From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of people on
postage stamps of
Mexico , including the years in which they appeared on a stamp.
The list is complete through 2014.
0–9
10 Venado Pechera de Tigre,
Mixtec princess (1982)
A
Mariano Abasolo , hero of Independence (1910)
Acamapichtli ,
Aztec ruler (1982)
Manuel Acuña , poet (2013)
Hermanas Águila , María Esperanza Águila (†1991) and María Paz Águila (†2004), singers (1995)
Enrique Aguilar González (1904–1957), educator (2004)
Cándido Aguilar Vargas , general (1997)
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán , anthropologist (2008)
Lauro Aguirre Espinosa (1882–1928), educator (1994)
Lucas Alamán , statesman and historian (1998)
Juan Aldama , hero of Independence (1910, 1975, 1986)
Miguel Alemán Valdés , president (1950, 2008)
David Alfaro Siqueiros , painter (1975, 1996)
Jorge Alessandri , president of Chile (1962)
Vito Alessio Robles , historian (1988)
Ignacio Allende , hero of Independence (1910, 1943, 1969, 1985, 1994, 2008)
Ignacio Altamirano , writer (1984, 1986, 1995)
Luis Álvarez Barret (1901–1971), educator (2000)
Joaquín Amaro Domínguez , general (1997)
Pedro María Anaya , president (1947, 1995)
Soledad Anaya Solórzano (1895–1978), educator (1998)
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Felipe Ángeles , general (1997, 2014)
Fanny Anitúa , mezzo-soprano (1983)
Aristotle , Greek philosopher (1978)
Pedro Armendáriz , film star (1993)
Ponciano Arriaga , statesman (1956)
Carlos Arruza , matador (1996)
Dr. Atl , painter (1975) (painting Paricutín pictured 1971)
Mariano Azuela , novelist (1974)
José Azueta , naval lieutenant, hero (1964, 2014)
B
Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer (1985)
Lucas Balderas general (1947)
José María Barceló de Villagrán (1819–1872), surgeon (1996)
Luis Barragán , architect (interior staircase shown 2002)
Gabino Barreda , philosopher (1968, 1981)
Juan de la Barrera , cadet (1947)
Baudouin I , Belgian king (1965)
Gustavo Baz Prada , educator (1993)
Ludwig van Beethoven , German composer (1977) (handwritten score and signature pictured 1970)
Lola Beltrán , singer and actress (1995)
Jorge Mario Bergoglio , Argentine pope (2016)
Felipe Berriozábal , general (1995)
Rómulo Betancourt president of Venezuela (1965)
Andrés Eloy Blanco , poet (1997)
Adamo Boari , architect (2000)
Simón Bolívar , South American liberator (1980, 1983)
Juan Bosch , president of Dominican Republic (2009)
Gilberto Bosques , diplomat (2015)
Carlos Bracho (1899–1966), sculptor (1983)
Alberto Braniff , aviation pioneer (2010)
Nicolás Bravo , president (1986, 2010)
Luis Buñuel , filmmaker (2000)
C
Luis Cabrera Lobato , politician and writer (1910)
Plutarco Elías Calles , president (1995, 2000)
Cantinflas , film star (1993, 2011)
Enrique Carbajal "Sebastián" , sculptor (sculpture shown 1996)
Lázaro Cárdenas , president (1971, 1978, 1995)
Emilio Carranza , aviator (1929, 1947, 1978)
Jesús Carranza , general (1917)
Venustiano Carranza , president (1916, 1938, 1960, 1967, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2009, 2010, 2013)
Felipe Carrillo Puerto , governor (1974)
Julián Carrillo , composer (1975)
Juan Ignacio María de Castorena Ursúa y Goyeneche , bishop and founder of the first Mexican periodical (1944)
Pablo Casals , Spanish cellist (score of El pesebre shown 1976)
Estefanía Castañeda Núñez (1872–1937), educator (1994)
Alfonso Caso , archaeologist (1996)
Antonio Caso , philosopher (1983, 1988)
Isidro Castillo Pérez (1900–1988), educator (2006)
Guadalupe Ceniceros de Perez (1909–1968), educator (1999)
Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish author (1975, Don Quijote shown 2005)
Chabelo , television actor and host (2006)
Carlos Chávez , composer (1983, 1999)
Ignacio Chávez Sánchez , physician (1993, 1997)
Chespirito , television director, writer and actor (2006)
Francisco Javier Clavijero , priest and historian (1971, 1981)
Genaro Codina (1852–1901), composer (1946)
