This is a list of people on the postage stamps of the Republic of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp.

(through 1981)

• 1929 Daniel O'Connell
• 1937 Saint Patrick
• 1939 George Washington
• 1943 Dr Douglas Hyde
• 1943 Sir William Rowan Hamilton
• 1944 Edmund Ignatius Rice
• 1948 Wolfe Tone
• 1949 James Clarence Mangan
• 1952 Thomas Moore
• 1953 Robert Emmet
• 1954 Cardinal John Henry Newman
• 1956 Commodore John Barry
• 1957 John Redmond
• 1957 Thomas O'Crohan
• 1957 Admiral William Brown
• 1957 Father Luke Wadding
• 1958 Mother Mary Aikenhead
• 1958 Thomas J. Clarke
• 1959 Arthur Guinness
• 1965 W.B. Yeats
• 1966 Eamonn Ceannt
• 1966 James Connolly
• 1966 Joseph Mary Plunkett
• 1966 Sean MacDiarmada
• 1966 Thomas MacDonagh
• 1966 Sir Roger Casement
• 1966 Padraig Pearse
• 1967 Jonathan Swift
• 1968 Countess Markievicz
• 1969 Mohandas Gandhi
• 1970 Kevin Barry
• 1970 Terence MacSwiney
• 1970 Thomas MacCurtain
• 1971 J.M. Synge
• 1974 Edmund Burke
• 1974 Oliver Goldsmith
• 1976 Alexander Graham Bell
• 1976 Benjamin Franklin
• 1976 James Larkin
• 1977 Jack B. Yeats
• 1977 Johannes Scottus Eriugenus
• 1977 Louis le Brocquy
• 1978 Catherine McAuley
• 1978 William Orpen
• 1979 Padraig Pearse
• 1979 Pope John Paul II
• 1979 Rowland Hill
• 1980 George Bernard Shaw
• 1980 Oscar Wilde
• 1980 Sean O'Casey
• 1980 Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle
• 1981 Charles Parsons
• 1981 Harry Ferguson
• 1981 James Hoban
• 1981 Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
• 1981 John Holland
• 1981 Robert Boyle

See List of people on stamps for other countries.