List of people on the postage stamps of Colombia

• Miguel Abadía Méndez, president of Colombia, 1926-30 (1981) • Mercedes Abrego, spy and martyr (2010) • Josefa Acevedo de Gómez, writer (1997) • Soledad Acosta de Samper, writer and journalist (2013) • Alexander II of Russia, czar of Russia (2019) • Rafael Almanza, Cuban intellectual and writer (1958) • Jorge Alvarez Lleras, engineer and director of the National Astronomical Observatory (1988) • :es:Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, journalist and popular leader (1971) • Simona Amaya, heroine of the revolution (2011) • Matilde Anaray, heroine of the revolution (2011) • Manuel Ancízar, lawyer, writer, and journalist (1953) • Andrés Rosillo y Meruelo, bishop and rebel (2009) • Diego Euclídes de Angulo Lemos, president of Colombia, 1908 (2010) • José Antonio Anzoátegui, Venezuelan brigadier general (1969) • Thomas Aquinas, philosopher, theologian, jurist and saint (1982) • Gonzalo Arango, Colombian poet, journalist and philosopher (2010) • Juan de Dios Aranzazu González, president of New Granada, 1841-42 (1982) • Consuelo Araújo Noguera, Colombian politician, writer and journalist (2002) • Julio Arboleda, writer, soldier and statesman (1966) • Ismael Enrique Arciniegas, poet (2016) • Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer and mathematician (1949) • Diójenes Arrieta, politician (1997) • Andrés A. Arroyo, founder of the Colombian Society of Engineers (1962) • José Gervasio Artigas, national hero of Uruguay (1955) • Aurelio Arturo, poet (1997) • Atahualpa, last sovereign emperor of the Inca Empire (1955) • Saint Augustine, Christian theologian and philosopher (1987) • Rafael Azuero Manchóla, vice-president of Colombia (2010) == B ==

• Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician (1986) • Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement (2007) • Vasco Núñez de Balboa, conquistador (1955) • Antonio Baraya, military leader (1950) • Porfirio Barba-Jacob, poet and writer (1983) • Virgilio Barco Maldonado, pioneer of the petroleum industry (1996) • Virgilio Barco, president of Colombia, 1986-90 (1997) • Enrique A. Becerra, jurist (2010) • Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (1977) • Sebastián de Belalcázar, conquistador (1955) • Andrés Bello, Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, and educator (1946) • Manuela Beltran Archila, heroine of independence (2011) • Luis Eduardo Bermúdez Acosta, composer (2012) • Cayetano Betancur, Colombian philosopher, writer and linguist (2012) • Domingo Bioho, black leader (1997) • Simón Bolívar, liberator (1886) • John Bosco, saint (1990) • Francisco Burgos Rubio, general (1996) == C ==

