"So You're on a Stamp?!"

Portraits on Stamps~Briefmarken~Postzegels~Timbres-poste

• EN: People that were/are on stamps for various countries
• FR: Personnalités figurant sur un timbre-poste, (For French stamps See dedicated Project ).
• DE: Bekannte Leute auf Briefmarken
• NL: Profielen met een afbeelding op postzegels in diverse landen
• Musicians on stamps

This subject has fascinated me for years. How do people end up on a stamp? What is the process? Who picks them? Please submit any answers you can find.

1. From the article in the following link, i seems that many countries have a policy of featuring only profiles of notables who have passed on stamps. - New York Times re New Postage Stamps

The United States Postal Service announced this week that it was tossing out its rule that its stamps honor only dead individuals and will be featuring the living as well.

United States

The Complete Collection of Black American Stamps

• Marian Anderson American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Wikipedia
• Bill Mitchell
• Louis Armstrong
• Wendell Willkie
• Chester W. Nimitz
• Luis Munoz Marin
• Mary Lyon
• Humphrey Bogart
• Alice Hamilton, MD
• Nary Cassatt
• Langston Hughes
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Haddon Sundblom
• Warner Sallman
• Virginia Apgar, Physician
• Patricia Roberts Harris

Canada

• Raoul Wallenberg

Israel

• Ilan Ramon
• Rav Kook

Australia

• Rod Laver
• Margaret Smith Court

New Zealand

• Sir George Grey
• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Jean Batten
• Dame Whina Cooper
• Bernard Freyberg
• Hone Heke
• Captain Cook
• Sean Bean
• Cate Blanchett
• Barry Crump

Argentina

• Osvaldo Magnasco

EUROPE

the Netherlands ~ Holland ~ Pays-Bas

• Nationaal Postzegelmuseum ‧ den Haag ‧ 25--xx ‧ Zeestraat ‧
• http://www.muscom.nl/postzegelontwerpen.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the_Netherlands

Deutschland

France

• See dedicated Project

Norway

• See project: Norwegians on Stamps

United Kingdom

Osterreich

v/h Tsjecho-Slowakije

• Postovni Muzeum ‧ Prague ‧ http://praag.nl/praag/informatie/musea/amusement/postzegelmuseum

Hongarije

• Belyegmuzeum ‧ Budapest ‧ Hársfa utca 47 ‧ District 7 ‧ 1074

Vaticaanstad

• Postzegelmuseum since 2007 ‧

Sweden

• Raoul Wallenberg

Suomi Finland

• Edvard Bergenheim See Media.
• Gustaf Mannerheim See Media.
• Fredrika Runeberg
• Maria Jotuni
• Juhani Aho (1861-1921)
• Martti Ahtisaari
• Sally Salminen
• Anni Blomqvist (1909-1990)
• A. I. Virtanen

etc.