Miss Europe was a beauty pageant with female contestants from all over Europe. It was established in February 1929 by Maurice de Waffle and first held at the Paris Opera with participants from 18 countries. The most recent pageant was held in 2006.[1]
The contest was interrupted by the onset of World War II but later re-established by Mr. Zeigler (of the Moulin Rouge) and Claude Berr. Most contestants won their respective national contests for Miss World and Miss Universe, and participated as supplemental training for their respective competitions. If the titleholders had not succeeded in winning their international titles, titleholders eventually competed for the Miss Europe crown, such as the case of France's Elodie Gossuin, who placed in the top ten at Miss Universe 2001 and won the Miss Europe title in the subsequent year. After the death of Berr, Roger Zeigler sold the license for the pageant to Endemol France, part of the Dutch television production company Endemol, in 2003.
Titleholders
Miss Russia (in exile) 1933; Miss Europe 1933
| Year |
Miss Europe |
Country |
Venue |
Notable contestant |
Hosts |
| 1928 |
Stefanie Job |
 Switzerland |
Paris, France |
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| 1929 |
Erzsébet Simon |
 Hungary |
Paris Opera, Paris, France |
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| 1930 |
Aliki Diplarakou |
 Greece |
Paris, France |
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| 1931 |
Jeanne Juilla |
 France |
Paris, France |
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| 1932 |
Åse Clausen |
 Denmark |
Nice, France |
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| 1933 |
Tatiana Maslova |
 Russia |
Madrid, Spain |
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| 1934 |
Ester Toivonen |
 Finland |
Hastings, United Kingdom |
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| 1935 |
Alicia Navarro |
23x15px Spain |
Paris, France |
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| 1936 |
Antonia Arques |
23x15px Spain |
Tunis, Tunisia |
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| 1937 |
Britta Wikström |
Finland |
Algiers, Algeria |
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| 1938 |
Sirkka Salonen |
Finland |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 1939–1947 |
Not held due to World War II |
| 1948 |
Jacqueline Donny |
France |
Enghien-les-Bains, France |
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| 1949 |
Juliette Figueras |
France |
Palermo, Italy |
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| 1950 |
Hanni Schall |
 Austria |
Rimini, Italy |
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| 1951 |
Jacqueline Genton |
Switzerland |
Palermo, Italy |
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| 1952 |
Günseli Başar |
 Turkey |
Naples, Italy |
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| 1953 |
Eloisa Cianni |
 Italy |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1954 |
Christel Schaack |
 Germany |
Vichy, France |
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| Daniele Genault |
France |
| 1955 |
Inga Britt Söderberg |
Finland |
Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1956 |
Margit Nünke |
Germany |
Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Ingrid Goude |
 Sweden |
| 1957 |
Corine Rottschäfer |
 Netherlands |
Baden-Baden, Germany |
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| 1958 |
Johanna Ehrenstrasser |
Austria |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1959 |
Christine Spatzier |
Austria |
Palermo, Italy |
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| 1960 |
Anna Ranalli |
Italy |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 1961 |
Ingrun Helgard Möckel |
Germany |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 1962 |
Maruja García Nicoláu |
23x15px Spain |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 1963 |
Mette Stenstad |
 Norway |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 1964 |
Elly Koot |
Netherlands |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 1965 |
Juliana Herm |
Germany |
Nice, France |
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| 1966 |
Maria Dornier |
France |
Nice, France |
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| 1967 |
Paquita Torres Pérez |
23x15px Spain |
Nice, France |
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| 1968 |
Leena Marketta Brusiin |
Finland |
Kinshasa, DR Congo |
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| 1969 |
Saša Zajc |
 Yugoslavia |
Rabat, Morocco |
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| 1970 |
Noelia Alfonso Cabrera |
23x15px Spain |
Piraeus, Greece |
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| 1971 |
Filiz Vural |
Turkey |
Tunis, Tunisia |
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| 1972 |
Monika Sarp |
Germany |
Estoril, Portugal |
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| 1973 |
Anke Groot |
Netherlands |
Kitzbühel, Austria |
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| 1974 |
Maria Isabel Lorenzo |
23x15px Spain |
Vienna, Austria |
Johanna Raunio |
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| 1976 |
Riitta Inkeri Väisänen |
Finland |
Rhodes, Greece |
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| 1978 |
Eva Maria Düringer |
Austria |
Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1980 |
Karin Zorn |
Austria |
Puerto de la Cruz, Spain |
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| 1981 |
Anne Mette Larsen |
Denmark |
Birmingham, United Kingdom |
Eva-Lena Lundgren |
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| 1982 |
Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu |
Turkey |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1984 |
Neşe Erberk |
Turkey |
Bad Gastein, Austria |
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| 1985 |
Juncal Rivero Fadrique |
 Spain |
Mainz, Germany |
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| 1988 |
Michela Rocco di Torrepadula |
Italy |
Ragusa, Italy |
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| 1991 |
Susanne Petry (disq.) |
Germany |
Dakar, Senegal |
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| Katerina Michalopoulou |
 Greece |
| 1992 |
Marina Tsintikidou |
Greece |
Athens, Greece |
Linda Hardy |
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| 1993 |
Arzum Onan |
Turkey |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1994 |
Lilach Ben-Simon |
 Israel |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1995 |
Monika Žídková |
 Czech Republic |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 1996 |
Caroline Price |
 United Kingdom |
Tirana, Albania |
Joanne Black |
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| 1997 |
Isabelle Darras |
Greece |
Kiev, Ukraine |
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| 1999 |
Yelena Rogozhina |
Russia |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 2001 |
Elodie Gossuin |
France |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 2002 |
Svetlana Koroleva |
Russia |
Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 2003 |
Zsuzsanna Laky |
 Hungary |
Nogent-sur-Marne, France |
Julie Taton |
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| 2004 |
Natalia Ribokova |
Russia |
Rhodes, Greece |
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| 2005 |
Shermine Shahrivar |
Germany |
Paris, France |
Tatiana Silva |
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| 2006 |
Alexandra Rosenfeld |
France |
Kiev, Ukraine |
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Jean-Pierre Foucault, Adriana Karembeu |
References
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