1. Hillevi Rombin

    Hillevi Rombin (September 14 1933 - June 19 1996), crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955. She grew up in Uppsala, and was the Swedish national decathlon champion before she competed in the pageant. A remarkable athlete, Rombin excelled in gymnastics, track & field, and downhill snow skiing. After winning the pageant, she left Sweden for Hollywood to fulfill her acting contract with Universal Pictures, …

  2. Victoria Silvstedt

    Karen Victoria Silvstedt (born September 19, 1974 in Skelleftehamn, Sweden) is a Swedish fashion model and actress.

  3. Emma Helena Nilsson

    Emma Helena Nilsson, born 1975, in Östersund, Sweden. Formerly Miss Sweden and cross country skier. 34th place at Vasa Ski Marathon Race in the year of 2000. Emma Helena has graduated from a school of social work and public administration. Today she supplies models at her own company. She is married to Mathias Fredriksson.

  4. Mary Stavin

    Mary Ann Catrin Stävin is a Swedish actress. She is a former Miss World, and an ex-girlfriend of George Best, the late acclaimed Northern Ireland-born football player and also Don Shanks a footballer with QPR. She is probably best known for her appearances in two James Bond movies, "Octopussy" and "A View to a Kill" (as agent Kimberley Jones). She released a single with George Best called "Shape Up and Dance".

  5. Josephine Alhanko

    Josephine Alhanko, (born 24 April, 1981, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish actress and former Miss Sweden titleholder. Alhanko became Sweden's 28th semifinalist at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant, held on July 23 in Los Angeles, California. She is the first Miss Sweden to place in 9 years and beat favourites such as Erin McNaught of Australia. Josephine has two master's degrees and is an educated actress and art historian.

  6. Yvonne Ryding

    Yvonne Agneta Ryding (born December 14, 1962), from Eskilstuna, Sweden, was the Miss Universe titleholder for the year 1984 (crowned on July 9, 1984). She was the third Swede to win the pageant. Prior to competing in the Miss Universe pageant, Miss Ryding was a Swedish National Lucia Bride. Nowadays, she is a TV-personality. She was also the hostess of the Swedish competition Melodifestivalen 1989. Ryding was a guest of honor of the Miss Universe 2006 competition, …

  7. Jessica Almenäs

    Jessica Magdalena Thérese Almenäs, born 16 November 1975, in Östersund, Sweden. Swedish hostess and former model and basketball player. Almenäs has studied science in media and is a TV personality on the Swedish channel TV4. She represented Sweden at Miss World 1998.

  8. Malou Hansson

    Malou Hansson, born in Järfälla, first reigning black Miss Sweden winner. She beat other black Miss Sweden-contestants during the years, such as Jessica Folcker (1999) and Ida Sofia Manneh (2001). Malou, who was competing as "Miss Uppland" was suggested as a potential candidate for the Miss Universe pageant by a celebrity panel, and the viewers announced her as the winner. In Miss Universe 2002 she didn't place in the top 10.

  9. May Louise Flodin

    May Louise Flodin won the Miss World Contest in 1952, representing Sweden. She was the second Swede to win the pageant. May Louise balanced life on the catwalk with a life on water-skis - performing with her husband at public shows. Nowadays she runs a hotel chain in Jordan. She has four children and six grandchildren.

  10. Margareta Arvidsson

    Margareta Arvidsson is the 1966 Miss Universe. Born in Vänersborg, raised in Göteborg. She is the second Swedish beauty to hold the crown, 11 years after Hillevi Rombin. She also won the Miss Photogenic title. It is not a secret that Margareta did not want to win the pageant. She told the American producers at the Miss Universe pageant before the contest that she was homesick, tired and ´´"want to go home"´´.

  11. Jessica Olérs

    Jessica Olérs, born in 1978 in Borlänge, Sweden, to a Swedish father and a Colombian mother. Jessica is a former Miss Sweden and her country's representative at the Miss Universe 1998 pageant. She has studied marketing in Stockholm and New York. Nowadays she is employed as marketing assistant at a gym in Stockholm, Sweden.

  12. Liza Berggren

    Liza Berggren is a fashion model and former dancer at the professional level. In 2005, Liza was the Swedish delegate at 2005 Miss World pageant, held in Sanya, China, where she was compared with Reese Witherspoon, screenplayer of the film "Legally Blonde".

