Miss Grand Brazil is an annual female beauty pageant in Brazil, founded in 2014 by a São Paulo-based event organizer Gerson Antonelli, to select the country's representatives to compete in its parent international contest, Miss Grand International. From 2015 to 2023, the pageant was managed by Concurso Nacional de Beleza Miss Brasil (CNB Miss Brazil), led by Henrique Fontes. From 2024 to 2025, the franchise was transferred to former Miss Universe Brazil organizer, Evandro Hazzy of Hazzy Top Talent. Then, in 2026, Rodrigo Ferro assumed the leadership of the brazilian national pageant.
In its first two editions, 2014 and 2019, all national entrants were selected by the organization directly. However, after the license was distributed to the regional organizer in 2020, the pageant has regularly been featuring the contestants chosen by either the central organ or the licensed organizers. Since its inception, the contest was canceled once in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brazil holds a record of 11 placements at Miss Grand International, the highest position was the first place won by Isabella Menin in 2022, followed by the first runner-up by the hands of Talita Hartmann in 2024, second runner-up, obtained by Lorena Rodrigues of Minas Gerais in 2021, and the fourth runner-up in 2019 and 2020, won by Marjorie Marcelle and Alaíse Guedes, respectively.
The reigning Miss Grand Brazil is Kaliana Diniz from Paraíba, who was crowned on 6 July 2025 at the Centro de Convenções Espaço Immensità, São Paulo.
Background History Since the establishment of Miss Grand International in 2013, Brazil has always send the representatives to participate in such. Its first representative, Tamara de Costa Bicca Top 16 finalists Miss Brazil World 2013, was appointed by the licensee Concurso Nacional de Beleza Miss Brasil to join the international contest in Thailand where she was placed among the Top 10 finalist. In the following year, the inaugural contest of the Miss Grand Brazil was held after a São Paulo-based event organizer Gerson Antonelli had purchased the license. The contest was held as the sub-event of the annual festival Festival Nacional do Folclore at the Anfiteatro da Casa de Cultura of Olímpia city in São Paulo on 25 July, featuring 13 contestants, in which Yameme Ibrahim of Paraná won the main title. Ibrahim then participated at Miss Grand International 2014 in Thailand on 25 October and was placed among the Top 20 finalists. However, the license had been brought back to the hand of the CNB Miss Brazil in the following year then the country representatives at Miss Grand International were appointed to the position instead of organizing the Miss Grand national for four years consecutively; the elected queens includes Paula Gomes (2015), Renata Sena (2016), Caroline Venturini (2017), and (2018). Besides Miss Grand Brazil, CNB Miss Brazil also holds the country licenses for Miss World, Mister World as well as Miss and Mister Supranational.
The pageant was planned to be resurrected in 2017 at Hotel do Bosque Eco Resort in Angra dos Reis (RJ) on 5 May but the program, unfortunately, was rescheduled to 2019 for undisclosed reasons. Two years later, the suspended program was finally held on 28 February at Dall'Onder Grande Hotel in Bento Gonçalves of Rio Grande do Sul state, with 22 candidates representing each federative unit of Brazil participating, and the event has been held annually since then.
After its first postponement in 2017, the pageant, originally planned to be held on 12 October, has been canceled once again in 2021, resulting from the widespread COVID-19 infection in Brazil, which exceeds more than twenty thousand new positive cases per day in the second half of the year. Therefore, the director decided to assign the second runner-up of the 2019 contest – Lorena Rodrigues – to participate in the international edition, in which she finished as the second runner-up.
Selection of contestants The Miss Grand Brazil pageant has been licensing the participant rights to the local agency since 2019. The regional licensees then select their representatives through either the local contest, internal casting, or by a hand-picking. In the 2022 edition, at least 13 federative units of Brazil (i.e., Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais) held the state pageant or casting event to determine the finalists for Miss Grand Brazil 2022. Moreover, the national organizer also receives the application directly to choose the supplementary national finalists.
