List of people on stamps of the United Kingdom
This is a list of people on stamps of the United Kingdom. (The number in parentheses is the year of first appearance on a stamp.)
Queen Victoria on a common stamp of the 1880s.
Until 2005, The policy followed by the Royal Mail was that the only identifiable living people depicted on British stamps were the monarch and other members of the Royal Family (or people imminently marrying into it). This policy was only occasionally broken, e.g. in the 1967 issue commemorating the solo round the world voyage of Gipsy Moth IV a person appeared as an unidentifiable blob on the yacht – as there was only one person on board it must have been Francis Chichester. Similarly in the issue honouring Freddie Mercury, drummer Roger Taylor can be seen in the background.
The rule was again broken in December 2003 when players from England's victory over Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final were shown; however, no faces appeared. The rule was finally abandoned with the release on 6 October 2005 of a set of stamps to commemorate the English cricket team's victory over Australia in the 2005 Ashes series. The four stamps clearly and deliberately depict members of the team including captain Michael Vaughan and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff. A series of stamps released in January 2007 featured some of the most famous Beatles album covers, which also show members of the band. Similarly, a 2011 stamp features actor David Tennant in the role of Hamlet. A series of Gold Medal stamps, issued during the 2012 Summer Olympics, feature British gold medal-winning athletes.
This list is complete through 1991.
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A
- Ben Ainslie (2012)
- John Alcock (1969)
- Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1986)
- Queen Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- John Archer (2013)
B
- Charles Babbage, scientist (1991, 2010)
- Francis Bacon (2009)
- Robert Baden-Powell (1982)
- Timothy Baillie (2012)
- Francis Baily (1970)
- Sir John Barbirolli (1980)
- Laura Bechtolsheimer (2012)
- Sir Thomas Beecham (1980)
- The Black Prince (1974)
- Admiral Robert Blake (1982)
- Danny Blanchflower (1996)[1]
- Queen Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the "Queen Mother", wife of George VI (1937)
- Robert Boyle, scientist (2010)
- Scott Brash (2012)
- Benjamin Britten (2013)
- Charlotte Brontë (1980)
- Emily Brontë (1980)
- Arthur Whitten Brown (1969)
- Alistair Brownlee (2012)
- Steven Burke (2012)
- Robert Burns (1966, 1996, 2009)
- Sir Matt Busby (2009)
C
- Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- Donald Campbell (2009)
- Charles, Prince of Wales (1969)[2]
- Charlie Chaplin (1985, 1999)[3]
- Peter Charles (2012)
- Francis Chichester (1967, 2003)
- Sir Winston Churchill (1965, 1974)[2][4]
- Ed Clancy (2012)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2009)
- Peter Cook (1998)
- Tommy Cooper (1998)
- Katherine Copeland (2012)
- Admiral Andrew Cunningham (1982)
- Peter Cushing , Film and Television actor (2013)
D
- Charles Darwin (1982)[5]
- Elizabeth David (2013)
- Bishop Richard Davies (1988)
- Les Dawson (1998)
- Dixie Dean (1996)[1]
- Frederick Delius (1985)
- Richard Dimbleby (2013)
- Lord Dowding (1986)
- Sir Francis Drake (1973)
- Charlotte Dujardin (2012)
E
Edward VII, 1902
- King Edward VII (1902)
- King Edward VIII (1936)
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1999)[6]
- Duncan Edwards, footballer (1996)[1]
- Edward Elgar (1985)
- George Eliot (1980)
Queen Elizabeth II, 1952
- Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
- Jessica Ennis (2012)
F
- Michael Faraday (1991)
- Mo Farah (2012)
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (1986)
- Admiral Jackie Fisher (1982)
- Benjamin Franklin (1976, 2010)
- Sir Martin Frobisher (1972)
G
- Mohandas Gandhi (1969)
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1980)
- Saint George (1951)
- King George V (1911)
George VI, 1937
- King George VI (1937)
- Helen Glover (2012)
- Owain Glyndŵr (1974)
- King Harold Godwinson (1966)
- William Gilbert Grace (1973)
- Katherine Grainger (2012)
- Thomas Gray (1971)
- Alex Gregory (2012)
- Joyce Grenfell (1998)
H
- George Frederic Handel (1985)
