List of people on the postage stamps of Laos

This is a list of people depicted on stamps of Laos.

A

  • John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
  • John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
  • Alexander Alekhine, Chess player
  • Adolf Anderssen, German chess master

B

  • Vance D. Brand, American astronaut

C

  • Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese explorer
  • José Raúl Capablanca, World Chess Champion
  • Jacques Cartier, French explorer
  • Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French polar explorer and scientist
  • Christopher Columbus, discoverer of the New World
  • James Cook, British explorer
  • Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance astronomer
  • Antonio da Correggio, Italian Renaissance painter

D

  • Pierre de Coubertin, founder of modern Olympic Games
  • Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter
  • Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader

E

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President

F

  • Gerald Ford, 38th US President

G

  • Yuri Gagarin, First man in space
  • Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
  • Siddhārtha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
  • Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
  • Georgy Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut
  • El Greco, Spanish painter
  • Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut

H

  • Edmond Halley, English astronomer
  • Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician who discovered the cause of leprosy
  • William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States

J

  • Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
  • Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President

K

  • John F. Kennedy, 35th US President
  • Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
  • Khamphoui, Queen of Laos, 1959-1975
  • Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut
  • Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut

L

  • Emanuel Lasker, World Chess Champion
  • Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik leader
  • Alexey Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut

M

  • James Madison, 4th President of the United States
  • Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
  • Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and radio pioneer
  • Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto
  • Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist leader
  • Joan Miró, Catalan painter
  • James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
  • Paul Morphy, American chess player
  • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish artist

N

  • Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman
  • Isaac Newton, British physicist
  • Richard Nixon, 37th President

P

  • Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos
  • Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao Communist politician
  • Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
  • James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States

R

  • Raphael, Italian painter
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President

S

  • Ruy López de Segura, Chess player
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor, First President of Senegal
  • Deke Slayton, American astronaut
  • Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player
  • George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer
  • Robert Stephenson, British railway engineer
  • Souphanouvong, Lao Communist politician
  • Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut

T

  • Zachary Taylor, 12th US President
  • Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
  • John Tyler, US President

V

  • Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States
  • Savang Vatthana, King of Laos, 1959-1975
  • Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
  • Jules Verne, French writer
  • Sisavang Vong, King of Laos, 1904-1959.
Sisavang Vong on one of the first Laotian stamps

W

  • George Washington, First President of the United States

See also

  • Postage stamps and postal history of Laos

References

  • Co, Scott Publishing (2015). Scott 2015 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue: Countries of the World Volume 4 J-M. Sidney, OH: Scott Pub. Co. ISBN \978-0-89487-491-8