List of people on stamps of French Polynesia
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As French Oceania
- Marie CurieMarie CurieMarie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
(1938) - Pierre CuriePierre CuriePierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. He was the son of Dr. Eugène Curie and Sophie-Claire Depouilly Curie ...
(1938) - Félix ÉbouéFélix ÉbouéFélix Adolphe Éboué was a Black French colonial administrator and Free French leader. He was the first black French man appointed to high post in the French colonies, when appointed as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936...
(1945) - Paul GauguinPaul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
(1953) - Philippe PétainPhilippe PétainHenri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
(1941)
As French Polynesia (1958+ )
- Daniel Adam (1972)
- M. Anglade (1975)
- Atlas JL the Younger?? (1981)
- Marie-Françoise Avril (1974)
- Titi Bécaud (1996)
- Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
(1976) - A. Benichou (1966)
- Tamure Bimbo (2001)
- Eric de BisschopEric de BisschopEric de Bisschop was a French seafarer, famous for his travel from Honolulu to France aboard the Polynesian sailboat Kaimiloa....
(1988) - Johel Blanchard (1994)
- William BlighWilliam BlighVice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMAV Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift in the Bounty's launch by the mutineers...
(1983) - Domingo de Boenechea (1995)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1969)
- Louis Antoine de BougainvilleLouis Antoine de BougainvilleLouis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of James Cook, he took part in the French and Indian War and the unsuccessful French attempt to defend Canada from Britain...
(1968) - Jacques Boulaire (1984, 1993)
- Jean-Charles Bouloc (1970)
- Jackie Bourdin (1973)
- Georges Bovy (1972)
- André Brooke (1972)
- Germaine Bruel (1994)
- King Camatoa V (1977)
- Marcel Chardon (1974)
- Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
(1999) - Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
(1992) - James CookJames CookCaptain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
(1978, 1979) - Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
(1973) - Michele Dallet (1994)
- J. Day (1975)
- Christian Deloffre (1995, 1999)
- André Deymonaz (1998)
- Christine de Dinechin (1996)
- André Dobrowolski (1971)
- Robert DoddRobert Dodd (artist)Robert Dodd was a British marine painter and aquatint engraver. He is known for his works on the French Revolutionary Wars.-Life and family:...
(1989) - René Ildefonse Dordillon (1987)
- Philippe Dubois (1995)
- Jean Dubrusk (1999)
- Paul Engdahl (1988)
- David Farsi (1974)
- Jean François Favre (1973)
- Frank FayFrank FayFrancis or Frank Fay may refer to:* Frank Fay , co-founder of the Abbey Theatre* Frank Fay , known for playing Elwood P. Dowd in the play Harvey* Francis B. Fay, U.S. representative from MassachusettsSee also...
(1970) - Pedro Fernandez de Quiroz (1995)
- Yuri GagarinYuri GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
(1981) - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La PérouseJean-François de Galaup, comte de La PérouseJean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...
(1976) - J. Gandouin (1999)
- Monique Garnier-Bissol (1997)
- Charles de GaulleCharles de GaulleCharles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
(1971, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1990, 1997, 1998) - Paul GauguinPaul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
(1965, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994) - Eliane de Gennes (1973)
- Alain GerbaultAlain GerbaultAlain J. Gerbault was a French aviator and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life.- Early life :Alain Gerbault was born on...
(1976, 1993) - Charles Giraud (1982)
- Constance Frederika Gordon Cumming (1982)
- Adrian Herman Gouwe (1983)
- François Joseph Paul de GrasseFrançois Joseph Paul de GrasseLieutenant Général des Armées Navales François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse was a French admiral. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown...
(1976) - Thomas Graves, 1st Baron GravesThomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves|-|-...
(1976) - Henri GrégoireHenri GrégoireHenri Grégoire , often referred to as Abbé Grégoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader...
(1994) - Jean Guillois (1970)
- René Guillotin (1998)
- James Norman HallJames Norman HallJames Norman Hall was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff.-Biography:Hall was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local schools...
(1988) - Damien Haturau (1983)
- Stanley Haumani (1998)
- Pierre Heyman (1971, 1984)
- Rowland HillRowland 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...
(1979) - William HodgesWilliam HodgesWilliam Hodges RA was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic.Hodges was born in London. He was a...
(1981) - Tepano Jaussen (1987)
- Ruy Juventin (1972)
- Pierre Kienlen (1992)
- Robert KochRobert KochHeinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis , the Tuberculosis bacillus and the Vibrio cholerae and for his development of Koch's postulates....
(1981) - Pierre Lacouture (1994)
- André Lang (1996)
- Jules-Louis Lejeune (1991)
- Henri Lemasson (1996)
- Charles Alfred Le Moine (1983)
- Charles A. Lindbergh (1977)
- Pierre LotiPierre LotiPierre Loti was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906...
(1973) - Eddie LundEddie LundEddie Lund was a pianist and bandleader.He grew up in Vancouver, Washington, USA, and later moved to Oregon where he worked as a pianist. He later moved to Tahiti in either 1936 or 1938 where he stayed permanently and published and released many records...
(2001) - Martin LutherMartin LutherMartin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
(1983) - Erhard Lux (1992)
- William Alexander MacdonaldWilliam Alexander MacdonaldWilliam Alexander Macdonald was a Manitoba Lawyer and politician. He briefly served as leader of the Manitoba Conservatives during the 1890s....
(1983) - King Maputeoa (1977)
- Camélia Maraea (1997)
- André Marere (1993)
- Marie Mariteragi (2001)
- R. Marcel Marius (1975)
- Jean MassonJean MassonJean Masson was a French politician who served as state secretary in various governments during the French Fourth Republic, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports in 1952-53....
