List of people on stamps of Liberia

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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 Goodlow Harper (1952)
• Dag Hammarskjold, 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 J. Roberts, president (1948, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1966)
• Stuart Roosa, US astronaut (1971)
• Franklin Delano 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)

[edit] After 1973

From 1973 on, Liberia issued mostly stamps honoring non-Liberians.

• Aristotle (1973)
• Emil von Behring (1973)
• Valery Borzov, runner (1973)
• George W. Bush, US president (2000)
• Eugene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
• Copernicus (1973)
• Klaus Dibiasi, diver (1973)
• Ronald Evans, US astronaut (1973)
• Alexander Fleming (1973)
• Sigmund Freud, psychologist (1973)
• 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)