List of people on the postage stamps of the United States facts for kids

This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured. Many of these people (especially the earlier presidents) have been featured on multiple stamps. Most every one was deceased at the time their face appeared on a stamp.

For the purpose of this list, "featured" may mean:

1. The likeness of a person,
2. The name of a person, or
3. People who have neither their likeness nor name on a stamp, but are documented by the United States Postal Service as being the subject of a stamp (see Reference).

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A

• Edwin Austin Abbey (2001) Illustrator
• Bud Abbott (1991) Comedian
• Edward R. Abrams (2008) Film actor
• Dean Acheson (1993) Secretary of State
• Roy Acuff (2003) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
• Abigail Adams (1985) First Lady
• Ansel Adams (2002) Photographer
• John Adams (1938) 2nd president

• John Quincy Adams (1938) 6th president
• Samuel Adams (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Jane Addams (1940) Social Worker
• Alvin Ailey (2004) Choreographer
• Josef Albers (1980) Artist
• Louisa May Alcott (1940) Author
• Buzz Aldrin (1994), (2019) Astronaut, engineer
• Horatio Alger, Jr. (1982) Author
• Dante Alighieri (1965) Poet

• Ethan Allen (1955) Green Mountain Boys leader
• Gracie Allen (2009) Comedian
• Richard Allen (2016) African-American bishop, founder of AME Church
• Steve Allen (2009) Comedian
• Fran Allison (2009) Actress
• C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson (2014) Aviator
• Gilbert M. Anderson (Broncho Billy Anderson) (1998) Actor
• Marian Anderson (2005) Contralto
• Susan B. Anthony (1936) Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist
• Antonello da Messina (1990) Painter
• Maya Angelou (2015) African American writer
• Virginia Apgar (1994) Physician

• Johnny Appleseed (1966) Conservationist
• Harold Arlen (1996) Composer

• Edwin Armstrong (1983) FM radio inventor
• Louis Armstrong (1995) Jazz singer, musician, and songwriter
• Neil Armstrong (1969), (2019) Astronaut, engineer
• Desi Arnaz (1999) Actor, producer and singer
• Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1988) Air Force General
• Chester A. Arthur (1938) 21st president
• Ruth Asawa (2020) Sculptor, artist
• Arthur Ashe (2005) Tennis player

• John James Audubon (1940) Naturalist, painter

• Stephen F. Austin (1936) Texas colonizer
• Gene Autry (2010) Actor

B

• Mildred Bailey (1994) Jazz singer
• Ella Baker (2009) Civil rights leader
• Josephine Baker (2008) Singer
• George Balanchine (2004) Choreographer
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1913) Explorer
• Abraham Baldwin (1985) Statesman
• James Baldwin (2004) Author
• Lucille Ball (2001) Actress
• Benjamin Banneker (1980) Surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
• Theda Bara (1994) Actress
• Francis Barbé-Marbois (1953) Louisiana Purchase negotiator
• Samuel Barber (1997) Composer
• John Bardeen (2008) Physicist
• Justus D. Barnes (1998) Actor
• Ethel Barrymore (1982) Actress
• John Barrymore (1982) Actor

• Lionel Barrymore (1982) Actor
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1985) Statue of Liberty sculptor
• Josiah Bartlett (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Clara Barton (1948) American Red Cross founder
• John Bartram (1999) Botanist
• William Bartram (1999) Botanist
• Count Basie (1996) Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
• John Basilone (2005) Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
• Daisy Bates (2009) Civil rights leader
• James Beard (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author
• Romare Bearden (2011) Artist
• The Beatles (1999) Rock music band
• Jim Beckwourth (1994) Explorer
• Norman Bel Geddes (2011) Industrial designer
• Alexander Graham Bell (1940) Scientist, engineer, and telephone inventor

• Giovanni Bellini (1992) Painter
• Ruth Benedict (1995) Anthropologist
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1998) Author
• Jack Benny (1991) Comedian
• Thomas Hart Benton (1971) Painter
• Edgar Bergen (1991) Ventriloquist
• Milton Berle (2009) Comedian
• Irving Berlin (2002) Composer

• Leonard Bernstein (2001) Conductor, composer
• Mary McLeod Bethune (1985) Civil Rights advocate
• Albert Bierstadt (1998) Painter
• Hiram Bingham IV (2006) Diplomat
• George Caleb Bingham (1998) Painter
  

  Simón Bolívar on a 1958 stamp
• Elizabeth Bishop (2012) Poet
• Emily Bissell (1980) Social Worker
• Hugo L. Black (1986) Supreme Court Justice
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1974) 1st U.S. female physician

• Montgomery Blair (1963) Lawyer, politician, postmaster general
• Eubie Blake (1995) Jazz musician and songwriter
• Harlon Block (1945) Iwo Jima
• Nellie Bly (2002) Journalist
• Humphrey Bogart (1997) Actor
• Charles E. Bohlen (2006) Diplomat
• Simón Bolívar (1958) South American revolutionary
• Daniel Boone (1942) Frontiersman
• Sandro Botticelli (1981) Painter
• Clara Bow (1994) Actress
• William Boyd (2009) Actor
• Elizabeth Boyer (2008) Actress
• John Bradley (1945) Iwo Jima
• Omar N. Bradley (2000) World War II Army General
• Louis Brandeis (2009) Supreme Court justice
• Mary Breckinridge (1998) Frontier Nursing Services founder
• William Brennan Jr. (2009) Supreme Court justice
• Fanny Brice (1991) Comedian
• Jim Bridger (1994) Western pioneer
• Joseph Brodsky (2012) Poet
• Gwendolyn Brooks (2012) Poet
• William Jennings Bryan (1986) Lawyer, politician
• Paul "Bear" Bryant (1997) Football coach
• James Buchanan (1938) 15th president
• Pearl S. Buck (1983) Writer
• Charles Bulfinch (1979) Architect
• Ralph Bunche (1982) Diplomat, Nobel Laureate
• Luther Burbank (1940) Horticulturist
• Julia de Burgos (2010) Poet
• Arleigh Albert Burke (2010) Admiral

• John Burgoyne (1927) Revolutionary War General
• George Burns (2009) Comedian
• Raymond Burr (2009) Actor
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (2012) Author
• Richard E. Byrd (1988) Antarctic explorer
• George H. W. Bush (2019) 41st president

C

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1992) Explorer

• Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1951) Explorer
• James Cagney (1999) Actor
• Alexander Calder (1998) Sculptor
• Melvin Calvin (2011) Chemist
• Walter Camp (2003) Football coach
• Roy Campanella (2006) Baseball player
• Zachary Canter (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
• Frank Capra (2012) Motion picture director
• Hattie Caraway (2001) 1st female senator
• Chester Carlson (1988) Xerox inventor
• Hoagy Carmichael (1996) Musician, composer, and actor