  13. Kristina Wayborn

    Kristina Wayborn (born September 24, 1950) is a Swedish actress. Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Sweden. She was Miss Sweden in 1970 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year and also crowned as Miss Scandinavia. She is probably better known for her role as Magda in the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy". She subsequently appeared in a number of American television series such as "The Love Boat", …

  14. Linda Isacsson

    Linda Isacsson (born February 9, 1972, in Vilhelmina, Sweden) is a former Miss Sweden and a TV personality, hostess, reporter and weather forecaster. She represented her country at Miss Universe 1990.

  15. Katarina Wigander

    Katarina Wigander, born 1983, in Lerum, Sweden. Model and formerly Miss Sweden. Her winning was controversial in her home country, (in the year of 2004) because she was crowned by "Moore Magazine", a magazine for men which publishes pictures for other Swedish "men's" magazines, such as Slitz. The pageant has caused an uproar by many former Miss Sweden-titleholders, disliking the fact that the pictures she made for the pageant was comparable with pornography.

  16. Annika Duckmark

    Annika Duckmark, born in September 17, 1971, in Borås, Sweden, is a hostess and Swedish TV-personality. She was crowned as Miss Sweden 1996. She is married to the former football player Tomas Brolin. She was a Top 10 semifinalist at Miss Universe 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  17. Cécilia Rhode

    Cécilia Catharina Björnsdotter Rhode (born September 1, 1961 in Göteborg, Sweden) is a model, and 1978 Miss Sweden and her country's representative at Miss Universe 1978. She is also the mother of Joakim Noah, 2006 and 2007 winner of NCAA tournament and MVP in 2006. She was married to tennis star Yannick Noah. In 1978 she finished 4th in Miss Universe Pageant

  18. Kiki Håkansson

    Kerstin (Kiki) Håkansson was the winner of the first Miss World beauty pageant in 1951, where her name was quoted as Kiki Haakonson. She represented Sweden, and was the first and last winner to don a bikini. For the next two decades, Miss World winners wore one-piece bathing suits for the crowning ritual.

  19. Victoria Lagerström

    Victoria Lagerström, born on 22 October 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish singer and former Miss Universe contestant. Today, Victoria works in the "People's Health Department" in Stockholm. Victoria has recently finished recording her first CD. The album, titled "Heaven Sent", will be released in 2007.

  20. Anita Ekberg

    Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born on September 29, 1931) is a Swedish model, actress and cult sex symbol.

  21. Lena Olin

    Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an internationally acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress.

  22. Petra Hultgren

    Petra Hultgren, born on 21 April 1972, in Värmdö, Sweden. Swedish actress. Crowned as Miss Sweden 1995. Petra won the Miss Photogenique award in Miss Universe.

  23. Jessica Folcker

    Jessica Folcker is a popular Swedish singer with international success.

  24. Cathrin Skoog

    Cathrin Skoog, born in the year of 1987, in Nalden, Sweden. Swedish model and call-centre agent. Cathrin has studied International Economy. She was the Swedish delegate in the 2006 Miss World pageant, held in Warsaw, Poland. She is now back in her job as a call-centre girl in Sweden.

  25. Ulla Andersson

    Ulla Andersson a.k.a Ulla Jones is a former high fashion model, actress, singer and songwriter who during the 1960's graced countless magazine covers before she retired from the Ford Modelling Agency.

  26. Isabel Lestapier Winqvist

    Isabel Lestapier Winqvist (born on in Helsingborg, Sweden) is the current Miss Sweden titleholder

  27. Helena Stenbäck

    Helena Stenbäck won the Miss Sweden pageant in 2003 and represented the country in Miss Universe but didn't make the top 15 cut.

  28. Louise Drevenstam

    Louise Drevenstam, formerly Miss Sweden, is a Swedish hairdresser and model from Örebro, Sweden. She finished second in the 1989 Miss Universe contest, losing to Dutchwoman Angela Visser. Later that year, she was crowned Miss Scandinavia, in Helsinki, Finland.

  29. Anne Marie Thistler

    Anne Marie Thistler, is a former Miss Sweden titleholder and semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1952 and actress. Emigrated to Mexico and called herself Ann-Marie de Bosquet. Appeared in films during the 1950s.

  30. Ingrid Goude

    Ingrid Goude (born 1937) is a model from Sandviken, Sweden. She became an actress in B-movie and sci-fi motion pictures of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Goude. Her father was the manager of a steel plant in Sandviken. Her mother's name was Valdy.