Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1976	Israel - Rina Messinger
1st runner-up	Venezuela - Judith Castillo Judith Castillo Judith Josefina Castillo Uribe born in Caracas, Venezuela on June 16, 1958. Won the 1976 Miss Venezuela contest, representing Nueva Esparta, after Elluz Peraza, of Guárico had resigned only two days after her victory...
2nd runner-up	Wales - Sian Adey-Jones
3rd runner-up	Kingdom of Scotland - Carol Jean Grant
4th runner-up	Australia - Julie Anne Ismay
Top 12	Argentina - Lilian Noemí Deasti  Chile - Verónica Sommers  Colombia - María Elena Reyes Abisambra  Curaçao - Anneke Dijkhuizen  Kingdom of England - Pauline Davies ' - Rowena Lam  Norway - Bente Lihaug

Special Awards

Award	Contestant
Best National Costume	Peru - Rocío Rita Lazcano Mujica
Miss Congeniality	' - Margaret McFarlane
Miss Photogenic	Kingdom of England - Pauline Davies

Contestants

•  Argentina - Lilian Noemi De Asti
•  Aruba - Cynthia Marlene Bruin
•  Australia - Julie Anne Ismay
•  Austria - Heidi-Marie Passian
•  The Bahamas - Sharon Elaine Smith
•  Barbados - Jewell Sharon Nightingale
•  Belgium - Yvette Maria Aelbrecht
•  Bermuda - Vivienne Anne Hollis
•  Bolivia - Carolina Elisa Aramayo Esteves
•  Brazil - Katia Celestina Moretto
•  Canada - Normande Jacques
•  Chile - Maria Veronica Sommer
•  Colombia - Maria Helena Reyes Abisambra
•  Costa Rica - Silvia Jiminez Pacheco
•  Curaçao - Anneke Dijkhuizen
•  Denmark - Brigitte Trolle
•  Dominican Republic - Norma Lora
•  Ecuador - Gilda Plaza
•  El Salvador - Mireya Carolina Calderon Tovar
•  Kingdom of England - Pauline Davies
•  Finland - Suvi Lukkarinen
•  Early Modern France - Monique Uldaric
•  Germany - Birgit Margot Hamer
•  Greece - Melina Michailidou
•  Guam - Pilar Martha Laguana
•  Guatemala - Blanca Alicia Montenegro
• ' - Nannetje Johanna Nielen
•  Honduras - Victoria Alejandra Pineda Fortin
• ' - Rowena Lam
•  Iceland - Gudmunda Hulda Johannesdottir
•  India - Naina Sudhir Balsavar
•  Indonesia - Julianti Rahayu
•  Republic of Ireland - Elaine Rosemary O'Hara
•  Israel - Rina Messinger
•  Italy - Diana Scapolan
•  Japan - Miyako Iwakuni
• ' - Chung Kwang-hyun
•  Liberia - Laurine Wede Johnson
•  Luxembourg - Monique Wilmes
•  Malaysia - Teh-Faridah Ahmed Norizan
•  Malta - Mary Grace Ciantar
•  Mauritius - Marielle Tse-Sik-Sun
•  Mexico - Carla Jean Evert Reguera
•  New Zealand - Janey Kingscote
•  Nicaragua - Ivania Navarro Yenic
• ' - Candelaria Flores Borja
•  Norway - Bente Lihaug
•  Panama - Carolina Maria Chiari
•  Papua New Guinea - Eva Regina Arni
•  Paraguay - Nidia Fatima Cardenas
•  Peru - Rocio Rita Lazcano Mujica
•  Philippines - Lizbeth de Padua
•  Puerto Rico - Elizabeth Zayas Ortiz
• ' - Taliilani Ellen Letuli
•  Kingdom of Scotland - Carol Jean Grant
•  Singapore - Linda Tham
•  South Africa - Cynthia Classen
•  Spain - Olga Fernandez Perez
•  Sri Lanka - Genevieve Bernedette Parsons
• ' - Angela Huggins
• ' - Peggy Vandeleuv
•  Sweden - Caroline Westerberg
•  Switzerland - Isabelle Fischbacher
•  Thailand - Katareeya Areekul
• ' - Margaret Elizabeth McFarlane
•  Turkey - Manolya Onur
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•  Uruguay - Leila Luisa Vinas Martinez
•  United States - Barbara Elaine Peterson
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•  Venezuela - Judith Josefina Castillo Uribe
  Judith Castillo
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•   Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands
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  - Lorraine Patricia Baa
•  Wales - Sian Helen Adey-Jones
•  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Svetlana Radojcic

Panel of Judges

• Margareta Arvidsson
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• Florinda Bolkan
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• Britt Ekland
  Britt Ekland
  Britt-Marie Ekland is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her...
  
  
• Margot Fonteyn
  Margot Fonteyn
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• Aldo Gucci

• Henri d'Orléans
• David Newbigging
• Roman Polanski
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• Run Run Shaw
  Run Run Shaw
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• Fred Williamson
  Fred Williamson
  Fred "The Hammer" Williamson is an American actor, architect, and former professional American football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League during the 1960s.-Football career:...