• Andrew Carnegie (1960) Philanthropist
• Art Carney (2009) Actor
• Ludovico Carracci (1989) Painter
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Kit Carson (1994) Frontiersman
• Rachel Carson (1981) Environmentalist

• Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (1993) Country musician
• Maybelle Carter (1993) Country singer and musician
• Sara Carter (1993) Country singer and musician
• Philip Carteret (1964) Explorer
• Enrico Caruso (1987) Tenor
• George Washington Carver (1948) Botanist
• Johnny Cash (2013) Singer
• Nellie Cashman (1994) Prospector

• Mary Cassatt (1966) Painter
• John Cassavetes (2003) Motion picture director

• Willa Sibert Cather (1973) Author
• George Catlin (1998) Painter
• Wilt Chamberlain (2014) Basketball player
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1948) Suffragist
• Ignacio Chacón (2006) Painter
• Samuel de Champlain (2006) Explorer
• Lon Chaney Jr. (1997) Actor
• Lon Chaney Sr. (1994) Actor
• Octave Chanute (1979) Aviation pioneer
• Charlie Chaplin (1994) Actor
• Dave Chapman (2011) Industrial designer
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1974) Painter
• Ray Charles (2013) Musician
• Samuel Chase (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Martha Chase (1997) Doll designer
• Cesar Chavez (2003) Labor rights leader
• Dennis Chavez (1991) Senator
• Joyce Chen (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author
• Claire Chennault (1990) Aviator
• Mary Chesnut (1995) Civil War diarist
• Charles W. Chesnutt (2008) Writer
• Julia Child (2014) Chef, TV personality, cookbook author
• Shirley Chisholm (2014) Congresswoman
• Frederic Edwin Church (1998) Painter

• Winston Churchill (1965) British Prime Minister
• Giovanni Battista Cima (1993) Painter
• Abraham Clark (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• George Rogers Clark (1929) Revolutionary War officer
• Grenville Clark (1985) Author
• William Clark (1954) Explorer

• Henry Clay (1870, 1902) Statesman
• Samuel L. Clemens (1940) Author
• Roberto Clemente (1984 & 2000) Baseball player

• Grover Cleveland (1923) 22nd & 24th president
• J. R. Clifford (2009) Attorney
• Patsy Cline (1993) Country singer and musician
• George Clinton (1976) Continental Congressman
• George Clymer (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• David Cobb (1976) Congressional Representative, 3rd U.S. Congress
• Ty Cobb (2000) Baseball player
• Alvin Langdon Coburn (2002) Photographer
• Jacqueline Cochran (1996) Aviator
• Mickey Cochrane (2000) Baseball player
• Victoria Codona (2014) Circus performer
• Buffalo Bill Cody (1988) Wild West showman
• George M. Cohan (1978) Actor, playwright
• Claudette Colbert (2012) Actress
• Nat King Cole (1994) Singer, musician, and songwriter
• Bessie Coleman (1995) 1st African American female pilot
• Eddie Collins (2000) Baseball player
• John Coltrane (1995) Jazz musician and composer
• Christopher Columbus (1893) Explorer
• Henry Comstock (1959) Prospector
• James Cook (1978) Explorer

• Calvin Coolidge (1938) 30th president
• Anna Julia Cooper (2009) Civil rights leader
• Gary Cooper (1990, 2009) Actor
• James Fenimore Cooper (1940) Author

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1973) Astronomer
• Elizabeth Clarke Copley (1965) Portrait subject on a stamp honoring John Singleton Copley
• John Singleton Copley (1965) Painter
• Gerty Cori (2008) Biochemist
• Charles Cornwallis (1930) Revolutionary War General
• Dean Cornwell (2001) Illustrator
• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1940) Explorer
• Lorenzo Costa (2001) Painter
• Lou Costello (1991) Comedian
• Crazy Horse (1982) Oglala Sioux warrior
• Gustaf Philip Creutz (1983) Swedish statesman, poet and diplomat
• Davy Crockett (1967) Alamo defender

• Bing Crosby (1994) Singer, actor
• Percy Crosby (1997) Cartoonist
• Jim Crowley (1998) Football player
• Celia Cruz (2011) Musician
• E. E. Cummings (2012) Poet
• Imogen Cunningham (2002) Photographer
• Nathaniel Currier (1976) Lithographer
• Glenn Curtiss (1980) Aviation pioneer
• Harvey Cushing (1988) Neurosurgeon
• Manasseh Cutler (1937) Northwest Territory pioneer

D

• Daniel Daly (2005) Marine; Medal of Honor recipient
• Virginia Dare (1937) First white child born in the English American colonies
• Gerard David (1979) Painter
• Alexander Jackson Davis (1980) Architect

• Allison Davis (1994) Educator, anthropologist
• Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1997) Army General
• Bette Davis (2008) Actress
• Jefferson Davis (1970) Confederate president
• Miles Davis (2012) Jazz musician
• Stuart Davis (2013) Modern artist
• Julia de Burgos (2010) Puerto Rican writer and poet
• Agnes de Mille (2004) Choreographer
• Dizzy Dean (2000) Baseball player
• James Dean (1996) Actor
• Stephen Decatur (1936) Naval officer
• Lee De Forest (1973) Vacuum Tube Inventor
• Willem de Kooning (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Andrea della Robbia (1978) Sculptor

• Luca della Robbia (1985) Sculptor
• Cecil B. DeMille (2003) Motion picture producer
• Jack Dempsey (1998) Boxer
• Charles Demuth (2013) Modern artist
• Donald Deskey (2011) Industrial designer

• George Dewey (1936) Navy Admiral
• John Dewey (1968) Educator
• Emily Dickinson (1971) Poet
• John Dickinson (1976) American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania
• William Dickson (1996) Motion picture camera inventor
• Everett Dirksen (1981) Senator
• Joe DiMaggio (2012) Baseball player
• Walt Disney (1968) Motion picture producer, animator
• Dorothea Dix (1983) Mental health advocate
• Larry Doby (2012) Baseball player
• Jimmy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
• Tommy Dorsey (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
• Aaron Douglas (2013) Modern artist
• Stephen A. Douglas (1958) Politician
• Frederick Douglass (1967) Abolitionist
• Arthur Dove (2013) Modern artist
• Charles R. Drew (1981) Surgeon
• Henry Dreyfuss (2011) Industrial designer
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1992) Civil Rights advocate
• Marcel Duchamp (2013) Modern Artist
• John Foster Dulles (1960) Secretary of State
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1975) Poet

• Isadora Duncan (2012) Dancer
• Katherine Dunham (2012) Choreographer
• Harvey Dunn (2001) Illustrator
• Asher B. Durand (1998) Painter

