List of people on the postage stamps of Laos
This is a list of people depicted on stamps of Laos.
A
- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
- Alexander Alekhine, Chess player
- Adolf Anderssen, German chess master
B
- Vance D. Brand, American astronaut
C
- Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese explorer
- José Raúl Capablanca, World Chess Champion
- Jacques Cartier, French explorer
- Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French polar explorer and scientist
- Christopher Columbus, discoverer of the New World
- James Cook, British explorer
- Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance astronomer
- Antonio da Correggio, Italian Renaissance painter
D
- Pierre de Coubertin, founder of modern Olympic Games
- Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter
- Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader
E
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President
F
- Gerald Ford, 38th US President
G
- Yuri Gagarin, First man in space
- Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
- Siddhārtha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
- Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
- Georgy Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut
- El Greco, Spanish painter
- Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
H
- Edmond Halley, English astronomer
- Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician who discovered the cause of leprosy
- William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States
J
- Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
- Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President
K
- John F. Kennedy, 35th US President
- Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
- Khamphoui, Queen of Laos, 1959-1975
- Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut
- Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
L
- Emanuel Lasker, World Chess Champion
- Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik leader
- Alexey Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut
M
- James Madison, 4th President of the United States
- Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
- Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and radio pioneer
- Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto
- Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist leader
- Joan Miró, Catalan painter
- James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
- Paul Morphy, American chess player
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish artist
N
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman
- Isaac Newton, British physicist
- Richard Nixon, 37th President
P
- Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos
- Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao Communist politician
- Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
- James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States
R
- Raphael, Italian painter
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President
S
- Ruy López de Segura, Chess player
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, First President of Senegal
- Deke Slayton, American astronaut
- Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player
- George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer
- Robert Stephenson, British railway engineer
- Souphanouvong, Lao Communist politician
- Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut
T
- Zachary Taylor, 12th US President
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
- John Tyler, US President
V
- Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States
- Savang Vatthana, King of Laos, 1959-1975
- Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
- Jules Verne, French writer
- Sisavang Vong, King of Laos, 1904-1959.
Sisavang Vong on one of the first Laotian stamps
W
- George Washington, First President of the United States
See also
References
- Co, Scott Publishing (2015). Scott 2015 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue: Countries of the World Volume 4 J-M. Sidney, OH: Scott Pub. Co. ISBN \978-0-89487-491-8
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