Wikipedia:List of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Burkina Faso and those of Upper Volta, its earlier name.

The list is complete through 1976.

Republic of Upper Volta

 * Winston Churchill (1966 airmail)
 * Ouezzin Coulibaly, president (1959)
 * Joseph Dakiri (1971)
 * John F. Kennedy, US president (1964 airmail)
 * Vladimir Lenin, Russian leader (1970 airmail)
 * Abraham Lincoln, US president (1965, 1970)
 * Sangoulé Lamizana, president (1971 airmail)
 * Albert John Luthuli (1968 airmail)
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt president (1971 airmail)
 * Pope Paul VI (1966 airmail)
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president (1970 airmail)
 * Albert Schweitzer (1967 airmail)
 * Maurice Yaméogo, president (1960)

after 1971

 * Conrad Adenauer (1973)
 * Buzz Aldrin, US astronaut (1973)
 * Louis Armstrong, US musician (1972)
 * Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1973)
 * Baudouin of Belgium (1977)
 * Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1973)
 * Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader (1973)
 * Gene Cernan, US astronaut (1973)
 * Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1977)
 * Ronald E. Evans, US astronaut (1973)
 * Charles de Gaulle, French leader (1973, 1974)
 * John Glenn, US astronaut (1973)
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (1973)
 * Maria Picasso Lopez, painter's mother (1975)
 * Harrison H. Schmitt, US astronaut (1973)
 * Guillaume Templier, missionary (1975)
 * Joanny Thévenoud, missionary (1975)
 * George Washington, US president (1975)

Burkina Faso
In 1988, Burkina Faso issued a set of stamps marking the anniversaries (all multiples of 5) of the deaths of four renowned leaders:
 * Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (1988 - 40th anniversary of his death)
 * Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader (1988 - 40th anniversary of his assassination)
 * John F. Kennedy, U.S. president (1988 - 25th anniversary of his assassination)
 * Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. civil rights leader (1988 - 20th anniversary of his assassination)