Jennifer Hawkins (born 22 December 1983) is an Australian beauty queen, model and television presenter best known as Miss Universe 2004 and the face of Australian department store Myer. Hawkins was born in Holmesville, New South Wales, Australia and currently resides in Sydney. She attended West Wallsend High School. She is one of four...
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Amelia Victoria Vega Polanco de Guerra (born November 7, 1984 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic) became the first Dominican woman to be named Miss Universe, in 2003. At the age of 18, she was the youngest winner since 1994. Vega’s father is a general medical practitioner with offices in New York City...
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Justine Pasek (born August 27, 1979) is a Panamanian model, goodwill ambassador, and former Miss Universe. Yostin Lissette Pasek Patiño was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the daughter of a Panamanian homemaker and Polish engineer. Affectionately called by her Polish name, “Justyna”, she lived in Ukraine for a year, but spent most of her childhood...
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Denise Marie Quiñones August (born September 9, 1980 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) was the fourth Puerto Rican winner of the Miss Universe contest. Prior to winning the Miss Universe pageant, she represented her hometown of Lares in the Miss Puerto Rico pageant. Quiñones won the Miss Universe 2001 pageant in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in...
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Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe of Gaborone, Botswana was crowned Miss Universe in May of 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. Like Angela Visser, the 5 10′ Kwelagobe participated in the Miss World pageant (in 1997) but did not place. She was the first Miss Universe Botswana and the first Miss Botswana to participate in the Miss...
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Zhang Zilin is the Miss World 2007 title holder, representing the People’s Republic of China as Miss China World 2007. She is the first Miss World of East Asian origin. Zhang was born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, on 22 March, 1984. She then moved to the Chinese capital, Beijing, where she attended high school from...
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Taťána Kuchařová (born in 1987 in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, recent Slovakia) won the title of Miss World 2006. In doing so, she became the first woman from the Czech Republic to win the title at the final event of the Miss World competition, held on September 30, 2006, in Warsaw, Poland. Kuchařová beat 103 other...
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Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir (born May 25, 1984 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a former winner of the Miss Iceland pageant. She was crowned Miss World 2005 on December 10, 2005 in the Beauty Crown Theatre located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, by the reigning beauty queen, 2004′s Miss Peru Maju Mantilla. Mexico (Dafne...
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María Julia “Maju” Mantilla García was born in 1984 in Trujillo, a city in Peru’s northern coast. On December 4, 2004, in the Beauty Crown Theatre located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, she was crowned Miss World 2004 by the reigning champion, 2003′s Miss Ireland Rosanna Davison, daughter of singer Chris de...
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Michelle Rouillard - Miss Colombia 2008