E

• Eddie Eagan (1990) Boxer, bobsledder
• Thomas Eakins (1967) Painter, sculptor

• Charles and Ray Eames (2008) Industrial design, furniture design
• Amelia Earhart (1963) Aviator
• Wyatt Earp (1994) Gunfighter

• George Eastman (1954) Roll film inventor
• Thomas Alva Edison (1947) Inventor
• Albert Einstein (1966) Physicist

• Billy Eisengrein (2002) Ground Zero firefighter
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969) 34th president
• Charles W. Eliot (1940) Educator
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (1986) Poet

• William Ellery (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1986) Jazz musician and composer
• Ralph Ellison (2014) Author and literary critic
• Lincoln Ellsworth (1988) Antarctic explorer

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1940) Author
• John Ericsson (1926) Inventor
• Leif Ericson (1968) Explorer
• Jaime Escalante (2016) Educator
• Walker Evans (2002) Photographer
• Medgar Evers (2009) Civil rights leader
• Ray Ewry (1990) Track & field athlete
• Jan van Eyck (1968) Painter

F

• Douglas Fairbanks (1984) Actor
• Philo T. Farnsworth (1983) TV camera inventor
• David G. Farragut (1903) 1st Navy Admiral
• William Cuthbert Faulkner (1987) Author

• Robert Fawcett (2001) Illustrator
• Edna Ferber (2002) Author
• Perry Ferguson (2003) Motion picture art director

• Enrico Fermi (2001) Physicist
• José Ferrer (2012) Actor
• Richard Feynman (2005) Physicist
• Arthur Fiedler (1997) Conductor
• Dorothy Fields (1996) Lyricist
• W. C. Fields (1980) Actor, comedian
• Millard Fillmore (1938) 13th president

• Ella Fitzgerald (2007) Jazz singer
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996) Author
• James Montgomery Flagg (2001) Illustrator

• Father Edward J. Flanagan (1986) Orphan advocate
• William Floyd (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Henry Fonda (2005) Actor
• Lynn Fontanne (1999) Actress
• Gerald Ford (2007) President of the United States
• John Ford (2012) Motion picture director
• Henry Ford (1968) Industrialist
• Bob Fosse (2012) Choreographer
• John Foster (1998) Printer
• Rube Foster (2010) Baseball player
• Stephen Collins Foster (1940) Composer
• Four Chaplains (1948) Died during the Dorchester sinking
• George L. Fox, Chaplain (1st Lt.), U.S. Army (1948)
• Jimmie Foxx (2000) Baseball player
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1982) Franciscan Order founder
• Peter Francisco (1975) Revolutionary War soldier
• Felix Frankfurter (2009) Supreme Court justice
• Benjamin Franklin (1847) 1st Postmaster, statesman, scientist

• Elizabeth Freake (1998) Subject of portrait by Freake Limner
• Mary Freake (1998) Subject of portrait by Freake Limner
• John C. Fremont (1898) and (1994) Explorer, Senator
• Daniel Chester French (1940) Sculptor
• Arthur Burdett Frost (2001) Illustrator
• Robert Frost (1974) Poet
• Buckminster Fuller (2004) Inventor

• Robert Fulton (1909) Steamboat inventor
• Frank Furness (1980) Architect

G

• Clark Gable (1990) Actor
• Rene Gagnon (1945) Iwo Jima
• Thomas Gainsborough (1974) Painter
• Albert Gallatin (1967) Secretary of the Treasury
• Thomas H. Gallaudet (1983) Educator
• Bernardo de Galvez (1980) Revolutionary War General
• Mohandas Gandhi (1961) Indian patriot
• Greta Garbo (2005) Actress
• Carlos Gardel (2011) Singer

• James A. Garfield (1882) 20th president
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (1960) Italian patriot
• Judy Garland (1990) Actress
• Erroll Garner (1995) Jazz musician and composer
• Marvin Gaye (2019) singer, musician, and songwrite
• Lou Gehrig (1989) Baseball player
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (1999) Author & illustrator
• Martha Gellhorn (2008) Journalist
• Walter F. George (1960) Senator
• Geronimo (1994) Apache leader
• Elbridge Gerry (1976) Declaration of Independence signer

• George Gershwin (1973) Composer and musician
• Ira Gershwin (1999) Lyricist
• Domenico Ghirlandaio (1975) Painter
• Amadeo P. Giannini (1973) Bank of America founder
• Josiah Willard Gibbs (2005) Thermodynamicist
• Josh Gibson (2000) Baseball player
• Althea Gibson (2013) Tennis player
• John Gilbert (1994) Actor
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1984) Industrial engineer
• Giorgio Barbarelli Giorgione (1971) Painter
• Giotto di Bondone (1995) Painter
• Jackie Gleason (2009) Comedian

• Robert H. Goddard (1964) Rocket scientist
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer (2011) Physicist
• George W. Goethals (1939) Panama Canal engineer
• Rube Goldberg (1995) Cartoonist
• Samuel Gompers (1950) Labor union leader

• Alexander D. Goode, Ph.D. (1948) Chaplain (1st Lt.), U.S. Army (1948)
• Benny Goodman (1996) Jazz musician and bandleader
• Charles Goodnight (1994) Cattle rancher
• Arshile Gorky (2010) Abstract expressionist artist

• Jan Gossaert (2002) Painter
• Adolph Gottlieb (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1997) Composer
• Francisco Goya (1974) Painter
• Martha Graham (2004) Choreographer
• Red Grange (2003) Football player
• Cary Grant (2002) Actor
• Ulysses S. Grant (1890) 18th president
• François Joseph Paul Grasse (1931) Revolutionary War Admiral
• Asa Gray (2011) Botanist
• Horace Greeley (1961) Journalist
• Adolphus W. Greely (1986) Arctic explorer

• Hank Greenberg (2006) Baseball player
• Nathanael Greene (1936) Revolutionary War General
• Ludwig Greiner (1997) Doll designer
• David Wark Griffith (1975) Motion picture producer
• Ferde Grofé (1997) Composer
• Walter Gropius (1982) Architect
• Thomas Grosvenor (1968) Revolutionary War soldier
• Lefty Grove (2000) Baseball player
• Johnny Gruelle (1997) Doll designer
• Johann Gutenberg (1952) Printing press inventor
• Woody Guthrie (1998) Folk singer, songwriter, and musician

H

• Philip Habib (2006) Diplomat
• George Halas (1997) Football coach

• Nathan Hale (1925) Revolutionary War officer
• Bill Haley (1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter
• Fannie Lou Hamer (2009) Civil rights leader
• Alexander Hamilton (1870) Statesman

