List of people on the postage stamps of Panama

This article lists people who have been featured on Panamanian postage stamps. Note that many of these people have been featured on multiple stamps. The following entries list the name of the person, a short description of their notability and the year they were first featured on a stamp.
This list is complete through 2021.
A
*Ricardo J. Alfaro, statesman (1982)
*Dante Alighieri, writer (1966)
*Manuel Amador Guerrero, founder and first president of Panama (1933)
*Manuel E. Amador, designer of national flag (2018)
*María Ossa de Amador, wife of President Amador (1953)
*Pedro Aramburu, president of Argentina (1956)
*José Agustin Arango, politician (1948)
*Raul Arango, fire brigade official (1963)
*Ricardo Arango, fire fighter (1937)
*, member of the revolutionary junta of 1903 (1948)
*Tomás Arias, politician (1948)
*Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala (1956)
*Alcibíades Arosemena, industrialist (1983)
*Carlos Constantino Arosemena, member of the revolutionary junta of 1903 (1948)
*Ernesto Arosemena, fire brigade official (1963)
*Florencia Arosemena, fire brigade (1937)
*Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, statesman (1970)
*Justo Arosemena, lawyer and politician (1906)
*Pablo Arosemena, president (1934)
B
*Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, saint (2003)
*Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador (1906)
*Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, president of Cuba (1956)
*Manuel Espinosa Batista, independence leader (1957)
*Alan L. Bean, astronaut (1971)
*Clara González de Behringer, first female lawyer in Panama (2003)
*Andrés Bello, Venezuelan-Chilean diplomat, poet, legislator, educator and philologist (1996)
*Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church (2007)
*Simón Bolívar, liberator (1921)
* Cardinal Luis of Bourbon and Villabriga, cardinal (1967)
*John Bosco, saint and educator (1988)
*Federico Boyd, member of the revolutionary junta of 1903 (1948)
*Louis Braille, inventor of Braille printing (1981)
*David H. Brandon, fire department official (1937)
*Demetrio H. Brid, president of the Republic of Panama (2018)
C
*Rafael A. Calderon, president of Costa Rica (1992)
*Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, president of Chile (1956)
*José Antonio Remón Cantera, president (1955)
*Jimmy Carter, president of the United States (1978)
*Maria Pantalones Carter, community activist (2019)
*David F. de Castro, fire brigade official (1963)
*Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, novelist and poet (1948)
*Miguel Chiari (1955)
*Roberto F. Chiari, president (1963)
*Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom (1965)
*Christopher Columbus, explorer (1936)
*Charles Conrad, Jr., astronaut (1971)
*L. Gordon Cooper, astronaut (1964)
*Fernández de Cordoba, royal governor (1906)
*Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, president of Mexico (1956)
*Andrés Bello Covenant (1966)
*José Daniel Crespo, educator (1973)
*Jose de la Cruz Herrera, humanitarian (1993)
*Marie Curie, physicist (1939)
*Pierre Curie, physicist (1939)
D
*Domingo Diaz, founder of republic (1953)
*Julio Lorenzo Diaz, president of Honduras (1956)
*J. J. A. Ducruet, fire brigade official (1948)
*Jose Gabriel Duque, fire brigade official (1937)
*Tomás Gabriel Duque, president (1963)
*Roberto Durán, boxer (1984)
E
*Mario Echandi, president of Costa Rica (1961)
*Dwight David Eisenhower, president of the United States (1956)
*Luis Carlos Endara, fire brigade official (1963)
*Ricardo Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1956)
*Víctor Paz Estenssoro, president of Bolivia (1956)
F
*José de Fábrega, soldier, politician and statesman (1906)
*Justo A. Facio, poet and educator (1934)
*Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut and space engineer (1965)
*José Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1956)
*Carlos J. Finlay, Cuban physician and biologist (1959)
*Count Floridablanca, Spanish statesman (1967)
*Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1992)
*Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church (2019)
G
*Mahatma Gandhi, leader of Indian independence (1971)
*Francisco Garcia y Santos, creator of the Postal Congress of the Americas (1936)
*George W. Goethals, civil engineer for the Panama Canal (1939)
*Richard F. Gordon, Jr., astronaut (1971)
*William C. Gorgas, general (1939)
*Goya, Spanish romantic painter and printmaker (1967)
*Jaime de la Guardia, medical doctor and founder of San Fernando Hospital (2001)