Several states have organized their state-level pageant to select representatives for Miss Grand Brazil, as detailed below. Miss Grand Minas Gerais (est. 2021) Miss Grand Pará (est. 2023) Miss Grand Paraná (est. 2021) Miss Grand Rio de Janeiro (est. 2021) Miss Grand Piauí (est. 2023)
Editions Location and date
Edition Date Final venue Entrants 1st 25 July 2014 Anfiteatro da Casa de Cultura, Olímpia, São Paulo 2nd 28 February 2019Dall'Onder Grande Hotel, Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul 3rd 30 January 2020 4th 28 July 2022 Theater Caesb, Federal District, Brasília 5th 10 June 2023 Recanto Cataratas Thermas Resort, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná 6th 8 August 2024 Tokio Marine Hall, Várzea de Baixo, São Paulo 7th 6 July 2025 Centro de Convenções Espaço Immensità, São Paulo
Competition result
EditionWinnerRunners-up First Second Third Fourth1st Yameme Ibrahim Camila Coutinho Naiara Thomé Cynthia Gomes 2nd Marjorie Marcelle Amanda Brenner Lorena Rodrigues Isabelle Pandini Amanda Cardoso 3rd Lala Guedes Mylena Duarte Caroline Andrade Clarissa Thomsen Ruthy Rafaella 4th Isabella Menin Ana Gabriela Borges Vitória Brodt Bárbara Reis Maythe Varzoni 5th Adriana Yanca Cinthya Moura Luciana Gomes Ana Finkler Júlia de Castro Rodrigues 6th Talita Hartmann Loraine Lumatelli Laila Vieira Laila Frizon Cecilia Almeida 7th Kaliana Diniz Monã Vianna Ana Beatriz Nazareno Ananda Santos Thaís de Souza Bonatti
Winner gallery
Winners by state State Number Years 3 2 1
by region Region Number Last winning state Southeast5 (2023) South5 (2026) Northeast2 (2025) Central-West2 (2016) North0
International competition The following list is the Brazilian representatives who participated in the Miss Grand International pageant.
Color keys
YearRepresentativeTitlePlacementSpecial AwardsNational DirectorRef. 2026 Paula Assunção Top 6 Miss Brazil 2025 TBA Rodrigo Ferro 2025 Kaliana Diniz Miss Grand Brazil 2025 Top 22 Best National CostumeEvandro Hazzy 2024 Talita Hartmann Miss Grand Brazil 2024 1st runner-upBest in Swimsuit Best National Costume 2023 Adriana Yanca Miss Grand Brazil 2023 UnplacedHenrique Fontes 2022 Isabella Menin Miss Grand Brazil 2022 Winner 2021 Lorena Rodrigues 2nd runner-up Miss Grand Brazil 2019 2nd runner-up 2020 Lala Guedes Miss Grand Brazil 2020 4th runner-up Best in Swimsuit 2019 Marjorie Marcelle Miss Grand Brazil 2019 4th runner-up 2018 Gabrielle Vilela Miss Brazil CNB 2017 Top 20 2017 Caroline Venturini Top 7 Miss Brazil World 2016 Top 20 2016 Renata Sena 1st runner-up Miss Brazil World 2016 Unplaced 2015 Paula Gomes 2nd runner-up Miss Brazil World 2015 Top 10 2014 Yameme Ibrahim Miss Grand Brazil 2014 Top 20Gerson Antonelli 2013 Tamara de Costa Bicca Top 16 Miss Brazil World 2013 Top 10Henrique Fontes Note
National pageant finalists Participating state representatives
The following list is the national finalists of the Miss Grand Brazil pageant, as well as the competition results. Representatives 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7thStatesAcre Y Alagoas Amapá Y Amazonas Bahia Ceará Distrito Federal Espírito Santo Goiás Maranhão Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Minas Gerais ParáY Paraíba Paraná Pernambuco Piauí Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Sul Rondônia Roraima Santa Catarina São Paulo Sergipe Tocantins Non StatesAlto Cafezal Cânions Paulistas Cataratas do Iguaçu Circuito das Frutas Guanabara Ilhabela Ilha Comprida Ilha de São Luís Ipiranga Norte Mato-Grossense Olímpia Plano Piloto Sul Mineiro Vale do Aço Zona da Mata Mineira Total 14222231282727Color keys
References
External links
Miss Grand Brazil official website