Miss Universe 1963
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Miss Universe 1963, the 12th Miss Universe
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 18-year-old Iêda Maria Vargas
Ieda Maria Vargas
Iêda Maria Vargas , is a Brazilian who was crowned Miss Universe in Miami Beach, Florida in 1963. She was the first person from her country to win a major international beauty pageant. Vargas is a native of Rio Grande do Sul...

 of Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. It took place on 20 July 1963 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...

, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 1963
  •  Brazil - Iêda Maria Vargas
    Ieda Maria Vargas
    Iêda Maria Vargas , is a Brazilian who was crowned Miss Universe in Miami Beach, Florida in 1963. She was the first person from her country to win a major international beauty pageant. Vargas is a native of Rio Grande do Sul...

1st runner-up
  • - Aino Korva
  • 2nd runner-up
  • - Marlene McKeown
  • 3rd runner-up
  •  Philippines - Lalaine Betia Bennett
  • 4th runner-up
  • ' - Kim Myoung-Ja
  • Top 15
  • - Olga Galuzzi
  • - Gertrude Bergner
  • - María Cristina Álvarez González
  • - Riitta Anja Hellevi Kautiainen
  • - Monique Lemaire
  • - Helga Carla Ziesemer
  • - Gianna Serra
  • - Noriko Ando
  •  South Africa - Ellen Liebenberg
  •  United States - Marite Ozers

  • Special awards

    Award Contestant
    Miss Congeniality
    Miss Photogenic
  •  Republic of Ireland - Marlene McKeown
  • Best National Costume
  •  Israel - Sherin Ibrahim

  • Contestants


    •  Jamaica - June Maxine Brown
    •  Japan - Noriko Ando
    • ' - Kim Myoung-Ja
    •  Luxembourg - Mia Dahm
    •  Morocco - Selma Rahal
    •  New Zealand - Regina Ellen Scandrett
    •  Nicaragua - Leda Sanchez
    •  Norway - Eva Carlberg
    •  Okinawa Prefecture - Reiko Uehara
    •  Paraguay - Amelia Benitez
    •  Peru - Dora Toledano Godier
    •  Philippines - Lalaine Betia Bennett
    •  Puerto Rico - Jeanette Blascoechea
    •  Kingdom of Scotland - Grace Calder W.Taylor
    •  South Africa - Ellen Liebenberg
    •  Spain - Maria Rosa Perez Gomez
    •  Suriname - Brigitta Hougen
    •  Sweden - Kerstin Margareta Jonsson
    •  Switzerland - Diane Tanner
    •   Trinidad
      Trinidad
      Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

      - Jean Stoddart
    •  Turkey - Guler Samuray
    •  Uruguay - Graciela Pintos
    •  United States - Marite Ozers
    •  Venezuela - Irene Morales Machado
      Irene Morales
      Irene Amelia Morales Machado is a pageant titleholder, was born in Achaguas, Apure, Venezuela in 1945. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1963, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1963 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 20, 1963.-External...

    •  Wales - Maureen Thomas


    Panel of Judges

    • Edilson Cid Varela
    • Cesare Danova
      Cesare Danova
      Cesare Danova was a television and screen actor. Born as Cesare Deitinger in Bergamo, Italy to an Austrian father and an Italian mother, he adopted Danova as his stage name after becoming an actor in Rome at the end of World War II. He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s to make the film...

    • Kiyoshi Hara

    • Russell Patterson
      Russell Patterson
      Russell Patterson was a celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson’s art deco magazine illustrations helped promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper.Patterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska...

    • Peter Sellers
      Peter Sellers
      Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...

    • 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...



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