Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by , the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by F. W. Murnau. After the initial twelve-person jury couldn't decide between 10 contestants, a runoff election was held where Murnau chose the winner. Murnau ended up choosing Štefica Vidačić of Yugoslavia as the winner and the first ever Miss Europe.Štefica Vidačić: The neglected muse. Biography of the novel of the film musician and UFA general music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Frieling, Berlin 1995, , S. 48–50Ida Ograjšek Gorenjak: Hollywood comes to Central Europe: the Fanamet beauty contest in Central and Southeastern Europe, in: Iskra Iveljić (Hrsg.): The Entangled Histories of Vienna, Zagreb and Budapest (18th-20th Century), FF-Press, Zagreb 2015, , S. 222 Miss Europe was later re-established in December 1928 by French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874–1946), who also created, in 1920, what by 1927 had become the Miss France pageant. Miss Europe, under de Waleffe, was first held at the Paris Opera with participants from 18 countries. The first contest under de Waleffe did not occur until February 1929.
The contest was interrupted by the onset of World War II but was later re-established, after de Waleffe died, by Roger Zeiler, chairman of the French Committee of Elegance, who teamed up with Claude Berr and they founded the International Committee for the election of Miss Europe (), often shortened as simply the Miss Europe Committee (), under the Mondial Events Organization (MEO). Most contestants won their respective national contests for Miss World & Miss Universe, and participated as supplemental training for their respective competitions. Berr died in 1981 and in 2003, Roger Zeiler sold the license for the pageant to Endemol France, part of the Dutch television production company Endemol. In 2007 to 2009, the competition was announced to be held in various location such as Moscow and Beirut but it did not happen as they had to stop the contest after 2006 due to internal problems with the organizations.
In 2016, the pageant was restarted by the newly formed Miss Europe Organization originally headquartered in London but then later moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. There is a connection with the previous organizers as the winner of the 2016 edition wore the same crown (tiara/diadem) as her predecessors, thus making this Miss Europe pageant the de facto successor to the main one.
Official editions and titleholders Year Miss Europe 1st runner-up 2nd runner-up 3rd runner-up 4th runner-up 5th runner-up 6th runner-up Location Entrants 1927 Štefica Vidačić Aniela BoguckaHilde Ptack Vienna and Berlin10 1928 colspan="9" align="center" 1929 Böske Simon Władysława KostakównaGermaine Laborde Paris, France18 1930 Aliki Diplarakou Yvette LabrousseJenny Vanparays19 1931 Jeanne Juilla Hertha van HaentjensIngrid Ruth Richard16 1932 Åse Clausen Nice, France15 1933 Tatiana Maslova (in exile) Julie Galhttp://kgy.nava.hu/mvh-hirado/487.html Madrid, Spain14 1934 Ester Toivonen June Lammas Hastings, United Kingdom16 1935 Alicia Navarro Paris, France15 1936 Antonia Arqués Tunis, French Tunisia15 1937 Britta Wikström Algiers, French Algeria9 1938 Sirkka Salonen Copenhagen, Denmark 12 1939 Italia Brandonisio Milan, ItalyUnknown 1940–1946 colspan="9" align="center" 1947 Yvette Draux London, United KingdomUnknown1948 colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Enghien-les-Bains, France12Jacqueline