List of people on stamps of Namibia
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This is a list of people on the postage stamp
s of South West Africa
, and Namibia
as it is now known since independence from South Africa
in 1990.
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 South West Africa
South West Africa
South-West Africa was the name that was used for the modern day Republic of Namibia during the earlier eras when the territory was controlled by the German Empire and later by South Africa....
, and Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
as it is now known since independence from South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
in 1990.
South West Africa
- George VGeorge V of the United KingdomGeorge 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....
(1935) SG88-91 - George VI 1937 SG97-104aaaaa
- Queen Elizabeth II (1953) SG149-153
- CalvinJohn CalvinJohn Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530...
(1964) SG196-197 - Curt von FrançoisCurt von FrancoisCurt Karl Bruno von François was a military and political figure in the early days of German colonialism in Africa. He is remembered as one of the pioneers of German Southwest Africa ....
(1965) SG199 - Dr Heinrich VedderHeinrich VedderHermann Heinrich Vedder was a German missionary, linguist, ethnologist and historian. Originally a silk weaver, he received missionary training in Barmen between 1894 and 1903, whereafter he was sent to German South-West Africa...
(1966) SG200-201 - C.R. Swart (1968) SG220-221
- Bartholomew Dias (1988) SG487
- Dr Carl Hugo HahnCarl Hugo HahnCarl Hugo Hahn was a German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa for most of his life. Together with Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt he set up the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero people in Gross Barmen...
(1989) SG503 German Missionary - Rev J G Krönlein (1989) SG504 German Missionary
- Rev F H Kleinschmidt (1989) German Missionary
- Rev Heinrich SchmelenHeinrich SchmelenReverend Johann Heinrich Schmelen was a German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa. Traveling through the area of today's northern South Africa and central and southern Namibia he founded the mission stations at Bethanie and Steinkopf and discovered the natural...
(1989) German Missionary - Sir Ernest OppenheimerErnest OppenheimerSir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.-Career:...
(1983) - August StauchAugust StauchAugust Stauch is considered the discoverer of the diamond deposits near the settlement of Lüderitz in the then colony of German South-West Africa, now Namibia....
(1983) Prospector - Chief Joseph Fredericks (1983)
- Heinrich Vogelsang (1983)
- Adolf LüderitzAdolf LüderitzFranz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz was a German merchant and founder of the first German colony in Southwest Africa....
(1983)
Namibia
- Pres Sam NujomaSam NujomaSamuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma is a Namibian politician who was the first President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005. He led the South-West Africa People's Organisation in its long struggle against South African rule and took office as President when Namibia obtained independence on 21 March 1990...
(1990) SACC1 - Martii Rautanen (1995) SACC130 Finnish Missionary
- Albin Savola (1995) SACC131 Finnish Missionary
- Karl Emanuel Wekkolin (1995) SACC132 Finnish Missionary
- Dr Selma Raino (1995) SACC133 SACC170 Finnish Missionary
- Heinrich von StephanHeinrich von StephanHeinrich von Stephan was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany.Stephan was born in Stolp , Pomerania, in the Kingdom of Prussia...
(1997) Founder of UPU - John Muafangelo (1997) Artist SACC232
- Johanna Gertze (1999) SACC314