• Alice Hamilton (1995) Physician
• Dag Hammarskjöld (1962) United Nations Secretary General
• Oscar Hammerstein II (1999) Musical theater writer
• John Hancock (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
• Winfield Hancock (1995) Civil War General
• William Christopher Handy (1969) Blues musician and composer
• John Hanson (1981) President of Continental Congress
• Yip Harburg (2005) Lyricist

• Warren G. Harding (1923) 29th president
• Oliver Hardy (1991) Comedian
• William Harnett (1969) Painter

• Joel Chandler Harris (1948) Journalist
• Patricia Roberts Harris (2000) Presidential Cabinet member, ambassador
• Benjamin Harrison (1902) 23rd president
• Benjamin Harrison V (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• William Henry Harrison (1938) 9th president
• Ray Harroun (2011) Racecar driver
• Lorenz Hart (1999) Lyricist

• Moss Hart (2004) Playwright
• William S. Hart (2010) Actor
• Bret Harte (1987) Author
• David Hartley (1983) Treaty of Paris signatory
• Marsden Hartley (2013) Modern artist
• John Harvard (1986) Harvard College benefactor
• Josiah Johnson Hawes (2002) Photographer
• Coleman Hawkins (1995) Jazz musician
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983) Author
• Robert Hayden (2012) Poet
• Helen Hayes (2011) Actress
• Ira Hayes (1945) Iwo Jima

• Mary Ludwig Hays (Molly Pitcher) (1928) Battlefield volunteer
• Rutherford B. Hayes (1922) 19th president
• Edith Head (2003) Costume designer
• Martin Johnson Heade (2004) Painter

• John Held, Jr. (2001) Illustrator

• Ernest Hemingway (1989) Author
• Jimi Hendrix (2014) Musician
• O. Henry (2012) Author
• Patrick Henry (1955) American Revolution orator
• Jim Henson (2005) Muppets creator
• Matthew Alexander Henson (1986) Arctic explorer

• Audrey Hepburn (2003) Actress
• Katharine Hepburn (2010) Actress
• Victor Herbert (1940) Composer
• Nicholas Herkimer (1977) Revolutionary War General
• Bernard Herrmann (1999) Composer
• John Hersey (2008) Journalist
• Milton S. Hershey (1995) Confectioner
• Charlton Heston (2014) Actor
• Joseph Hewes (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Wild Bill Hickok (1994) Gunfighter
• Marguerite Higgins (2002) Journalist
• Morgan Hill (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
• Lewis Hine (2002) Photographer
• Gregory Hines (2019) Dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer
• John L. Hines (2000) World War I General
• Alfred Hitchcock (1998) Motion picture director
• James Hoban (1981) White House architect
• Oveta Culp Hobby (2011) Women's Army Corps officer
• Hans Hofmann (2010) Abstract expressionist painter
• Katsushika Hokusai (1974) Painter
• Billie Holiday (1994) Jazz singer
• Hollow Horn Bear (1923) Brulé Sioux leader
• Buddy Holly (1993) Rock and roll singer, musician, and songwriter
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (1968) Supreme Court Justice
• Winslow Homer (1962) Painter
• William Hooper (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Herbert Hoover (1965) 31st president
• Bob Hope (2009) Comedian
• Johns Hopkins (1989) Philanthropist
• Mark Hopkins (1940) Educator
• Stephen Hopkins (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Francis Hopkinson (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Edward Hopper (1970) Painter
• Rogers Hornsby (2000) Baseball player
• Harry Houdini (2002) Magician
• Charles Hamilton Houston (2009) Civil rights leader
• Sam Houston (1963) Texas Governor
• Elias Howe (1940) Inventor
• Julia Ward Howe (1987) Abolitionist
• Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
• Edwin Hubble (2000) Astronomer
• Henry Hudson (1909) Explorer
• Charles Evans Hughes (1962) Chief Justice

• Langston Hughes (2002) Author

• Cordell Hull (1963) Secretary of State
• Hubert Humphrey (1991) Vice president
• Richard Morris Hunt (1981) Architect
• Samuel Huntington (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
• Ruby Hurley (2009) Civil rights leader
• Zora Neale Hurston (2003) Author
• John Huston (2012) Motion picture director

I

• Gwen Ifill (2020) Television journalist
• Washington Irving (1940) Author
• Isabella I of Castile (1893) Queen of Spain, funded Christopher Columbus's voyage
• Charles Ives (1997) Composer
• Frederic E. Ives (1996) Halftone printing inventor
• James Ives (1974) Lithographer

J

• Andrew Jackson (1861) 7th president

• Mahalia Jackson (1998) Gospel singer
• Nathan Jackson (1996) Artist
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1937) Confederate Army General

• Henry James (2016) Writer
• John Jay (1958) New York Governor, statesman, Chief Justice of Supreme Court
• Robinson Jeffers (1973) Poet
• Thomas Jefferson (1861) 3rd president
• Jesus (1966) Christianity founder

• Andrew Johnson (1938) 17th president
• Eastman Johnson (1976) Painter
• George Johnson (2002) Ground Zero firefighter
• James P. Johnson (1995) Composer
• James Weldon Johnson (1988) Author
• John H. Johnson (2012) Publisher
• Joshua Johnson (1998) Painter
• Lady Bird Johnson (2012) First Lady
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) 36th president
• Robert Johnson (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
• Walter Johnson (2000) Baseball player
• William Johnson (artist) (2012) Artist
• Joseph E. Johnston (1995) Confederate Army General
• Louis Jolliet (1968) Explorer
• Al Jolson (1994) Singer and actor
• Casey Jones (1950) Railroad engineer
• John Paul Jones (1936) Revolutionary War Naval Captain
• Bobby Jones (1981) Golfer
• Scott Joplin (1983) Ragtime musician and composer
• Barbara Jordan (2011) Congresswoman
• Louis Jordan (2008) Musician/singer
• Chief Joseph (1968) Nez Perce warrior
• Percy Lavon Julian (1993) Chemist
• Ernest E. Just (1996) Biologist

K

• Duke Kahanamoku (2002) Surfer, swimmer
• Frida Kahlo (2001) Painter

• Kamehameha I of Hawaii (1937) Hawaiian King
• Elisha Kent Kane (1986) Arctic explorer
• Boris Karloff (1997) Actor
• Theodore von Kármán (1992) Aerospace scientist
• Gertrude Käsebier (2002) Photographer

