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)
• , 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)
• , philatelist (1991) article in Italian
• Alberto Bolaffi, philatelist (1991) article in Italian
• (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)
• , 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)
• , patriots (1993) article in Italian
• Charles Chaplin, actor (1989)
• Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (1982)
• Luigi Cherubini, composer (1977)
• , 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)
• , 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)
• , 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)
• , 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)
• (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)
• , 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)
• , 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[]

• , 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)