Rey Colimán (15th & 16th centuries), chief of the Colimas (1979)
Christopher Columbus , navigator (1992)
Jesús F. Contreras , sculptor (2016)
Copernicus , Polish astronomer (1973)
Dolores Correa Zapata , teacher, poet, feminist (2015)
Daniel Cosío Villegas , economist and historian (2001)
Cri-Cri (
Francisco Gabilondo Soler ), singer (1995)
Cuauhtémoc ,
Aztec ruler (1915, 1950, 1975, 1980, 1995)
Gonzalo Curiel , composer (1995)
D
Dante , Italian poet (1965)
Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan poet (1966)
Charles de Gaulle , French president (1964, 2014)
Mario de la Cueva , educator and jurist (2001)
Santos Degollado , general (1995)
Andrés Manuel del Río , scientist (1965)
Dolores del Río , film star (1993)
Demosthenes , Athenian orator (1974)
Francisco Díaz Covarrubias , geographer (1973)
Salvador Díaz Mirón , poet (1983)
Ponciano Díaz Salinas (1856–1899), bullfighter (1999)
Belisario Domínguez , martyr (1917, 1963)
Miguel Domínguez , statesman (2005)
Giovani dos Santos , football player (2010)
Alfredo Dugès , botanist (1975)
Albrecht Dürer , German painter (woodcut pictured 1971)
E
Thomas Alva Edison , US inventor (1981)
Eight Deer Tiger Claw ,
Mixtec warrior (1980)
Albert Einstein , Swiss physicist (1979, 2005)
Willem Einthoven , Dutch physiologist (1972)
Dieter Enkelin (1926-1995), entomologist (2011)
Martín Enríquez de Almanza , viceroy (1946, 1956, 1979)
Luis Enrique Erro , astronomer (1973, 1986)
Mariano Escobedo , general (1997)
Juan Escutia , cadet (1947)
Fermín Espinosa "Armillita" , bullfighter (1996, 2011))
Enrique Estrada , general (1946)
Genaro Estrada , diplomat and writer (1983)
F
Fabiola , Belgian queen (1965)
Felipe II , Spanish king (1979)
María Félix , movie star (1993)
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi , novelist (1972)
Joaquín Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz [
dead link ] , child subject of a painting by Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez (1996)
Alexander Fleming , British scientist (1981)
Ricardo Flores Magón , anarchist and labor organizer (2008)
Adela Formoso de Obregón Santacilia (1905–1981), educator and feminist (2001)
Pope Francis , Argentine pope (2016)
Sigmund Freud , Austrian psychiatrist (1997)
G
Francisco Gabilondo Soler , singer (1995, 2007)
Galileo , Italian astronomer (1971)
Rómulo Gallegos , Venezuelan novelist (1984)
Joaquín Gallo (1882–1965) astronomer (1973)
Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe , labor leader and politician (2016)
Manuel Gamio , anthropologist (1982)
Gandhi , leader of India's Independence movement (1969)
Pedro de Gante , missionary (1972)
Rodolfo Gaona , bullfighter (1996)
Alfonso García Robles , diplomat (1982)
Jesús García Corona , railroad engineer, hero (2007)
Federico García Lorca , Spanish poet (1998)
Francisco García Salinas , statesman (1946)
Francisco Garcia y Santos , Uruguayan postmaster general (1926)
Ángel María Garibay K. , philologist (1982)
Gonzalo Garita y Frontera (1897–1921), engineer (2000)
Lorenzo Garza Arrambide , (1909–1978), bullfighter (1996)
Manuel Gea González (1892–1950), physician (1997)
Ernest Charles Gimpel, subject of a painting by
Ángel Zárraga (1986)
Francisco Goitia , painter (1983)
Federico Gómez Santos pediatrician (1993)
Roberto Gómez Bolaños , television director, writer and actor (2006)
Valentín Gómez Farías , president (1956, 1975, 1981, 1983)
Manuel Gómez Morín , politician (1997)
María Luisa Gonzaga Foncerrada y Labarrieta , subject of a painting by José María Vázquez (1765–1826) (1996)
Epigmenio González , hero of Independence (1910)
Francisco González Bocanegra , poet (2004)
Guillermo González Camarena , inventor (1982)
Luz González Cosío de López , founder of the Mexican Red Cross (2010)
Roque González Garza , provisional president (2010)
Enrique González Martínez , poet (1972)
Jesús González Ortega , general and statesman (1946, 1981)
Celestino Gorostiza , playwright (2004)
