Miss Universe Organization

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

The Miss Universe Organization is the organization that currently owns and runs the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA beauty contests. Based in New York, it is owned jointly by NBC Universal and Donald Trump. The current president is Paula Shugart. The organization sells television rights to the pageants in other countries. The organization is also one of Xbox Live's entertainment partners (along with co-owner NBC) and will be streaming the pageants to Xbox 360 consoles for Xbox Live Gold members in over 25 countries worldwide (excluding Asia) in 2012.

[edit] Titleholders

The following is a list of all Miss Universe Organization titleholders over the years.

Year	Miss Universe	Country	Miss USA	State	Miss Teen USA	State
2011	Leila Lopes	Angola	Alyssa Campanella	California	Danielle Doty	Texas
2010	Ximena Navarrete	Mexico	Rima Fakih	Michigan	Kamie Crawford	Maryland
2009	Stefanía Fernández	Venezuela	Kristen Dalton	North Carolina	Stormi Henley	Tennessee
2008	Dayana Mendoza	Venezuela	Crystle Stewart	Texas	Stevi Perry	Arkansas
2007	Riyo Mori	Japan	Rachel Smith	Tennessee	Hilary Cruz	Colorado
2006	Zuleyka Rivera	Puerto Rico	Tara Conner	Kentucky	Katie Blair	Montana
2005	Natalie Glebova	Canada	Chelsea Cooley	North Carolina	Allie LaForce	Ohio
2004	Jennifer Hawkins	Australia	Shandi Finnessey	Missouri	Shelley Hennig	Louisiana
2003	Amelia Vega	Dominican Republic	Susie Castillo	Massachusetts	Tami Farrell	Oregon
2002	Justine Pasek	Panama	Shauntay Hinton	District of Columbia	Vanessa Semrow	Wisconsin
2002	Oxana Fedorova^[a]	Russia	Shauntay Hinton	District of Columbia	Vanessa Semrow	Wisconsin
2001	Denise Quiñones	Puerto Rico	Kandace Krueger	Texas	Marissa Whitley	Missouri
2000	Lara Dutta	India	Lynnette Cole	Tennessee	Jillian Parry	Pennsylvania
1999	Mpule Kwelagobe	Botswana	Kimberly Pressler	New York	Ashley Coleman	Delaware
1998	Wendy Fitzwilliam	Trinidad & Tobago	Shawnae Jebbia	Massachusetts	Vanessa Minnillo	South Carolina
1997	Brook Lee	USA	Brandi Sherwood	Idaho	Shelly Moore	Tennessee
1996	Alicia Machado	Venezuela	Ali Landry	Louisiana	Christie Lee Woods	Texas
1995	Chelsi Smith	USA	Shanna Moakler	New York	Keylee Sue Sanders	Kansas
1994	Sushmita Sen	India	Lu Parker	South Carolina	Shauna Gambill	California
1993	Dayanara Torres	Puerto Rico	Kenya Moore	Michigan	Charlotte Lopez	Vermont
1992	Michelle McLean	Namibia	Shannon Marketic	California	Jamie Solinger	Iowa
1991	Lupita Jones	Mexico	Kelli McCarty	Kansas	Janelle Bishop	New Hampshire
1990	Mona Grudt	Norway	Carole Gist	Michigan	Bridgette Wilson	Oregon
1989	Angela Visser	Netherlands	Gretchen Polhemus	Texas	Brandi Sherwood	Idaho
1988	Porntip Nakhirunkanok	Thailand	Courtney Gibbs	Texas	Mindy Duncan	Oregon
1987	Cecilia Bolocco	Chile	Michelle Royer	Texas	Kristi Addis	Mississippi
1986	Bárbara Palacios Teyde	Venezuela	Christy Fichtner	Texas	Allison Brown	Oklahoma
1985	Deborah Carthy-Deu	Puerto Rico	Laura Martinez-Herring	Texas	Kelly Hu	Hawaii
1984	Yvonne Ryding	Sweden	Mai Shanley	New Mexico	Cherise Haugen	Illinois
1983	Lorraine Downes	New Zealand	Julie Hayek	California	Ruth Zakarian	New York
1982	Karen Dianne Baldwin	Canada	Terri Utley	Arkansas
1981	Irene Sáez	Venezuela	Kim Seelbrede	Ohio
1980	Shawn Weatherly	USA	Jineane Ford	Arizona
1979	Maritza Sayalero	Venezuela	Mary Therese Friel	New York
1978	Margaret Gardiner	South Africa	Judi Andersen	Hawaii
1977	Janelle Commissiong	Trinidad and Tobago	Kimberly Tomes	Texas
1976	Rina Messinger	Israel	Barbara Peterson	Minnesota
1975	Anne Marie Pohtamo	Finland	Summer Bartholomew	California
1974	Amparo Muñoz	Spain	Karen Morrison	Illinois
1973	Margarita Moran	Philippines	Amanda Jones	Illinois
1972	Kerry Anne Wells	Australia	Tanya Wilson	Hawaii
1971	Georgina Rizk	Lebanon	Michele McDonald	Pennsylvania
1970	Marisol Malaret	Puerto Rico	Deborah Shelton	Virginia
1969	Gloria Maria Diaz	Philippines	Wendy Dascomb	Virginia
1968	Martha Vasconcellos	Brazil	Dorothy Anstett	Washington
1967	Sylvia Hitchcock	USA	Cheryl Ann Patton	Florida
1966	Margareta Arvidsson	Sweden	Maria Remenyi	California
1965	Apasra Hongsakula	Thailand	Sue Ann Downey	Ohio
1964	Corinna Tsopei	Greece	Bobbie Johnson	District of Columbia
1963	Ieda Maria Vargas	Brazil	Marite Ozers	Illinois
1962	Norma Nolan	Argentina	Macel Leilani Wilson	Hawaii
1961	Marlene Schmidt	Germany	Sharon Brown	Louisiana
1960	Linda Bement	USA	Linda Bement	Utah
1959	Akiko Kojima	Japan	Terry Huntingdon	California
1958	Luz Marina Zuluaga	Colombia	Eurlyne Howell	Louisiana
1957	Gladys Zender	Peru	Charlotte Sheffield	Utah
1957	Gladys Zender	Peru	Mary Leona Gage^[b]	Maryland
1956	Carol Morris	USA	Carol Morris	Iowa
1955	Hillevi Rombin	Sweden	Carlene Johnson	Vermont
1954	Miriam Stevenson	USA	Miriam Stevenson	South Carolina
1953	Christiane Martel	France	Myrna Hansen	Illinois
1952	Armi Kuusela	Finland	Jackie Loughery	New York

^a In 2002, Fedorova was dethroned by the Miss Universe Organization and replaced by Pasek, the first runner-up.
^b In 1957, Gage was stripped of her Miss USA title when it was revealed that she was married and the mother of two children. Sheffield, the first runner-up, replaced her.