List of people on the postage stamps of Puerto Rico

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Puerto Rico.
* Isabel II of Spain (1855)
* Amadeo I of Spain (1873)
* Alfonso XII of Spain (1876)
* Alfonso XIII of Spain (1890)
* Christopher Columbus (1893)
* Benjamin Franklin (overprint during US intervention, 1899)
* Ulysses S. Grant (overprint during US intervention, 1899)
* George Washington (overprint during US intervention, 1899)
* Daniel Webster (overprint during US intervention, 1899)
* Abraham Lincoln (On stamped envelope of US intervention, 1899)
In 1900, The Puerto Rican postal service was supplanted by that of the United States and U.S. stamps have been used since then. Puerto Rican subjects that have appeared on U.S. stamps are:
* La Fortaleza at San Juan. (1937)
* Puerto Rican gubernatorial election (1949)
* San Juan's 450th anniversary of founding in 1521 (1971)
* Christopher Columbus, explorer's 500th anniversary landing at Puerto Rico (1982)
* Roberto Clemente, baseball player (1984<ref name="TBT2005" /> & 2000)
* Luis Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected governor (1990)<ref name="TBT2005" />
* Felicitas Mendez, education reformer for civil rights (2007)
* Julia de Burgos, poet (2010)
* Puerto Rican flag, Flags of our nation series (2011)
* José Ferrer, actor (2012)

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