João Goulart , Brazilian president (1962)
Juan de la Granja , introduced telegraph to Mexico (2000)
Andrés Guardado , football player (2010)
Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo , viceroy (1960)
Vicente Guerrero , hero of independence, president (1921, 1971, 1981, 1982, 1985, 2010)
Ángela Gurría , sculptor (sculpture pictured 1976)
Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz , general and provisional president (2010, 2014)
Eulalia Guzmán , archeologist and teacher (2005)
León Guzmán , statesman (1956, 1975)
Martín Luis Guzmán , novelist (1985)
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta , wrestler (2008)
Jorge Guzmán Rodríguez , wrestler (2008)
H
Guillermo Haro Barraza , astronomer (2013)
Andrés Henestrosa , writer (1996, 2006)
Francisco Hernández , naturalist (title page of book shown 1975)
Javier Hernández , football player (2014)
Juan E. Hernández y Dávalos , historian and collector of documents relating to Mexican Independence (1987)
Saturnino Herrán , painter (1987)
Alfonso L Herrera , biologist (1975, 2011)
Maclovio Herrera , general (1917)
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz , German physicist (1967)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , hero of Independence (1856, 1861, 1864, 1868, 1872, 1874, 1910, 1940, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1976, 1985, 1986, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016)
El Hijo del Santo , wrestler (2008)
Fernando Hiriart Balderrama , engineer (2014)
Rowland Hill , British inventor (1979)
Victor Hugo , French novelist (1985)
Alexander von Humboldt , German explorer and naturalist (1960, 1999)
I
J
José Alfredo Jiménez , singer-songwriter(1998)
Mariano Jiménez , hero of Independence (1986)
Miguel Jiménez (19th century), gastroenterologist (1975)
Juana Inés de la Cruz , poet (1971, 1995, 2015)
Juan Carlos I , Spanish king (1977)
John Paul II , pope, (1990, 1999, 2004)
Benito Juárez , president (1879, 1882, 1915, 1926, 1950, 1972, 1998, 1999, 2006)
Margarita Maza de Juárez , first lady (1972)
Juliana , Dutch queen (1964)
Justinian I , Byzantine emperor (1972)
K
L
Francisco Lagos Cházaro , provisional president (2010)
Bartolomé de las Casas , cleric (1933, 1966)
Agustín Lara , composer (1995) (keyboard and signature pictured 1970)
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle , French saint and educator (2005)
Miguel Layún , football player (2014)
Antonio de León , general (1947)
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , composer (1974)
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , president (1974)
Franz Liszt , Hungarian composer (1986)
Xavier López , television actor and host (2006)
Miguel López de Legazpi , conquistador (1964)
Adolfo López Mateos . president (1964, 1994, 2010)
José López Portillo , president (1977)
Ignacio López Rayón , hero of Independence (1910, 1982, 2010)
Ramón López Rayón , general (2010)
Ramón López Velarde , poet (1946, 1972, 1988)
Federico García Lorca , Spanish poet (1998)
Rafael Lucio Nájera , doctor (1978)
M
Francisco I. Madero , president (1915, 1917, 1935, 1939, 1950, 1973 1985, 2008, 2009)
Nelson Mandela , South African revolutionary and president (2013)
Antonio Margil de Jesús , missionary (1946)
Sor María Engracia Josefa del Santísimo Rosario (19th century), nun (2012)
Francisco Márquez , cadet (1947)
Rafael Márquez , football player (2014)
José Martí , Cuban writer and national hero (1995)
Manolo Martínez , bullfighter (1996)
Mariano Matamoros , hero of Independence (1971)
Maximilian I of Mexico , emperor (1866)
James Clerk Maxwell , British physicist (1967)
Margarita Maza de Juárez , first lady (1972)
Agustín Melgar , cadet (1947)
Laura Méndez de Cuenca , poet, educator and feminist (2014)
Gregorio Méndez , soldier and politician (1964)
Antonio de Mendoza , viceroy (1939)
Carlos Mérida , Guatemalan painter (1991)
Manuel de Mier y Terán , general (2010)
