List of people on the postage stamps of Italy

This is a list of people on stamps of Italy.

(complete through 2001)

A

Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor (1970)
Leon Battista Alberti, humanist and Renaissance man (1972)
Alberto da Prezzate, saint (1995) article in Italian
Franco Alfano, composer (1975)
Vittorio Alfieri, playwright (1932, 1949)
Dante Alighieri, poet (1921, 1932, 1933, 1938, 1945, 1965, 1990)
Ambrose, theologian and saint (1997)
Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (1931, 1995)
Antonello da Messina, painter (1953)
Thomas Aquinas, theologian and saint (1974)
Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor (1983)
Pietro Aretino, author (1977)
Ludovico Ariosto, poet (1932, 1974)
Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor (1929, 1937, 1938, 1945)
Amedeo Avogadro, physicist (1956)

B

Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1985)
Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, patriots (1944)
Francesco Baracca, aviator (1968)
Agostino Bassi, entomologist (1953)
Edoardo Bassini, surgeon (1977)
Cesare Battisti, politician and patriot (1966)
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poet (1963, 1991)
Giovanni Bellini, painter (1974)
Vincenzo Bellini, composer (1935, 1952, 1985, 2001)
Benedict of Nursia, saint (1929, 1980)
Arrigo Boito, composer and librettist (1968)
Giulio Bolaffi, philatelist (1991) article in Italian
Alberto Bolaffi, philatelist (1991) article in Italian
Luigi Bocconi (1869–1896), had a university named for him (2002)
Giovanni Boccaccio, author (1932, 1975)
Gianbattista Bodoni, printer and type designer (1964)
Massimo Bontempelli, writer (1979)
Charles Borromeo, church reformer and saint (1988)
Francesco Borromini, architect (1974)
John Bosco, priest and saint (1988)
Carlo Giuseppe Botta, historian (1932)
Sandro Botticelli, painter (1973)
Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (1998)
Filippo Brunelleschi, architect (1977)
Giordano Bruno, philosopher and astronomer (2000)
Tino Buazzelli, film actor (1998)
Bruno Buozzi, labor leader and politician (1984) article in Italian
Ferruccio Busoni, composer (1975)
George Gordon Byron, English poet (1959)

C

Julius Caesar, Roman military leader and dictator (1929, 1945)
Clara Calamai, film actress (1988)
Tommaso Campanella, philosopher and poet (1968)
Antonio Canova, sculptor (1957)
Caravaggio, painter (1960)
Giosuè Carducci, poet (1932, 1957)
Nicolò Carosio, journalist (2007)
Rosalba Carriera, painter (1974)
Enrico Caruso, tenor (1973)
Alfredo Catalani, composer (1954)
Catherine of Siena, theologian, saint (1948, 1962, 1980)
Catullus, Roman poet (1949)
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, art critic (1997)
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, politician (1959, 1962)
Celestine V, pope and saint (1996)
Cervi brothers, patriots (1993) article in Italian
Charles Chaplin, actor (1989)
Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (1982)
Luigi Cherubini, composer (1977)
Damiano Chiesa, soldier and patriot (1966) article in Italian
Edoardo Chiossone, engraver, painter (1988)
Cicero, Roman statesman and writer (1957, 1997)
Francesco Cilea, composer (1975)
Domenico Cimarosa, composer (1949, 2001)
Clare of Assisi, saint (1953)
Christopher Columbus, navigator and explorer (1938, 1951, 1991, 1992, 1998)
Daniele Comboni, missionary and saint (1981)
Fausto Coppi, cyclist (1999)
Arcangelo Corelli, composer (1953)
Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, saint (1993)
Pierre de Coubertin, French instigator of modern Olympic Games (1994)
Benedetto Croce, philosopher (1966)

D

Gabriele D'Annunzio, writer (1963 and some "Fiume" stamps)
Salvo D'Acquisto, war hero (1975)
Peppino De Filippo, film actor (1998)
Eduardo De Filippo, actor and director (1998)
Alcide De Gasperi, statesman (1970, 1981)
Vittorio De Sica, film actor and director (1998)
Grazia Deledda, novelist (1971)
Emilio Diena, philatelist (1989)
Carlo Dolci, painter (1976)
Dominic, saint, founder of Dominican Order (1923)
Gaetano Donizetti, composer (1948, 1998)
Eleonora Duse, actress (1958)

E

Albert Einstein, physicist (1979, 1995)
Elena of Savoy, queen (2002)
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1928)
Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish saint, founder of Opus Dei (2002)
Luigi Einaudi, politician (1974)

