List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely recognized album cover that depicts several dozen celebrities and other images. The image was made by posing the Beatles in front of life-sized, black-and-white photographs pasted onto hardboard and hand-tinted.

It was designed by Peter Blake and photographed by Michael Cooper. The Beatles each chose ten people they would like to perform in front of, and those chosen are displayed on the album cover. Two of John Lennon's picks, Adolf Hitler and Jesus Christ, were rejected (this was only a few months after Lennon's Jesus statement) by EMI. Leo Gorcey was modelled and originally included to the left of Huntz Hall, but was subsequently removed when a fee of $400 was requested for the use of the actor's likeness. Mohandas Gandhi was modelled and originally included to the right of Lewis Carroll, but was subsequently removed. According to McCartney, "Gandhi also had to go because the head of EMI, Sir Joe Lockwood, said that in India they wouldn't allow the record to be printed".

Top row

 * (1) Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)
 * (2) Aleister Crowley (occultist)
 * (3) Mae West (actress)
 * (4) Lenny Bruce (comedian)
 * (5) Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
 * (6) W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
 * (7) Carl Jung (psychiatrist)
 * (8) Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
 * (9) Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
 * (10) Richard Merkin (artist and friend of Peter Blake)
 * (11) The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
 * (12) Leo Gorcey (image was removed from cover, but a space remains)
 * (13) Huntz Hall (actor)
 * (14) Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
 * (15) Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)

Second row

 * (16) Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
 * (17) Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)
 * (18) Aldous Huxley (writer)
 * (19) Dylan Thomas (poet)
 * (20) Terry Southern (writer)
 * (21) Dion DiMucci (singer/songwriter)
 * (22) Tony Curtis (actor)
 * (23) Wallace Berman (artist)
 * (24) Tommy Handley (comedian)
 * (25) Marilyn Monroe (actress)
 * (26) William S. Burroughs (writer)
 * (27) Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)
 * (28) Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)
 * (29) Richard Lindner (artist)
 * (30) Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)
 * (31) Karl Marx (political philosopher)
 * (32) H. G. Wells (writer)
 * (33) Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)
 * (34A) James Joyce (Irish poet and novelist) – barely visible below Bob Dylan
 * (34) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)

Third row

 * (35) Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
 * (36) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)
 * (37) Max Miller (comedian)
 * (38) A "Petty Girl" (by artist George Petty)
 * (39) Marlon Brando (actor)
 * (40) Tom Mix (actor)
 * (41) Oscar Wilde (writer)
 * (42) Tyrone Power (actor)
 * (43) Larry Bell (artist)
 * (44) David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
 * (45) Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)
 * (46) Stephen Crane (writer) – barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm
 * (47) Issy Bonn (comedian)
 * (48) George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
 * (49) H. C. Westermann (sculptor)
 * (50) Albert Stubbins (English footballer)
 * (51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
 * (52) Lewis Carroll (writer)
 * (53) T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

Front row

 * (54) Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)
 * (55) A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty)
 * (56) Wax model of George Harrison
 * (57) Wax model of John Lennon
 * (58) Shirley Temple (child actress) – barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover
 * (59) Wax model of Ringo Starr
 * (60) Wax model of Paul McCartney
 * (61) Albert Einstein (physicist) – largely obscured
 * (62) John Lennon holding a French horn
 * (63) Ringo Starr holding a trumpet
 * (64) Paul McCartney holding a cor anglais
 * (65) George Harrison holding a piccolo
 * (65A) Bette Davis (actress) – hair barely visible on top of George's shoulder
 * (66) Bobby Breen (singer)
 * (67) Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
 * (68) Mahatma Gandhi was planned for this position, but was deleted prior to publication
 * (69) An American legionnaire
 * (70) Wax model of Diana Dors (actress)
 * (71) Shirley Temple (child actress) – second appearance on the cover

Props

 * A hookah (water pipe)
 * A Fukusuke, Japanese figure associated with good luck
 * A stone figure of Snow White
 * A baritone horn
 * A drumhead, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
 * An idol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
 * A trophy
 * An antique stone bust of a Victorian man brought over from John Lennon's house (which provided the basis for the album's cutout portrait of Sgt. Pepper)
 * A 9-inch (23 cm) Sony television set, apparently owned by Paul McCartney (though claimed by Blake to have been Lennon's); the receipt, bearing McCartney's signature, is owned by a curator of a museum dedicated to the Beatles in Japan.
 * A stone figure of a girl
 * A ceramic Mexican craft known as a Tree of Life from Metepec, substituted at the request of Germán Valdés, who had been asked to give consent for his image to appear.
 * Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
 * Cloth doll by Haworth of Shirley Temple wearing a sweater that reads "Welcome The Rolling Stones Good Guys" – third and last appearance on the cover
 * A three-stringed flower guitar
 * Another stone figure
 * A garden gnome
 * A cloth snake
 * Flowers

Excluded and obscured people

 * (12) Leo Gorcey – was modelled and originally included to the left of Huntz Hall, but he was subsequently removed when a fee of $400 ($3,548 in 2020 terms) was requested for the use of the actor's likeness.
 * (45C) Adolf Hitler – was requested by Lennon and modelled behind the band (to the right of Larry Bell), but was moved out of frame (being "too controversial", according to Blake) and replaced by Johnny Weissmuller. Blake insists that Hitler was hidden behind the band in the final shoot, but this is not apparent from any published photographs showing the nearly complete setup—even in those unobscured by the band.
 * (54A) Unidentified laughing figure – barely visible
 * (56A) Sophia Loren (actress) – behind the Beatles' waxworks
 * (58A) Marcello Mastroianni (actor) – behind the Beatles' waxworks, only the top of the hat is slightly visible
 * (65B) Timothy Carey (actor) – was modelled and originally included but largely obscured by George Harrison in the final picture
 * (68) Mahatma Gandhi – was modelled and originally included to the right of Lewis Carroll, but was subsequently removed. According to McCartney, "Gandhi also had to go because the head of EMI, Sir Joe Lockwood, said that in India they wouldn't allow the record to be printed".
 * Jesus Christ – was requested by Lennon, but he was not modelled because the LP would be released just over a year after Lennon's controversial statement that the band was "more popular than Jesus".