List of people on the postage stamps of the Cook Islands

This is a list of people on stamps issued by the Cook Islands and its constituent islands of Aitutaki and Penrhyn Island.

Cook Islands

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1932 Cook Islands James Cook 1d stamp

• Queen Makea Takau (1893)
• Capt. Cook (1920)
• Rarotongan chief (1920)
• Capt. Cook (1932)
• King George V (1932)
• King George VI (1938)
• Capt. Cook (1949)
• Rev. Jon Williams (1949)

Aitutaki

• King Edward VII (1911)
• King George V (1916)
• James Cook (1920)
• Te Po (1926)
• Elizabeth II (1972)
• The Duke of Edinburgh (1972)
• Saint Veronica (1973)
• The Princess Anne (1973)
• Mark Phillips (1973)
• William Bligh (1974)
• Sir Winston Churchill (1974)
• Francis of Assisi (1975)
• Onuphrius (1975)
• John the Baptist (1975)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1977)
• King George III (1977)
• John Williams (missionary) (1977)
• King George IV (1977)
• Queen Victoria (1977)
• Rowland Hill (1979)
• Albert Einstein (1980)
• The Prince of Wales (1981)
• The Princess of Wales (1981)
• Prince William (now Duke of Cambridge) (1984)
• Prince Harry (1984)
• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1985)
• King George VI (1985)
• The Duke of York (1986)
• The Duchess of York (1986)
• Mary & baby Jesus (1986 & 1994)
• Fletcher Christian (1989)
• Michael Collins (astronaut) (1994)
• Neil Armstrong (1994)
• Buzz Aldrin (1994)
• Pierre de Coubertin (1996)

Penrhyn

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Four 1/- Penrhyn stamps of c. 1917

The first stamps issued by this tiny island in the Northern Cook Islands were stamps of New Zealand overprinted "Penrhyn Island" in 1902. It continued to use its own stamps until 1932. This first short list is from stamps in that early period.

• James Cook (1920)
• Edward VII (1914)
• George V (1917)
• Te Po (1927)

Between 1932 and 1973 Penrhyn used the stamps of the Cook Islands. It resumed the use of its own stamps in 1973, and continues to do so.

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of Aitutaki