Placements

Final Results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1969	- Gloria Maria Aspillera Díaz Gloria Diaz Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is an award-winning actress in the Philippines, and the first Filipino to bring home the Miss Universe crown.-Early Life and Family:...
1st Runner-Up	- Harriet Marita Eriksson
2nd Runner-Up	- Joanne Barret
3rd Runner-Up	- Chava Levy
4th Runner-Up	- Kikuyo Osuka
Top 15	Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier Eva Rueber-Staier Eva Rueber-Staier is an Austrian actress and former Miss World.Rueber-Staier was born in 1951 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria. She won the title of Miss Austria and participated in the Miss Universe contest in 1969, in which she was a top 15 semifinalist. She went on to win the Miss World pageant... - Vera Fischer Vera Fischer Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...  Chile - Monica Larson Teuber - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky - Patricia Ingrid Walker  Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer was Miss Peru 1969 and semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that year. She was the aunt of María Julia "Maju" Mantilla, Miss World 2004.-References:*... - Brigitta Lindloff - Patrice Sollner - Wendy Jane Dascomb Wendy Dascomb Wendy Dascomb is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.In 1969 Dascomb, a resident of Danville, Virginia, and freshman at Stratford College, reluctantly competed in the Miss Piedmont pageant at the urging of college faculty. She won then advanced to the...  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Tunisia - Zohra Boufaden
Miss Photogenic	New Zealand - Carole Robinson
Best National Costume	Thailand - Sangduen Manwong Sangduen Manwong Sangduen Manwong nicknamed Toom was Miss Thailand 1968.She crowned Miss Thailand on December 3, 1968. She competed in the Miss Universe 1969 pageant competition held in USA and she won the best national costume.She is married to Niweth Prompant, and they have two daughters...
10 Best in Swimsuit	Australia - Joanne Barret  Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier Eva Rueber-Staier Eva Rueber-Staier is an Austrian actress and former Miss World.Rueber-Staier was born in 1951 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria. She won the title of Miss Austria and participated in the Miss Universe contest in 1969, in which she was a top 15 semifinalist. She went on to win the Miss World pageant...  Brazil - Vera Fischer Vera Fischer Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...  Colombia - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky  Finland - Harriet Marita Eriksson  Israel - Chava Levy  Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer was Miss Peru 1969 and semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that year. She was the aunt of María Julia "Maju" Mantilla, Miss World 2004.-References:*...  Philippines - Gloria Diaz Gloria Diaz Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is an award-winning actress in the Philippines, and the first Filipino to bring home the Miss Universe crown.-Early Life and Family:...  United States - Wendy Jane Dascomb Wendy Dascomb Wendy Dascomb is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.In 1969 Dascomb, a resident of Danville, Virginia, and freshman at Stratford College, reluctantly competed in the Miss Piedmont pageant at the urging of college faculty. She won then advanced to the...  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir

Order of announcement of semifinalists

• Group 1: Australia, Finland, Peru, Austria, Norway, Philippines & Israel
• Group 2: USA, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Sweden, Colombia, Japan, Chile & Switzerland

Judges

• Edilson Cid Varela
• Eileen Ford
  Eileen Ford
  Eileen Ford is a model agency executive and co-founder, in 1946, with her late husband Gerard William "Jerry" Ford, of Ford Models, one of the earliest and internationally best known modelling agencies in the world.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dong Kingman
  Dong Kingman
  Dong Kingman was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry...
  
  
• David Merrick
  David Merrick
  David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...
  
  

• Norma Nolan
  Norma Nolan
  Norma Nolan , is an Argentine who became, in 1962, the first woman from that country to obtain the Miss Universe title. She won the title in Miami Beach, Florida. Nolan is of Irish and Italian descent...
  
  
• Monique van Vooren
• Earl Wilson
  Earl Wilson
  Robert Earl Wilson was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres . Wilson batted and threw right-handed...
  
  

Contestants

•  Argentina - Lidia Esther Pepe
•  Aruba - Jeannette Geerman
•  Australia - Joanne Barret
•  Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier
  Eva Rueber-Staier
  Eva Rueber-Staier is an Austrian actress and former Miss World.Rueber-Staier was born in 1951 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria. She won the title of Miss Austria and participated in the Miss Universe contest in 1969, in which she was a top 15 semifinalist. She went on to win the Miss World pageant...
  
