This is a list of people on stamps of the United Kingdom. (The number in parentheses is the year of first appearance on a stamp.)

The general policy followed by the General Post Office and its successors, currently known as the Royal Mail, is that the only identifiable living people depicted on British stamps are the monarch and other members of the Royal Family (or people imminently marrying into it). This policy has only occasionally been inadvertently broken, e.g. in the 1967 issue commemorating the solo round the world voyage of Gipsy Moth IV a person appears as an unidentified blob on the yacht – although as there was only one person on board it must have been Francis Chichester! Similarly in the issue honouring the late Freddie Mercury, drummer Roger Taylor can be clearly seen in the background.

(continue with 1992)

• John Alcock (1969)
• Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1986)

• Charles Babbage (1991)
• Robert Baden-Powell (1982)
• Francis Baily (1970)
• Sir John Barbirolli (1980)
• Sir Thomas Beecham (1980)
• The Black Prince (1974)
• Admiral Robert Blake (1982)
• Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1937)
• Charlotte Brontë (1980)
• Emily Brontë (1980)
• Arthur Whitten Brown (1969)
• Robert Burns (1966)

• Charles, Prince of Wales (1969)
• Charlie Chaplin (1985)
• Francis Chichester (1967)
• Winston Churchill (1965)
• Admiral Cunningham (1982)

• Charles Darwin (1982)
• Bishop Richard Davies (1988)
• Frederick Delius (1985)
• Lord Dowding (1986)
• Sir Francis Drake (1973)

• King Edward VII (1902)
• King Edward VIII (1936)
• George Eliot (1980)
• Edward Elgar (1985)
• Queen Elizabeth II (1952)

• Michael Faraday (1991)
• Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (1986)
• Admiral Jackie Fisher (1982)
• Benjamin Franklin (1976)
• Sir Martin Frobisher (1972)

• Mohandas Gandhi (1969)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1980)
• Saint George (1951)
• King George V (1911)
• King George VI (1937)
• Owain Glyndwr (1974)
• King Harold Godwinson (1966)
• W. G. Grace (1973)
• Thomas Gray (1971)

• George Frideric Handel (1985)
• Thomas Hardy (1990)
• Sir Arthur Harris (1986)
• King Henry V (1964)
• King Henry VIII (1982)
• Sir John Herschel (1970)
• Sir William Herschel (1970)
• Sir Rowland Hill (1979)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1985)
• Wenceslaus Hollar (1965)
• Gustav Holst (1985)
• Henry Hudson (1972)

• John Keats (1971)

• Stan Laurel (1990)
• Edward Lear (1988)
• Vivien Leigh (1985)
• Joseph Lister (1965)
• David Livingstone (1973)

• Freddie Mercury
• Rev William Morgan (1988)

• Alexander Nasmyth (1966)
• Admiral Horatio Nelson (1982)
• Florence Nightingale (1970)
• David Niven (1985)

• Emmeline Pankhurst (1968)
• Bishop Richard Parry (1988)
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1972)
• Captain Mark Phillips (1973)
• Lord Portal (1986)

• Sir Henry Raeburn (1973)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (1973)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds (1973)
• Robert the Bruce (1974)
• Sir James Clark Ross (1972)

• William Salesbury (1988)
• Sir Malcolm Sargent (1980)
• Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1972)
• Sir Walter Scott (1971)
• Peter Sellers (1985)
• William Shakespeare (1964)
• Lady Diana Spencer (1981)
• Henry Morton Stanley (1973)
• Charles Sturt (1973)
• Simon de Montfort (1965)
• Archibald Skirvings (1966)
• George Stubbs (1967)

• Lord Tedder (1986)
• Alfred Tennyson (1992)
• Lord Trenchard (1986)

• Queen Victoria (1840)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972)

• Henry Wood (1980)