronco Nagurski ( 2003 ) Football player James Naismith ( 1961 ) Basketball inventor Ogden Nash ( 2002 ) Poet Harriet Nelson ( 2009 ) Actress Ozzie Nelson ( 2009 ) Actor Thomas Nelson , Jr. ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signatory Louise Nevelson ( 2000 ) Sculptor Ernie Nevers ( 2003 ) Football player Ethelbert Nevin on a 1940 stamp Ethelbert Nevin ( 1940 ) Composer Alfred Newman ( 1999 ) Composer Barnett Newman ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Paul Newman ( 2015 ) Actor Jean Nicolet ( 1934 ) Explorer Chester W. Nimitz ( 1985 ) World War II Admiral Richard Nixon ( 1995 ) 37th President Alfred Nobel ( 2001 ) Philanthropist Isamu Noguchi ( 2004 ) Sculptor George W. Norris ( 1961 ) Senator Eliot Noyes ( 2011 ) Industrial designer O ( edit ) Annie Oakley ( 1994 ) Sharpshooter Adolph S. Ochs on a 1976 stamp Adolph S. Ochs ( 1976 ) New York Times publisher Severo Ochoa ( 2011 ) Biochemist Flannery O'Connor ( 2015 ) Writer William Butler Ogden ( 1944 ) Railroad tycoon , first Mayor of Chicago James Edward Oglethorpe ( 1933 ) Georgia founder Georgia O'Keeffe ( 1996 , 2013 ) Painter Frederick Law Olmsted ( 1999 ) Landscape architect Eugene O'Neill ( 1973 ) Playwright Eugene O'Neill on a 1967 stamp Rose O'Neill ( 2001 ) Illustrator Eugene Ormandy ( 1997 ) Conductor Timothy O'Sullivan ( 2002 ) Photographer Mel Ott ( 2006 ) Baseball player Francis Ouimet ( 1988 ) Golfer Mary White Ovington ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Jesse Owens ( 1990 ) Track & field athlete William Paca ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Ignacy Jan Paderewski ( 1960 ) Polish Prime Minister Satchel Paige ( 2000 ) Baseball player Robert Treat Paine ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Thomas Paine on a 1969 stamp Thomas Paine ( 1965 ) Journalist Nathaniel Palmer ( 1988 ) Antarctic explorer George Papanicolaou ( 1978 ) Cytologist Al Parker ( 2001 ) Illustrator Charlie Parker ( 1995 ) Jazz musician and composer Franklin Pierce on a 1938 stamp Dorothy Parker ( 1992 ) Author Francis Parkman ( 1965 ) Historian Rosa Parks ( 2013 ) Civil rights activist Maxfield Parrish ( 2001 ) Illustrator Pocahontas on a 1907 stamp Alden Partridge ( 1985 ) Educator George S. Patton , Jr. ( 1953 ) World War II Army General Alice Paul ( 1995 ) Suffragist and feminist Linus Pauling ( 2008 ) Chemist Ethel L. Payne ( 2002 ) Journalist Charles Willson Peale ( 1955 ) Painter Rembrandt Peale ( 1998 ) Painter Rubens Peale ( 1998 ) Painter Robert Edwin Peary ( 1959 ) Arctic explorer Gregory Peck , ( 2011 ) Actor Phoebe Pember ( 1995 ) Confederate nurse William Penn ( 1932 ) Pennsylvania founder Claude Pepper ( 2000 ) Senator Salem Poor on a 1975 stamp Frances Perkins ( 1980 ) Secretary of Labor Matthew Perry ( 1953 ) Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry ( 1870 ) Naval officer John J. Pershing ( 1961 ) World War I General Perugino ( 1986 ) Painter John Frederick Peto ( 1974 ) Painter Ammi Phillips ( 1998 ) Painter Coles Phillips ( 2001 ) Illustrator Édith Piaf ( 2012 ) Singer Ben Pickett ( 1994 ) brother of Bill Pickett , accidentally placed on stamp when his brother Bill was meant to appear ; stamp recalled and replaced Bill Pickett ( 1994 ) Wild West performer Franklin Pierce ( 1938 ) 14th President Kazimierz Pułaski on a 1931 stamp Sano di Pietro ( 1997 ) Painter William T. Piper ( 1990 ) Aviation pioneer ZaSu Pitts ( 1994 ) Actress Sylvia Plath ( 2012 ) Poet Pocahontas ( 1907 ) Algonquian princess Edgar Allan Poe ( 1949 ) Author Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ( 1987 ) Chicago settler Clark V. Poling ( 1948 ) One of the Four Chaplains George Polk ( 2008 ) Journalist 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 and songwriter 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 Albert Préjean ( 2008 ) Actor Elvis Presley ( 1993 , 2015 ) Rock and roll singer and musician Joseph Priestley ( 1983 ) Chemist Tito Puente ( 2011 ) Drummer 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 Ernest Taylor Pyle on a 1971 stamp Howard Pyle ( 1964 ) Illustrator Q ( edit ) Harriet Quimby ( 1991 ) Pilot Gertrude `` Ma '' Rainey ( 1994 ) Blues singer Ayn Rand ( 1999 ) Author Asa Philip Randolph ( 1989 ) Labor & Civil Rights advocate Raphael ( 1973 ) Painter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( 2008 ) Author Man Ray ( 2002 , 2013 ) Photographer Sam Rayburn ( 1962 ) Legislator Sam Rayburn on a 1962 stamp George Read ( 1976 ) , lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence . Ronald Reagan ( 2005 , 2011 ) 40th President Red Cloud ( 1987 ) Oglala Sioux Chief Otis Redding ( 1993 ) Soul singer and songwriter Walter Reed ( 1940 ) Army surgeon Frederic Remington ( 1940 ) Sculptor , painter James Renwick , Jr. ( 1980 ) Architect Ernst Reuter ( 1959 ) Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter on a 1958 stamp Bernard Revel ( 1986 ) Educator Paul Revere ( 1958 ) Revolutionary War patriot Frederick Hurten Rhead ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Gilbert Rohde ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Henry Hobson Richardson ( 1980 ) Architect Eddie Rickenbacker ( 1995 ) World War I fighter pilot James Whitcomb Riley ( 1940 ) Poet Paul Revere on a 1958 stamp Paul Robeson ( 2004 ) Actor , singer , civil Rights advocate Edward G. Robinson ( 2000 ) Actor Jackie Robinson ( 1982 ) Baseball player Eleanor Roosevelt on a 1963 stamp 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 singer , musician , and songwriter Richard Rodgers ( 1999 ) Composer Theodore Roethke ( 2012 ) Poet Roy Rogers ( 2010 ) Singer , Actor Will Rogers ( 1948 ) Humorist Felipe Rojas - Lombardi ( 2014 ) Chef , cookbook author Antoniazzo Romano ( 1991 ) Painter Franklin D. Roosevelt on a 1945 stamp Eleanor Roosevelt ( 1963 ) First Lady Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( 1945 ) 32nd President Theodore Roosevelt ( 1922 , 1938 ) 26th President Betsy Ross ( 1952 ) American flag creator George Ross ( 1952 ) Relative of Betsy Ross Mark Rothko ( 1998 ) Painter Edward Rutledge ( 1976 ) Painter Wilma Rudolph ( 2004 ) Track & field athlete Benjamin Rush ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Jimmy Rushing ( 1994 ) Blues singer Theodore Roosevelt on a 1922 stamp A.J. Russell ( 1944 ) Photographer Charles M. Russell ( 1961 ) Painter Richard Russell , Jr. ( 1984 ) Statesman George Herman `` Babe '' Ruth ( 1983 ) Baseball player Eero Saarinen ( 1982 ) Architect Albert Sabin ( 2006 ) Virologist Sacagawea ( 1994 ) Shoshone guide Augustus Saint - Gaudens ( 1940 ) Sculptor Rubén Salazar ( 2008 ) Journalist Peter Salem ( 1968 ) Revolutionary War soldier Jonas Salk ( 2006 ) Medical scientist Haym Salomon ( 1975 ) Revolutionary War financier Haym Salomon on a 1975 stamp William T. Sampson ( 1937 ) Navy Admiral José de San Martín ( 1959 ) South American liberator Carl Sandburg ( 1978 ) Poet Henry Sandham ( 1925 ) Painter Winthrop Sargent ( 1948 ) Mississippi Territory Governor William Saroyan ( 1991 ) Author Sassoferrato ( 2009 ) Painer Winfield S. Schley ( 1937 ) Navy Admiral Albert Schoenhut ( 1997 ) Doll designer Carl Schurz ( 1983 ) Journalist Blanche Stuart Scott ( 1980 ) Aviator Winfield Scott ( 1870 ) Army General Selena ( 2011 ) Singer David O. Selznick ( 2003 ) Motion picture producer Raphael Semmes ( 1995 ) Naval officer Sequoyah ( 1980 ) Cherokee linguist Rod Serling ( 2009 ) Writer Junipero Serra ( 1985 ) Franciscan mission founder John Sevier ( 1946 ) Tennessee Governor William H. Seward ( 1873 ) Secretary of State Eric Sevareid ( 2008 ) Journalist Chief Shadoo ( 1930 ) Kiowa Chief William Shakespeare on a 1938 stamp William Shakespeare ( 1964 ) Playwright Charles Sheeler ( 1998 , 2013 ) Painter Alan Shepard ( 2011 ) Astronaut Philip Henry Sheridan ( 1937 ) Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman on an 1893 stamp Roger Sherman ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signatory William Tecumseh Sherman ( 1893 ) Civil War General Dinah Shore ( 2009 ) Singer Igor Sikorsky ( 1988 ) Aircraft engineer Phil Silvers ( 2009 ) Comedian William S. Sims ( 2010 ) Admiral Frank Sinatra ( 2008 ) Singer / actor Elisabetta Sirani ( 1994 ) Painter George Sisler ( 2000 ) Baseball player Sitting Bull ( 1989 ) Hunkpapa Sioux warrior Red Skelton ( 2009 ) Comedian John French Sloan on a 1971 stamp 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 Kate Smith ( 2010 ) Singer Margaret Chase Smith ( 2007 ) U.S. senator W. Eugene Smith ( 2002 ) Photographer John Philip Sousa ( 1940 ) Composer Franklin Sousley ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima Albert Southworth ( 2002 ) Photographer Edwin M. Stanton on an 1871 stamp 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 Joel Elias Spingarn ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Leland Stanford ( 1944 ) Railroad tycoon , politician , & philanthropist Edwin M. Stanton ( 1871 ) Secretary of War Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( 1948 ) Suffragist , feminist , and abolitionist Willie Stargell ( 2012 ) Baseball player Vilhjalmur Stefansson ( 1986 ) Arctic explorer Edward Steichen ( 2002 ) Photographer John Steinbeck ( 1979 ) Author Max Steiner ( 1999 ) Composer Charles Steinmetz ( 1983 ) Electrical inventor Joseph Stella ( 2013 ) Modern artist Adlai Stevenson on a 1965 stamp Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben ( 1930 ) Revolutionary War general Wallace Stevens ( 2012 ) Poet Adlai Stevenson ( 1965 ) UN Ambassador and presidential candidate James Stewart ( 2007 ) Actor Walter Stewart ( 1976 ) Revolutionary War soldier Alfred Stieglitz ( 2002 ) Photographer Clyfford Still ( 2010 ) Abstract expressionist artist Joseph W. Stilwell ( 2000 ) Army General Richard Stockton ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Leopold Stokowski ( 1997 ) Conductor Harlan Fiske Stone ( 1948 ) Chief Justice Lucy Stone on a 1968 stamp Lucy Stone ( 1965 ) Suffragist and feminist Joseph Story ( 2009 ) Supreme Court justice Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 2007 ) Author Paul Strand ( 2002 ) Photographer Michael Strank ( 1945 ) Iwo Jima Igor Stravinsky ( 1982 ) Composer William Strickland ( 1979 ) Architect Gilbert Charles Stuart ( 1940 ) Painter Harry Stuhldreher ( 1998 ) Football player Peter Stuyvesant ( 1948 ) New Amsterdam Governor Anne Sullivan ( 1980 ) Educator Ed Sullivan ( 2009 ) TV variety show host John Sullivan ( 1929 ) Revolutionary War general Louis Sullivan ( 1981 ) Architect George Szell ( 1997 ) Conductor , composer Robert A. Taft on a 1960 stamp Robert A. Taft ( 1960 ) Senator William Howard Taft ( 1930 ) 27th President , 10th Chief Justice of the United States William Talman ( 2009 ) Actor Henry Ossawa Tanner ( 1973 ) Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner on a 1973 stamp Ida Tarbell ( 2002 ) Author , journalist Robert Robinson Taylor ( 2015 ) African American architect Zachary Taylor ( 1875 ) 12th President Walter Dorwin Teague ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Shirley Temple ( 2016 ) Actress and diplomat Mother Teresa ( 2010 ) Humanitarian Gerard Terborch ( 1974 ) Painter Mary Church Terrell ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Sonny Terry ( 1998 ) Blues musician Henry David Thoreau on a 1967 stamp Nikola Tesla ( 1983 ) Induction motor inventor Rosetta Tharpe ( 1998 ) Gospel singer , musician , and songwriter Sylvanus Thayer ( 1985 ) Educator Danny Thomas ( 2012 ) Entertainer Charles Thomson ( 1976 ) Continental Congress Secretary Henry David Thoreau ( 1967 ) Author Jim Thorpe ( 1984 ) Football player James Thurber ( 1994 ) Author , illustrator , humorist Lawrence Tibbett ( 1997 ) Opera singer Giambattista Tiepolo ( 1982 ) Painter Lewis Comfort Tiffany ( 2007 ) Designer Bill Tilghman ( 1994 ) Southwest lawman Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1999 ) Composer Arturo Toscanini ( 1989 ) Conductor Pie Traynor ( 2000 ) Baseball player William B.T. Trego ( 1976 ) Painter Edward Trudeau ( 2008 ) Phthisiologist 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 V ( edit ) 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 Vivian Vance ( 2009 ) Actress Félix Varela ( 1997 ) Social reformer Sarah Vaughan ( 2016 ) Jazz singer Alfred V. Verville ( 1985 ) Aviation pioneer King Vidor ( 2008 ) Film director , producer