DonnyAnna-Liisa LeppänenHelena Sutter colspan="3" align="center" Jacqueline DonnyRossana Martini (Undetermined)Ingrid Jonaszin (Undetermined)Unknown 1949 Juliette FiguerasNoëlle SternAnna Maria Visconti (tied)Elinor Wedel Hansen (tied)Maria Nadja TillerElaine Pryce Palermo, Italy11 1950 Hanni Schall Giovanna PalaEbba Adrian Rimini, Italy141951 colspan="9" align="center" 1952 Günseli Başar Nicole DrouinVirginia Petimezaki Naples, Italy14 1953 Eloisa Cianni Marlene Ann DeeSylviane Carpentier Istanbul, Turkey131954 Christel Schaack (Dethroned) Danielle Génault (Assumed)Yvonne de BruynGunilla JohanssonEva Brika Vichy, France13 1955 Inga-Britt Söderberg Suna SoleyMonique LambertDepi MartiniMargaret Rowe Helsinki, Finland13 1956 Margit Nünke Ingrid GoudeBrunella TocciTraudl EichingerRita Schmidt Stockholm, Sweden13 1957 Corine Rottschäfer Marita LindahlGerti DaubGeneviève ZanettiSonia Hamilton Baden-Baden, Germany15 1958 Johanna Ehrenstrasser Dagmar HernerAnnie SimplotLucienne StruvePirkko Mannola Istanbul, Turkey15 1959 Christine Spatzier Nicole PerinMaria Grazia BuccellaCarmela KünzelPetra Poul Palermo, Italy15 1960 Anna Ranalli Rita SimonMonica AbrahamssonLuise KammermeierBrigitte Barazer de Lannurien Beirut, Lebanon17 1961 Ingrun Helgard Möckel Arlette DobsonIngrid AnderssonMaria Del Carmen Cervera Fernández NúñezYvette Suzanne Dégremont17 1962 Maruja García Nicoláu Birgitte HeibergKaarina LeskinenCatharina "Rina" LoddersBrigitta Lundberg17 1963 Mette Stenstad Diane TannerAino KorwaGrete QvibergMarja-Liisa Ståhlberg18 1964 Elly Koot Marion Sibylle ZotaSiv Märta ÅbergEdith NoëlRosa María Ruiz17 1965 Juliana Herm Virpi Liisa MiettinenIngrid NorrmanAlicia BorrásYvonne Hanne Ekman Nice, France181966Maria DornierEva Rieck (tied)Hedy Frick (tied)Rafaela Roque SánchezSatu Charlotta ÖstringTove-Regina Neitzel 18 1967 Paquita Pérez Irene van CampenhoutDaniela GiordanoAnnika HemmingeYelda GuraniToula GalaniRitva Helena Lehto20 1968 Leena Brusiin Brigitte KrügerAnne-Christine KahnbergRoswitha MoesiTone Knaran Kinshasa, Congo21 1969 Saša Zajc Jeanne PerfeldtElke HeinHarriet Marita ErikssonMaria Amparo Rodrigo LorenzoUlla AdstenPatricia "Pia" Ingrid Walker Rabat, Morocco21 1970 Noelia Alfonso Ana Maria Diozo LucasAnna ZamboniStephanie FlatowVivi Alexopoulou Piraeus, Greece20 1971 Filiz Vural Ursula IllichLena ArvidssonMyriam StoccoLaura Mulder-Smid Tunis, Tunisia21 1972 Monika Sarp Elisabeth Ire JohnsonUrsula PacherMary Ann BestJennifer McAdam Estoril, Portugal23 1973 Anke Groot Amparo Muñoz QuesadaSicta Vana Papadaki GreeceChristiane DevischBarbara Schöttli Kitzbühel, Austria18 1974 Maria Saavedra Ana Paula Da Silva FreitasJohanna RaunioGerarda "Gemma" Sophia BalmKathleen Ann Celeste AndersUnknown Vienna, Austria19 1975 colspan="9" align="center" 1976 Riitta Väisänen Isabella FischbacherLucie VisserMelina MichailidouMary Kirkwood Rhodes, Greece221977 colspan="9" align="center" 1978 Eva Düringer Dagmar WinklerSarah Louise LongGudbjörg WilhjalmsdóttirMaarit Ryhänen Helsinki, Finland151979 colspan="9" align="center" 1980 Karin Zorn Christine Linda Bernadette CailliauMaría Dolores "Lola" Forner ToroChristina BolinderAnette Stai Puerto de la Cruz, Spain20 1981 Anne Larsen Ingrid SchoutenAnna Maria KanakisEva-Lena LundgrenEija Helena Korolainen Birmingham, United Kingdom21 1982 Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu Annelie SjöbergCristina CottrellCaroline WilliamsAna Wilson Istanbul, Turkey231983 colspan="9" align="center" 1984 Neşe Erberk Fredérique