• Stephen Watts Kearny (1946) Mexican American War officer
• Buster Keaton (1994) Actor
• Helen Keller (1980) Author, disability advocate
• Grace Kelly (1993) Actress and Princess of Monaco
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964) 35th president
• Robert F. Kennedy (1979) Attorney General
• Rockwell Kent (2001) Illustrator
• Jerome Kern (1985) Composer
• André Kertész (2002) Hungarian photographer
• Francis Scott Key (1948) Star-Spangled Banner composer
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1979) Civil Rights advocate
• Franz Kline (1998) Painter
• Henry Knox (1985) Revolutionary War General
• Erich Korngold (1999) Composer
• Tadeusz Kościuszko (1933) Polish-Lithuanian patriot
• Lajos Kossuth (1958) Hungarian patriot

L

• Marquis de Lafayette (1952) Revolutionary War General
• Fiorello H. La Guardia (1972) New York City Mayor

• Dorothea Lange (2002) Photographer
• Samuel Pierpont Langley (1988) Aviation pioneer
• Sidney Lanier (1972) Poet
• Nella Larsen (2021) Novelist
• Mary Lasker (2009) Philanthropist

• Benjamin Latrobe (1979) Architect
• Frank C. Laubach (1984) Educator
• Stan Laurel (1991) Comedian

• John Laurens (1976) Revolutionary War soldier
• Elmer Layden (1998) Football coach
• Huddie Ledbetter (1998) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
• Jason Lee (1948) Oregon Territory missionary

• Richard Henry Lee (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Robert E. Lee (1937) Confederate Army General
• Vivien Leigh (1990) Actress
• Lillian Leitzel (2014) Circus gymnast
• John A. Lejeune (2005) Marine Corps Commandant
• John Lennon (2018) Composer, singer
• Ponce de León (1982) Explorer
• Alan Jay Lerner (1999) Lyricist
• Emanuel Leutze (1976) Painter
• Denise Levertov (2012) Poet
• Edmonia Lewis (2022) Sculptor
• Edna Lewis (2014) Chef, cookbook author
• Francis Lewis (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory

• Meriwether Lewis (1954) Explorer
• Sinclair Lewis (1985) Author
• Joseph Christian Leyendecker (2001) Illustrator
• José Limón (2012) Choreographer
• Abraham Lincoln (1866, 1954) 16th president
• Benjamin Lincoln (1976) Revolutionary War General
• Tad Lincoln (1984) son of Abraham Lincoln
• Charles Lindbergh (1927) Aviator
• Jean-Étienne Liotard (1974) Painter
• Fra Filippo Lippi (1984) Painter
• Walter Lippmann (1985) Journalist
• Sarah Lipsey (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
• Philip Livingston (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Robert R. Livingston (1904) Declaration of Independence drafter
• Harold Lloyd (1994) Actor
• Alain Locke (2020) Writer, philosopher, educator
• Belva Ann Lockwood (1986) Lawyer, feminist
• Frank Loesser (1999) Composer
• Frederick Loewe (1999) Composer
• Raymond Loewy (2011) Industrial designer
• Vince Lombardi (1997) Football coach
• Jack London (1986) Author
• Crawford W. Long (1940) Physician
• Hillary Long (2014) Circus performer
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1940) Poet
• Lorenzo Lotto (1970) Painter
• Joe Louis (1993) Boxer
• Louis XVI of France (1978) King of France, Revolutionary War supporter
• Juliette Gordon Low (1948) Girl Scouts of the USA founder
• James Russell Lowell (1940) Poet
• Henry R. Luce (1998) Publisher
• Sybil Ludington (1975) Revolutionary War heroine
• Bela Lugosi (1997) Actor
• Bernardino Luini (2007) Painter
• Alfred Lunt (1999) Actor
• Martin Luther (1983) Protestant reformer
• Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Mary Lyon (1987) Educator

M

• Clara Maass (1976) Nurse
• Douglas MacArthur (1971) Army general
• Thomas Macdonough (1937) Naval officer
• Edward MacDowell (1940) Composer
• Dolley Madison (1980) First Lady
• Helene Madison (1990) Swimmer
• James Madison (1894, 1938) 4th president
• Ramon Magsaysay (1957) Philippine president
• Henry Mancini (2004) Composer
• Horace Mann (1940) Educator

• C.G.E. Mannerheim (1960) Finnish president
• Mickey Mantle (2006) Baseball player
• Rocky Marciano (1999) Boxer
• John Marin (2013) Modern artist
• Roger Maris (1999) Baseball player
• Jacques Marquette (1898, 1968) Explorer
• George Catlett Marshall (1965) Secretary of State, Army general

• John Marshall (1894) Chief Justice
• Thurgood Marshall (2003) Supreme Court Justice
• Roberta Martin (1998) Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter

• Mary (The Madonna) (1966) Central figure in Christianity
• Groucho Marx (2009) Comedian
• Tomáš Masaryk (1960) President of Czechoslovakia
• George Mason (1958) Statesman
• Edgar Lee Masters (1970) Poet
• Bat Masterson (1994) U.S. marshal
• Richard Mather (1998) Painter
• Christy Mathewson (2000) Baseball player
• Paolo de Matteis (1996) Painter
• Jan Earnst Matzeliger (1991) Lasting machine inventor
• Bill Mauldin (2010) Cartoonist
• Bernard Maybeck (1981) Architect
• Charles Horace Mayo (1964) Surgeon
• William James Mayo (1964) Surgeon
• Philip Mazzei (1980) Revolutionary War supporter

• Barbara McClintock (2005) Geneticist
• John McCloy (2010) Navy sailor
• John McCormack (1984) Tenor
• Cyrus Hall McCormick (1940) Mechanical reaper inventor
• Hattie McDaniel (2006) Actress
• Ephraim McDowell (1959) Surgeon
• Thomas McKean (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• William McKinley (1904) 25th president
• John McLoughlin (1948) Oregon Territory settler

• Brien McMahon (1962) Atomic Energy Act author
• Neysa McMein (2001) Illustrator

• Clyde McPhatter (1993) R&B singer
• Dan McWilliams (2002) Ground Zero firefighter
• Margaret Mead (1998) Anthropologist
• George Meany (1994) Labor union leader
• Andrew W. Mellon (1955) Financier
• Herman Melville (1984) Author
• Hans Memling (1966) Painter
• Lydia Mendoza (2013) Guitarist and singer
• Johnny Mercer (1996) Composer and singer
• Ottmar Mergenthaler (1996) Linotype inventor
• Ethel Merman (1994) Singer, actress
• Moina Michael (1948) Memorial Poppy founder
• Oscar Micheaux (2010) Motion picture director
• James Michener (2008) Writer
• Arthur Middleton (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Harvey Milk (2014) Politician
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1981) Poet
• Don Miller (1998) Football player
• Doris Miller (2010) Navy veteran
• Glenn Miller (1996) Jazz musician, arranger, and composer
• Robert Millikan (1982) Physicist
• Charlie Mingus (1995) Jazz musician and composer
• Carmen Miranda (2011) Singer
• Billy Mitchell (1999) Air Force general
• Joan Mitchell (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Margaret Mitchell (1986) Author
• Tom Mix (2010) Actor
• Lorenzo Monaco (2004) Painter
• Thelonious Monk (1995) Jazz musician and composer
• James Monroe (1904) 5th president
• Marilyn Monroe (1995) Actress
• John Bassett Moore (1965) Jurist

