Living Persons Portrayed On Stamps

However, it was not the first US stamp depicting living persons.

At least in 1932, in the set commemorating the Sumer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, one stamps presented a sprinter at the start position. Ther stamp design was made after a photograph of Jeremiah Alfred Le Coney, a US sprinter who was a winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay race at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Brazil
Women Who Made History
August 15, 2019
Hortencia Marcari (1959 - ) is a former basketball player who is often considered to be one of the greatest female basketball players in Brazil. The stamp shows a photograph from Brazilian Basketball Confederation.

A recent issue from Uzbekistan (scans are from the Internet, mine are on the way, yet)




Roksana Khudoyarova, a triple jump athlete from Uzbekistan, the 5th in triple jump at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2018



Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Hajri of Oman (No. 7) and Otabek Shukurov of Uzbekistan (No. 19) during a match at 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

These modern, personalized postage stamps (Marke Individuell) of Germany presumably depict Deutsche Post employees in uniform.

Great Britain
Bend It Like Beckham (from the Great British Film set)
May 13, 2014
The stamp commemorates the 2002 film with a photo of actresses Parminder Nagra (1975-) and Keira Knightley (1985-).

Croatia
Croatian Sport
March 25, 2019
The stamp depicts Luka Modriæ (1985 - ), a Croatian professional soccer player who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Croatia national team.

Australia
Australian Legends: Music
January 18, 2013
This stamp depicts Olivia Newton-John (1948-), AO, OBE, singer, actress, activist, and my first celebrity crush.

This personalized postage stamp (Marke Individuell) of Germany looks to have been used by the Fuchs Company. Fuchs is a manufacturer of high performance automotive and industrial lubricants, and it is a long-time sponsor of the Black Falcon Racing Team, pictured here. At the time of this stamp's usage, Black Falcon was racing Mercedes cars. Currently, they appear to have added Porsches to their racing usage.

From snaplap.net, "Team Black Falcon is a racing team from Meuspath, Germany founded by Alexander Boehm, Marc Schramm, and Marvin Wagner in January of 2006."

Bulgarian and Soviet Communist leaders meeting.
Todor Zhivkov (BG, left) and Leonid Brezhnev (USSR)

Mini-sheet
Bulgaria 1977

India
Sachin Tendulkar
November 14, 2013
The stamp features Sachin Tendulkar (1973 -), an Indian former international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

I'm not sure if Great Britain had a specific ban on depicting living persons on stamps apart from the royal family, and if so, when it was lifted, but the earliest example I could find of a real, recognizable person, and not a generic depiction of someone in a profession was not issued until 2005 and shows the cricket team that won the ashes that year