and screenwriter Oswald Garrison Villard ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader Bartolomeo Vivarini ( 1999 ) Painter Greta von Nessen ( 2011 ) Industrial designer John von Neumann ( 2005 ) Mathematician Honus Wagner ( 2000 ) Baseball player Madam C.J. Walker ( 1998 ) Philanthropist Mary Edwards Walker ( 1982 ) Army surgeon Booker T. Washington on a 1940 stamp DeWitt Wallace ( 1998 ) Publisher Lila Wallace ( 1998 ) Publisher Raoul Wallenberg ( 1997 ) Humanitarian George Walton ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Clara Ward ( 1998 ) Gospel singer and songwriter Andy Warhol ( 2002 ) Painter George Washington on 1847 stamp `` Pop '' Warner ( 1997 ) Football coach Earl Warren ( 1992 ) Chief Justice Robert Penn Warren ( 2005 ) Author and poet Martha Washington on an 1923 stamp Booker T. Washington ( 1940 ) Educator Dinah Washington ( 1993 ) Blues singer Fredi Washington ( 2008 ) Actress Daniel Webster on an 1890 stamp George Washington ( 1847 ) 1st President John P. Washington ( 1948 ) Chaplain ( 1st Lt . ) , U.S. Army Martha Washington ( 1902 ) First Lady Ethel Waters ( 1994 ) Blues singer and actress Muddy Waters ( 1994 ) Blues singer , musician , and songwriter Stand Watie ( 1995 ) Confederate General Carleton Watkins ( 2002 ) Photographer Franz Waxman ( 1999 ) Composer Anthony Wayne ( 1929 ) Revolutionary War General John Wayne ( 1990 ) Actor Jack Webb ( 2009 ) Actor Walt Whitman on a 1940 stamp Daniel Webster ( 1870 ) Statesman Noah Webster ( 1958 ) Author Orson Welles ( 1999 ) Actor / film director Frank Lloyd Wright , 1966 Ida B. Wells ( 1990 ) Civil Rights advocate , feminist 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 William Whipple ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer James McNeill Whistler ( 1934 ) Painter Jon Whitcomb ( 2001 ) Illustrator Josh White ( 1998 ) Folk singer , musician , songwriter , and actor Minor White ( 2002 ) Photographer Paul Dudley White ( 1986 ) Cardiologist Walter Francis White ( 2009 ) Civil rights leader William Allen White ( 1948 ) Newspaper editor Wabokieshiek ( White Cloud ) ( 1998 ) Iowa Chief Walt Whitman ( 1940 ) Poet Eli Whitney ( 1940 ) Cotton gin inventor John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1940 ) Poet Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman ( 1990 ) Tennis player Billy Wilder ( 2012 ) Motion picture director 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 singer , musician , and songwriter Roger Williams ( 1936 ) Rhode Island co-founder Ted Williams ( 2012 ) Baseball player Tennessee Williams ( 1995 ) Playwright William Williams ( Continental Congress ) ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer William Carlos Williams ( 2012 ) Poet William Haliday Williams ( 1912 ) Rural mail carrier and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Thomas Willing ( 1976 ) Continental Congressman Frances E. Willis ( 2006 ) Diplomat Wendell Willkie ( 1992 ) Statesman Bob Wills ( 1993 ) Country musician and songwriter Meredith Willson ( 1999 ) Composer , playwright James Wilson ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Woodrow Wilson ( 1925 ) 28th President Garry Winogrand ( 2002 ) Photographer John Witherspoon ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signatory Oliver Wolcott ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer Thomas Wolfe ( 2000 ) Author Grant Wood ( 1996 ) Painter Carter G. Woodson ( 1984 ) Historian Frank Lloyd Wright ( 1965 ) Architect Orville Wright ( 1928 ) Aviation pioneer Richard Wright ( 2009 ) Writer Russel Wright ( 2011 ) Industrial designer Wilbur Wright ( 1928 ) Aviation pioneer Newell Convers Wyeth ( 2001 ) Illustrator George Wythe ( 1976 ) Declaration of Independence signer X ( edit ) Malcolm X ( 1999 ) Civil rights advocate Y ( edit ) Sun Yat - sen on a 1961 stamp Sun Yat - sen ( 1942 , 1961 ) Chinese revolutionary leader Alvin C. York ( 2000 ) World War I 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 Z ( edit ) Babe Zaharias ( 1981 ) Track & field athlete See also ( edit ) U.S. Presidents on U.S. postage stamps List of United States airmail stamps Artists of stamps of the United States Postage stamps and postal history of the United States Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States References ( edit ) United States Postal Service ( 2008 ) . The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps ( 35th ed . ) . Washington , D.C. : HarperResource . ISBN 978 - 0 - 06 - 166263 - 8 . Kloetzell , James E. , ed. ( 2005 ) . 