• Prisciliano Cabrales Lora, pioneer in petroleum industry (1996) • Francisco José de Caldas, lawyer, naturalist, and geographer (1910) • Abdon Calderon, hero of the war of independence of Ecuador (1955) • Clímaco Calderón Reyes, lawyer, diplomat and president of Colombia, 1882 (2010) • Bartolomé Calvo, president of the Granadine Confederation, 1861 (1981) • Luis Antonio Calvo, composer (1984) • José Justo Joaquín Camacho Lago, statesman, lawyer, journalist and professor (2010) • Salvador Camacho Roldan, lawyer, businessman, politician and president (1995) • Sergio Camargo, president of Colombia, 1877 (1981) • José María Campo Serrano, president of Colombia, 1886-87 (1981) • Manuela Cañizares y Álvarez, Ecuador heroine of independence (2011) • Alfonso Cano Isaza, editor of El Espectador (1987) • Fidel Cano Gutierrez, journalist, founder of El Espectador (1977) • Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (1993) • Luis Cano Villegas, editor of El Espectador (1987) • Luis Gabriel Cano Isaza, editor of El Espectador (1987) • Maria Cano Márquez, popular leader (1997) • José María Carbonel, revolutionary agitator (2009) • José Eusebio Caro, poet (1955) • Miguel Antonio Caro, scholar, poet, journalist, politician, and president 1894-98 (1947) • Eduardo Carranza, poet (1986) • Maria Mercedes Carranza, poet (2010) • Juan de Dios Carrasquilla, doctor and botanist (1949) • Rafael Maria Carrasquilla, religious, educator and writer (1959) • Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo, Colombian writer (1993) • Jose Joaquin Casas, educator and diplomat (1967) • Alberto Castilla, founder of the Tolima Conservatory of Music (1964) • José María del Castillo y Rada, president of the United Provinces of the New Granada. 1814-15 (1995) • José Vicente Castro Silva, rector of the Mayor del Rosario School (1986) • Domingo Caycedo, president of Colombia, 1839-43 (1982) • Joaquín de Caycedo y Cuero, military and political patriot (1946) • Andrés Cerón Serrano, lawyer and politician (2010) • Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (2005) • Charlie Chaplin, movie actor and director (1995) • Frederic Chopin, composer (2006) • Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain (1945) • Francisco Javier Cisneros, railway engineer (1949) • St. Peter Claver, Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary (1981) • Agustín Codazzi, lawyer, writer, and journalist (1953) • Christopher Columbus, discoverer of New World (1932) • Francisca Josefa de la Concepción, nun, mystic, writer and saint (1972) • José Vicente Concha, president of Colombia, 1914-18 (1981) • Jackie Coogan, movie actor (1995) • Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer (1974) • José María Córdoba, general of the Colombian army (1917) • Marcos Crespo, Ecuadorian politician and independence hero (1957) • Manuelita de la Cruz, Colombian nurse (1961) • Rufino Jose Cuervo, writer, linguist and philologist (1917) • Teresa Cuervo Borda, art historian (1990) • María Currea Manrique, women's rights activist (1988) == D ==

• Brother Damian, priest (1961) • Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (1986) • José Matías Delgado, Salvadoran priest, doctor and liberator (1957) • Juan de Dios Morales, governmental minister and revolutionary (2009) • Luis Duque Gómez, archaeologist (2010) • Simona Duque de Alzate, heroine of the revolution (2011) • Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (1956) • Gilberto Alejandro Durán Diaz, composer and accordion player (2019) == E ==

• Darío Echandía Olaya, president of Colombia, 1943-44 (1991) • Guillermo Echavarría Misas, aviation pioneer (1997) • Gloria Echeverri Lara, director of Community Action and Indigenous Affairs (1992) • Elizabeth of Hungary, princess and saint (1956) • Rafael Escalona, composer (2016) • Hugo Escobar Sierra, jurist and politician (2010) • José María Espinosa, painter (1983) • Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei (1994) == F ==

• Diego Fallon, educator, musician and poet (1984) • José Rafael Faría Bermúdez, priest (2000) • Ferdinand, king of Spain and sponsor of Christopher Columbus (1955) • Pedro Fermín de Vargas, economist (1997) • José Fernández Madrid, statesman, physician, scientist, writer and president, 1814, 1816 (1995) • Juan Fernández de Sotomayor, bishop (2009) • Julio Flórez, poet (2017) • Deogracias Fonseca, president of Colombia, 1957-58 (2010) • Francis of Assisi, saint (1982) • Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church (2017) • Juan Friede Alter, historian (1997) == G ==

• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, lawyer and politician (1959) • Cacique Gaitana, Indian resistance leader (1997) • Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, political reformer (1991) • José Antonio Galán, farmer and revolution leader (1940) • Custodio García Rovira, general, statesman, painter, and president of New Grenada, 1816 (1995) • Gabriel García Márquez, writer and Nobel Prize winner (1982) • Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director (1986) • Juan García del Río, Colombian diplomat, writer, politician and president of Gran Colombia (1995) • Carlos Gardel, entertainer (1985) • Carlos Gaviria Diaz, politician (2018) • Pantaleón Germán Ribón, military and independence leader (2012) • Atanasio Girardot, Colombian revolutionary leader (1991) • Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, Colombian lawyer, politician, and journalist (1997) • Fernando Gomez Martinez, diplomat, politician and Colombian journalist (1986) • Laureano Gómez, president of Colombia, 1950-53 (1972) • Pedro Nel Gómez, Colombian engineer, painter, and sculptor (1985) • José Maria González Benito, mathematician, astronomer (1997) • Ramón González Valencia, president of Colombia, 1909-10 (1981) • León de Greiff, poet (1996) • Manuel de Guirior, Spanish naval officer and viceroy of New Granada (1977) • Ignacio Gutiérrez Vergara, politician, statesman and journalist (2010) • Santos Gutiérrez, president of Colombia, 1868-70 (1981) • Virginia Gutiérrez, social anthropologist (2010) == H ==

• Pedro de Heredia, Spanish conqueror (1934) • Bertha Hernandez de Ospina, Colombian politician and writer and wife of Mariano Ospina Pérez (1999) • Benjamín Herrera, Colombian politician and general (2010) • Tomás de Herrera, statesman, general and president of the Free State of the Isthmus (1995) • Pedro Alcántara Herrán, Colombian general, statesman and president, 1841-45 (1957) • Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican War of Independence (1955) • Sir Rowland Hill, postal reformer and inventor of the postage stamp (1979) • Carlos Holguín Mallarino, president of Colombia, 1888-92 (1981) • Jorge Holguín, president of Colombia, 1921-22 (1981) • Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist (1960) • Ezequiel Hurtado, general, statesman and president of Colombia, 1882 (1995) == I ==

• St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits (1956) • Isidore the Laborer, Spanish farmworker and patron saint of rural people (1960) • Isabella I, queen of Spain (1953) • Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer, politician and soldier (1987) == J ==

• Esteban Jaramillo, economist (1997) • Maria de Jesus Paramo de Collazos, founded first normal school for women (1975) • Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish explorer and conquistador (1979) • Pope John XXIII, pope and saint (1963) • Pope John Paul II, pope (2006) • Benito Juárez, revolutionary leader and president of Mexico (1972) == K ==

• John F. Kennedy, president of the United States (1963) == L ==

• Alicia Lafaurie Roncallo, first Carnival Queen (2018) • Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian lawyer and politician (1992) • Froilan Largacha, lawyer, politician and president of Colombia, 1863 (1995) • Eduardo Lemaitre Román, historian (1997) • Carlos Lemos Simmonds, vice-president of Colombia (2010) • Manuel Ponce de León, cartographer and civil engineer (1953) • José Ramón de Leyva, military commander (2009) • Indalecio Liévano Aguirre, politician and diplomat (1992) • Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States (1960) • Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia, 1945-46, 1958-62 (1995) • Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia, 1966-70 (1995) • Federico Lleras Acosta, Colombian doctor, veterinarian and bacteriologist (1977) • José María Lombana Barreneche, physician and politician (1952) • María Concepción Loperena, independence war heroine (1985) • Alfonso López Michelsen, president of Colombia, 1974-78 (2008) • Alfonso López Pumarejo, president of Colombia, 1934-38, 1942-46 (1961) • Estela López Pomareda, movie actress (1995) • José Hilario López, president of Colombia, 1849-53 (1981) • Luis Carlos López, poet (1997) • Luis Eduardo Lopez de Mesa, doctor, writer and Education Minister (1984) • Maria Lopez de Escobar, founder and director of the world's first international adoption agency (1992) • Saint Louise de Marillac, nun, saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity (1960) • Enrique Low Murtra, Colombian economist, lawyer and Minister of Justice (1992) • Carlos Lozano y Lozano, president of Colombia, 1942 (1982) • Fabio Lozano Torrijos, diplomat (1997) • Jorge Tadeo Lozano, scientist, journalist, and politician (1967) == M ==