LeroySanna Marita PekkalaFrançoise BostoenLoana Radecki Bad Gastein, Austria25 1985 Juncal Rivero Anke SymkowitzBrigitte BergmanZoi ElmaliotiLucienne Thiebaud Mainz, Germany231986–1987 colspan="9" align="center" 1988 Michela Rocco di Torrepadula Ewa Monika NowosadkoŞebnem TanMagnea Lovisa MagnusdóttirLimor Magen Ragusa, Italy231989–1990 colspan="9" align="center" 1991 Susanne Petry (Dethroned) Katerina Michalopoulou (Assumed)Silvia Maria Jato NúñezDefne SamyeliUnknown Dakar, Senegal27 1992 Marina Tsintikidou Pavlina BaburkovaBanu SagnakKirsi-Mari KetolaRavit Kanfi Athens, Greece32 1993 Arzum Onan Yuliya AlekseyevaDana AvrishAna Maria Pérez AyllónSvala Björk Arnardóttir Istanbul, Turkey31 1994 Lilach Ben-Simon Didem UzelNataliy ShvachiyAmanda Louise JohnsonPamela van den Berg 33 1995 Monika Žídková Ingeborg DosslandSofie TocklinMonika ZguroIlmira Shamsutdinova 36 1996 Marie-Claire Harrison Yelena ShcherbakKim RoslikovNonie DouniaAurelia Barrera Escalera Tirana, Albania35 1997 Isabelle Darras Agnieszka ZielinskaPatricia Jañez RodríguezFlavia MantovanNatalija Bedekovic Kyiv, Ukraine291998 colspan="9" align="center" 1999 Yelena Rogozhina Cristina CellaiKadri VäljaotsMinna LehtinenJitka Kocurová Beirut, Lebanon392000 colspan="9" align="center" 2001 Élodie Gossuin Adriana GerczewKarla MilinovicHatice SendilVerónica Martín García Beirut, Lebanon33 2002 Svetlana Koroleva Natascha Vanessa Börger SevillaEsra EronKim KötterAdina Dimitru 35 2003 Zsuzsanna Laky Miroslava LuberdovaSanja PapićPatricia Ledesma NietoMarta Matyjasik Nogent-sur-Marne, France362004 colspan="9" align="center" 2005 Shermine Shahrivar Luysya TovmasyanCindy FabreLaura ShieldsTatiana Keremeryova Paris, France36 2006 Alexandra Rosenfeld Alena AvramenkoLaura Ojeda RamírezKatarzyna Weronika BorowiczYuliya Sindzeyeva Kyiv, Ukraine332007-2015 colspan="9" align="center" 2016Diana StarkovaSabina Michelle SchneiderYuliya Parkhomenko Beirut, Lebanon30 2017 Diana Kubasova Alena SenatorovaNina Goryniuk Seoul, South Korea262018 Anna Shornikova (tied)Anastasiya Ammosova (tied) Nika KarAgatha Maximova Paris, FranceUnknown 2019Andrea de las HerasJulia AlexandratouLinda NovicaTauany Aparecida Coelho MachadoKarolina Dobrihina Cannes, FranceUnknown 2020Lara JallohXhensila ShabaMarine AyalaSheida Rahni Paris, FranceUnknown 2021Anastasia ProdanovAmanda FordDiana VolkovaLeorita KendusiKatarzyna KowalskaChiara LombardiAnna HoffmannCannes, France25
Winners by countries and territories
Country/TerritoryTitlesYear(s) 91931, 1948, 1949, 1954 (assumed), 1966, 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020 81935, 1936, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1985, 2019 71954 (dethroned), 1956, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1991 (dethroned), 2005 61934, 1937, 1938, 1955, 1968, 1976 51952, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1993, 20241950, 1958, 1959, 1978, 1980 41930, 1991 (assumed), 1992, 19971939, 1953, 1960, 1988 1933, 1999, 2002, 2018 31957, 1964, 1973 21929, 20031963, 19861932, 19811927, 1969 12021201820171996199519941947
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"Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe" competition From 1951 to 2002 there was a rival Miss Europe competition organized by the "Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe". This was founded in 1950 by Jean Raibaut in Paris, the headquarters later moved to Marseille. The winners wore different titles like Miss Europe, Miss Europa or Miss Europe International.