I mean other than those weird collector coins they keep putting out.
How technical do you want to get? I assume that colonial rulers are out, as well as British monarchs on Commonwealth money.
…And I thought I had a good example, but it turns out I was mistaken.
There’s several examples buried in here:
http://www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/doubles.htm
Simon Bolivar was who I was thinking of when I found that article. It notes that:
Also:
Marshal Tito on Guinea banknotes?
And they claim that Cristopher Columbus is the winner, appearing on the banknotes of 9 countries.
The Queen of England appears on Australian currency and banknotes.
the Queen is not a British monarch when she is performing functions in a Commonwealth realm like Australia or Canada. She is respectively the Queen of Australia and the Queen of Canada.
You might also want to discount historical personages who predated the existence of the country in question, but figured in its historical development, letting out Columbus, and probably Simon Bolivar, whom I brought up. And Pocohontas, who appeared on a mid-19th century US $20 bill:
http://www.wikicoins.com/Fr_424-439_Pocahontas_Note
Hard to argue with Marshal Tito on the banknotes of Guinea in 1980, though. Or, for that matter, Marie Curie turning up on French currency.
How about Jack Nicklaus appearing on Scottish currency?
Curie was born in Russian Poland, but she lived most of her life and did the work she became famous for in France, and became a French citizen.
So I don’t know if that really applies.
In 1914, John Robinson was one of the faces on a $10,000 bill.
Oh, and here’s the Guinea note with Tito on it:
Alexander Hamilton was born in Jamaica…
Moses Maimonides born in Spain and died in Egypt in 1204, used to appear on the old Israeli 1000 shekels/1 NIS bill.
You can call me the King of San Francisco, but I’m still Canadian, and Queen Elizabeth II is still English, no matter what stylings you use. She wins this thread by a mile.
Jesus appears to be a popular subject for coins. Most of the coins on that page are from the Byzantine Empire, which is the historic continuation of the Roman Empire that ruled his native province of Judaea. But some of them are from other countries where Jesus would certainly be considered a foreigner.
That page also has examples of other possibly historical figures depicted on coins of other countries. For example, there’s a Hungarian coin depicting Jesus’s mother Mary (also probably Judaean).
And George Washington was born in the British Empire. But this probably isn’t the sort of thing the OP is asking about; otherwise just about any colonial pre-revolutionary figure depicted on post-revolutionary currency is going to, ahem, fit the bill.
Che Guevara on one of the Cuban Pesos. He was born in Argentina (though he also held Cuban citizenship).
Washington’s neck of the British Empire underwent a regime change, but he was from the geographic region (which is why I didn’t bring up Washington’s presence on Confederate money, particularly the $50 and $100). Jamaica (actually Nevis), also in the British Empire, was never part of the US. Hamilton should count.
If Elizabeth II is the “Queen of England,” then Obama’s the “President of Alaska.”
It’s actually not even certain if he was from jamaica, though most assume that. His origins are pretty mysterious, and he might have come from damn near anywhere.
Again, Hamilton was from Nevis, not Jamaica.