• Clayton Moore (2009) Actor
• Marianne Craig Moore (1990) Poet
• Thomas Moran (1998) Painter
• Giovanni Battista Moroni (1987) Painter
• Justin S. Morrill (1999) Senator
• Lewis Morris (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Robert Morris (financier) (1952) Declaration of Independence signatory
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1940) Telegraph inventor
• Jelly Roll Morton (originally Ferdinand J. La Menthe) (1995) Jazz musician and composer
• Julius Sterling Morton (1932) Arbor Day founder
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses "Grandma Moses" (1969) Painter

• Horace A. Moses (1984) Junior Achievement founder
• Robert Motherwell (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Lucretia Mott (1948) Civil Rights advocate

• John Muir (1964) Conservationist
• Peter Müller-Munk (2011) Industrial designer
• Luis Muñoz Marín (1980) First democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico
• Audie L. Murphy (2000) World War II soldier, actor
• Gerald Murphy (2013) Modern artist
• Robert Daniel Murphy (2006) Diplomat
• Edward R. Murrow (1994) Journalist
• Eadweard Muybridge (1996) Photographer
• Myron of Eleutherae (1932) Sculptor

N

• Bronko Nagurski (2003) Football player
• James Naismith (1961) Basketball inventor
• Ogden Nash (2002) Poet
• Harriet Nelson (2009) Actress
• Ozzie Nelson (2009) Actor
• Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
• Louise Nevelson (2000) Sculptor
• Ernie Nevers (2003) Football player

• Ethelbert Nevin (1940) Composer
• Alfred Newman (1999) Composer
• Barnett Newman (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Paul Newman (2015) Actor
• Jean Nicolet (1934) Explorer
• Chester W. Nimitz (1985) World War II Admiral
• Richard Nixon (1995) 37th president
• Alfred Nobel (2001) Philanthropist
• Isamu Noguchi (2004) Sculptor
• George W. Norris (1961) Senator
• Eliot Noyes (2011) Industrial designer

O

• Annie Oakley (1994) Sharpshooter

• Adolph S. Ochs (1976) New York Times publisher
• Severo Ochoa (2011) Biochemist
• Flannery O'Connor (2015) Writer
• William Butler Ogden (1944) Railroad tycoon, first Mayor of Chicago
• James Edward Oglethorpe (1933) Georgia founder
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1996, 2013) Painter
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1999) Landscape architect
• Eugene O'Neill (1973) Playwright

• Rose O'Neill (2001) Illustrator
• Eugene Ormandy (1997) Conductor
• Timothy O'Sullivan (2002) Photographer
• Mel Ott (2006) Baseball player
• Francis Ouimet (1988) Golfer
• Mary White Ovington (2009) Civil rights leader
• Jesse Owens (1990) Track & field athlete

P

• William Paca (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1960) Polish Prime Minister
• Satchel Paige (2000) Baseball player
• Robert Treat Paine (1976) Declaration of Independence signer

• Thomas Paine (1965) Journalist
• Arnold Palmer (2020) Golfer
• Nathaniel Palmer (1988) Antarctic explorer
• George Papanicolaou (1978) Cytologist
• Al Parker (2001) Illustrator
• Charlie Parker (1995) Jazz musician and composer

• Dorothy Parker (1992) Author
• Francis Parkman (1965) Historian
• Rosa Parks (2013) Civil rights activist
• Maxfield Parrish (2001) Illustrator

• Alden Partridge (1985) Educator
• George S. Patton, Jr. (1953) World War II Army General
• Alice Paul (1995) Suffragist and feminist
• Linus Pauling (2008) Chemist
• Ethel L. Payne (2002) Journalist
• Charles Willson Peale (1955) Painter
• Rembrandt Peale (1998) Painter
• Rubens Peale (1998) Painter
• Robert Edwin Peary (1959) Arctic explorer
• Gregory Peck, (2011) Actor
• Phoebe Pember (1995) Confederate nurse
• William Penn (1932) Pennsylvania founder
• Claude Pepper (2000) Senator

• Frances Perkins (1980) Secretary of Labor
• Matthew Perry (1953) Navy Commodore
• Oliver Hazard Perry (1870) Naval officer
• John J. Pershing (1961) World War I General
• Perugino (1986) Painter
• John Frederick Peto (1974) Painter
• Ammi Phillips (1998) Painter
• Coles Phillips (2001) Illustrator
• Édith Piaf (2012) Singer
• Ben Pickett (1994) brother of Bill Pickett, accidentally placed on stamp when his brother Bill was meant to appear; stamp recalled and replaced
• Bill Pickett (1994) Wild West performer
• Franklin Pierce (1938) 14th president

• Sano di Pietro (1997) Painter
• William T. Piper (1990) Aviation pioneer
• ZaSu Pitts (1994) Actress
• Sylvia Plath (2012) Poet
• Pocahontas (1907) Algonquian princess
• Edgar Allan Poe (1949) Author
• Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1987) Chicago settler
• Clark V. Poling (1948) One of the Four Chaplains
• George Polk (2008) Journalist
• James K. Polk (1938) 11th president
• Jackson Pollock (1999) Painter
• Lily Pons (1997) Soprano
• Rosa Ponselle (1997) Soprano
• Salem Poor (1975) Revolutionary War soldier
• Cole Porter (1991) Composer and songwriter
• David D. Porter (1937) Civil War naval officer
• Katherine Anne Porter (2006) Author
• Emily Post (1998) Author
• Wiley Post (1979) Aviator
• John Wesley Powell (1969) Geologist
• Albert Préjean (2008) Actor
• Elvis Presley (1993, 2015) Rock and roll singer and musician
• Joseph Priestley (1983) Chemist
• Tito Puente (2011) Drummer
• Kazimierz Pułaski (1931) Revolutionary War soldier (spelled Casimir Pulaski on the stamp)
• Joseph Pulitzer (1947) Journalist
• Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller (2005) Marine Corps General
• Rufus Putnam (1937) Northwest Territory settler
• Ernest Taylor Pyle (1971) Journalist

• Howard Pyle (1964) Illustrator

Q

• Harriet Quimby (1991) Pilot and aviation pioneer

R

• Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1994) Blues singer
• Ayn Rand (1999) Author
• Asa Philip Randolph (1989) Labor & Civil Rights advocate
• Raphael (1973) Painter
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2008) Author
• Man Ray (2002, 2013) Photographer
• Sam Rayburn (1962) Legislator

