List of people on stamps of Italy
This is a list of people on stamps of Italy.
(complete through 2001)
A
- Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor (1970)
- Leon Battista Alberti, humanist and Renaissance man (1972)
- Alberto da Prezzate, saint (1995) article in Italian
- Franco Alfano, composer (1975)
- Vittorio Alfieri, playwright (1932, 1949)
- Dante Alighieri, poet (1921, 1932, 1933, 1938, 1945, 1965, 1990)
- Ambrose, theologian and saint (1997)
- Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (1931, 1995)
- Antonello da Messina, painter (1953)
- Thomas Aquinas, theologian and saint (1974)
- Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor (1983)
- Pietro Aretino, author (1977)
- Ludovico Ariosto, poet (1932, 1974)
- Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor (1929, 1937, 1938, 1945)
- Amedeo Avogadro, physicist (1956)
B
- Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1985)
- Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, patriots (1944)
- Francesco Baracca, aviator (1968)
- Agostino Bassi, entomologist (1953)
- Edoardo Bassini, surgeon (1977)
- Cesare Battisti, politician and patriot (1966)
- Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poet (1963, 1991)
- Giovanni Bellini, painter (1974)
- Vincenzo Bellini, composer (1935, 1952, 1985, 2001)
- Benedict of Nursia, saint (1929, 1980)
- Arrigo Boito, composer and librettist (1968)
- Giulio Bolaffi, philatelist (1991) article in Italian
- Alberto Bolaffi, philatelist (1991) article in Italian
- Luigi Bocconi (1869–1896), had a university named for him (2002)
- Giovanni Boccaccio, author (1932, 1975)
- Gianbattista Bodoni, printer and type designer (1964)
- Massimo Bontempelli, writer (1979)
- Charles Borromeo, church reformer and saint (1988)
- Francesco Borromini, architect (1974)
- John Bosco, priest and saint (1988)
- Carlo Giuseppe Botta, historian (1932)
- Sandro Botticelli, painter (1973)
- Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (1998)
- Filippo Brunelleschi, architect (1977)
- Giordano Bruno, philosopher and astronomer (2000)
- Tino Buazzelli, film actor (1998)
- Bruno Buozzi, labor leader and politician (1984) article in Italian
- Ferruccio Busoni, composer (1975)
- George Gordon Byron, English poet (1959)
C
- Julius Caesar, Roman military leader and dictator (1929, 1945)
- Clara Calamai, film actress (1988)
- Tommaso Campanella, philosopher and poet (1968)
- Antonio Canova, sculptor (1957)
- Caravaggio, painter (1960)
- Giosuè Carducci, poet (1932, 1957)
- Rosalba Carriera, painter (1974)
- Enrico Caruso, tenor (1973)
- Alfredo Catalani, composer (1954)
- Catherine of Siena, theologian, saint (1948, 1962, 1980)
- Catullus, Roman poet (1949)
- Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, art critic (1997)
- Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, politician (1959, 1962)
- Celestine V, pope and saint (1996)
- Cervi brothers, patriots (1993) article in Italian
- Charles Chaplin, actor (1989)
- Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (1982)
- Luigi Cherubini, composer (1977)
- Damiano Chiesa, soldier and patriot (1966) article in Italian
- Edoardo Chiossone, engraver, painter (1988)
- Cicero, Roman statesman and writer (1957, 1997)
- Francesco Cilea, composer (1975)
- Domenico Cimarosa, composer (1949, 2001)
- Clare of Assisi, saint (1953)
- Christopher Columbus, navigator and explorer (1938, 1951, 1991, 1992, 1998)
- Daniele Comboni, missionary and saint (1981)
- Fausto Coppi, cyclist (1999)
- Arcangelo Corelli, composer (1953)
- Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, saint (1993)
- Pierre de Coubertin, French instigator of modern Olympic Games (1994)
- Benedetto Croce, philosopher (1966)
D
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, writer (1963 and some "Fiume" stamps)
- Salvo D'Acquisto, war hero (1975)
- Peppino De Filippo, film actor (1998)
- Eduardo De Filippo, actor and director (1998)
- Alcide De Gasperi, statesman (1970, 1981)
- Vittorio De Sica, film actor and director (1998)
- Grazia Deledda, novelist (1971)
- Emilio Diena, philatelist (1989)
- Carlo Dolci, painter (1976)
- Dominic, saint, founder of Dominican Order (1923)
- Gaetano Donizetti, composer (1948, 1998)
- Eleonora Duse, actress (1958)
E
F
- Aldo Fabrizi, film actor (1996)
- Giovanni Fattori, painter (1958)
- Vittorino da Feltre, educator (1978)
- Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies (1959, 1985)
- Enrico Fermi, physicist (1967, 2001)
- Enzo Ferrari, race car driver and car manufacturer (1998)
