- James Chalmers
James Chalmers (February 2 1782 Arbroath, Angus - May 26 1853) was a Scottish inventor who introduced the adhesive postage stamp and uniform postage rate. He trained as a weaver, before he moved to Dundee in 1809 on the recommendation of his brother. He established himself as a bookseller, printer and newspaper publisher on Castle Street. He is known to have been the publisher of "The Caledonian" as early as 1822. - John Cook
John Cook (13 April 1805 - 31 March 1892) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister and educator from Quebec. He was born in Sanquhar, Scotland, and educated at University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh. He served as a minister in the Church of Scotland, and was ordained in December 1835 in Cardross, and designated minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City (under the Colonial Committee) and arrived in Canada East in April 1836. - Sandford Fleming
Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915) was a prolific Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for introducing Universal Standard Time and Canada's postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto. - John Basilone
Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, United States Marine Corps, (November 4, 1916–February 19, 1945), received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II. He held off 3,000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal, after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men. Basilone was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, after which he was posthumously honored with the Navy Cross. - Mel Ott
Melvin Thomas "Mel" Ott, nicknamed "Master Melvin", was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played his entire career for the New York Giants (1926-1947). Ott was born in Gretna, Louisiana. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. The first National League player to surpass 500 homeruns. He was unusually slight of stature for a power hitter, at 5'9" 170 lb. - Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins (9 July 1766 - 30 July 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. In 1819 he went to England with a plan for engraving banknotes on steel, which ultimately proved a signal success, … - William Wyon
William Wyon, (1795 - October 29 1851), was official chief engraver at the Royal Mint from 1828 until his death. Wyon was born in Birmingham, England. In 1834 he modeled the head of Princess Victoria, who was 15 at the time, and this was subsequently used for the City Medal struck in 1837 to celebrate her first visit to the City of London after her accession to the throne. This was the model for the head on the line-engraved postage stamps of 1840-79, … - Élise Rivet
Élise Rivet born January 19, 1890, in Draria, Algeria - died March 30,1945, Ravensbrück, Germany, was a Roman Catholic nun and war heroine. The daughter of a French naval officer, she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in Lyon. In 1933 she became "Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the convent's Mother Superior. After the fall of the French Third Republic to Nazi Germany in World War II, … - Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year with another 400 publications appearing posthumously; his collected works already fill 73 large volumes tens of thousands of pages with more volumes still to appear. - Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri (June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for "Heidi". Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels - Czesław Słania
Czesław Słania (22 October 1921-17 March 2005) was an accomplished postage stamp and banknote engraver. According to the "Guinness Book of World Records", Słania is the most prolific of all stamp engravers, with over 1000 stamps to his credit. Born in Czeladź, Poland, he entered the Kraków School of Fine Arts, a renowned graphics arts center, in 1945. While still a student, he was hired by Poland's printing bureau and began his career as an engraver. - Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White, M.D. (June 6, 1886 - October 31, 1973) was a pioneering cardiologist, and a founding member of the American Heart Association. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and attended the Roxbury Latin School, from which he graduated in 1903. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911. - Jean de Sperati
Jean de Sperati (1884-1957) was a French forger who had to expose his own stamp forgeries. In 1942, when Sperati sent a package of supposedly valuable stamps to a stamp dealer in Lisbon, French customs seized it. They charged him with trying to avoid customs payments and took him to court. In court, French criminologist Edmond Locard testified that the stamps were at least worth 223,400 French francs. - Asbjørn Kloster
Asbjorn Kloster was a leader of the Norwegian temperance movement in the 19th century. A Norwegian postage stamp was issued in his honor. - Hollow Horn Bear
Hollow Horn Bear (Sioux name Matihehlogego was a Brulé Sioux leader during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains of the United States. Hollow Horn Bear was born in what today is Sheridan County, Nebraska. He was the son of chief Iron Shell. Although he initially raided the Pawnee, he later was involved in harassing forts along the Bozeman Trail with other Sioux leaders between 1866 and 1868. - Mohammed Zakariya
Mohamed Zakariya, born 1942 in Ventura, California, is an American master of Arabic calligraphy. An American Muslim, he is perhaps best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp. Raised in California, Zakariya trained as an aerospace engineer as a young man. However, a trip to Morocco would forever change his life and future career path. He was fascinated by the culture, religion, and language that he encountered in Morocco. - Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. During his life, Moser designed a wide array of art works - books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, … - Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser December 15, 1928 - February 19, 2000) was an Austrian painter and sculptor. By the end of the 20th century, he was arguably the best-known contemporary Austrian artist, though he was always controversial. Hundertwasser's original, unruly, sometimes shocking artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, … - John N. Luff
John Nicholas Luff (November 16, 1860 - August 23, 1938) was one of the important philatelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notable as an early user of scientific methods in the study of postage stamps. The Luff Award of the American Philatelic Society is named after him. He developed a serious interest in philately in 1890, and joined the Pacific Philatelic Society in San Francisco, California. - John Molson
John Molson (December 28, 1763 - January 11, 1836) was an Anglo-Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company. Born in England, he emigrated to Canada as a young man and in 1821 built Lower Canada's first distillery. He also established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada, and introduced steam power into Montreal industry. - Norman Morrison
Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 - November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Quaker best known for committing suicide by self-immolation at age 31 to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. On November 2 1965, Morrison set himself on fire in front of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's Pentagon office, after dousing himself in gasoline. He left his wife Anne Welsh and three children; Ben, … - Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (2 May, 1906 Riga, Latvia - 25 June, 1979 New York City) was a Latvian-born American portrait photographer. Born to a Jewish family of Max Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Latvia. Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden, but moved into photography in Paris in 1931. - Charles Connell
Charles Connell (1810 - June 28 1873) was a Canadian politician, now remembered mainly for placing his image on a 5-cent postage stamp. Born in the then-British colony of New Brunswick to a family of Loyalists, who fled the American Revolution, he entered politics in 1846, serving in the colony's Legislative Assembly and House of Assembly. On August 5 1835, he married Anne Fisher, sister of L. P. Fisher. They had 7 children, one of whom died at a young age. - Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28,1839-February 17,1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin. She moved Evanston, Illinois when she was 18. Willard was elected president of the United States Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, a position which she held for life. - Charles E. Bohlen
Charles Eustis “Chip” Bohlen was a United States diplomat from 1929 to 1969 and Soviet expert, serving in Moscow before and during World War II, succeeding George F. Kennan as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1953–1957), then moving to the Philippines (1957–1959), and to France (1962–1968). Graduate of Harvard College Class of 1927. He joined the State Department, learned Russian and became a Soviet specialist, working first in Riga, Latvia. - William James Mayo
William James Mayo (June 29, 1861 - July 28, 1939) was a physician in the United States and a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. He was born to William Worrall Mayo and his wife Louise in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The United States Postal Service printed a stamp depicting him and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, on September 11, 1964. - Charles Horace Mayo
Charles Horace Mayo (July 19, 1865 - May 26, 1939) was an American medical practitioner and a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. Mayo graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University (now called the Feinberg School of Medicine) in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. - Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer (b. 1930 Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian photographer. Palmer's photographs have been features on stamps by Canada Post in 2003 and on Alberta's 2005 Centennial Stamp. Palmer has also been featured in a solo exhibition in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1992. Palmer's photographs are also in the collection of the Library and Archives Canada. In 2005, Palmer was nominated for the inaugural Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. - Peter Howson
Peter Howson (born 1958) is a Scottish painter. Howson was born in London and moved with his family to Prestwick, South Ayrshire, when Peter was aged four. He spent a short time in the Royal Highland Fusiliers but left to study at the Glasgow School of Art in 1979. Alongside contemporaries such as Adrian Wiszniewski, Steven Campbell and Ken Currie, who also worked in figurative art, they were christened the New Glasgow Boys. His work has encompassed a number of themes. - Ammi Phillips
Ammi Phillips, a self-taught New England portrait painter, is regarded as one of the most important folk artists of his era. Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, and began painting portraits as early as 1810. He worked as an itinerant painter in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York for five decades. In 1924, a group of portraits of women, shown leaning forward in three-quarter view and wearing dark dresses, were displayed in an antique show in Kent, Connecticut. - Lovrenc Košir
Lovrenc Košir, also Laurenz Koschier (29 July 1804 in Spodnja Lusa, Austria (now Slovenia) – 7 August 1879 in Vienna) was an Austrian public servant, who worked in Ljubljana. Besides Rowland Hill and James Chalmers he is said to be the inventor of the postage stamp. In 1835, five years before the introduction of the first stamp in Great Britain, … - Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black (born 30 October, 1955) MBE is British historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of over seventy books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations. - Luc-Olivier Merson
Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs. Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an artistic household, the son of Charles-Olivier Merson, a painter and art critic. He studied under Gustave Chassevent at the École de Dessin and then Isidore Pils at the École des Beaux-Arts. - Robert Daniel Murphy
Robert Daniel Murphy was an American diplomat Murphy had begun his diplomatic career in 1917 as a member of the American Legation in Bern, Switzerland. Among the several posts he held were Vice-Consul in Zurich and Munich, American Consul in Paris from 1930 to 1936, and chargé d’affaires to the Vichy government. In 1941, at President Roosevelt’s request, Murphy had investigated conditions in French North Africa in preparation for the Allied landings -- Operation Torch, … - John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (February 12, 1800 - March 7, 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766-1828). John Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups as well as descriptions of new species. - Raimu
Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire. Born in Toulon in the Var département, he made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theater scene. - Piotr Naszarkowski
Piotr Naszarkowski is a Polish engraver. He has been living in Sweden since 1989. He has engraved on many supports : book illustrations, banknotes, postage stamps, etc. Born in Poland, he graduated in 1980 from the Fine Art school of Warsaw. From 1978 to 1980, he worked as stage designer for the "Guliwer" puppet theatre. He entered 1980 the Polish television. - Aminah Assilmi
Aminah Assilmi is the director of the International Union of Muslim Women. Her organization successfully lobbied for the Eid postage stamp. She is working on making "Eid Day" a national holiday. She speaks at college campuses and Islamic conferences. Before converting to Islam, she was a Southern Baptist and a broadcast journalist. Aminah is a renowned female scholar of Islam. - Cleng Peerson
Cleng Peerson (17 May 1783 - 16 December 1865) led the first group of Norwegians to emigrate to the United States, traveling on the sloop "Restauration". He was born in Tysvaer, Norway, and died in Bosque County, Texas. Peerson is buried in the cemetery of Our Savior's Lutheran Church outside of Cranfills Gap, Texas. In 1825, he led a group of Norwegians, many of them Quakers, who traveled from Stavanger, Norway to New York City, … - Pierre Albuisson
Pierre Albuisson is a French postage stamp engraver and designer. 1970's he studied in the École des Beaux-Arts in Mâcon. He was quickly awarded with the French title of "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" in the differents arts of engraving on cupper in 1979 and 1986 and on steel in 1986. He illustrated some novels before designing postage stamps, starting in 1981 with a stamp for Mali representing Pierre Curie.
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