2006 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. 1 . Sidney , Ohio : Scott Publishing Company . pp. 1 -- 160 . ISBN 0 - 89487 - 351 - 2 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2001 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by Jay Bigalke . November 12 , 2001 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2003 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by Jay Bigalke . July 1 , 2007 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2002 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by Jay Bigalke . January 3 , 2003 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2004 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by Jay Bigalke . July 1 , 2007 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . Jump up ^ `` First Moon Landing , 1969 '' 29 ¢ United States postage stamp , based on a photograph of Aldrin captured by Neil Armstrong on July 20 , 1969 ( July 21 , UTC ) . Aldrin , conversely , captured no photographs of Armstrong . ^ Jump up to : `` 2009 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by John Cropper . September 10 , 2009 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2016 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . July 9 , 2016 . Retrieved July 11 , 2016 . Jump up ^ StampNews.com ( March 14 , 2014 ) . `` C. Alfred `` Chief '' Anderson stamp from the USA `` . StampNews.com . Retrieved April 10 , 2014 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2005 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by John Cropper . July 1 , 2007 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . Jump up ^ `` First Man on the Moon '' 10 ₵ United States Air Mail stamp does not identify Armstrong by name but simply as the `` first man on the Moon '' , depicting him as he made his `` one small step '' . Jump up ^ Youngblood , Wayne ( March 2013 ) . `` Promotional FDCs Created for Many Reasons '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 3 ) : 218 -- 222 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 124 ( 5 ) : 500 -- 502 . May 2010 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2010 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . July 25 , 2013 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2008 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by John Cropper . March 6 , 2009 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. Stamp Schedule 1997 '' . Virtual Stamp Club . December 3 , 1997 . Retrieved August 12 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. Stamp Schedule 1999 '' . Virtual Stamp Club . September 22 , 1999 . Retrieved August 12 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2014 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . April 7 , 2015 . Retrieved August 4 , 2016 . ^ Jump up to : `` USA Philatelic '' . 17 . Washington , D.C. : United States Postal Service . January -- March 2012 . ^ Jump up to : `` USA Philatelic '' . 17 . Washington , D.C. : United States Postal Service . October -- December 2012 . ^ Jump up to : `` USA Philatelic '' . 18 . Washington , D.C. : United States Postal Service . July -- September 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. Stamp Schedule 1998 '' . Virtual Stamp Club . October 22 , 1998 . Retrieved August 12 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2006 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by John Cropper . January 10 , 2007 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : Lawrence , Ken ( November 19 , 2012 ) . `` Champions of Liberty 1957 - 1961 : Cold War commemoratives , part 4 '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4386 ) : 16 -- 28 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : Lawrence , Ken ( December 17 , 2012 ) . `` Champions of Liberty 1957 - 1961 : Cold War commemoratives , part 5 '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4390 ) : 16 -- 30 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. Stamp Schedule 2000 '' . Virtual Stamp Club . August 6 , 2000 . Retrieved August 12 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` Index for 2012 New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 12 ) : 1198 . December 2012 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 126 ( 6 ) : 598 . June 2012 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4425 ) : 60 . August 19 , 2013 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : Bigalke , Jay ; Baadke , Michael ( September 23 , 2013 ) . `` Two ceremonies for stamp honoring Ray Charles '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4430 ) : 1 and 24 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : Koepsel , Bob ( August 2013 ) . `` Wisconsin on Stamps '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 8 ) : 754 -- 762 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ `` Scott new Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. ,. 87 ( 4455 ) : 60 -- 61 . March 17 , 2014 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ Wentz , Charlie ( March 2013 ) . `` Letters to the editor : Jacqueline Cochran '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 3 ) : 204 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : `` Vintage Circus Posters '' . USPSStamps.com . United States Postal Service . Retrieved June 23 , 2014 . Jump up ^ Hamilton , James C. ( March 2010 ) . `` Philatelic Images for Captain James Cook 's Journals '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 124 ( 3 ) : 222 -- 231 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4412 ) : 52 -- 53 . May 20 , 2013 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Scott Stamp Monthly . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 28 ( 7 ) : 46 . July 2010 . ISSN 0737 - 0741 . ^ Jump up to : `` U.S. New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 124 ( 3 ) : 282 -- 283 . March 2010 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . ^ Jump up to : Baadke , Michael ( August 19 , 2013 ) . `` Honoring presidential centenaries : sometimes it 's a tradition '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4425 ) : 3 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : `` Scott new Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. ,. 87 ( 4460 ) : 60 -- 61 . April 21 , 2014 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2007 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . Compiled by John Cropper . December 27 , 2007 . Retrieved August 26 , 2013 . Jump up ^ Baadke , Michael ( December 19 , 2011 ) . `` New Linn 's yearbook tells the stories behind the stamps '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 84 ( 4338 ) : 3 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : `` These Immortal Chaplains '' 3 ¢ United States postage stamp Jump up ^ McMaster , Len ( March 2010 ) . `` A Philatelic Memoir : What I Collect '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 124 ( 3 ) : 246 -- 251 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ Baadke , Michael ( December 17 , 2012 ) . `` Unknown ' Forces in Grenada ' overprint on 1983 Galludet ( sic ) stamp '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4390 ) : 3 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ Bigalke , Jay ( August 19 , 2013 ) . `` Althea Gibson stamp 36th in Black Heritage series ; ceremony to take place Aug. 23 in Flushing , N.Y '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4425 ) : 1 and 34 -- 36 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ Associated Press ( August 22 , 2013 ) . `` U.S. Postal Service honors Althea Gibson with stamp '' . USA Today . Retrieved August 24 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : `` Scott new Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. ,. 