Mil Máscaras , wrestler (2011)
Francisco Javier Mina , hero of Independence (1989, 2010)
Moctezuma I ,
Aztec ruler (1987)
Mario José Molina Henríquez , chemist (1997)
Fernando Montes de Oca , cadet (1947)
José María Luis Mora , political thinker (1975, 1994)
Rodolfo Morales , painter (painting shown 2001)
José María Morelos , priest and hero of Independence (1915, 1934, 1956, 1963, 1965, 1985, 2005, 2008, 2015)
Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" , film star (1993, 2011)
Pedro Moreno , hero of Independence (1967, 2010)
Samuel Morse , US inventor and painter (2000)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer (1991, 2006)
Francisco J. Múgica , soldier, revolutionary and politician (1984)
Gerardo Murillo , painter (1975) (painting Paricutín pictured 1971)
N
Antonio Narro (†1912), philanthropist (1973)
Jorge Negrete , film star (1993)
Rodolfo Neri Vela , astronaut (1985, 2010)
Amado Nervo , poet (1971)
Nezahualcóyotl , ruler of
Texcoco (1972, 1980, 2002)
Nezahualpilli , ruler of
Texcoco (1987)
Luis Nishizawa , painter (family
mon shown 1998)
Isaac Newton , British physicist (1971)
Ramón Novarro , actor (1986) (the name is misspelled Novaro on the stamp )
Salvador Novo , poet (1975, 2004)
Jaime Nunó , composer (2004)
O
Álvaro Obregón , president (1978)
Melchor Ocampo , statesman (1940, 1956, 1975)
Guillermo Ochoa , football player (2010)
Ocho Venado Garra de Tigre ,
Mixtec warrior (1980)
Isaac Ochoterena , biologist (1982)
Edmundo O'Gorman , historian (2006)
Juan O'Gorman , painter and architect (2005)
Miguel Ojeda , baseball player (2010)
Martín de Olivares (1574–1604), postmaster (1979)
José Clemente Orozco , painter (1983) (painting pictured 1971)
Mariano Otero , statesman (2007)
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez , heroine of Independence (1910, 1979, 2008)
Luis Ortiz Monasterio , sculptor (his sculpture El Dios de Hoy pictured 1979)
Gilberto Owen , poet (2004)
P
Pakal , ruler of
Palenque (2002)
Louis Pasteur , French scientist (1995)
Octavio Paz , poet and writer (2014)
Víctor Paz Estenssoro , Bolivian president (1963)
Carlos Pellicer , poet (1988, 1997)
José Peón y Contreras , poet (1993)
Carlos Alberto Peña , football player (2014)
Ángela Peralta , soprano (1974, 1983)
Oribe Peralta , football player (2014)
Silverio Pérez , bullfighter (1996)
Felipe Pescador , (1880-1929) railwayman (1989)
Philip II , Spanish king (1979)
Pablo Picasso , Spanish painter (1981) (painting shown 1974)
José María Pino Suárez , vice-president (1917, 1986, 2008)
Marco Polo , Italian explorer (1967)
Manuel Ponce , composer (1974)
José Guadalupe Posada , illustrator (engraving Don Quijote pictured 1963) (1988) (engraving La despedida shown 2002) (showing drawings 2013)
Guillermo Prieto , poet and statesman (1956, 1963, 1997)
Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos , martyr of independence (2008)
Q
R
Emilio Rabasa , politician and writer (2012)
Ignacio Ramírez , writer and statesman (1956, 1975)
Rafael Ramírez Castañeda , educator (1994, 1997)
Miguel Ramos Arizpe , priest and statesman (Constitution of 1824 shown 1993)
Ramón Rayón , general (2010)
Manuel Crescencio Rejón , jurist (1988)
Silvestre Revueltas , composer (1974, 1999) (violin and bow pictured 1990)
Alfonso Reyes , essayist and philosopher (1985, 1989)
Manuel Rincón (1784–1849), commander of Mexican forces at the
Battle of Churubusco . (1947)
José Rizal , Filipino national hero (1964)
Diego Rivera , painter (1986)
Rodolfo Robles , Guatemalan doctor (1974)
Sóstenes Rocha , general (1995)
Aaron Rodríguez , wrestler (2011)
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine , labor leader (2016)
Wilhelm Roentgen , German physicist (1995)
José Rubén Romero , novelist (1985)
Eleanor Roosevelt , US first lady (1964)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , US president (1947)
Juventino Rosas , composer (sheet music cover pictured 1972)
Arturo Rosenblueth , physiologist (1975)
