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Miss Universe Former Titleholders

Year	Titleholder	Country	Notes
1952	Armi Kuusela	Finland
1953	Christiane Martel	France
1954	Miriam Stevenson	USA
1955	Hellevi Rombin	Sweden
1956	Carol Morris	USA
1957	Gladys Zender	Peru
1958	Luz Marina Zuluaga	Colombia
1959	Akiko Kojima	Japan
1960	Linda Bement	USA
1961	Marlene Schmidt	Germany
1962	Norma Nolan	Argentina
1963	Ieda Maria Vargas	Brazil
1964	Corinna Tsopei	Greece
1965	Apasra Hongsakula	Thailand
1966	Margareta Arvidsson	Sweden
1967	Sylvia Hitchcock	USA
1968	Martha Vasconcellos	Brazil
1969	Gloria Diaz	Philippines
1970	Marisol Malaret	Puerto Rico
1971	Georgia Risk	Lebanon
1972	Kerry Anne Wells	Australia
1973	Margarita Moran	Philippines
1974	Amparo Munoz	Spain
1975	Anne Marie Pohtamo	Finland
1976	Rina Messinger	Israel
1977	Janelle Commissiong	Trinidad and Tobago
1978	Margaret Gardiner	South Africa
1979	Maritza Sayalero	Venezuela
1980	Shawn Weatherly	USA
1981	Irene Saez	Venezuela
1982	Karen Baldwin	Canada
1983	Lorraine Downes	New Zealand
1984	Yvonne Ryding	Sweden
1985	Deborah Carthy-Deu	Puerto Rico
1986	Barbara Palacios Teyde	Venezuela
1987	Cecilia Bolocco	Chile
1988	Porntip Nakhirrunkanok	Thailand
1989	Angela Visser	Holland
1990	Mona Grudt	Norway
1991	Lupita Jones	Mexico
1992	Michelle McLean	Namibia
1993	Dayanara Torres	Puerto Rico
1994	Sushmita Sen	India
1995	Chelsi Smith	USA
1996	Alicia Machado	Venezuela
1997	Brook Mehealani Lee	USA
1998	Wendy Fitzwilliam	Trinidad and Tobago
1999	Mpule Kwelagobe	Botswana
2000	Lara Dutta	India
2001	Denise Quinones	Puerto Rico
2002	Oxana Fedorova	Russia	dethroned
2002	Justine Pasek	Panama	1st runner-up; became Miss Universe
2003	Amelia Vega	Dominican Republic
2004	Jennifer Hawkins	Australia
2005	Natalie Glebova	Canada
2006	Zuleyka Rivera	Puerto Rico
2007	Riyo Mori	Japan