- Crystle Stewart
Crystle Stewart is a beauty queen from Houston, Texas who will compete in the Miss USA pageant in 2008. Stewart won the Miss Texas USA 2008 title in a state pageant held in Laredo, Texas on July 1 2007, after competing against 121 other contestants. She will represent Texas in the Miss USA 2008 pageant held in the spring of 2008. This was Stewart's fifth attempt at the title, as she had placed first runner-up in both the 2006 and 2007 events, … - Zuleyka Rivera
Zuleyka Jerrís Rivera Mendoza is a beauty queen who has held the titles Miss Puerto Rico Universe and Miss Universe 2006. Presently she's making her debut as a telenovela actress in Telemundo's soap opera Dame Chocolate. - Shanna Moakler
Playboy playmate of the month for December 2001, Shanna Moakler was born on March 28, 1975, in Providence, Rhode Island. Shanna, whose measurements are 34C-24-36, became Miss USA in 1995 by default when the original winner won the Miss Universe pageant four months later. She has had minor roles in the films "The Wedding Singer," "Paulie Shore Is Dead" and "Big Mamma's House 2," but she is best known for work on MTV's reality show "Meet the Barkers." - Louise Glover
Louise Glover (born on 8 February 1983 in St Helens, Merseyside, England) is a glamour model, and the first British model to be named "Model of the Year" in "Playboy" Special Editions. A qualified fitness instructor and a beauty specialist, Glover started out her modelling career as a beauty pageant contestant, twice winning Miss St. Helens. She then became known for her glamour model and adult work, appearing on Page 3 of British tabloids and in British lad mags, … - Yulia Nova
Yulia Nova (Russian: "Юлия Нова", b. November 26, 1982 in Moscow, Russia), is a Russian erotic model. Among fans, Nova is known for her unusually large, natural "G"-cup breasts juxtaposed with her slim figure. Nova attributes the size of her breasts to heredity. Nova is a university law student who entered a Russian beauty contest sponsored by photographer Satoshi Kizu, in the summer of 2000. Nova was chosen over one hundred other applicants. - Ann Sheridan
Ann Sheridan (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American film actress. Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Studios. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood. She made her film debut in 1934, aged 19, in the film "Search For Beauty", … - Dalene Kurtis
Dalene Kurtis (born November 12, 1977 in Apple Valley, California) is an American model. She was "Playboy" Playmate of the Month for September 2001 and Playmate of the Year for 2002. She grew up in Bakersfield, California. Dalene began her modeling career by entering and winning a Venus Swimwear contest. She then debuted in "Playboy" magazine as the Miss September 2001 "Playboy" Playmate after being spotted at the Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant. - Patsy Ramsey
Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh, was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996. - Armi Kuusela
Armi Kuusela (born Armi Helena Kuusela on August 20, 1934 in Muhos) was a Finnish beauty queen. On May 24 1952 she won the national beauty contest Suomen Neito and was presented with a trip to the United States to participate in the first-ever Miss Universe contest. She was the first winner of this beauty pageant originally created to sell swimsuits for Catalina swimwear. - Hammasa Kohistani
Hammasa Kohistani (born c. 1987 in Uzbekistan) was the first beauty contestant of Muslim origin to be crowned Miss England, at the age of 18, on 3 September 2005. She was crowned following a two-day competition at Liverpool's Olympia Theatre and was chosen from 40 contestants. She attended Lampton School in Hounslow. After her parents were forced to flee Afghanistan, she was born in Tashkent in central Uzbekistan. - Rhonda Shear
Rhonda Shear (born November 12, 1954) is a United States television program host and actress. Shear was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Jewish American family. Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants. Among her other titles was Queen of the Floral Trail Society. - Norika Fujiwara
Norika Fujiwara is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan. - Jean Peters
Elizabeth Jean Peters was an American actress. " After competing in a beauty contest in 1946, the Canton, Ohio native went to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Her first film, 1947's "Captain from Castile" with Tyrone Power was a hit, and Leonard Maltin writes that afterwards Peters spent the new decade playing "sexy spitfires, … - Suzanne Stokes
Suzanne Lee Stokes (born July 9, 1979 in Naples, Florida) is an American glamour model and actress. She was "Playboy's" Playmate of the Month in February 2000. After graduating from high school in 1997, Stokes moved to Miami to start a career in modelling, where she appeared in various swimsuit catalogs and Boating magazine. She was also featured in commercials for foreign companies. - Porntip Nakhirunkanok
Porntip Nakhirunkanok aka Porntip Bui Simon (born February 7, 1968 in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand;) is a Thai beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 1988. She became the second woman from Thailand to win the Miss Universe crown, the first being Apasra Hongsakula in 1965. - Christina Sawaya