Antonio M. Ruiz , painter (1988)
Maximiliano Ruiz Castañeda , physician (1994)
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines , president (1989)
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón , playwright (1972)
Horacio Ruiz Gaviño , (1893-1957) aviator (1967)
Juan Rulfo , writer (1996, 2005)
S
Jaime Sabines , poet (2009)
Moisés Sáenz Garza , educator (1994)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French author and aviator (1994)
Pedro Sainz de Baranda , naval captain (1987, 2005)
Mario Salazar Mallén , physician (1993)
José de San Martín , South American liberator (1973)
José Luis Sandoval , baseball player (2010)
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta , nuclear physicist (1982)
El Santo , wrestler (2008)
Francisco Sarabia Tinoco (1900–1939), aviator (2000)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Argentine intellectual and president (1975)
Roberto Saucedo , baseball player (2010)
Franz Schubert , Austrian composer (1978)
Sebastián , sculptor (sculpture shown 1996)
Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez , physician (1993)
Aquiles Serdán , martyr (1917, 1977, 2008)
Junípero Serra , missionary (1969)
Justo Sierra , writer (1947, 1985, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2012)
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , astronomer (1973)
David Alfaro Siqueiros , painter (1975, 1996)
Fernando Soler , film actor and director (1994)
Heinrich von Stephan , German postmaster general (1974, 1997)
Antonio Stradivarius , Italian violin maker (1987)
Vicente Suárez , cadet (1947)
T
Rufino Tamayo , painter (his painting Dualidad 1964 pictured 1987; his Self-portrait pictured 1999)
Tariácuri ,
Purépecha ruler (1982)
Constantino de Tárnava (1898-1974), radio pioneer (1996)
Servando Teresa de Mier , hero of independence (2010)
U Thant , UN secretary-general (1966)
Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav president (1963)
Tlahuicole (also spelled Tlahuicolli ),
Tlaxcaltec warrior (1976)
Manuel Tolsá , sculptor (his sculpture El caballito pictured 1976)
Toña la Negra , singer (1995)
Gerardo Torrado , football player (2010)
Jaime Torres Bodet , writer and diplomat (1975, 2011, 2016)
Gregorio Torres Quintero , educator and writer (1994, 2003)
Lupita Tovar , actress (1981)
Jacinto B. Treviño González , general (1997)
Emilio Tuero , singer and film actor (1995)
U
V
Ignacio L. Vallarta Ogazón , statesman (2005)
Leandro Valle , general (1987, 1995)
Artemio del Valle Arizpe , writer and diplomat (1967, 1985)
César Vallejo Peruvian poet (1988)
Pedro Vargas , singer and film actor (1995)
Ildefonso Vázquez , revolutionary general (1917)
José Vasconcelos , statesman and philosopher (1982, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2011)
José María Velasco , painter (1971)
Joaquín Velázquez de León , jurist and mining reformer (1983)
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez , union leader (2016)
Jules Verne , French novelist (1976)
Ricardo Vértiz (1848–1898), ophthalmologist (1976)
Leona Vicario , spy and heroine of Independence (1910, 1915, 1985, 1989)
Queen Victoria , portrayed on
Penny Black (1940, 1990)
Guadalupe Victoria , president (1986, 1993, 2010)
Manuel Vilar , sculptor (sculpture of
Tlahuicole pictured 1976)
Francisco "Pancho" Villa , revolutionary leader (1978, 1985, 2009, 2010, 2014)
Fernando Villalpando (1844-1902), musician (1946)
Xavier Villaurrutia , poet (2002)
Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer (1978)
W
X
Y
Z
Emiliano Zapata , revolutionary leader (1935, 1965, 1979, 1985, 1994, 2009, 2010)
Rosaura Zapata Cano , educator (1994)
Ignacio Zaragoza , general (1915, 1917, 1995, 2012)
Francisco Zarco , journalist and statesman (1956)
Salvador Zubirán , physician and nutricionist (1998)
Juan Zumárraga , cleric, early printer (1939)
Francisco Zúñiga , sculptor (sculpture shown 1994)
See also
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