Mister World 1996 was the first Mister World competition, held at the Anadolu Auditorium in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 20, 1996. Tom Nuyens of Belgium was crowned as the first Mister World at the end of the event.
| Placement | Contestant | |
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| Mister World 1996 |
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| 1st Runner-Up | ||
| 2nd Runner-Up |
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| Top 5 |
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| Top 10 |
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| Country | Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | |
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| Raul Orlando Proietto[1] | 21 | Buenos Aires | |||
| Anthony Andrew Martinez[2] | 23 | Oranjestad | |||
| Arlington Brendan Leigh[3] | 22 | Sydney | |||
| Helmut Strebl[4] | 27 | Vienna | |||
| Tom Nuyens[5] | 20 | Wommelgem | |||
| Marcelo Mauricio Ostria Borda[6] | 21 | Tarija | |||
| Felix Chavaphi[7] | 23 | Gaborone | |||
| Thierre di Castro Garrito[8] | 17 | Rio Claro | |||
| Boyko Hristov[9] | 23 | Sofia | |||
| Jimmy Rai[10] | 24 | Toronto | |||
| Franz Serrano[11] | 25 | San Andrés | |||
| Ivan Klemenčič[12] | 20 | Split | |||
| Juan Salvador Vidal Gil[13] | 19 | Santo Domingo | |||
| Andrus Raissar[14] | 22 | Tartu | |||
| Laurent Piranian[15] | 24 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule | |||
| Konrad Meyer[16] | 22 | Düsseldorf | |||
| Harry Kinatzi[17] | 26 | Athens | |||
| Joost Ammerlaan[18] | 24 | Schipluiden | |||
| Zsolt Cséke[19] | 21 | Budapest | |||
| Bikram Singh Saluja[20] | 22 | Mumbai | |||
| Thomas Daniel Plewman[21] | 25 | Dublin | |||
| Zafrir Ben-Zvi[22] | 23 | Haifa | |||
| Angelo d'Amelio[23] | 24 | Taranto | |||
| Richard Nevers[24] | 20 | Kingston | |||
| Vilnis Solovjovs[25] | 25 | Riga | |||
| Hadi Esta[26] | 24 | Beirut | |||
 Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of | Gazmend Beriša[27] | 23 | Skopje | ||
| Alwin Low Dai Wen[28] | 22 | Kuala Lumpur | |||
| Gabriel Soto Borja-Díaz[29] | 21 | Mexico City | |||
| Otto Thorbjørnsen[30] | 22 | Stavanger | |||
| Christopher Celis[31] | 20 | Manila | |||
| Mariusz Trzciński[32] | 23 | Gdańsk | |||
| Eliseo Paulo Cortés Meléndez[33] | 25 | San Juan | |||
| Oleg Sukochenko[34] | 23 | Yekaterinburg | |||
| Desmond Kong Hua Ng[35] | 24 | Singapore | |||
| Richard Ondrias[36] | 22 | Bratislava | |||
| Marko Vraničar[37] | 20 | Ljubljana | |||
| Charl Hector Coode[38] | 24 | Johannesburg | |||
| José Ramon Gutiérrez Villar[39] | 22 | A Coruña | |||
 Swaziland | Thulani Emmanuel Matsebula[40] | 24 | Manzini | ||
| Tage Johan Jelse[41] | 23 | Skarpnäck | |||
 Taiwan, Province of China | Kuo Pin-chao[42] | 19 | Taipei | ||
| Direk Sirisamphan[43] | 18 | Bangkok | |||
| Ian Anthony Comissiong[44] | 25 | Port of Spain | |||
| Karahan Çantay[45] | 22 | Balıkesir | |||
| Mykola Bezrodniy[46] | 26 | Kyiv | |||
| Simon Alexis Peat[47] | 23 | Liverpool | |||
| Daniel Luján[48] | 23 | El Paso | |||
| José Gregorio Faría Ojeda[49] | 24 | Maracaibo | |||
| Slobodan Klinać[50] | 22 | Belgrade |