• George Read (1976), lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• Ronald Reagan (2005, 2011) 40th president
• Red Cloud (1987) Oglala Sioux Chief
• Otis Redding (1993) Soul singer and songwriter
• Walter Reed (1940) Army surgeon
• Frederic Remington (1940) Sculptor, painter
• James Renwick, Jr. (1980) Architect
• Ernst Reuter (1959) Berlin Mayor

• Bernard Revel (1986) Educator
• Paul Revere (1958) Revolutionary War patriot
• Frederick Hurten Rhead (2011) Industrial designer
• Gilbert Rohde (2011) Industrial designer
• Henry Hobson Richardson (1980) Architect
• Eddie Rickenbacker (1995) World War I fighter pilot
• James Whitcomb Riley (1940) Poet

• Paul Robeson (2004) Actor, singer, civil Rights advocate
• Edward G. Robinson (2000) Actor
• Jackie Robinson (1982) Baseball player

• Sugar Ray Robinson (2006) Boxer
• Comte de Rochambeau (1931) Revolutionary War General
• Knute Rockne (1988) Football coach
• Norman Rockwell (1972) Painter
• Jimmie Rodgers (1978) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
• Richard Rodgers (1999) Composer
• Theodore Roethke (2012) Poet
• Fred Rogers (2018) Television personality and producer
• Roy Rogers (2010) Singer, Actor
• Will Rogers (1948) Humorist
• Felipe Rojas-Lombardi (2014) Chef, cookbook author
• Antoniazzo Romano (1991) Painter

• Eleanor Roosevelt (1963) First Lady
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945) 32nd president
• Theodore Roosevelt (1922, 1938) 26th president
• Betsy Ross (1952) American flag creator
• George Ross (1952) Relative of Betsy Ross
• Mark Rothko (1998) Painter
• Edward Rutledge (1976) Painter
• Wilma Rudolph (2004) Track & field athlete
• Benjamin Rush (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Jimmy Rushing (1994) Blues singer

• Andrew J. Russell (1944) Photographer
• Charles M. Russell (1961) Painter
• Richard Russell, Jr. (1984) Statesman
• George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1983) Baseball player

S

• Eero Saarinen (1982) Architect
• Albert Sabin (2006) Virologist
• Sacagawea (1994) Shoshone guide
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1940) Sculptor
• Rubén Salazar (2008) Journalist
• Peter Salem (1968) Revolutionary War soldier
• Jonas Salk (2006) Medical scientist
• Haym Salomon (1975) Revolutionary War financier

• William T. Sampson (1937) Navy Admiral
• José de San Martín (1959) South American liberator
• Carl Sandburg (1978) Poet
• Henry Sandham (1925) Painter
• Winthrop Sargent (1948) Mississippi Territory Governor
• William Saroyan (1991) Author
• Sassoferrato (2009) Painer
• Winfield S. Schley (1937) Navy Admiral
• Albert Schoenhut (1997) Doll designer
• Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2020) historian and writer
• Carl Schurz (1983) Journalist
• Blanche Stuart Scott (1980) Aviator
• Winfield Scott (1870) Army General
• Selena (2011) Singer
• David O. Selznick (2003) Motion picture producer
• Raphael Semmes (1995) Naval officer
• Sequoyah (1980) Cherokee linguist
• Rod Serling (2009) Writer
• Junipero Serra (1985) Franciscan mission founder
• John Sevier (1946) Tennessee Governor
• William H. Seward (1873) Secretary of State
• Eric Sevareid (2008) Journalist
• Chief Shadoo (1930) Kiowa Chief

• William Shakespeare (1964) Playwright
• Charles Sheeler (1998, 2013) Painter
• Alan Shepard (2011) Astronaut
• Philip Henry Sheridan (1937) Civil War General

• Roger Sherman (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1893) Civil War General
• Dinah Shore (2009) Singer
• Igor Sikorsky (1988) Aircraft engineer
• Phil Silvers (2009) Comedian
• William S. Sims (2010) Admiral
• Frank Sinatra (2008) Singer/actor
• Elisabetta Sirani (1994) Painter
• George Sisler (2000) Baseball player
• Sitting Bull (1989) Hunkpapa Sioux warrior
• Red Skelton (2009) Comedian

• John French Sloan (1971) Painter
• Alfred E. Smith (1945) New York Governor
• Bessie Smith (1994) Blues singer
• Jessie Willcox Smith (2001) Illustrator
• John Smith (1907) Jamestown settler
• Kate Smith (2010) Singer
• Margaret Chase Smith (2007) U.S. senator
• W. Eugene Smith (2002) Photographer
• John Philip Sousa (1940) Composer
• Franklin Sousley (1945) Iwo Jima
• Albert Southworth (2002) Photographer

• Tris Speaker (2000) Baseball player
• Anne Spencer (2020) Poet
• Lawrence Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer
• Joel Elias Spingarn (2009) Civil rights leader
• Leland Stanford (1944) Railroad tycoon, politician, & philanthropist
• Edwin M. Stanton (1871) Secretary of War
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1948) Suffragist, feminist, and abolitionist
• Willie Stargell (2012) Baseball player
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1986) Arctic explorer
• Edward Steichen (2002) Photographer
• John Steinbeck (1979) Writer
• Max Steiner (1999) Composer
• Charles Steinmetz (1983) Electrical inventor
• Joseph Stella (2013) Modern artist

• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1930) Revolutionary War general
• Wallace Stevens (2012) Poet
• Adlai Stevenson (1965) UN Ambassador and presidential candidate
• James Stewart (2007) Actor
• Walter Stewart (1976) Revolutionary War soldier
• Alfred Stieglitz (2002) Photographer
• Clyfford Still (2010) Abstract expressionist artist
• Joseph W. Stilwell (2000) Army General
• Richard Stockton (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Leopold Stokowski (1997) Conductor
• Harlan Fiske Stone (1948) Chief Justice

• Lucy Stone (1965) Suffragist and feminist
• Joseph Story (2009) Supreme Court justice
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (2007) Author
• Paul Strand (2002) Photographer
• Michael Strank (1945) Iwo Jima
• Igor Stravinsky (1982) Composer
• William Strickland (1979) Architect
• Gilbert Charles Stuart (1940) Painter
• Harry Stuhldreher (1998) Football player
• Peter Stuyvesant (1948) New Amsterdam Governor
• Anne Sullivan (1980) Educator
• Ed Sullivan (2009) TV variety show host
• John Sullivan (1929) Revolutionary War general
• Louis Sullivan (1981) Architect
• George Szell (1997) Conductor, composer

