List of people on the postage stamps of the United States

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Edwin Austin Abbey (2001) Illustrator

Bud Abbott (1991) Comedian

Edward R. Abrams (2008) 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) 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) Astronaut

Desi Arnaz (1999) Actor, producer and singer

Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1988) Air Force General

Chester A. Arthur (1938) 21st President

Arthur Ashe (2005) Tennis player

John James Audubon (1940) Naturalist, painter

Stephen F. Austin (1936) Texas colonizer

Gene Autry (2010) Actor

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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

John Barry (1745–1803) (1936) Naval officer

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

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) Author

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

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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

César Chávez (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

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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

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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

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Douglas Fairbanks (1984) Actor

Cal Farley (1996) Boys Ranch founder

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 R. 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) Portrait subject

Mary Freake (1998) Portrait subject

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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Andrew Jackson (1861) 7th President

Mahalia Jackson (1998) Gospel singer

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

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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

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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

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

Ponce de León (1982) Explorer

Alan Jay Lerner (1999) Lyricist

Emanuel Leutze (1976) Painter

Denise Levertov (2012) Poet

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

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

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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

Bronco 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

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

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

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

A.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

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

Elmer Sperry (1985) Aviation pioneer Note: the wrong photograph was used as the basis for the stamp, which actually pictures Elmer Sperry's father.

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) Author

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

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

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