| Represented: | Iceland |
| Date: | 14 November 1985 |
| Presenters: | Peter Marshall, Anne Diamond |
| Acts: | Jack Jones |
| Venue: | Royal Albert Hall, London, UK |
| Broadcaster: | Thames Television |
| Entrants: | 78 |
| Placements: | 15 |
| Debuts: | Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Zaire |
| Returns: | Liberia, Luxembourg, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uganda |
| Withdraws: | Honduras, Turkey |
| Before: | 1984 |
| Next: | 1986 |
Miss World 1985, the 35th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 14 November 1985 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. 78 contestants from all over the world competed for the coveted title. Miss World 1984, Astrid Carolina Herrera of Venezuela, crowned Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir of Iceland as the new Miss World at the end of the event.[1]
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| 1st Runner-up |
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| 2nd Runner-up |
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| Top 7 |
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| Top 15 |
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| Africa |
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78 contestants competed for the title.
| Country | Contestant | Age | Hometown | Preliminary Score | |
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| American Virgin Islands | Connie Colaire | 23 | 19 | ||
| Aruba | Jacqueline van Putten | 24 | Sint Nicolaas | 20 | |
 Australia | Angelina Nasso | 18 | Sydney | 21 | |
 Austria | Gabriele Maxonus | 20 | Salzburg | 18 | |
| Bahamas | Rhonda Cornea | 17 | Abaco Island | 20 | |
| Barbados | Elizabeth Wadman | 19 | Christ Church | 19 | |
 Belgium | Ann van den Broeck | 18 | Antwerp | 18 | |
| Bermuda | Jannell Ford | 23 | Devonshire | 23 | |
 Bolivia | Carolina Abudinen | 19 | Santa Cruz | 19 | |
 Brazil | Leila Bittencourt | 19 | 28 | ||
 Canada | Michelle Tambling | 20 | Toronto | 19 | |
| Cayman Islands | Emily Hurlston | 18 | North Side | 19 | |
| Chile | Lydia Labarca | 20 | Santiago | 21 | |
 Colombia | 20 | Santiago de Cali | 23 | ||
| Costa Rica | Marianela Herrera | 19 | San Jose | 19 | |
| Curaçao | Lidushka Curiel | 21 | Willemstad | 21 | |
 Cyprus | Juliana Kalogirou | 18 | Famagusta | 18 | |
| Denmark | Jeanette Kröll | 19 | Odense | 19 | |
 Dominican Republic | María Trinidad González | 20 | Santo Domingo | 19 | |
 Ecuador | María del Pilar de Veintemilla | 21 | Quito | 19 | |
| El Salvador | Luz del Carmen Mena | 21 | San Salvador | 19 | |
 Finland | Marja Kinnunen | 22 | Tampere | 26 | |
 France | Nathalie Jones | 18 | Nouméa | 18 | |
| Gambia | Georgett Salleh | 19 | Brikama | 18 | |
| Germany | Marion Morell | 20 | Stuttgart | 20 | |
 Gibraltar | Gail Francis | 22 | Gibraltar | 18 | |
| Greece | Epi Galanos | 22 | Athens | 18 | |
 Guam | Therese Quintanilla | 18 | Agana | 23 | |
| Guatemala | Maricela Luna | 20 | Guatemala City | 19 | |
| Holland | Brigitte Bergman | 21 | Utrecht | 24 | |
| Hong Kong | Aileen Lo | 20 | Hong Kong Island | 21 | |
 Iceland | Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir | 22 | Reykjavík | 34 | |
 India | Sharon Mary Clarke | 18 | New Delhi | 24 | |
 Ireland | Anne Marie Gannon | 19 | Dublin | 27 | |
| Fiona Hartley | 19 | Douglas | 23 | ||
 Israel | Maja Wechtenhaim | 21 | Haifa | 33 | |
 Italy | Cosetta Antoniolli | 20 | Milan | 22 | |
 Ivory Coast | Rose Armande Oulla | 18 | Abidjan | 22 | |
 Jamaica | Alison Jean Barnett | 19 | Kingston | 32 | |
 Japan | Haruko Sugimoto | 22 | Tokyo | 18 | |
 Kenya | Jacqueline Mary Thom | 18 | Thika | 20 | |
 Korea | Park Eun-kyoung | 22 | Seoul | 18 | |
| Lebanon | Mary Khoury | 25 | Beirut | 18 | |
 Liberia | Sarah Laurine Horton | 18 | Monrovia | 18 | |
 Luxembourg | Beatrix Tinnemans | 24 | Luxembourg City | 18 | |
| Malaysia | Rosalind Kong | 21 | Kuala Lumpur | 18 | |
 Malta | Kristina Bologna | 20 | Mdina | 18 | |
 Mexico | Alicia Yolanda Carrillo | 23 | Guadalajara | 19 | |
 New Zealand | Sheri LeFleming Burrow | 20 | Auckland | 29 | |
| Nigeria | Rosemary Okeke | 21 | Lagos | 18 | |
 Norway | 18 | Kristiansund | 18 | ||
 Panama | Diana Alfaro | 24 | Panama City | 19 | |
| Paraguay | Daisy Ferreira | 19 | Asunción | 33 | |
 Peru | Carmen del Rosario Muro | 21 | Lambayeque | 19 | |
| Philippines | Elizabeth Cuenco | 21 | Manila | 18 | |
| Poland | Katarzyna Zawidzka | 23 | Gorzów | 32 | |
| Portugal | Fátima Raimundo | 18 | Cascais | 19 | |
| Puerto Rico | Iris Matías | 20 | Caguas | 30 | |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Karen Marcelle Grant | 19 | Old Road Town | 19 | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Donna Young | 19 | Kingstown | 19 | |
| Singapore | Joanna Sylvia Mitchell | 19 | Paya Lebar | 26 | |
 Spain | María Amparo Martínez | 23 | Valencia | 21 | |
| Sri Lanka | Natalie Gunewardene | 22 | Colombo | 18 | |
 Swaziland | June Hank | 25 | Manzini | 19 | |
 Sweden | Anne-Bolette Christophersson | 21 | Stockholm | 28 | |
| Switzerland | Eveline Glanzmann | 20 | Bauen | 31 | |
| Tahiti | Ruth Manea | 18 | Faa'a | 18 | |
 Thailand | 22 | Bangkok | 18 | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | Ulrica Phillip | 21 | San Fernando | 20 | |
 Turks and Caicos | Barbara Capron | 18 | Providenciales | 19 | |
 Uganda | Helen Acheng | 24 | Kitgum | 18 | |
| United Kingdom | Mandy Shires | 19 | Bradford | 33 | |
 United States | Brenda Denton | 22 | Hobbs | 31 | |
| Uruguay | Gabriela de León | 19 | Montevideo | 20 | |
 Venezuela | 18 | Anaco | 36 | ||
| Western Samoa | Angelie Achatz | 21 | Apia | 18 | |
| Yugoslavia | Aleksandra Kosanović | 23 | Belgrade | 21 | |
| Zaire | Benita Kayonga Murekatete | 18 | Kinshasa | 24 |
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