List of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso and those of Upper Volta, its earlier name.

The list is complete through 1976.

Republic of Upper Volta

  • Winston Churchill (1966 airmail)
  • Ouezzin Coulibaly, president (1959)
  • "Joseph Dakiri"(1) (1971)
  • John F. Kennedy, US president (1964 airmail)
  • Vladimir Lenin, Russian leader (1970 airmail)
  • Abraham Lincoln, US president (1965, 1970)
  • Sangoulé Lamizana, president (1971 airmail)
  • Albert John Luthuli (1968 airmail)
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt president (1971 airmail)
  • Pope Paul VI (1966 airmail)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president (1970 airmail)
  • Albert Schweitzer (1967 airmail)
  • Maurice Yameogo, president (1960)

after 1971

  • Conrad Adenauer (1973)
  • Buzz Aldrin, US astronaut (1973)
  • Louis Armstrong, US musician (1972)
  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1973)
  • Baudouin of Belgium (1977)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1973)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader (1973)
  • Gene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
  • Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1977)
  • Ronald E. Evans, US astronaut (1973)
  • Charles de Gaulle, French leader (1973, 1974)
  • John Glenn, US astronaut (1973)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (1973)
  • Maria Picasso Lopez, painter's mother (1975)
  • Harrison H. Schmitt, US astronaut (1973)
  • Guillaume Templier, missionary (1975)
  • Joanny Thévenoud, missionary (1975)
  • George Washington, US president (1975)

Burkina Faso

  • Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (1988)
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader (1988)
  • John F. Kennedy, US president (1988)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1988)

References

  • Scott catalogue
  • Stanley Gibbons catalogue

(1)Scott lists the two stamps of 13 October 1971 as honoring "Joseph Dakiri (1938-1971), inaugurator of the Army-Aid-to-Agriculture Program", while Stanley Gibbons just says "Dakiri Project". Oddly, there seems not to be any online references mentioning either the person or the project, although there is a town named Dakiri. The stamps themselves depict an individual, mention the surname, and the 1938-1971 dates.