F

Aldo Fabrizi, film actor (1996)
Giovanni Fattori, painter (1958)
Vittorino da Feltre, educator (1978)
Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies (1959, 1985)
Enrico Fermi, physicist (1967, 2001)
Enzo Ferrari, race car driver and car manufacturer (1998)
Gaudenzio Ferrari, painter (1950)
Galileo Ferraris, physicist and electrical engineer (1997)
Francesco Ferrucci, soldier (1930)
Fabio Filzi, patriot and martyr (1966) article in Italian
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, poet and revolutionary (1999)
Ugo Foscolo, poet and writer (1932, 1979)
Girolamo Fracastoro, physician (1955)
Francis of Paola, friar and saint (1957)
Francis of Assisi, friar and saint (1923, 1926, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1982)
Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (1923)
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1994)
Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer (1983)

G

Galileo Galilei, astronomer, physicist (1933, 1942, 1945, 1964, 1983, 1995, 2014)
Dina Galli, actress (1977) article in Italian
Luigi Galvani, physicist (1934, 1991)
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (1998)
Anita Garibaldi, heroine of Italian unification (1932)
Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unification (1910, 1932, 1957, 1959, 1970, 1982)
Gattamelata, condottiere (1970)
Geminianus, bishop and saint (1997)
Vincenzo Gemito, sculptor (1952)
Giovanni Gentile, philosopher (1994)
Saint George, saint and martyr (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1997)
Pietro Germi, film actor and director (1997)
Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor (1976)
Domenico Ghirlandaio, painter (1976)
Giovanni Giorgi, physicist and engineer (1990)
Umberto Giordano, composer (1967)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, writer, philopher (1999)
Giotto, painter (1937)
Carlo Goldoni, playwright (1977, 1992)
Camillo Golgi, physician (1994)
Aloysius Gonzaga, priest and saint (1968)
Antonio Gramsci, political theorist (1987)
Achille Grandi, labor leader and politician (1984) article in Italian
Giovanni Battista Grassi, zoologist (1955)
Gregory I, pope and saint (2006)
Gregory XV, pope (1923)
Guido d'Arezzo, musician (1950)
Francesco Guicciardini, historian (1983)
Paul Guillaume, French art dealer (1984)
Teresa Gullace, victim of Nazi soldiers (1995) article in Italian

H

Rowland Hill, English postal reformer (1979)
Adolf Hitler, German chancellor (1941)

I

Nilde Iotti, politician (2006)
Isabella I, Spanish queen (1992)

J

John XXIII, pope (1981)
John Paul II, pope (1998)

K

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (1994)

L

Giacomo Leopardi, poet and essayist (1932, 1998)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, theologian and saint (1987)
Filippo Lippi, painter (1957)
Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, inventor (1932, 1935, 1938, 1952)
Emanuela Loi, policewoman (1997) article in Italian

M

Niccolò Machiavelli, political philosopher (1932, 1969)
Carlo Maderno, architect (1979)
Mafalda of Savoy, princess (1995)
Anna Magnani, film actress (1988, 1997)
Ettore Majorana, physicist (2006)
Curzio Malaparte, writer (1998)
Marcello Malpighi, physician (1978)
Goffredo Mameli, poet and patriot (1948, 1999)
Antonio Mancini, painter (1952)
Andrea Mantegna, painter (1974)
Alessandro Manzoni, poet and novelist (1923, 1973)
Marco De Marchi (naturalista), naturalist, philanthropist, philatelist (1987) article in Italian
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor (1938, 1965, 1974, 1995)
Marcus Aurelius. Roman emperor (1997)
Marie José, queen (1930)
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor (1985)
Martino Martini, cartographer and historian (2014)
Gaetano Martino, statesman (2000)
Masaccio, painter (2001)
Pietro Mascagni, composer (1963)
Giulietta Masina, film actress (1995)
Guglielmo Massaia, missionary and cardinal (1952)
Marcello Mastroianni, film actor (1998)
Giacomo Matteotti, politician (1955)
Corrado Mezzana (1990-1952), painter and stamp designer (1990) article in Italian
Filippo Mazzei, Italian supporter of American Revolution (1980)
Giuseppe Mazzini, patriot and writer (1922, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1972)
Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine ruler (1980)
Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine ruler (1949, 1992)
Ciro Menotti, patriot (1981)
Saverio Mercadante, composer (1970)
Aristide Merloni, industrialist (1997) article in Italian
Antonio Meucci, inventor (1965, 1978)
Pietro Micca, soldier and hero (1976)
Michelangelo, painter and sculptor (1960, 1964, 1992)
Pietro Miliani, paper manufacturer (1994) article in Italian
Giovanni Minzoni, priest (1973)
Renato Mondolfo (1918–1992), philatelist (1995) article in Italian
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, journalist and peace activist (1983)
Eugenio Montale, poet (1996)
Federico da Montefeltro, condottiere (1982)
Maria Montessori, educator and physician (1970)
Claudio Monteverdi, composer (1967)
Luigi Maria Monti, cleric (2000) article in Italian
Aldo Moro, politician (2003)
Giuseppe Morosini, priest and patriot (1997) article in Italian
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1991)
Ludovico Antonio Muratori, historian (1950)
Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator (1932, 1941)

