Miss Universe 1964
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Miss Universe 1964, the 13th 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 21-year-old Corinna Tsopei
Corinna Tsopei
Kiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.-Career:...

 of Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. It took place on 1 August 1964 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 1964
  •  Greece - Corinna Tsopei
    Corinna Tsopei
    Kiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.-Career:...

1st runner-up
  •  Kingdom of England - Brenda Blackler
  • 2nd runner-up
  •  Israel - Ronit Rechtman
  • 3rd Runner up
  •  Sweden - Siv Märta Åberg
  • 4th Runner up
  •  Republic of China - Lana Yu Yi
  • Top 10
  •  Argentina - Maria Amalia Ramírez
  •  Finland - Sirpa Wallenius
  •  Early Modern France - Edith Noël
  •  Italy - Emanuela Stramana
  •  Norway - Jorunn Nystedt Barun
  • Top 15
  •  Bolivia - Olga Mónica del Carpio Oropeza
  •  Brazil - Ângela Teresa Pereira Reis Vasconcelos
  •  Paraguay - Miriam Riart Brugada
  •  United States - Bobbie Johnson
    Bobbie Johnson
    Barbara Joan "Bobbi" Johnson is a former beauty queen from Alexandria, Virginia who held the Miss USA 1964 title and has competed in the Miss Universe pageant....

  •  Venezuela - Mercedes Revenga
    Mercedes Revenga
    Mercedes Revenga de la Rosa is a pageant titleholder, was born in Caracas, Venezuela on 1946. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1964, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1964 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on August 1, 1964, when she classified...


  • Special awards

    Award Contestant
    Miss Congeniality
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    | Miss Photogenic
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    •  Italy - Emanuela Stramana

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    | Best National Costume
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    • ' - Henny Deul

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    As the Miss Universe and the Miss USA pageants were held concurrently at this time, candidates from both of them were eligible for the special awards.

    Judges

    • Jacques Bergerac
      Jacques Bergerac
      Jacques Bergerac is a former French actor with a brief Hollywood film career.Originally a lawyer, Bergerac met and married Ginger Rogers with whom he appeared in Twist of Fate . He then went on to appear as Armand Duval in a television production of Camille for Kraft Television Theatre, opposite...

    • Edilson Cid Varela
    • William Dossier
    • Seshu Hyakowa

    • Ingemar Johansson
      Ingemar Johansson
      Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world. Johansson was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. In 1959 he defeated Floyd Patterson by TKO in the third round, after flooring Patterson seven times in that round, to win the World...

    • Syed Khan
    • 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...

    • Luz Marina Zuluaga
      Luz Marina Zuluaga
      Luz Marina Zuluaga is a Colombian beauty pageant winner and Miss Universe 1958. She is the only Colombian in history to hold the Miss Universe title.-Biography:...



    Contestants


    •  Italy - Emanuela Stramana
    •  Jamaica - Beverly Berrie
    •  Japan - Shizuko Matsumoto
    • ' - Shin Junghyun
    •  Luxembourg - Mariette Sophie Stephano
    •  Malaysia - Angela Filmer
    •  New Zealand - Lyndal Ursula Cruickshank
    •  Nigeria - Edna Park
    •  Norway - Jorunn Nystedt Barun
    •  Okinawa Prefecture - Toyoko Uehara
    •  Panama - Maritza Montilla
    •  Paraguay - Miriam Riart Brugada
    •  Peru - Miluska Vondrak Steel
    •  Philippines - Myrna Sese Panlilio
    •  Puerto Rico - Yolanda Rodríguez Machin
    •  Republic of China - Lana Yi Yu
    •   St. Vincent
      Saint Vincent (island)
      Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the chain called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains...

      - Stella Hadley
    •  Kingdom of Scotland - Wendy Barrie
    •  South Africa - Gail Robinson
    •  Spain - María José Ulloa Madronero
    •  Suriname - Cynthia Ingrid Diester
    •  Sweden - Siv Märta Aaberg
    •  Switzerland - Sandra Sulser
    •   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...

      - Julia Merlene Laurence
    •  Tunisia - Claudine Younes
    •  Turkey - Inci Duran
    •  Uruguay - Delia Babiak
    •  United States - Barbara "Bobbie" Johnson
      Bobbie Johnson
      Barbara Joan "Bobbi" Johnson is a former beauty queen from Alexandria, Virginia who held the Miss USA 1964 title and has competed in the Miss Universe pageant....

    •  Venezuela - Mercedes Revenga de la Rosa
      Mercedes Revenga
      Mercedes Revenga de la Rosa is a pageant titleholder, was born in Caracas, Venezuela on 1946. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1964, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1964 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on August 1, 1964, when she classified...

    •  Wales - Marilyn Joy Samuel


    Historical significance

    • England achieved its highest placing in the pageant history, and Republic of China, its second highest.

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