British astronomy and astronomers commemorated on stamps of other nations
(selected examples, arranged alphabetically)
John Couch Adams
Sir George Airy
James Bradley
Captain Cook and the 1769 transit of Venus
Sir Arthur Eddington
John Evershed
Sir David Gill
John Goodricke
Charles Green (astronomer on Capt. Cook’s first voyage)
Edmond Halley
Thomas Harriot
John Harrison’s chronometer
Stephen Hawking
Caroline Herschel
William Herschel
Antony Hewish (Nobel Prize)
Sir William Huggins
Jodrell Bank
Isaac Newton
Ernst Öpik
Sir Martin Ryle (Nobel Prize)
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
Stonehenge
William Wales (astronomer on Capt. Cook’s second voyage)