86 ( 4434 ) : 60 -- 61 . October 21 , 2013 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ Bigalke , Jay ( May 20 , 2013 ) . `` Medal of Honor and Christmas stamps revealed '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4412 ) : 10 -- 12 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : Amick , George ( December 19 , 2011 ) . `` Linn 's opens 2011 U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 84 ( 4338 ) : 1 and 18 -- 21 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ StampNews.com ( March 13 , 2014 ) . `` Music Icons : Jimi Hendrix stamp from the USPS '' . StampNews.com . Retrieved April 10 , 2014 . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4386 ) : 56 -- 57 . November 19 , 2012 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ `` Charlton Heston '' . USPSStamps.com . United States Postal Service . Retrieved June 23 , 2014 . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4351 ) : 55 -- 57 . March 19 , 2012 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4395 ) : 52 -- 53 . January 21 , 2013 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . ^ Jump up to : Youngblood , Wayne ( February 2013 ) . `` Promotional FDCs Served as Both Message & Medium '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 2 ) : 120 -- 124 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 86 ( 4420 ) : 55 -- 56 . July 15 , 2013 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ `` U.S. New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 127 ( 6 ) : 594 -- 595 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ `` Harvey Milk '' . USPSStamps.com . United States Postal Service . Retrieved June 23 , 2014 . ^ Jump up to : `` 2015 United States Stamp Schedule '' . Virtual Stamp Club . January 4 , 2016 . Retrieved July 11 , 2016 . Jump up ^ `` Completion of First Transcontinental Railroad '' 3 ₵ United States postage stamp depicts Leland Stanford driving the `` golden spike '' at Promontory Point , Utah . Ogden is not identified by name on the stamp , but is depicted on the left side , as then - president of the Union Pacific Railroad as Stanford prepares to swing the sledgehammer and photographer A.J. Russell prepares to capture the image for posterity . Jump up ^ Hotchner , John M. ( April 16 , 2012 ) . `` U.S. Notes - Elvis was n't the first ; the public voted on Gettysburg design '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4355 ) : 4 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ `` U.S. New Issues '' . American Philatelist . Bellefonte , Pennsylvania : American Philatelic Society , Inc. 125 ( 3 ) : 285 . March 2011 . ISSN 0003 - 0473 . Jump up ^ Russell was the photographer who memorialized the driving of the `` golden spike '' connecting the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads in 1869 . `` Completion of First Transcontinental Railroad '' 3 ₵ United States postage stamp depicts A.J. Russell photographing Leland Stanford driving the `` golden spike '' at Promontory Point , Utah . Russell is toward the right side of the stamp . Jump up ^ `` Completion of First Transcontinental Railroad '' 3 ₵ United States postage stamp depicts Stanford driving the `` golden spike '' at Promontory Point , Utah . Stanford is not identified by name in the stamp , but is depicted holding a sledgehammer in front of a train as photographer A.J. Russell to the right prepares to capture the image for posterity . Jump up ^ `` Scott New Issues Update '' . Linn 's Stamp News . Sidney , Ohio : Amos Press , Inc. 85 ( 4355 ) : 58 -- 59 . April 16 , 2012 . ISSN 0161 - 6234 . Jump up ^ `` Study Unit Spotlight : Sports Philatelists International '' . Topical Time . Carterville , Illinois : American Topical Association , Inc. 63 ( 6 ) : 46 -- 52 . November -- December 2012 . ISSN 0040 - 9332 . Jump up ^ Cooper , Ralph ( 2004 ) . `` Alfred Verville '' . The Early Birds of Aviation , Inc . Archived from the original on 2016 - 03 - 03 . Retrieved 2014 - 05 - 01 . Jump up ^ Mary L. Maas ; Jim Krzycki ; Judy Brezina & Ruth Waters ( 21 July 2014 ) . Colfax County . Arcadia Publishing . p. 40 . ISBN 978 - 1 - 4671 - 1196 - 6 . 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