"Christina Sawaya", born 16 August, 1980, is a Lebanese beauty queen. A graduate with a Business degree, her ambitions are to become a successful businesswoman and a good mother. As part of her modelling career, Christina entered a series of pageants between 1998 and 2002 in which she became the winner of "Miss University" Lebanon in 1998, and was chosen as "Top Lebanon Model 1999". In 2001, Sawaya competed with 19 stunning women to become Miss Lebanon 2001, … - Jonbenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was a six-year-old girl found murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. The case drew attention throughout the United States when no suspect was charged and suspicions turned to possible family involvement. The tantalizing clues of the case inspired numerous books and articles that attempt to solve the mystery. Many details of the case, including her parents' wealth, … - Carol Grow
Carol Ann Hovenkamp Grow (born May 23, 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former beauty queen, model and actress. In 1993, Hovenkamp won the Miss Kansas USA title in 1993 and went on to represent Kansas in the Miss USA 1994 pageant broadcast live from South Padre Island, Texas on February 11, 1994. She became the fourth consecutive delegate from her state to make the top twelve in the pageant, with an average preliminary score that put her eighth. - Brianna Rieffel
Brianna Rieffel (pronounced "ree-fell") (born June 1995 in Mandeville, Louisiana) is an American pre-teen singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer and former beauty pageant contestant best known for performing as a member of the cast of the award-winning show "Country Tonite" and for writing and recording the critically-acclaimed Hurricane Katrina victim anthem "The Promise". - Helen Salas
Helen Marie Salas (born 5 November, 1985) is a beauty queen from Las Vegas, Nevada who has placed in the top five in both the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants. Salas won the Miss Nevada Teen USA 2004 title in a state pageant held on the campus of the University of Nevada on December 13, 2003. This was her first attempt at the title. In August 2004 she represented Nevada in the Miss Teen USA 2004 pageant broadcast live from Palm Springs, … - Bob Russell
Bob Russell (b. January 1 1908, Passaic, New Jersey - d. January 24 1998, Sarasota, Florida) was an American entertainer, best known for hosting the Miss America pageant from 1940 to 1954, and as emcee for the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss Canada pageants. When the Miss America pageant was first televised in 1954, Russell rejected the song "There She Is, Miss America" in favor of two of his own. - Candace Smith
Candace Smith is an American actress, model, and beauty queen from Dayton, Ohio. Smith's first pageant experience came in 2001 when she placed second runner-up to Kimberly Mullen in the Miss Ohio USA pageant. She returned the following year, and won the Miss Ohio USA 2003 title. Smith went on to represent Ohio in the Miss USA 2003 pageant held in San Antonio, Texas, which was won by Susie Castillo of Massachusetts. - Maryse Ouellet
Maryse Ouellet (born January 21, 1983) is a French Canadian Glamour model and professional wrestling diva currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand as the Hostess as well as training in its developmental facility Ohio Valley Wrestling. - Sindhura Gadde
Sindhura Gadde (born c. 1984 in Vijayawada, India) was crowned Femina Miss India World in 2005. Since her crowning, she has made several public appearances such as the TANA Conference 2005 in Detroit, Michigan and at the Hindu Samaj Temple in Wappingers Falls, New York. Sindhura made it to the semi-finals in the 2005 Miss World Pageant held in China. - Jessica Rafalowski
Jessica Rafalowski is a beauty queen from DeLand, Florida who will compete in the Miss USA pageant in 2008. Rafalowski won the Miss Florida USA 2008 title in a state pageant held in Hollywood, Florida on July 14 2007. She will represent Florida in the Miss USA 2008 pageant held in the spring of 2008. This was Rafalowski's first attempt at the title, and her second pageant competition after she won the Miss Volusia County USA local title in November 2006. - Stella Araneta
Stella Márquez Araneta, born Stella Márquez Zawadski and now simply known as Madame Stella Araneta, is a national pageant director (Binibining Pilipinas) and former international beauty queen. Araneta was Miss Colombia in 1959 and was therefore able to compete in the Miss Universe pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida placing as a semifinalist. She then competed in the first Miss International beauty pageant held in Long Beach, California, … - Rafet el Roman
Rafet El Roman (born August 25, 1968 in Edirne, Turkey), is a pop star in his home country. He got his name from a fictional character named "El Romano". - Ann Simonton
Ann J. Simonton is a writer, lecturer and feminist media activist. She founded and coordinates the non-profit group Media Watch, which challenges racism, sexism, and violence in the media through education and action. Simonton's autobiographical writings have been published by Harper & Row in "I Never Told Anyone" and "Her Wits About Her". She wrote and produced two educational videos that have garnered national acclaim; One of them, … - Silvia Corzo
Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto is a Colombian lawyer, journalist and newscaster. Her parents are Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto. After finishing high school, Silvia studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, where she majored in Law. In 1995, during her fifth and final year of college, her family signed her up for the "Señorita Santander" ("Miss Santander") beauty contest, where she was the second runner-up. - June Juanico
June Juanico (born 1938) is a former beauty queen and an Elvis Presley fan from Biloxi, Mississippi, whom the famous rock 'n' roll singer dated in 1955 and 1956, for instance, when he took three weeks of vacation after having recorded his songs "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" in the studio in Memphis, Tennessee. June Juanico had met Presley for the first time after one of his early concerts in Biloxi in 1955, when he was on the verge of the superstardom. - Filiz Vural
Filiz Vural is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971. Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper "Hürriyet", and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis, Tunisia, and was crowned Miss Europe on September 18, 1971. She became so the second Turkish beauty queen following Günseli Başar. - Günseli Başar
Günseli Başar is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1952. As she was a student at the Fine Arts Academy in İstanbul, Turkey, Günseli participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper "Cumhuriyet", and won the title Miss Turkey on October 13, 1951. The next year, she represented Turkey at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Naples, Italy, and became Turkey’s first ever Miss Europe winner on August 20, 1952. - Macel Leilani Wilson
Macel Leilani Wilson of Honolulu, Hawaii was the first Asian American to win the Miss USA beauty contest in 1962. Her title at that pageant was Miss Hawaii USA. She went on to place as a semi-finalist in the 1962 Miss Universe Pageant. Ms. Wilson later filled in at the Orange Bowl Parade in Miami, Florida when Miss Universe Norma Nolan of Argentina fell ill with the measles. Several media reports from the 1960s have indicated that her name is, in fact, Marcel. - Leanne Baird
Leanne Baird was Miss Canada International in 1998. Leanne Baird was born in Stoney Creek, Ontario. She stands at five feet, seven inches and has red hair and blue eyes. She was chosen Miss Canada International in August 1998 and went to the Seychelles for the Miss World pageant on 26 November in 1998. She did not win Miss World 1998, but her roommate did, Miss Israel 1998 Linor Abargil. - Csilla Molnár
Csilla Andrea Molnár was a Hungarian beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Hungary on 5 October 1985, in Budapest, the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. She also entered for the Miss Europa 1986 beauty contest in Malta, where she became the 3rd, although she had maximum points. (This Miss Europa contest is not the same beauty contest as Miss Europe - see external links.) She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on Lidocaine. - Arzum Onan
Arzum Onan (1973) is a Turkish television actress, a former model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1993. She was born on October 31, 1973 in Ankara, Turkey. After the primary school in Ankara, her family moved to İstanbul, where she finished the vocational high school as a draftswoman. Arzum began her career in 1992 as a model. She participated in the Miss Turkey contest in April 1993, and won the title. - Rosanna Schiaffino
Rosanna Schiaffino (born November 25 1938) is an Italian film actress and show business icon of the 1960s, appearing on covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines. She was born in Genoa, Liguria. When she was 14 she won the Miss Liguria beauty contest and started playing small parts in Italian, French, and later also British films. She had become famous by the end of the 1950s for her appearance and temperamental performance. - Neşe Erberk
Neşe Erberk is a Turkish businesswoman, a former fashion model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1984. She was born on October 14, 1964, in İstanbul, Turkey. She completed her education at Robert College and Bosphorus University. After winning the title of Miss Turkey 1983, Neşe represented her country the next year at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Bad Gastein, Austria, and was crowned Miss Europe. She became the fourth Turkish beauty queen to do so, … - Laura Csortan
Laura Csortan (born November 9, 1976) is an Australian model and television presenter. Her national pageant titles include Miss Universe Australia 1997 and Miss World Australia 1998. Ms Csortan commenced her modelling career featuring in Harris Scarfe advertising catalogues. From October 2000 until November 2006, she has been a host of "The Great Outdoors" on the Seven Network. She formerly also co-hosted the Australian version of "Wheel Of Fortune", … - Chinenye Ochuba
Chinenye Ochuba won the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant in 2002. She went ahead to represent Nigeria as an ambassador at the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico where she won the "Face of the Universe" Award. She also represented Nigeria at the Miss World Pageant in the same year where she made it to the top ten finals and also picked up the African Queen of Beauty award.
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