T

• Robert A. Taft (1960) Senator
• William Howard Taft (1930) 27th president, 10th Chief Justice of the United States
• William Talman (2009) Actor
• Henry Ossawa Tanner (1973) Painter

• Ida Tarbell (2002) Author, journalist
• Robert Robinson Taylor (2015) African American architect
• Zachary Taylor (1875) 12th president
• Walter Dorwin Teague (2011) Industrial designer
• Shirley Temple (2016) Actress and diplomat
• Mother Teresa (2010) Humanitarian
• Gerard Terborch (1974) Painter
• Mary Church Terrell (2009) Civil rights leader
• Sonny Terry (1998) Blues musician

• Nikola Tesla (1983) Induction motor inventor
• Rosetta Tharpe (1998) Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter
• Sylvanus Thayer (1985) Educator
• Danny Thomas (2012) Entertainer
• Charles Thomson (1976) Continental Congress Secretary
• Henry David Thoreau (1967) Author
• Jim Thorpe (1984) Football player
• James Thurber (1994) Author, illustrator, humorist
• Lawrence Tibbett (1997) Opera singer
• Giambattista Tiepolo (1982) Painter
• Lewis Comfort Tiffany (2007) Designer
• Bill Tilghman (1994) Southwest lawman
• Dimitri Tiomkin (1999) Composer
• Arturo Toscanini (1989) Conductor
• Pie Traynor (2000) Baseball player
• William B. T. Trego (1976) Painter
• Edward Trudeau (2008) Phthisiologist
• Harry S. Truman (1973) 33rd president
• John Trumbull (1927) Painter
• Sojourner Truth (1986) Abolitionist
• Harriet Tubman (1978) Abolitionist
• Richard Tucker (1997) Tenor
• Mark Twain (1940) Author
• John Tyler (1938) 10th president

V

• Ritchie Valens (1993) Rock and roll musician
• Rudolph Valentino (1994) Actor
• Martin Van Buren (1938) 8th president
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1982) Architect
• James Van Der Zee (2002) Photographer
• Vivian Vance (2009) Actress
• Félix Varela (1997) Social reformer
• Sarah Vaughan (2016) Jazz singer
• Alfred V. Verville (1985) Aviation pioneer
• King Vidor (2008) Film director, producer and screenwriter
• Oswald Garrison Villard (2009) Civil rights leader
• Bartolomeo Vivarini (1999) Painter
• Greta von Nessen (2011) Industrial designer
• John von Neumann (2005) Mathematician

W

• Honus Wagner (2000) Baseball player
• Madam C.J. Walker (1998) Philanthropist
• Mary Edwards Walker (1982) Army surgeon

• DeWitt Wallace (1998) Publisher
• Lila Wallace (1998) Publisher
• Raoul Wallenberg (1997) Humanitarian
• George Walton (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Clara Ward (1998) Gospel singer and songwriter
• Andy Warhol (2002) Painter

• "Pop" Warner (1997) Football coach
• Earl Warren (1992) Chief Justice
• Robert Penn Warren (2005) Author and poet

• Booker T. Washington (1940) Educator
• Dinah Washington (1993) Blues singer
• Fredi Washington (2008) Actress

• George Washington (1847) 1st president
• John P. Washington (1948) Chaplain (1st Lt.), U.S. Army
• Martha Washington (1902) First Lady
• Ethel Waters (1994) Blues singer and actress
• Muddy Waters (1994) Blues singer, musician, and songwriter
• Stand Watie (1995) Confederate General
• Carleton Watkins (2002) Photographer
• Franz Waxman (1999) Composer
• Anthony Wayne (1929) Revolutionary War General
• John Wayne (1990) Actor
• Jack Webb (2009) Actor

• Daniel Webster (1870) Statesman
• Noah Webster (1958) Author
• Orson Welles (1999) Actor/film director

• Ida B. Wells (1990) Civil Rights advocate, feminist
• Benjamin West (1956) Painter
• Joseph West (1930) Charleston Governor
• Edward Weston (2002) Photographer
• Clifton R. Wharton, Sr. (2006) Diplomat
• Edith Wharton (1980) Author
• Joseph Wharton (1981) Wharton School of Business founder
• William Whipple (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• James McNeill Whistler (1934) Painter
• Jon Whitcomb (2001) Illustrator
• Josh White (1998) Folk singer, musician, songwriter, and actor
• Minor White (2002) Photographer
• Paul Dudley White (1986) Cardiologist
• Walter Francis White (2009) Civil rights leader
• William Allen White (1948) Newspaper editor
• Wabokieshiek (White Cloud) (1998) Iowa Chief
• Walt Whitman (1940) Poet
• Eli Whitney (1940) Cotton gin inventor
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1940) Poet
• Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1990) Tennis player
• Billy Wilder (2012) Motion picture director
• Thornton Wilder (1997) Playwright
• Harvey W. Wiley (1956) Chemist
• Charles Wilkes (1988) Antarctic explorer
• Roy Wilkins (2001) Civil Rights advocate
• Frances E. Willard (1940) Educator
• Hank Williams (1993) Country singer, musician, and songwriter
• Roger Williams (1936) Rhode Island co-founder
• Ted Williams (2012) Baseball player
• Tennessee Williams (1995) Playwright
• William Williams (Continental Congress) (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• William Carlos Williams (2012) Poet
• William Haliday Williams (1912) Rural mail carrier and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Thomas Willing (1976) Continental Congressman
• Frances E. Willis (2006) Diplomat
• Wendell Willkie (1992) Statesman
• Bob Wills (1993) Country musician and songwriter
• Meredith Willson (1999) Composer, playwright
• August Wilson (2021) Playwright
• James Wilson (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Woodrow Wilson (1925) 28th president
• Garry Winogrand (2002) Photographer
• John Witherspoon (1976) Declaration of Independence signatory
• Oliver Wolcott (1976) Declaration of Independence signer
• Thomas Wolfe (2000) Author
• Grant Wood (1996) Painter
• Carter G. Woodson (1984) Historian
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1965) Architect
• Orville Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer
• Richard Wright (2009) Writer
• Russel Wright (2011) Industrial designer
• Wilbur Wright (1928) Aviation pioneer
• Chien-Shiung Wu (2021) Physicist who proved that the basic law of parity was violated in physics that paved the way for the Standard Model
• Newell Convers Wyeth (2001) Illustrator
• George Wythe (1976) Declaration of Independence signer

X

• Malcolm X (1999) Civil rights advocate

Y

• Sun Yat-sen (1942, 1961) Chinese revolutionary leader
• Alvin C. York (2000) World War I soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
• Ashley Young (2000) Child stamp design contest winner
• Cy Young (2000) Baseball player
• Whitney Moore Young (1981) Civil Rights advocate

Z

• Babe Zaharias (1981) Track & field athlete