This is a list of people on stamps of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp. Because no postage stamps had been designed, the first Irish stamps were issued by the Provisional Government of Ireland and were the then-current British definitive postage stamps bearing a portrait of George V that were overprinted Rialtas Sealadaċ na hÉireann 1922 and issued on 17 February 1922. The overprint was later changed to Saorstát Éireann 1922. The Irish Free State issued the first commemorative stamps depicting a person on 22 June 1929 when Oifig an Phoist, the Irish Post Office, a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, issued a set of three stamps showing Daniel O'Connell. Since 1929 O'Connell is one of a small number of people shown in two issues, including Wolfe Tone and Arthur Guinness. The 2009 Guinness issue included postmarks with his trade mark signature, a first in philately. The Department of Posts and Telegraphs and, after 1984, An Post, designed stamps showing statesmen, religious, literary and cultural figures, athletes, etc. Until the mid-1990s it was usual policy not to issue stamps showing living persons, the only exceptions being Douglas Hyde and Louis le Brocquy, but this policy has been put aside and there have recently been several issues showing living persons. For the millennium, 30 millennium stamps were issued showing living Irish sportsmen.
1929–1949
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema, 4 stamp set featuring 12 Irish actors in 4 Irish films:
Colman "Tiger" King as A Man of Aran in Man Of Aran
Maggie Dirrane as His Wife in Man Of Aran
Michael Dirrane as Their Son in Man Of Aran
1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free StateLinda Martin Singer 1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Sonia O'Sullivan Athlete 1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Alan GoughSoccer Player 1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Damian Hogan Garda 1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Marie Egan Garda 1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Brendan Walsh Garda