(1970, 1984) - Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
(1980) - Charley Mauu (2001)
- Paul Laurent Maze (1987)
- Herman MelvilleHerman MelvilleHerman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
(1992) - Nicolai MichoutouchkineNicolai MichoutouchkineNicolai Michoutouchkine , a Russian from Vanuatu, was a painter, artist, designer, and collector of Pacific artifacts....
(1971) - Alvaro de Mendana de NeiraÁlvaro de Mendaña de NeiraÁlvaro de Mendaña de Neira was a Spanish navigator. Born in Congosto, in León, he was the nephew of Lope García de Castro, viceroy of Peru...
(1995) - Noho Mercier (1996)
- Nicolas Mordvinoff (1983)
- Octave Morillot (1992)
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(1991) - Maryse Noguier (1996)
- Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1988)
- Patrick O'ReillyPatrick O'ReillyPatrick O'Reilly may refer to:*Patrick O'Reilly , Irish independent politician from Cavan*Patrick O'Reilly , Irish Fianna Fáil politician, member of the Senate, 1944–69...
(1989) - Peter Owen (1997)
- Henry NottHenry NottHenry Nott was a British Protestant Christian missionary to Tahiti, Society Islands, Polynesia.-Life:He was one of the first missionaries sent out by the London Missionary Society, arriving in Tahiti aboard the mission ship “Duff” in 1797. He had been a bricklayer by trade and the mission did not...
(1988) - Papeiha (1988)
- Louis PasteurLouis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
(1995) - Aloysius Pilioko (1972)
- Pomare IPomare IPōmare I, King of Tahiti , fully in old orthography: Tu-nui-ea-i-te-atua-i-Tarahoi Vairaatoa Taina Pōmare I , was the unifier and first king of Tahiti and founder of the Pōmare dynasty and the Kingdom of Tahiti between 1788? and 1791.Outu is the phonetic English rendering of...
(1976) - Pomare IIPomare IIPōmare II, King of Tahiti , fully Tu Tunuieaiteatua Pōmare II or in modern orthography Tū Tū-nui-ēa-i-te-atua Pōmare II , was the second king of Tahiti between 1782 and 1821. He was installed by his father Pōmare I at Tarahoi, February 13, 1791...
(1976) - Pomare IIIPomare IIIPōmare III, King of Tahiti , more properly Teriʻitariʻa Pōmare III, was the king of Tahiti between 1821 and 1827. He was the second son of King Pōmare II and his wife Queen Teriʻtoʻoterai Teremoemoe....
(1976) - Pomare IVPomare IVPōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti , more properly Aimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraitua , was the queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877...
(1976, 1996) - Pomare VPomare VPōmare V, King of Tahiti was the last monarch of Tahiti, reigning from 1877 until his forced abdication in 1880. He was the son of Queen Pōmare IV. He was born as Teri'i Tari'a Te-rā-tane and became Heir Apparent and Crown Prince upon the death of his elder brother on 13 May 1855...
(1976) - Georges PompidouGeorges PompidouGeorges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.-Biography:...
(1976) - Maximilien Radiguet (1982)
- Samuel Raapoto (1988)
- François Ravello (1973)
- Joshua ReynoldsJoshua ReynoldsSir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy...
(1981) - Henriette Robin (1974)
- Auguste RodinAuguste RodinFrançois-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
(1970) - George Brydges Rodney (1976)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1977)
- Yves de Saint-Front (1970)
- Jean Sébastien Rouillard (1969)
- Maui Seaman (1995)
- Françoise Séli (1971)
- Jean Shelsher (1993)
- Alan ShepardAlan ShepardAlan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, in space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit...
(1981) - Alain Sidet (1973)
- Robert SmirkeRobert SmirkeRobert Smirke may refer to:* Robert Smirke , 18th/19th century English painter* Robert Smirke , son of the painter, 19th century English architect...
(1997) - Karl Solander (1986)
- Jacques Sorgniard (1999)
- Anders Erikson Sparrman (1986)
- Elisabeth Stefanovitch (1997)
- J. Steimetz (1975)
- Vaea Sylvain (1993)
- Robert Tatin (1984)
- Rosine Temarui-Masson (1974)
- Emma Terangi (2001)
- Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1973)
- Simone Testeguide (1995)
- King Teurarii III (1977)
- George TobinGeorge TobinGeorge Tobin is a record producer who has produced albums for a long list of musical artists including Robert John, Smokey Robinson, Kim Carnes, Kicking Harold, and PC Quest. He is best known, however, for discovering, managing, and producing the teenage singer Tiffany and showcasing her in malls...
(1981) - Uschi (1992)
- Queen Vaekehu (1977)
- George VancouverGeorge VancouverCaptain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
(1987) - Aad van der Heyde (1975)
- E. Verreaux (1988)
- J. Verreaux (1988)
- Julien Viaud (1995)
- Paul-Émile VictorPaul-Émile VictorPaul-Émile Victor was a French ethnologist and explorer.Victor was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He graduated from École Centrale de Lyon in 1928. In 1934, he participated in an expedition traversing Greenland...
(1993, 1996) - Victoria of the United KingdomVictoria of the United KingdomVictoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
(1979 Stamp on stamp) - Michelle Villemin (1994)
- John WeberJohn WeberJohn Weber may refer to:* John B. Weber , U.S. Representative from New York* John Henry Weber , Danish born, American fur trader and explorer* John Vincent Weber , former Republican Congressman from Minnesota...
(1981) - Isabelle Wolf (1971)