List of people on the postage stamps of Liberia

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Liberia, including the years in which they appeared on a stamp.
The list is complete through 1974.
*Jehudi Ashmun, missionary (1949, 1952)
*Arthur Barclay, president (1906, 1949)
*Edwin J. Barclay, president (1937, 1949, 1966)
*Stephen Benson, president (1949, 1966)
*Thomas Buchanan, governor (1940, 1952)
*Lott Carey, governor (1952)
*Joseph J. Cheeseman, president (1949, 1969)
*Winston Churchill, UK prime minister (1966, 1975)
*William D. Coleman, president (1950, 1967)
*A. W. Gardner, president (1950)
*Garretson W. Gibson, president (1949)
*Robert Goodloe Harper (1952)
*Dag Hammarskjöld, UN secretary general (1962)
*Daniel Howard, president (1921, 1949, 1966)
*Hilary Johnson, president (1892, 1949, 1967)
*John F. Kennedy, US president (1964, 1966)
*Charles D. B. King, president (1923, 1928, 1949, 1966)
*Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
*Abraham Lincoln, US president (1959)
*Edgar D. Mitchell, US astronaut (1971)
*Napoleon I of France (1970)
*Matilda Newport, defender (1947)
*Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana president (1960)
*James S. Payne, president (1949, 1967)
*Joseph Jenkins Roberts, president (1948, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966)
*Stuart Roosa, US astronaut (1971)
*Franklin D. 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., president (1971, 1972, 1974)
*Sekou Toure, Guinea president (1960)
*William Tubman, president (1957, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971)
*Daniel B. Warner, president (1949, 1966)
After 1973
From 1973 on, Liberia issued mostly stamps honoring non-Liberians.
*Aristotle (1973)
*Emil von Behring (1973)
*Valeriy Borzov, Soviet sprinter (1973)
*George W. Bush, elected US president (2000)
*Eugene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
*Nicolaus Copernicus (1973)
*Klaus Dibiasi, diver (1973)
*Ronald Evans, US astronaut (1973)
*Alexander Fleming (1973)
*Sigmund Freud, psychologist (1973)
*Al Gore, US vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate (2000)
*Edward Jenner, physician (1973)
*Kipchoge Keino, steeplechase (1973)
*Richard Meade, equestrian (1973)
*Louis Pasteur (1973)
*Ptolemy (1973)
*Jonas Salk, physician (1973)
*Harrison Schmitt, US astronaut (1973)
*Mark Spitz, swimmer (1973)
*Hans Winkler, jumper (1973)
*Hideaki Yanagida, wrestler (1973)
*Mohandas Gandhi, Leader of Independence Movement (1998)
*Barack Obama, First African-American elected US president (2008)

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