- Gaudenzio Ferrari, painter (1950)
- Galileo Ferraris, physicist and electrical engineer (1997)
- Francesco Ferrucci, soldier (1930)
- Fabio Filzi, patriot and martyr (1966) article in Italian
- Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, poet and revolutionary (1999)
- Ugo Foscolo, poet and writer (1932, 1979)
- Girolamo Fracastoro, physician (1955)
- Francis of Paola, friar and saint (1957)
- Francis of Assisi, friar and saint (1923, 1926, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1982)
- Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (1923)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1994)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer (1983)
G
- Galileo Galilei, astronomer, physicist (1933, 1942, 1945, 1964, 1983, 1995)
- Dina Galli, actress (1977) article in Italian
- Luigi Galvani, physicist (1934, 1991)
- Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (1998)
- Anita Garibaldi, heroine of Italian unification (1932)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unification (1910, 1932, 1957, 1959, 1970, 1982)
- Gattamelata, condottiere (1970)
- Geminianus, bishop and saint (1997)
- Vincenzo Gemito, sculptor (1952)
- Giovanni Gentile, philosopher (1994)
- Saint George, saint and martyr (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1997)
- Pietro Germi, film actor and director (1997)
- Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor (1976)
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, painter (1976)
- Giovanni Giorgi, physicist and engineer (1990)
- Umberto Giordano, composer (1967)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, writer, philopher (1999)
- Giotto, painter (1937)
- Carlo Goldoni, playwright (1977, 1992)
- Camillo Golgi, physician (1994)
- Aloysius Gonzaga, priest and saint (1968)
- Antonio Gramsci, political theorist (1987)
- Achille Grandi, labor leader and politician (1984) article in Italian
- Giovanni Battista Grassi, zoologist (1955)
- Gregory I, pope and saint (2006)
- Gregory XV, pope (1923)
- Guido d'Arezzo, musician (1950)
- Francesco Guicciardini, historian (1983)
- Paul Guillaume, French art dealer (1984)
- Teresa Gullace, victim of Nazi soldiers (1995) article in Italian
H
I
J
K
L
- Giacomo Leopardi, poet and essayist (1932, 1998)
- Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, theologian and saint (1987)
- Filippo Lippi, painter (1957)
- Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, inventor (1932, 1935, 1938, 1952)
- Emanuela Loi, policewoman (1997) article in Italian
M
- Niccolò Machiavelli, political philosopher (1932, 1969)
- Carlo Maderno, architect (1979)
- Mafalda of Savoy, princess (1995)
- Anna Magnani, film actress (1988, 1997)
- Ettore Majorana, physicist (2006)
- Curzio Malaparte, writer (1998)
- Marcello Malpighi, physician (1978)
- Goffredo Mameli, poet and patriot (1948, 1999)
- Antonio Mancini, painter (1952)
- Andrea Mantegna, painter (1974)
- Alessandro Manzoni, poet and novelist (1923, 1973)
- Marco De Marchi (naturalista), naturalist, philanthropist, philatelist (1987) article in Italian
- Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (1938, 1965, 1974, 1995)
- Marcus Aurelius. Roman emperor (1997)
- Marie José, queen (1930)
- Giovanni Martinelli, tenor (1985)
- Gaetano Martino, statesman (2000)
- Masaccio, painter (2001)
- Pietro Mascagni, composer (1963)
- Giulietta Masina, film actress (1995)
- Guglielmo Massaia, missionary and cardinal (1952)
- Marcello Mastroianni, film actor (1998)
- Giacomo Matteotti, politician (1955)
- Corrado Mezzana (1990-1952), painter and stamp designer (1990) article in Italian
- Filippo Mazzei, Italian supporter of American Revolution (1980)
- Giuseppe Mazzini, patriot and writer (1922, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1972)
- Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine ruler (1980)
- Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine ruler (1949, 1992)
- Ciro Menotti, patriot (1981)
- Saverio Mercadante, composer (1970)
- Aristide Merloni, industrialist (1997) article in Italian
- Antonio Meucci, inventor (1965, 1978)
- Pietro Micca, soldier and hero (1976)
- Michelangelo, painter and sculptor (1960, 1964, 1992)
- Pietro Miliani, paper manufacturer (1994) article in Italian
- Giovanni Minzoni, priest (1973)
- Renato Mondolfo (1918–1992), philatelist (1995) article in Italian
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, journalist and peace activist (1983)
- Eugenio Montale, poet (1996)
- Federico da Montefeltro, condottiere (1982)
- Maria Montessori, educator and physician (1970)