  
•  The Bahamas - Joan Bowe
•  Belgium - Danièle Roels
•  Bermuda - Maxine S. Bean
•  Bolivia - Luz María Rojas
•  Bonaire - Julia Nicolaas
•  Brazil - Vera Fischer
  Vera Fischer
  Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...
  
  
•  Canada - Jacquie Perrin
  Jacquie Perrin
  Jacquie Perrin is a Canadian journalist. She was host of the CBC's Saturday Report and now current host of the Sunday 5:00 p.m. edition of CBC News: Today on CBC Newsworld. Her broadcast career began at CKWS radio in Kingston, Ontario where she hosted a daily TV talk show. She also put her...
  
  
• ' - Marlene Beverly Seneveratne
•  Chile - Mónica Larson Teuber
•  Colombia - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky
• ' - Jeanne Mokomo
•  Costa Rica - Clara Freda Antillón
•  Curaçao - Yvonne Wardekker
•  Denmark - Jeanne Perfeldt
•  Dominican Republic - Rocío García Báez
•  Ecuador - Rosana Vinueza Estrada †
•  Kingdom of England - Myra Van Heck
•  Finland - Harriet Marita Eriksson
•  Early Modern France - Agathe Cognet
•  Germany - Gesine Froese
•  Greece - Irene Diamantoglou
•  Guam - Anita Johnston
• ' - Welmoed Hollenberg
•  Honduras - Viena Paredes
• ' - Christine Tam Mei-Mei
•  Iceland - Maria Baldursdóttir
•  India - Kavita Bhambani

•  Republic of Ireland - Patricia Byrne
•  Israel - Chava Levy
•  Italy - Diana Coccorese
•  Jamaica - Carol Gerrow
•  Japan - Kikuyo Osuka
• ' - Lim Hyun-jung
•  Luxembourg - Marie Antoniette Bertinelli
•  Malaysia - Rosemary Wan Chow Mui
•  Malta - Natalie Quintana
•  Mexico - Gloria Leticia Hernández Martín del Campo
•  New Zealand - Carole Robinson
•  Nicaragua - Soraya Herrera Chávez
•  Norway - Patricia "Pia" Ingrid Walker
•  Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer
  Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer
  Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer was Miss Peru 1969 and semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that year. She was the aunt of María Julia "Maju" Mantilla, Miss World 2004.-References:*...
  
  
•  Philippines - Gloria Diaz
  Gloria Diaz
  Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is an award-winning actress in the Philippines, and the first Filipino to bring home the Miss Universe crown.-Early Life and Family:...
  
  
•  Puerto Rico - Aída Betancourt
•  Kingdom of Scotland - Sheena Drumond
•  Singapore - Mavis Young Siew Kim
•  Spain - María Amparo Rodrigo Lorenzo
•  Suriname - Greta Natsir
•  Sweden - Brigitta Lindloff
•  Switzerland - Patrice Sollner
•  Thailand - Sangduen Manwong
  Sangduen Manwong
  Sangduen Manwong nicknamed Toom was Miss Thailand 1968.She crowned Miss Thailand on December 3, 1968. She competed in the Miss Universe 1969 pageant competition held in USA and she won the best national costume.She is married to Niweth Prompant, and they have two daughters...
  
  
•  Tunisia - Zohra Boufaden
•  Turkey - Azra Balkan
•  Uruguay - Julia Moller
•  United States - Wendy Jane Dascomb
  Wendy Dascomb
  Wendy Dascomb is a pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana, who held the Miss USA 1969 title.In 1969 Dascomb, a resident of Danville, Virginia, and freshman at Stratford College, reluctantly competed in the Miss Piedmont pageant at the urging of college faculty. She won then advanced to the...
  
  
•  Venezuela - María José Yéllici Sánchez
  María José Yéllici
  María José de las Mercedes Yéllici Sánchez is a pageant titleholder, was born in Madrid, Spain on May 12, 1945, and grew up in Caracas, Venezuela...
  
  
•  Wales - Shirley Jones
•  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir