List of people on stamps of Liberia
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This is a list of people on the postage stamp
s of Liberia
, including the years in which they appeared on a stamp.
The list is complete through 1974.
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...
s of Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...
, including the years in which they appeared on a stamp.
The list is complete through 1974.
- Jehudi AshmunJehudi AshmunJehudi Ashmun was a religious leader and social reformer who became involved in the American Colonization Society...
, missionary (1949, 1952) - Arthur BarclayArthur BarclayArthur Barclay was the 15th President of Liberia, serving from 1904 to 1912.-Early life and education:Barclay was born at Bridgetown, Barbados, on July 31, 1854, the tenth of twelve children of Anthony and Sarah Barclay...
, president (1906, 1949) - Edwin J. Barclay, president (1937, 1949, 1966)
- Stephen Benson, president (1949, 1966)
- Thomas BuchananThomas Buchanan (Governor of Liberia)Thomas Buchanan was the second governor of Liberia and a cousin of James Buchanan, President of the United States. He came to Liberia as the envoy of the American Colonization Society in the 1830s. He worked first as an administrator in Grand Bassa, which later had its capital named Buchanan in...
, governor (1940, 1952) - Lott Carey, governor (1952)
- Joseph J. Cheeseman, president (1949, 1969)
- Winston ChurchillWinston ChurchillSir 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...
, UK prime minister (1966, 1975) - William D. Coleman, president (1950, 1967)
- A. W. Gardner, president (1950)
- Garretson W. GibsonGarretson W. GibsonGarretson Wilmot Gibson was the 14th President of Liberia from 11 December 1900, to 4 January 1904. Born in Maryland, in the United States, his family emigrated to Liberia in 1835. After receiving an education in mission schools, he returned to Maryland to study theology...
, president (1949) - Robert Goodloe HarperRobert Goodloe HarperRobert Goodloe Harper , a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives , the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina , and in...
(1952) - Dag HammarskjöldDag HammarskjöldDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. An early Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld...
, UN secretary general (1962) - Daniel HowardDaniel HowardDaniel Howard born 13 December 1984 is a rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL.Daniel Howard's position of choice is in the centres and he can also play as a second-row.-References:...
, president (1921, 1949, 1966) - Hilary JohnsonHilary R. W. JohnsonHilary Richard Wright Johnson served as the 11th President of Liberia from 1884 to 1892. He was elected four times. He served as Secretary of State before his presidency, under the administration of Edward James Roye....
, president (1892, 1949, 1967) - John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, US president (1964, 1966) - Charles D. B. KingCharles D. B. KingCharles Dunbar Burgess King was a politician in Liberia of Freetown Creole descent . He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980...
, president (1923, 1928, 1949, 1966) - Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...
(1968) - Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
, US president (1959) - Edgar D. Mitchell, US astronaut (1971)
- Napoleon I of FranceNapoleon I of FranceNapoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
(1970) - Matilda Newport, defender (1947)
- Kwame NkrumahKwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...
, Ghana president (1960) - James S. Payne, president (1949, 1967)
- Joseph J. Roberts, president (1948, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966)
- Stuart RoosaStuart RoosaStuart Allen Roosa was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971 and was the third mission to land astronauts on the Moon...
, US astronaut (1971) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president (1945)
- Edward J. Roye, president (1949, 1966)
- A. F. Russell, president (1950)
- Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (1972)
- Alan B. Shepard, US astronaut (1971)
- William R. Tolbert, Jr.William R. Tolbert, Jr.William Richard Tolbert, Jr. was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 to 1980.Trained as a civil servant, he entered the country's House of Representatives in 1955 for the True Whig Party, then the only established party in the country...
, president (1971, 1972, 1974) - Sekou Toure, Guinea president (1960)
- William TubmanWilliam TubmanWilliam Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was a Liberian politician. He was the 19th President of Liberia from 1944 until his death in 1971....
, president (1957, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971) - Daniel B. Warner, president (1949, 1966)
After 1973
From 1973 on, Liberia issued mostly stamps honoring non-Liberians.- AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
(1973) - Emil von Behring (1973)
- Valeriy Borzov, Soviet sprinter (1973)
- George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, US president (2000) - Eugene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
- 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) - Klaus DibiasiKlaus DibiasiKlaus Dibiasi is a former diver from Italy, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964...
, diver (1973) - Ronald EvansRonald EvansRonald Ellwin Evans, Jr. was a NASA astronaut and one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. He also served as a captain in the United States Navy....
, US astronaut (1973) - Alexander FlemingAlexander FlemingSir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy...
(1973) - Sigmund FreudSigmund FreudSigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
, psychologist (1973) - Edward JennerEdward JennerEdward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire...
, physician (1973) - Kipchoge KeinoKipchoge KeinoKipchoge Keino , chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee , is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist...
, steeplechase (1973) - Richard MeadeRichard MeadeRichard John Hannay Meade, OBE is a British equestrian expert and Olympic gold medal winning rider, tipped at one time to be the future husband of Princess Anne.In 1964, Meade won the Burghley Horse Trials on Barberry...
, equestrian (1973) - 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...
(1973) - PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
(1973) - Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
, physician (1973) - Harrison SchmittHarrison SchmittHarrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico....
, US astronaut (1973) - Mark SpitzMark SpitzMark Andrew Spitz is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics....
, swimmer (1973) - Hans WinklerHans WinklerProfessor Hans Winkler was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome...
, jumper (1973) - Hideaki YanagidaHideaki Yanagidais a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.-Olympics:Yanagida competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the bantamweight class.-References:...
, wrestler (1973) - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Leader of India'sIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Independence Movement (1998) - George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, President of the United States (2000) - Al GoreAl GoreAlbert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
, US Vice President and 2000 Democratic Presidential Candidate (2000) - Barack ObamaBarack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
, First African-American President of the United States (2008)