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List of people on the postage stamps of Djibouti

No identifiable persons are depicted on the postage stampsofObock.

Djibouti (1893-1902)[edit]

No identifiable persons are depicted on the postage stamps of the French colony of Djibouti.

French Somali Coast (1902-1967)[edit]

• Governor Bernard, Colonial administrator who died in 1935 (1960) ^[1]
• Diane de Poitiers (1937) ^[2]
• Félix Éboué (1945) ^[2]
• Léonce Lagarde (1938) ^[2]

French Territory of the Afars and Issas (1967-1977)[edit]

• Clément Ader (1975) ^[3]
• André-Marie Ampère (1975) ^[3]
• Alexander Graham Bell (1976) ^[3]
• Albert Calmette, scientist (1972) ^[4]
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1973) ^[4]
• Marie Curie (1974) ^[4]
• Charles de Gaulle, French statesman (1971) ^[5]
• Thomas Edison (1977) ^[3]
• Henri Farman (1974) ^[4]
• Camille Guérin, scientist (1972) ^[4]
• Edward Jenner (1973) ^[4]
• Robert Koch (1973) ^[4]
• Guglielmo Marconi (1974) ^[4]
• Michelangelo (1975) ^[3]
• Molière (1973) ^[4]
• Louis Pasteur, scientist (1972) ^[4]
• Wilhelm Röntgen (1973) ^[4]
• Alessandro Volta (1977) ^[3]

Djibouti[edit]

This list is complete through 1998.

• Hassan Gouled Aptidon, president (1978) ^[6]
• Robert Baden-Powell (1982) ^[7]
• Alexander Graham Bell (1977, as an overprint on a stamp of the French Territory of the Afars and Issas) ^[8]
• Louis Blériot (1984) ^[9]
• Charles, Prince of Wales (1981) ^[10]
• Christopher Columbus, explorer (1991) ^[11]
• James Cook, explorer (1980) ^[12]
• Marie Curie, scientist (1984) ^[9]
• Pierre Curie, scientist (1984) ^[9]
• Pierre de Coubertin, Olympics founder (1987) ^[13]
• Charles de Gaulle, French statesman (1990) ^[11]
• Diana, Princess of Wales (1981) ^[10]
• Thomas Edison (1977, as an overprint on a stamp of the French Territory of the Afars and Issas) ^[8]
• Alexander Fleming, penicillin discoverer (1980) ^[12]
• Yuri Gagarin (1981) ^[10]
• Galileo Galilei (1984) ^[9]
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Leader of India's Independence Movement (1998) ^[14]
• John Glenn (1982) ^[7]
• Edmond Halley, scientist (1986) ^[13]
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1985) ^[9]
• Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979) ^[15]
• Victor Hugo, novelist (1985) ^[13]
• Martin Luther King ("Jr." not shown on stamp) (1983) ^[16]
• Robert Koch (1982) ^[7]
• Charles Lindbergh (1987) ^[13]
• Samuel Morse (1987) ^[13]
• Horatio Nelson, admiral (1981) ^[10]
• Alfred Nobel (1983) ^[16]
• Louis Pasteur, scientist (1987) ^[13]
• Arthur Rimbaud, poet (1985) ^[13] (1992) ^[11]
• Peter Romanovsky (1980) ^[17]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1982) ^[18]
• Dick Rutan (1987) ^[13]
• Friedrich Sämisch (1980) ^[17]
• Alan Shepard (1981) ^[10]
• George Stephenson (1981) ^[10]
• Mother Teresa (1998) ^[14]
• Jules Verne, writer (1980) ^[12]
• Alessandro Volta (1977, as an overprint on a stamp of the French Territory of the Afars and Issas) ^[8]
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1980) ^[12]
• George Washington (1982) ^[18]
• Jeana Yeager (1987) ^[13]

See also[edit]

• Postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti

References[edit]

• Stanley Gibbons Limited (2010). Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part 6: France, 7th edition. London and Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons Limited. ISBN 978-0-85259-756-9.
• Stanley Gibbons Limited (1983). Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part 12: Africa since Independence A-E, 2nd edition. London: Stanley Gibbons Publications Limited. ISBN 0-85259-054-7.
• Stanley Gibbons Limited (2007). Stanley Gibbons Simplified Catalogue Stamps of the World, volume 2: Countries D-H, 72nd edition. London and Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons Limited. ISBN 978-0-85259-631-9.