List of people on stamps of Barbados
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This is a list of people on the postage stamp
Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...

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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

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The list is complete through August 2011.
  • Sir Grantley Adams, Prime Minister (1998 souvenir sheet)
  • Sir George Alleyne
    George Alleyne
    Sir George Alleyne currently serves as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region. He was appointed to the position by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in February 2003....

    , Director of the Pan American Health Organization (2002)
  • Warren Alleyne, WW2 RAF airman (1995)
  • Neil Armstrong
    Neil Armstrong
    Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....

    , American astronaut (1999)
  • Owen Arthur
    Owen Arthur
    Owen Seymour Arthur, MP was the fifth Prime Minister of Barbados who was in office from 1994 to 2008 and is the current Leader of Opposition in Barbados. To date, he is the longest serving Barbadian Prime Minister....

    , Prime Minister (1997 souvenir sheet)
  • Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
    Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
    Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...

     (1951)
  • Harold Austin
    Harold Austin
    Sir Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin OBE was a West Indian politician and cricketer. He was known as H.B.G.....

     (1987)
  • The Lord Baden-Powell
    Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
    Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB , also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement....

     (1972)
  • Errol Barrow
    Errol Barrow
    Errol Walton Barrow, PC, QC was a Caribbean statesman and the first Prime Minister of Barbados. Born into a family of political and civic activists in the parish of Saint Lucy and educated at Harrison College, his sister Dame Nita Barrow also became a social activist, humanitarian leader and later...

    , Prime Minister (1987)
  • Dame Nita Barrow, nurse, Governor General (1991)
  • Harry Bayley, astronomer (1988)
  • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1937)
  • Louis Braille
    Louis Braille
    Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired...

     (2009)
  • George B. Burton (1972)
  • The Duchess of Cambridge (2011)
  • The Duke of Cambridge (2011)
  • George Challenor
    George Challenor
    George Challenor was a West Indian cricketer who was part of the first West Indies Test side. He was recognised as the first great West Indian batsman, his obituary in Wisden Cricketer's Almanack ending with the words "His admirable batting did much toward raising cricket in West Indies to Test...

    , cricketer (1987)
  • Charles I
    Charles I of England
    Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

     (1927)
  • Sir Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

     (1966)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

    , US President (1997 souvenir sheet)
  • William Hart Coleridge
    William Hart Coleridge
    The Rt Rev William Hart Coleridge was Bishop of Barbados from 1824 until 1842.He was born on 27 June 1789 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford.He died in 1849.-Notes and references:...

    , bishop (1975)
  • Frank Cullymore, sculptor (1981)
  • Elizabeth II (2002)
  • Joel Garner
    Joel Garner
    Joel Garner , also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early '80s West Indies cricket teams....

    , cricketer (2007)
  • Gordon Greenidge
    Gordon Greenidge
    Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team.Greenidge was an opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • Charlie Griffith
    Charlie Griffith
    Charles Christopher Griffith is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 28 Tests from 1960 to 1969. He formed a lethal fast bowling partnership with Wes Hall during the 1960s...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • Herman C. Griffith (1987)
  • George V
    George V of the United Kingdom
    George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

     (1912)
  • George VI
    George VI of the United Kingdom
    George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...

     (1937)
  • Prince Hall
    Prince Hall
    Prince Hall , was a tireless abolitionist and a leader of the free black community in Boston. Hall tried to gain New England’s enslaved and free blacks a place in some of the most crucial spheres of society, Freemasonry, education and the military...

    , Freemason (1976)
  • Wesley Hall, cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • Paul P. Harris
    Paul P. Harris
    Paul Percy Harris was a Chicago, Illinois, attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, a service organization that currently has well over one million members worldwide.-Biography:...

    , Rotary founder (1980)
  • James Hay
    James Hay
    James Hay was an American politician from Virginia. He was a member of the United States Congress and a judge on the United States Court of Claims....

    , Earl of Carlisle (1976)
  • Desmond Haynes
    Desmond Haynes
    Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. Haynes formed a formidable partnership with Gordon Greenidge for the West Indies cricket team in Test cricket during 1980s. Between them they managed 16 century stands, four in excess of...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • Sir Rowland Hill
    Rowland Hill (postal reformer)
    Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters...

    , postal reformer (1979)
  • Sir Conrad Hunte
    Conrad Hunte
    Sir Conrad Cleophas Hunte, KA was a Barbadian cricketer. Hunte played 44 Test matches as an opening batsman for the West Indies.-Early life and career:...

    , cricketer (2000)
  • Aubrey Inniss, WW2 RAF airman (1995)
  • Sir James Frederick Lyon, governor (2007)
  • Sir Roy Marshall
    Roy Marshall
    Roy Edwin Marshall was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1951 to 1952. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1959.-Early career:...

    , Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (1974)
  • Malcolm Marshall
    Malcolm Marshall
    By 1984 Marshall was seen as one of the finest bowlers in the world, and he demoralised England that summer, especially at Headingley, where he ran through the order in the second innings to finish with 7-53, despite having broken his thumb whilst fielding in the first innings...

    , cricketer (2000)
  • E. A. Martindale, cricketer (1988)
  • Pippa Middleton
    Pippa Middleton
    Philippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton is an English party planner, socialite and younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge...

     (2011)
  • The Viscount Nelson
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB was a flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics, which resulted in a number of...

    , British admiral (1906)
  • Seymour Nurse
    Seymour Nurse
    Seymour MacDonald Nurse is a Barbadian former cricketer. Nurse played 29 Test matches for the West Indies between 1960 and 1969. A powerfully built right-hand batsman and an aggressive, if somewhat impetuous, shotmaker, Nurse preferred to bat in the middle order but was often asked to open the...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • The Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

     (1966)
  • Samuel Jackman Prescod, politician (1971)
  • Sir Garfield Sobers
    Garfield Sobers
    Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers AO, OCC is a former cricketer who captained West Indies. His first name of Garfield is variously abbreviated as Gary or Garry. He is widely regarded as one of cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, having excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and...

    , cricketer (1966)
  • John Spencer
    John Spencer
    -Earls:*John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer *John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer , British politician*John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer , British politician...

    , Viscount Althorp, 8th Earl Spencer (1982)
  • Charles W. Springer, Boy Scouts (1972)
  • Queen Victoria (1882)
  • Sir Clyde Walcott
    Clyde Walcott
    Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • George Washington
    George Washington
    George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

    , US President (1982)
  • Sir Everton Weekes
    Everton Weekes
    Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE is a leading former West Indian cricketer. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket.-Youth and early career:...

    , cricketer (2007 souvenir sheet)
  • William Wilberforce
    William Wilberforce
    William Wilberforce was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire...

    , British politician, abolitionist (2007)
  • The Prince of Wales
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...

     (1981)
  • The Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...

     (1981)
  • Sir Frank Worrell
    Frank Worrell
    Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator...

    , cricketer (1995)
  • The Duke of York
    Prince Andrew, Duke of York
    Prince Andrew, Duke of York KG GCVO , is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

     (1986)
  • The Duchess of York
    Sarah, Duchess of York
    Sarah, Duchess of York is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and former member of the British Royal Family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, whom she married from 1986 to 1996...

    (1986)

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