This is a list of people on postage stamps of the German Democratic Republic.

See also list of people on stamps of Germany.

This list is complete for appearances on regular stamps from 1950 to 1957.

A

• Ernst Abbe (1956)
• Hermann Abendroth (1957)
• Georgius Agricola (1955)
• Avicenna (1952)

B

• August Bebel (1955)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1952)
• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, general (1953)
• Bertolt Brecht (1957)
• Pavel Bykov (1951)

C

• Lucas Cranach, painter (1953)
• Jakub Bart Cisinsky , poet (1956)

D

• Henri Dunant, Red Cross founder (1957)

E

• Friedrich Engels (1953, 1955)
• Leonhard Euler (1950, 1957)

F

• Friedrich Froebel, educator (1957)

G

• Nikolai Gogol, writer (1952)
• Maxim Gorky, writer (1953)
• Klement Gottwald, Czech leader (1952)
• Jacob Grimm (1950)

H

• George Handel, composer (1952)
• Adolf von Harnack (1950)
• Heinrich Heine, poet (1956)
• H. L. F. von Helmholtz (1950)
• Heinrich Hertz (1957)
• Victor Hugo, writer (1952)
• Alexander von Humboldt (1950)
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (1950)

J

• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, politician (1952)
• Joachim Jungius (1957)

K

• Heinrich von Kleist (1953)
• G. W. von Knobelsdorff , architect (1953)

L

• Gottfried Leibniz (1950)
• Karl Liebknecht (1951, 1955)
• Wilhelm Liebknecht (1955)
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, dramatist (1954)
• Albert Lortzing (1952)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1955)

M

• Thomas Mann, novelist (1956)
• Mao Tse-tung, Chinese leader (1951)
• Karl Marx, economist (1953, 1955)
• Franz Mehring (1955)
• Theodor Mommsen, historian (1950)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (1955)
• Thomas Muntzer (1953)

N

• W. H. Nernst (1950)
• Balthasar Neumann, architect (1953)

O

P

• Wilhelm Pieck (1950)
• Max Planck (1950)

R

• Guenther Ramin , musician (1957)
• Fritz Reuter, writer (1954)

S

• Ferdinand von Schill (1953)
• Friedrich von Schiller (1955)
• Franz Schubert, composer (1953)
• Robert Schumann, composer (1956)
• Josef Stalin (1951)
• H. F. K. vom Steim (1953)

T

• Ernst Thälmann, revolutionary leader (1954, 1955, 1956)

V

• Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance man (1952)

W

• Carl Maria von Weber, composer (1952)
• Erich Wirth (1951)

Z

• Carl Zeiss (1956)
• Clara Zetkin (1955, 1957)