• José de la Mar, Peruvian military leader, politician and the third President of Peru (1955) • Manuel María Mallarino, acting president of Colombia, 1855-57 (1981) • Roberto de Mares, pioneer of the petroleum industry (1996) • Guglielmo Marconi, radio pioneer (1975) • José Ignacio de Márquez, president of Colombia, 1837-41 (1982) • José Manuel Marroquín, political figure and president of Colombia, 1900-04 (1904) • José Martí, Cuban patriot (1955) • William Knox Martin, early aviation pioneer (1994) • Aurelio Martinez Mutis, poet and writer (1987) • Diego Martinez Camargo, pioneer in the petroleum industry (1996) • Pompilio Martínez Navarrete, doctor and professor (1952) • Rafael Maya, poet, journalist, writer, critic, lawyer and diplomat (1986) • Adolfo Mejia, composer (2010) • Gonzalo Mejia, aviation pioneer, motion picture pioneer, and industrialist (1985) • Liborio Mejía, Colombian colonel, politician and president, 1816 (1995) • Manuel Mejía Jaramillo, banker and Colombian coffee leader (1965) • Manuel Mejía Vallejo, writer (2015) • José María Melo, Colombian general, politician and president of New Granada, 1854 (1995) • Vanessa Alexandra Mendoza Bustos, actress, fashion model and Miss Venezuela (2002) • Santo Michelena, Venezuelan politician (1957) • Fanny Mikey, Colombian actress, theatre producer and entrepreneur (2014) • Gerardo Molina Ramirez, lawyer, professor and politician (2010) • Montezuma, ninth Aztec emperor (1955) • Laura Montoya, nun and saint (1974) • Antonio Morales Galavís, military commander (2009) • Francisco Antonio Moreno, education reformer and judge (1977) • Joaquín Mosquera, president of Colombia, 1830 (1982) • Manuel José Mosquera, Archbishop of Bogota (1954 ) • Victor Mosquera Chaux, lawyer, politician and diplomat (2010) • Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, Colombian general, political figure and president 1845-49, 1861-64, 1866-67 (1978) • Pedro Domingo Murillo, patriot of Upper Peru (1955) • José Celestino Mutis, priest, botanist and mathematician (1947) == N ==

• Antonio Nariño, political and military leader of the independence movement (1887) • Rafael Navas Pardo, president of Colombia, 1957-1958 (2010) • Agustín Nieto Caballero, educator (1989) • Juan José Nieto Gil, Colombian politician, Army general, writer, and president, 1861 (2010) • Rafael Núñez, journalist, politician, and president of Colombia, 1880-82, 1884-94 (1886) • Soledad Román de Núñez, wife of president Rafael Núñez (1999) == O ==

• José de Obaldía, acting president of Colombia (1982) • José Maria Obando, president of Colombia, 1853-54 (1981) • Candelario Obeso, poet, novelist, playwright, and professor (1984) • Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader (1955) • Enrique Olaya Herrera, president of Colombia, 1930-34 (1981) • Nicolás Mauricio de Omaña, priest and lawyer (2009) • Luis Ernesto Ordóñez, military officer, politician and member of ruling junta (2010) • Mariano Ospina Pérez, president of Colombia, 1946-50 (1981) • Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, president of Colombia, 1857-61 (1981) • Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, president of Colombia, 1922-26 (1981) • Nicolás Osorio y Zayas, Spanish aristocrat (1952) == P ==

• José Prudencio Padilla, Colombian military leader (1984) • Alfonso Palacio Rudas, Colombian lawyer, economist and politician (2013) • Jorge Palacios Preciado, historian and director-general of the National Archives (2012) • Manuel Maria Palacio, pioneer of the petroleum industry (1996) • Gabriel París Gordillo, president of Colombia, 1876-78 (2010) • Aquileo Parra, Colombian soldier, businessman and political figure (1981) • Misael Pastrana Borrero, president of Colombia, 1970-74 (1998) • Pope Paul VI, pope (1968) • Eliseo Payán, vice-president and president of Colombia, 1887 (1981) • Javier Pereira, Zenú Indian and Colombian supercentenarian (1956) • Alexandre Pétion, first President of the Republic of Haiti (1955) • José Miguel Pey de Andrade, statesman, soldier and a leader of the independence movement (1996) • Enrique Pérez Arbeláez, botanist (1997) • Rubén Piedrahíta Arango, member of military junta of an interim presidency (1981) • Próspero Pinzón Romero, jurist, statesman and military leader (1903) • Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, Colombian beauty pageant director and farmer (2010) • Lino de Pombo, engineer, diplomat (1997) • Rafael Pombo, poet and writer of children's literature (2012) • Marie Poussepin, Dominican nun (1994) • Alberto Pumarejo, Colombian lawyer and liberal politician (1993) == Q ==

• Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, explorer and founder of Bogotá (1938) • Joaquin Quijano Mantilla, journalist (1989) • Manuel Quintín Lame, native leader (1997) == R ==

• Gustavo Uribe Ramírez, ecologist (1980) • Augusto Ramirez Ocampo, politician (2014) • Abelardo Ramos, founder of the Colombian Society of Engineers (1962) • Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, archaeologist (1997) • Ricardo Rendón Bravo, Colombian caricaturist (1994) • Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, president of Colombia, 1910-14 (1981) • Félix Restrepo Mejía, Jesuit priest, theologian and scholar (1967) • Jose Felix de Restrepo, educator, judge and Colombian lawyer (2009) • José Manuel Restrepo, investigator of Colombian flora, political figure and historian (1981) • Rafael Reyes, army chief of staff and president of Colombia, 1904-09 (1957) • Antonio Ricaurte y Lozano, patriot and military captain (1917) • Ramón Arturo Rincon Quiñónes, Colombian general (2003) • Baron de Rio Branco, Brazilian diplomat, geographer, historian, monarchist, politician and professor (1955) • José Manuel Rivas Sacconi, diplomat (1997) • José Eustasio Rivera, writer (1974) • Emilio Robledo, medical educator (2010) • Luis Antonio Robles Suárez, Colombian lawyer and politician (1999) • Juan Rodríguez Freyle, colonial reporter (1997) • Manuel Rodríguez Torices, statesman, lawyer, journalist, and vice-president (2010) • Meliton Rodriguez, photographer (1993) • Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, president of Colombia, 1953-57 (1995) • José María Rojas Garrido, president of Colombia, 1886 (1981) • Eleanor Roosevelt, women's and civil rights activist and wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1964) • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States (1945) • García Rovira, general, statesman and painter (1940) • Mother Juana Ruperta, unknown (1970) == S ==

• Policarpa Salvarrieta, executed spy for revolutionary forces (2017) • Miguel Samper, economist and writer (1976) • Santiago Samper Brush, founder of the Colombian Red Cross (1956) • José Francisco de San Martín, Argentine general and independence leader (1955) • Diodoro Sánchez, founder of the Colombian Society of Engineers (1962) • Manuela Sanz de Santamaria, heroine of South American independence (2011) • Manuela Sáenz de Thorne, heroine of South American independence (2011) • Policarpa Salavarrieta, heroine of the independence of Colombia (1910) • Francisco de Paula Santander, military and political leader, president of New Granada 1832-37 (1910) • Antonia Santos, rebel leader and heroine (2011) • Eduardo Santos, president of Colombia, 1938-42 (1981) • Enrique Santos Castillo, lawyer and journalist (2017) • Enrique Santos Montejo, Colombian journalist (1986) • Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, president of Colombia, 2010-18 (2018) • Giuliana Scalaberni, wife of Pedro Nel Gómez (1985) • Vera Sergine Renoir, French actress (2001) • Carlos Martínez Silva, politician, diplomat, journalist, soldier and poet (1948) • José Asunción Silva, poet (1986) • Oreste Sindici, composer of the national anthem (1988) • José Francisco Socarrás Colina, physician and educator (2016) • Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez, Cuban journalist (1947) • Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay (1955) • Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1945) • Marco Fidel Suárez, president of Colombia, 1918-21 (1981) • Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan independence leader (1887) == T ==

• Teresa of Ávila, nun, mystic, writer and saint (1970) • Tisquesusa, fourth supreme ruler of Bacatá (1955) • Murillo Toro, politician and statesman (1944) • Camilo Torres Tenorio, Colombian politician and founder (1910) • Manuel Murillo Toro, president of Colombia, 1864-66, 1872-74 (1944) • Cristóbal de Torres, priest, theologian and professor (1954) • Diego de Torres y Moyachoque, Turmequé Indian chief (2012) • José Jerónimo Triana, botanist (1947) • Miguel Triana, Colombian engineer and historian (1962) • Julio César Turbay Ayala, president of Colombia, 1978-82 (2009) • Diana Turbay Quintero, Colombian journalist (1992) • Gabriel Turbay Abunader, politician, diplomat (1997) == U ==