Miss Universe 1964 Explained

Winner:Corinna Tsopei
Represented:Greece
Date:1 August 1964
Venue:Miami Beach Convention Hall, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Broadcaster:CBS
Entrants:60
Placements:15
Congeniality:Jeanne Venables (California)
Photogenic:Emanuela Stramana (Italy)
Best National Costume:Henny Deul (Holland)
Before:1963
Next:1965

Miss Universe 1964 was the 13th Miss Universe pageant, held on 1 August 1964 at the Miami Beach Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Corinna Tsopei of Greece was crowned by Iêda Maria Vargas of Brazil making her the first and so far only Miss Universe from Greece.

Results

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss Universe 1964
1st runner-up
  • – Brenda Blackler
2nd runner-up
3rd runner-up
4th runner-up
  • – Lana Yu Yi
Top 10
Top 15

Contestants

Sixty contestants competed for the title.

Country/TerritoryContestantAgeHometown
ArgentinaMaría Amalia Ramírez19Santa Fe
Lidia Lidwina HenriquezOranjestad
Ria Lubyen22Melbourne
AustriaGloria Mackh22Vienna
BahamasCatherine Cartwright18Nassau
BelgiumDanièle Defrere20Brussels
Olga Mónica del Carpio19La Paz
BrazilÂngela Vasconcelos19Paraná
Mary Rande HollGeorgetown
CanadaMary Lou Farrell21St. John's
Annette Dona Kulatunga19Colombo
Patricia Herrera18Viña del Mar
ColombiaAlba Ramírez18Bogotá
Costa RicaDora Marcela Sola21San José
Iris de Windt21Willemstad
DenmarkYvonne Mortensen19Copenhagen
Dominican RepublicClara ChapuseauxComenador
EcuadorTanya Klein18Guayaquil
Brenda Blackler20Liverpool
FinlandSirpa Wallenius21Helsinki
FranceEdith Noël20Paris
Marina Kettler20Berlin
Corinna Tsopei20Athens
GrenadaChristine HughesSt. George's
Henny Deul18Amsterdam
Mary Bai23Hong Kong
IcelandThelma Ingvarsdóttir18Reykjavík
Meher Castelino18Bombay
IrelandMaurine Lecky19Dublin
IsraelRonit Rinat18Haifa
ItalyEmanuela Stramana22Venice
JamaicaBeverly RerrieKingston
JapanChizuko Matsumoto19Fukuoka
LuxembourgMariette SophieLuxembourg City
Angela Filmer19Klang
New ZealandLyndal Ursula Cruickshank21Auckland
Edna Park19Lagos
NorwayJorunn Barun18Oslo
OkinawaToyoko Uehara20Okinawa
Maritza MontillaCoclé
ParaguayMiriam Riart Brugada21Asunción
PeruMiluska Vondrak20Loreto
PhilippinesMyrna Panlilio22Manila
Puerto RicoYolanda Rodríguez21Rio Piedras
Lana Yu Yi20Taipei
Stella Hadley18Kingstown
Wendy Barrie19Glasgow
South AfricaGail Robinson20Johannesburg
Shin Jung-hyun21Seoul
SpainMaria José Ulloa Madronero19Madrid
Cynthia Ingrid Dijkstra18Paramaribo
SwedenSivi Aaberg22Stockholm
SwitzerlandSandra SulserLausanne
Julia Merlene LaurencePort of Spain
Claudine Younes22Tunis
TurkeyInçi Duran18Istanbul
United StatesBobbi Johnson[1] 19Washington D.C.
UruguayDelia BabiakMontevideo
Mercedes Revenga18Caracas
Marilyn Joy Samuel22Monmouthsire

Notes

  1. News: 30 July 1964. Blonde Math Whiz is Miss USA. en. 1, 16. Youngstown Vindicator. 12 September 2023. Google News Archive.

Debuts

Name changes

Returns

Last competed in 1952:

Last competed in 1954:

Last competed in 1958:

Last competed in 1960:

Last competed in 1961:

Last competed in 1962:

Replacements

Withdrawals

Did not compete

Awards

General References

External links