- Thomas Hardy (1990)
- Sir Arthur Harris (1986)
- King Henry V (1964)
- King Henry VIII (1982)
- Sir John Herschel (1970)
- Sir William Herschel, astronomer (1970)
- Carl Hester (2012)
- Sir Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979)
- Philip Hindes (2012)
- Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker (1985)
- Dorothy Hodgkin, scientist (2010)
- Wenceslaus Hollar (1965)
- Gustav Holst, composer (1985)
- Sophie Hosking (2012)
- Queen Catherine Howard, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- Sir Chris Hoy (2012 twice)
- Henry Hudson, explorer (1972)
K
- John Keats, poet (1971)
- Peter Kennaugh (2012)
- Jason Kenny (2012 twice)
- Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII, great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles (1983)
- Violet Keppel (1983)
- Danielle King (2012)
L
- Stan Laurel, comedian (1990)
- Mary Leakey (2013)
- Edward Lear (1988)
- Vivien Leigh (1985, 2013)
- John Lennon (1988)[3]
- Joseph Lister (1965, 2010)
- David Livingstone (1973)
- David Lloyd-George (2013)
M
- Ben Maher (2012)
- Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (1995)[7]
- Freddie Mercury, musician (1999)[3]
- Bobby Moore, footballer (1996 & 1999)[1][3]
- Rev William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (1988)
- Andy Murray (2012)
N
- Alexander Nasmyth (1966)
- Admiral Horatio Nelson (1982)
- Sir Isaac Newton, scientist (2010)
- Florence Nightingale, nurse (1970)
- David Niven (1985)
P
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1968)
- Norman Parkinson (2013)
- Fred Perry (2009)
- Queen Catherine Parr, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- Bishop Richard Parry (1988)
- Victoria Pendleton (2012)
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1972)
- Captain Mark Phillips (1973)
- Lord Portal (1986)
R
- Sir Henry Raeburn (1973)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1973)
- Pete Reed (2012)
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1973)
- Gus Risman (1995)
- Robert the Bruce (1974)
- Sir James Clark Ross (1972)
- Joanna Rowsell (2012)
- Ernest Rutherford, scientist (2010)
- Greg Rutherford (2012)
S
- William Salesbury (1988)
- Sir Malcolm Sargent (1980)
- Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1972)
- Sir Walter Scott (1971)
- Peter Sellers (1985)
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton, scientist (2010)
- Queen Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
- William Shakespeare (1964, 1988)[2][3]
- Bill Shankly (2013)
- Simon de Montfort (1965)
- Nick Skelton (2012)
- Archibald Skirving (1966)
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1999)[6]
- Lady Diana Spencer (1981)
- Henry Morton Stanley (1973)
- Heather Stanning (2012)
- Etienne Stott (2012)
- George Stubbs (1967)
- Charles Sturt (1973)
T
- Lord Tedder (1986)
- David Tennant (2011)
- Alfred Tennyson (1992)
- Geraint Thomas (2012)
- Lord Trenchard (1986)
- Andrew Triggs-Hodge (2012)
- Laura Trott (2012 twice)
V
Victoria and George VI, 1940
- Queen Victoria (1840, 1970)[5]
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972)
W
- Harold Wagstaff[8]
- Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist (2010)
- Anna Watkins (2012)
- Bradley Wiggins (2012)
- Peter Wilson (2012)
- Billy Wright (1996)[1]
- Henry Wood (1980)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (2009)
References and sources
- Notes
- ^ a b c d e "FA Cup - Icons of England". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.</
- ^ a b c "David Gentleman's 103 Issued Stamps - 1962-1969 - Gentleman on Stamps". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ a b c d e "Famous Philatelists". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "The V Sign - Icons of England". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ a b "David Gentleman's 103 Issued Stamps - 1970-1999 - Gentleman on Stamps". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ a b "Royal Wedding". Collect GB Stamps. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Guglielmo Marconi and the Post Office". The British Postal Museum & Archive. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ http://www.philateca.com/stamp/4204/19_-_Harold_Wagstaff
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