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.)

The policy followed by the Royal Mail is that the only identifiable living people depicted on British stamps are the monarch and other members of the Royal Family (or people imminently marrying into it). This policy has only occasionally been broken, e.g. in the 1967 issue commemorating the solo round the world voyage of "Gipsy Moth IV" a person appears 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 the late 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.

This list is complete through 1991.

*Northern Ireland‎, Scotland, Wales and Monmouthshire‎

A

*John Alcock (1969)
*Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1986)
*Queen Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII (1997)

B

*Charles Babbage (1991)
*Robert Baden-Powell (1982)
*Francis Baily (1970)
*Sir John Barbirolli (1980)
*Sir Thomas Beecham (1980)
*The Black Prince (1974)
*Admiral Robert Blake (1982)
*Queen Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
*Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the "Queen Mum", wife of George VI (1937)
*Charlotte Brontë (1980)
*Emily Brontë (1980)
*Arthur Whitten Brown (1969)
*Robert Burns (1966)

C

*Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
*Charles, Prince of Wales (1969)
*Charlie Chaplin (1985)
*Francis Chichester (1967 & 2003)
*Sir Winston Churchill (1965)
*Peter Cook (1998)
*Tommy Cooper 1998
*Admiral Andrew Cunningham (1982)

D

*Charles Darwin (1982)
*Bishop Richard Davies (1988)
*Les Dawson (1998)
*Frederick Delius (1985)
*Lord Dowding (1986)
*Sir Francis Drake (1973)

E

*King Edward VII (1902)
*King Edward VIII (1936)
*George Eliot (1980)
*Edward Elgar (1985)
*Queen Elizabeth II (1952)

F

*Michael Faraday (1991)
*Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (1986)
*Admiral Jackie Fisher (1982)
*Benjamin Franklin (1976)
*Sir Martin Frobisher (1972)

G

*Mohandas Gandhi (1969)
*Elizabeth Gaskell (1980)
*Saint George (1951)
*King George V (1911)
*King George VI (1937)
*Owain Glyndŵr (1974)
*King Harold Godwinson (1966)
*William Gilbert Grace (1973)
*Thomas Gray (1971)
*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)
*Sir Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979)
*Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker (1985)
*Wenceslaus Hollar (1965)
*Gustav Holst, composer (1985)
*Queen Catherine Howard, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
*Henry Hudson, explorer (1972)

I

J

K

*John Keats, poet (1971)

L

*Stan Laurel, comedian (1990)
*Edward Lear (1988)
*Vivien Leigh (1985)
*Joseph Lister (1965)
*David Livingstone (1973)

M

*Freddie Mercury, musician
*Rev William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (1988)

N

*Alexander Nasmyth (1966)
*Admiral Horatio Nelson (1982)
*Florence Nightingale, nurse (1970)
*David Niven (1985)

O

P

*Emmeline Pankhurst (1968)
*Queen Catherine Parr, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
*Bishop Richard Parry (1988)
*Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1972)
*Captain Mark Phillips (1973)
*Lord Portal (1986)

Q

R

*Sir Henry Raeburn (1973)
*Sir Walter Raleigh (1973)
*Sir Joshua Reynolds (1973)
*Robert the Bruce (1974)
*Sir James Clark Ross (1972)

S

*William Salesbury (1988)
*Sir Malcolm Sargent (1980)
*Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1972)
*Sir Walter Scott (1971)
*Peter Sellers (1985)
*Queen Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII (1997)
*William Shakespeare (1964)
*Lady Diana Spencer (1981)
*Henry Morton Stanley (1973)
*Charles Sturt (1973)
*Simon de Montfort (1965)
*Archibald Skirving (1966)
*George Stubbs (1967)

T

* Lord Tedder (1986)
*Alfred Tennyson (1992)
*Lord Trenchard (1986)

U

V

*Queen Victoria (1840)
*Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972)

W

*Henry Wood (1980)

X

Y

Z

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales and Monmouthshire

ee also

* List of Great Britain commemorative stamps

References

* Stanley Gibbons catalogue