Miss Universe 1971
Encyclopedia
Miss Universe 1971, the 20th Miss Universe
pageant, was won by Georgina Rizk
of Lebanon
. It took place on July 24, 1971 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida
, United States.
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
pageant, was won by Georgina Rizk
Georgina Rizk
Georgina Rizk was Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe.Rizk was born in Beirut to a Christian household. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title...
of Lebanon
Miss Lebanon
.Miss Lebanon - Lebanon's Official National Beauty Pageant is a beauty contest in Lebanon.Miss Lebanon is the only national beauty contest that awards prizes worth more than one million US dollars to its winners. It is broadcast on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , since 1991...
. It took place on July 24, 1971 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
, United States.
Placements
Final results | Contestant |
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Miss Universe 1971 |
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1st runner-up |
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2nd runner-up |
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3rd runner-up |
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4th runner-up |
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Top 12 |
Michele McDonald Michele McDonald is a pageant titleholder from Butler, Pennsylvania who held the Miss USA 1971 title.Encouraged to enter the competition by her mother, McDonald won Miss Pennsylvania USA title in early May 1971. Later that month she then represented her state in the Miss USA pageant, held in Miami... |
Special awards
Award | Contestant |
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Miss Congeniality |
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Miss Photogenic |
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Best National Costume |
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Contestants
- Argentina - Maria Del Carmen Vidal
- Aruba - Vicenta Vallita Maduro
- Australia - Tony Suzanne Rayward
- Austria - Edeltraud Neubauer
- The Bahamas - Muriel Terah Rahming
- Belgium - Martine Yasmine De Hert
- Bermuda - Rene Furbert
- Bolivia - Ana Maria Landivar
- Brazil - Eliane Parreira Guimaraes
- Canada - Lana Drouillard
- Colombia - Piedad Mejia Trujillo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - Martine Mualuke
- Costa Rica - Rosa Maria Rivera
- Curaçao - Maria Vonhogen
- Dominican Republic - Sagrario Reyes
- Ecuador - Ximena Moreno Ochoa
- Kingdom of England - Marilyn Ann Ward
- Finland - Pirjo Aino Irene Laitila
- Early Modern France - Myriam Stocco
- Germany - Vera Kirst
- Greece - Angela Carayanni
- Guam - Linda Mariano Avila
- - Laura Mulder-Smid
- Honduras - Dunia Aracelly Ortega
- Iceland - Gudrun Valgardsdottir
- India - Raj Gill
- Republic of Ireland - Marie Hughes
- Israel - Ester Orgod
- Italy - Mara Palvarini
- Jamaica - Suzette Marilyn Wright
- Japan - Shigeko Taketomi
- - Noh Mi-ae
- Lebanon - Georgina RizkGeorgina RizkGeorgina Rizk was Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe.Rizk was born in Beirut to a Christian household. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title...
- Luxembourg - Mariette Francoise Fay
- Malaysia - Yvette Baterman
- Malta - Felicity Celia Carbott
- Mexico - Maria Luisa Lopez Corzo
- New Zealand - Linda Jane Ritchie
- Nicaragua - Xiomara Paguaga Rodriguez
- Norway - Ruby Reitan
- Panama - Gladys Isaza
- Peru - Magnolia Martinez
- Philippines - Vida Valentina Fernandez Doria
- Portugal - Maria Celmira Pereira Bauleth
- Puerto Rico - Beba Franco
- Kingdom of Scotland - Elizabeth Montgomery
- Singapore - Jenny Ser Wang
- Spain - Josefina Roman Gutierrez
- Suriname - Marcelle Darou
- Sweden - Vivian Oihanen
- Switzerland - Anita Andrini
- Thailand - Warunee SangsirinavinWarunee SangsirinavinWarunee Sangsirinavin nicknamed Pia is Miss Thailand 1969. She is the daughter of Chun and Surang Sangsirinavin. She competed in the Miss Universe 1971 pageant competition held in the USA....
- Trinidad and Tobago - Sally Karamath
- Tunisia - Aida Mzali
- Turkey - Filiz Vural
- Uruguay - Alba Techira
- United States - Michele Marlene McDonald
- Venezuela - Jeannette Amelia Donzella SanchezJeannette DonzellaJeannette Amelia de la Coromoto Donzella Sánchez, or simply Jeannette Donzella, is a pageant titleholder, was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1950. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1971, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1971 pageant held in Miami Beach,...
- - Cherrie Raphelia Creque
- Wales - Dawn Cater
Panel of Judges
- Julio AlemánJulio Alemán- Biography :After studying to be an Engineer Agronomist, he turned to show business. His first movie was El Zarco in 1957. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the MC of the Mexican version of the Italian children's puppet show Topo Gigio....
- Margareta ArvidssonMargareta ArvidssonMargareta Arvidsson, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, on August 12, 1947, was 18 years old when she was crowned as the 1966 Miss Universe . She represented Vänersborg in the 1966 Miss Sweden Pageant....
- Edilson Cid Varela
- Eileen FordEileen FordEileen 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:...
- George FowlerGeorge FowlerGeorge Fowler may refer to:*George Fowler , South Australian politician*George Fowler , English solicitor and magistrate...
- Yousuf KarshYousuf KarshYousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...
- Dong KingmanDong KingmanDong 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...
- Jean-Louis Lindican
- Line RenaudLine Renaud- Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...
- Hitsiro Watanabe
- Earl WilsonEarl WilsonRobert 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...