*Victor de la Guardia y Ayala, politician and playwright (1955)
*Juan A. Guizado, fire brigade official (1937)
H
*Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General (1961)
*Omar Torrijos Herrera, general (1982)
*Tomás Herrera, president (1906)
*Esteban Huertas, military commander (1953)
*Manuel J. Hurtado, engineer and educator (1906)
I
*José Maria Velasco Ibarra, president of Ecuador (1956)
*Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1991)
*Isabella I, queen of Spain (1952)
J
*[
Nicolas Victoria Jaén, educator (1973)
*Marcos Pérez Jiménez, president of Venezuela (1956)
*John XXIII, pope (1964)
*Lyndon Johnson, president of the United States (1966)
*Melvin Jones, founder of Lions International (1978)
*Santos Jorge, composer of national anthem (1953, 2018)
K
*John F. Kennedy, president of the United States (1965)
*Robert F. Kennedy, US senator (1968)
*Martin Luther King, US civil rights leader (1968)
*Vladimir Komarov, Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut (1965)
*Juscelino Kubitschek, president of Brazil (1956)
L
*Tomas Leblanc, fire brigade official (1963)
*Ernesto Tisdel Lefevre, president (1943)
*Max Lemm, artist for coat of arms (2018)
*Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Panama canal (1955)
*Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus (1991)
*Francisco Javier de Luna, founder of the University of San Javier (1949)
M
*Arnulfo Arias Madrid (1991)
*Paul E. Magloire, president of Haiti (1956)
*Cirilo Martinez, linguist (1983)
*Alejandro Meléndez (1943)
*Carlos A. Mendoza, president (1956)
*Ricardo Miró, poet (1983)
*Hector B. Truillo Molina, president of the Dominican Republic (1956)
*Eusebio A. Morales, lawyer, politician and writer (1934)
*Mireya Moscoso, president (2002)
O
*Isabel Herrara Obaldía, educator (1973)
*José de Obaldía, president (1906)
*Nicanor de Obarrio, general (1948)
*Manuel Odria, president of Peru (1956)
*María Olimpia de Obaldía, poet (1992)
*Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, president of Mexico (1968)
*Alejandro Orfila, secretary-general of the OAS (1978)
*Francisco J. Orlich, president of Costa Rica (1963)
*Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama (1978)
*Óscar Osorio, president of El Salvador (1956)
*Jeronimo de la Ossa, lyricist (1953)
*Maria Ossa de Amador, creator of the first flag (2018)
P
*Guillermo Patterson, Jr., chemist and fire brigade official (1963)
*Pope John Paul II (1983)
*Pope Paul VI (1968)
*Octavio Mendez Pereira, founder of University of Panama (1987)
*Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, president of Colombia (1956)
*Pope Pius XII (1959)
*Isabel Cobos de Porcel, second wife of Antonio Porcel (1967)
*Bellisario Porras, president (1956)
R
*Armando Reclus, naval engineer and explorer (1939)
*José A. Remon Cantera, president (1953)
*Marco A. Robles, president (1968)
*Cristobal Rodriguez, politician (1983)
*Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian (1964)
*Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States (1948)
*Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States (1955)
*Telmo Rugliancich, fire brigade official (1963)
*Luis C. Russell, jazz musician (2003)
S
*Marcos A. Salazar, founder of the republic (1953)
*Walter M. Schirra, astronaut (1964)
*Francisca Sebasa y Garcia, niece of Evaristo Pérez de Castro, Spain's minister of foreign affairs (1967)
*William Shakespeare, playwright (1966)
*Rogelio Sinán, writer (1990)
*Francis Spellman, cardinal (1966)
*Nicolas A. Solano, tuberculosis researcher (1983)
*Luis A. Somoza, president of Nicaragua (1963)
*Pedro J. Sosa, Panama Canal engineer (1939)
*Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay (1956)
*Ernestina Sucre Tapia, writer of the flag pledge (2019)
T
*William Howard Taft, president of the United States (1939)
*Omar Torrijos Herrera, president (1978)
*Elizabeth Tucher, subject of a Durer painting (1966)
V
*José Vallarino, independence leader (1921)
*Jules Verne, French writer (1966)
*Nicanor Villalez, designer of coat of arms (1976)
*Ramon Villeda, president of Honduras (1963)
W
*Richard Wagner, composer (1966)
*Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States (1939)
*Lucien Bonaparte Wise, Panama canal promoter (1939)
Y
*Carlos de Ycaza, independence leader (1921)
*Boris Yegorov, Soviet physician-cosmonaut (1965)
Z
*Alberto F. Zubiria, president of Uruguay (1956)
*Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, son of Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán (1967)

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