List of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso and those of Upper Volta, its earlier name.

The list is complete through 1976.

Republic of Upper Volta

• Winston Churchill (1966 airmail)
• Ouezzin Coulibaly, president (1959)
• "Joseph Dakiri"(1) (1971)
• John F. Kennedy, US president (1964 airmail)
• Vladimir Lenin, Russian leader (1970 airmail)
• Abraham Lincoln, US president (1965, 1970)
• Sangoulé Lamizana, president (1971 airmail)
• Albert John Luthuli (1968 airmail)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt president (1971 airmail)
• Pope Paul VI (1966 airmail)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president (1970 airmail)
• Albert Schweitzer (1967 airmail)
• Maurice Yameogo, president (1960)

after 1971

• Conrad Adenauer (1973)
• Buzz Aldrin, US astronaut (1973)
• Louis Armstrong, US musician (1972)
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1973)
• Baudouin of Belgium (1977)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1973)
• Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader (1973)
• Gene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1977)
• Ronald E. Evans, US astronaut (1973)
• Charles de Gaulle, French leader (1973, 1974)
• John Glenn, US astronaut (1973)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (1973)
• Maria Picasso Lopez, painter's mother (1975)
• Harrison H. Schmitt, US astronaut (1973)
• Guillaume Templier, missionary (1975)
• Joanny Thévenoud, missionary (1975)
• George Washington, US president (1975)

Burkina Faso

• Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (1988)
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader (1988)
• John F. Kennedy, US president (1988)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1988)

References

• Scott catalogue
• Stanley Gibbons catalogue

(1)Scott lists the two stamps of 13 October 1971 as honoring "Joseph Dakiri (1938-1971), inaugurator of the Army-Aid-to-Agriculture Program", while Stanley Gibbons just says "Dakiri Project". Oddly, there seems not to be any online references mentioning either the person or the project, although there is a town named Dakiri. The stamps themselves depict an individual, mention the surname, and the 1938-1971 dates.