Famous Women On Stamps And Covers

Australia
Australian Women
August 6, 1975
Constance Stone (1856-1902) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia. She played an important role in founding the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne.

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Italy
Italian Artistic and Cultural Heritage
August 31, 2016
Set of two, one stamp honors Anna Magnani (1908-1973), an Italian actress well known for her earthy, real life portrayals of characters.

Portugal
Great Musicians of the World
March 26, 2015
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) was an Austro-British soprano. She is generally considered to have been the greatest German lyric soprano of the twentieth century and one of the finest Mozart singers of all time.

Belgium
A Journey through the 20th Century
November 18, 2000
Maria Callas (1923-1977) was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

France
Madame De la Fayette
May 22, 2023
Madame de La Fayette (1634-1893) is one of the greatest female authors of the 17th century. She is best known for her work La Princesse de Clèves (1678) which is often taken to be the first true French novel.

United States
Sally Ride
May 23, 2018
The stamp honors Sally Ride (1951-2012), an astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space.

Angelina Pagano (1888-1962)

This 1971 Argentina stamp features Angelina Pagano, who was in 18 films between 1941 and 1949, but was better known for stage acting/theatre direction.

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Not an easy topic the further back in time one goes. Here are two from Estonia:

Marie Under (1883-1980), Estonian poetess nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 separate years.


Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen (1843-1886), Estonian poetess known by her pen name Lydia Koidula.

From my collection of "Lettonica - related to but not issued by Latvia".


Uzbekistan (Michel #639 with tab). Uzbek president Islam Karimov and Latvian (first female) president Vaira Vike-Freiberga (born 1937).



Soviet Union. Prominent Soviet sculptor and painter Vera Mukhina (1889-1953). Born in Riga, the capital of Latvia.



Soviet Union. Latvian poetess and playwright Elza Johanna Emilija Lizete Plieksane (née Elza Rozenberga; 1965-1943) known by the pen name Aspazija.

Two more covers, this time from Lithuania:

Ieva Simonaityte or Ewa Simoneit (1897-1978), Lithuanian writer.


Julija Beniuševiciute-Žymantiene (1845-1921) known by the pen name Žemaite, Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and educator.

Sweden

Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Bertha von Suttner (1843 – 1914), Austrian writer, Nobel Prize 1905
November 25, 1986 (Michel #1413)



Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta; 1910 – 1997), Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, Nobel Prize 1979
November 25, 1986 (Michel #1417)



Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Alva Myrdal (née Reimer; 1902 – 1986), Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize 1982
November 20, 1991 (Michel #1698)

Åland

Europa: Notable women
May 6, 1996 (Michel # 113 & 114)

Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen (1906 – 1976), from 1940 Salminen-Dührkop, was an internationally renowned author from Vargata, the Åland Islands, Finland. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Fanny Sundström (1883 – 1944) was a teacher, politician and women's right activist in Åland, Finland. After becoming a primary school teacher, she took an active part in the "Martha Movement" and worked for social improvements.

Poland

100th anniversary of Marie Curie receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
November 17, 2011 (Michel #Block 201, joint issue with Sweden)
Marie Salomea Sklodowska–Curie (née Sklodowska; 1867 – 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.