N

Giulio Natta, chemist (1994)
Carina Massone Negrone, aviator (1996)
Ippolito Nievo, writer (1961)
Assia Noris, Russian-born film actress (1998)
Tazio Nuvolari, racecar driver (1992)

O

Luigi Orione, saint (1972)
Ovid, Roman poet (1957)

P

Antonio Pacinotti, physicist (1934)
Luca Pacioli, mathematician (1994)
Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer (1982)
Bartolomeo Pagano, film actor (1996)
Giovanni Paisiello, composer (1990)
Paola, Italian-born Belgian queen (1997)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer (1975)
Andrea Palladio, architect (1949)
Giuseppe Parini, poet (1999)
Giovanni Pascoli, poet (1955)
Paul VI, pope (1997)
Silvio Pellico, playwright (1954)
Giovan Battista Pergolesi, composer (1937, 1986)
Lorenzo Perosi, composer (1972)
Aureliano Pertile, tenor (1985)
Sandro Pertini, president (1996)
Pietro Perugino, painter (1951)
Peter Damian, saint (1972)
Francesco Petrarca, poet (1932, 1974)
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, painter (1976)
Niccolò Piccinni, composer (2000)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, philosopher (1963)
Antonio Pigafetta, scholar and traveler (1980)
Padre Pio, priest and saint (1998, 2002)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, artist (1973)
Luigi Pirandello, novelist and playwright (1967)
Pius IX, pope (1978, 1983)
Pliny the Younger, Roman magistrate and writer (1961)
Marco Polo, explorer (1954, 1996)
Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (1986)
Camillo Prampolini, politician (1959) article in Italian
Giacomo Puccini, composer (1974, 2004, 2008)

Q

Salvatore Quasimodo, poet (2001)

R

Raphael, painter (1974)
Leonida Rèpaci, writer (1998) article in Italian
Ottorino Respighi, composer (1979)
Matteo Ricci, missionary (2002)
Augusto Righi, physicist (1950)
Adelaide Ristori. stage actress (1996)
Rita of Cascia, saint (1981)
Roger II, king of Sicily (1974)
Rose of Viterbo, saint (2001)
Gian Domenico Romagnosi, jurist and philosopher (1961)
Antonio Rosmini, priest and philosopher (1955)
Gabriele Rossetti, poet (1983)
Gioacchino Rossini, composer (1942, 1968)

S

Umberto Saba, poet and writer (1983)
Antonio Salieri, composer (2000)
Gaetano Salvemini, historian (1973)
Francesco de Sanctis, literary critic (1983)
Paolo Sarpi, scholar and historian (1932)
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, painter (1976)
Nazario Sauro, sailor and patriot (1966)
Dominic Savio, saint (1957)
Girolamo Savonarola, friar, preacher, leader of Florence (1952)
Alessandro Scarlatti, composer (1975)
Robert Schuman, French statesman (1970)
Quintino Sella, statesman (1977)
Matilde Serao, journalist and author (1978)
Francesco Severi, mathematician (1979)
Luca Signorelli, painter (1953)
Sixtus V, pope (1985)
Armando Spadini, painter (1975) article in Italian
Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist (1979)
Gaspare Spontini, composer and conductor (1937, 1975, 2001)
Enzo Staiola, child actor (1988)
Antonio Stradivari, violin maker (1937)

T

Francesco Tosso, postal pioneer (1982) article in Italian
Torquato Tasso, poet (1932)
Alessandro Tassoni, poet (1965)
Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary (1998)
Teresa of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (1923, 1998)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter (1973)
Ugo Tognazzi, film actor (1997)
Niccolò Tommaseo, linguist (1974)
Evangelista Torricelli, physicist (1958)
Arturo Toscanini, conductor (1967)
Massimo Troisi, film director and actor (1996)
Totò, actor, singer, comedian (1995)

U

Umberto I, king (1884, 1889)
Umberto II, king (1930)

V

Rudolph Valentino, film actor (1995)
Giuseppe Verdi, composer (1951, 1963, 2001)
Giovanni Verga, novelist (1972)
Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer (1964)
Pietro Verri, economist and historian (1997)
Andrea del Verrocchio, painter and sculptor (1973)
Amerigo Vespucci, explorer (1954, 1998)
Giambattista Vico, philosopher (1968)
Victor Emmanuel II, king (1862, 1929, 1959, 1978, 1985)
Victor Emmanuel III, king (1901, 1903, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1945)
Queen Victoria, British queen (1985)
Virgil, Roman poet (1930, 1981)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, labor leader and politician (1984)
Antonio Vivaldi, composer (1975)
Alessandro Volta, physicist (1927, 1949, 1992, 1999)

W

George Washington, American patriot and president (1985)
William II, king of Sicily (1974)

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