- Claudio Monteverdi, composer (1967)
- Luigi Maria Monti, cleric (2000) article in Italian
- Aldo Moro, politician (2003)
- Giuseppe Morosini, priest and patriot (1997) article in Italian
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1991)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, historian (1950)
- Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator (1932, 1941)
N
O
P
- Antonio Pacinotti, physicist (1934)
- Luca Pacioli, mathematician (1994)
- Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer (1982)
- Bartolomeo Pagano, film actor (1996)
- Giovanni Paisiello, composer (1990)
- Paola, Italian-born Belgian queen (1997)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer (1975)
- Andrea Palladio, architect (1949)
- Giuseppe Parini, poet (1999)
- Giovanni Pascoli, poet (1955)
- Paul VI, pope (1997)
- Silvio Pellico, playwright (1954)
- Giovan Battista Pergolesi, composer (1937, 1986)
- Lorenzo Perosi, composer (1972)
- Aureliano Pertile, tenor (1985)
- Sandro Pertini, president (1996)
- Pietro Perugino, painter (1951)
- Peter Damian, saint (1972)
- Francesco Petrarca, poet (1932, 1974)
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (1976)
- Niccolò Piccinni, composer (2000)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, philosopher (1963)
- Antonio Pigafetta, scholar and traveler (1980)
- Padre Pio, priest and saint (1998, 2002)
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi, artist (1973)
- Luigi Pirandello, novelist and playwright (1967)
- Pius IX, pope (1978, 1983)
- Pliny the Younger, Roman magistrate and writer (1961)
- Marco Polo, explorer (1954, 1996)
- Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (1986)
- Camillo Prampolini, politician (1959) article in Italian
- Giacomo Puccini, composer (1974, 2004, 2008)
Q
R
- Raphael, painter (1974)
- Leonida Rèpaci, writer (1998) article in Italian
- Ottorino Respighi, composer (1979)
- Matteo Ricci, missionary (2002)
- Augusto Righi, physicist (1950)
- Adelaide Ristori. stage actress (1996)
- Rita of Cascia, saint (1981)
- Roger II, king of Sicily (1974)
- Rose of Viterbo, saint (2001)
- Gian Domenico Romagnosi, jurist and philosopher (1961)
- Antonio Rosmini, priest and philosopher (1955)
- Gabriele Rossetti, poet (1983)
- Gioacchino Rossini, composer (1942, 1968)
S
- Umberto Saba, poet and writer (1983)
- Antonio Salieri, composer (2000)
- Gaetano Salvemini, historian (1973)
- Francesco de Sanctis, literary critic (1983)
- Paolo Sarpi, scholar and historian (1932)
- Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, painter (1976)
- Nazario Sauro, sailor and patriot (1966)
- Dominic Savio, saint (1957)
- Girolamo Savonarola, friar, preacher, leader of Florence (1952)
- Alessandro Scarlatti, composer (1975)
- Robert Schuman, French statesman (1970)
- Quintino Sella, statesman (1977)
- Matilde Serao, journalist and author (1978)
- Francesco Severi, mathematician (1979)
- Luca Signorelli, painter (1953)
- Sixtus V, pope (1985)
- Armando Spadini, painter (1975) article in Italian
- Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist (1979)
- Gaspare Spontini, composer and conductor (1937, 1975, 2001)
- Enzo Staiola, child actor (1988)
- Antonio Stradivari, violin maker (1937)
T
- Francesco Tosso, postal pioneer (1982) article in Italian
- Torquato Tasso, poet (1932)
- Alessandro Tassoni, poet (1965)
- Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary (1998)
- Teresa of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (1923, 1998)
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter (1973)
- Ugo Tognazzi, film actor (1997)
- Niccolò Tommaseo, linguist (1974)
- Evangelista Torricelli, physicist (1958)
- Arturo Toscanini, conductor (1967)
- Massimo Troisi, film director and actor (1996)
- Totò, actor, singer, comedian (1995)
U
V
- Rudolph Valentino, film actor (1995)
- Giuseppe Verdi, composer (1951, 1963, 2001)
- Giovanni Verga, novelist (1972)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer (1964)
- Pietro Verri, economist and historian (1997)
- Andrea del Verrocchio, painter and sculptor (1973)
- Amerigo Vespucci, explorer (1954, 1998)
- Giambattista Vico, philosopher (1968)
- Victor Emmanuel II, king (1862, 1929, 1959, 1978, 1985)
- Victor Emmanuel III, king (1901, 1903, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1945)
- Queen Victoria, British queen (1985)
- Virgil, Roman poet (1930, 1981)
- Giuseppe Di Vittorio, labor leader and politician (1984)
- Antonio Vivaldi, composer (1975)
- Alessandro Volta, physicist (1927, 1949, 1992, 1999)
W