{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | winner = [[Lesley Langley]]<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19651120&id=QbgyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uewFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4809,1678818&hl=en ''Ottawa Citizen''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19651121&id=rg0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_uYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6482,6927681&hl=en ''The Sydney Morning Herald''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | represented = United Kingdom | date = 19 November 1965 | presenters = {{Hlist|[[David Jacobs (broadcaster)|David Jacobs]]|[[Michael Aspel]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1bcfebb3d304fb78ebd4616900c3a4e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914220433/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1bcfebb3d304fb78ebd4616900c3a4e|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 September 2016|title=''Miss World 1965''|date=19 November 1965 }} BBC Genome Project Retrieved 2016-6-24</ref> | entrants = 48 | placements = 16 | venue = [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum Ballroom]], London, England, United Kingdom | broadcaster = [[BBC]] | debuts = {{Hlist|Costa Rica|Gambia|Malta|Rhodesia|Syria}} | returns = {{Hlist|Australia|Bolivia|Cyprus|French Polynesia|Israel|Jordan|Malaysia|Peru}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|Aruba|Montserrat|Nicaragua|Portugal|Spain|Republic of China|Turkey}} | before = [[Miss World 1964|1964]] | next = [[Miss World 1966|1966]] }}
'''Miss World 1965''' was the 15th edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, held at the [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum Ballroom]] in [[London]], England, United Kingdom, on 19 November 1965. The winner was [[Lesley Langley]] of the United Kingdom.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 /> She was crowned by Miss World 1964, [[Ann Sidney]] of the United Kingdom. This is the second time in Miss World history that a country has won for two consecutive years. Former British winner [[Rosemarie Frankland]], [[Miss World 1961]], performed a dance routine alongside [[Lionel Blair]] as part of the show's cabaret.
== Background == === Seletion of participants === === Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals === This edition marked debut of Costa Rica, the Gambia, Malta, Rhodesia{{Efn|After the dissolution of the [[Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]] in 1963, Rhodesia (later renamed [[Zimbabwe]]) participated for the first time this year as an independent territory}} and Syria, and the return of Australia and French Polynesia,{{Efn|Competed as Tahiti in the pageant}} which last competed in [[Miss World 1960|1960]], and Bolivia, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia and Peru in [[Miss World 1963|1963]]. Aruba, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, and the Republic of China, withdrew from the competition. [[:tr:Zerrin Arbaş|Zerrin Arbaş]] of Turkey withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons.<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 May 2020|last=Tarihi|first=Güncelleme|title=Güzeller canlı yayında buluştu|trans-title=Beauties met on live broadcast|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|access-date=29 April 2025|website=[[Hürriyet]]|language=Turkish|archive-date=2 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102125519/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Results == {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | Miss World 1965 | * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – [[Lesley Langley]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 /> |- | 1st runner-up | * {{flag|United States}} – [[Dian Parkinson|Dianna Batts]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 2nd runner-up | * {{flag|Ireland}} – Gladys Anne Waller<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 3rd runner-up | * {{flag|Austria}} – Ingrid Kopetzky<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 4th runner-up | * {{flagicon|Tahiti}} French Polynesia – Marie Tapare<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | Top 7 | * {{flag|Canada}} – Carol Ann Tidey<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|Rhodesia|1964}} – Lesley Bunting<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | Top 16 | * {{flag|Costa Rica}} – Marta Eugenia Escalante<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|Denmark}} – Yvonne Hanne Ekman<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|Finland}} – Raija Marja-Liisa Salminen<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|France}} – Christiane Sibellin<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|Japan|1947}} – Yuko Oguchi<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|New Zealand}} – Gay Phelps<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|South Korea}} – Lee Eun-ah<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|Sweden}} – Britt-Marie Lindblad<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * {{flag|West Germany}} – Karin Schütze<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |}
== Judge == Miss World 1965 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges, among whom included [[Martine Carol]], a French actress.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
== Contestants ==<!-- FOR NAMES OF COUNTRIES, PLEASE STRICTLY ADHERE TO WP:COMMONNAME POLICIES, DO NOT CHANGE IT JUST BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MISS WORLD USES. --> {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * '''{{flag|Argentina|alt}}''' – Lidia Alcira Díaz * '''{{flag|Australia}}''' – Jan Rennison * '''{{flag|Austria}}''' – Ingrid Kopetzky<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|Belgium}}''' – Lucy Emilie Nossent * '''{{flag|Bolivia|civil}}''' – Gabriela Cornel Kempff * '''{{flag|Brazil|1960}}''' – Berenice Lunardi * '''{{flag|Canada}}''' – Carol Ann Tidey<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|Ceylon|1951}}''' – Shirlene Minerva de Silva * '''{{flag|Colombia}}''' – Nubia Angelina Bustillo Gallo * '''{{flag|Costa Rica}}''' – Marta Eugenia Escalante Fernández * '''{{flag|Cyprus}}''' – Krystalia Psara * '''{{flag|Denmark}}''' – Yvonne Hanne Ekman * '''{{flag|Ecuador}}''' – Corine Mirguett Corral * '''{{flag|Finland}}''' – Raija Marja-Liisa Salminen * '''{{flag|France}}''' – Christiane Sibellin * '''{{flagicon|Tahiti}} [[French Polynesia]]''' – Marie Tapare<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|Gambia}}''' – Ndey Jagne * '''{{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}}''' – Rosemarie Viňales * '''{{flag|Greece|old}}'''- Maria Geka * '''{{flag|Honduras|1949}}''' – Edda Inés Mungula * '''{{flag|Iceland}}''' – Sigrún Vignisdóttir * '''{{flag|Ireland}}''' – Gladys Anne Waller<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|Israel}}''' – Shlomit Gat * '''{{flag|Italy}}''' – Guya Libraro * '''{{flag|Jamaica}}''' – Carol Joan McFarlane * '''{{flag|Japan|1947}}''' – Yuko Oguchi * '''{{flag|Jordan}}''' – Nyla Munir Haddad * '''{{flag|Lebanon}}''' – Yolla George Harb * '''{{flag|Liberia}}''' – Melvilla Mardea Harris * '''{{flag|Luxembourg}}''' – Marie-Anne Geisen * '''{{flag|Malaysia}}''' – Clara Eunice de Run * '''{{flag|Malta}}''' – Wilhelmina Mallia * '''{{flag|Morocco}}''' – Lucette Garcia * '''{{flag|Netherlands}}'''{{Efn|Competed as Holland in the pageant}} – Janny de Knegt * '''{{flag|New Zealand}}''' – Gay Phelps<ref>{{cite news |title=‘Miss New Zealand’ |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1965/06/08/1 |work=[[The Press]] |page=1 |access-date=1 January 2026 |date=8 June 1965 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * '''{{flag|Peru}}''' – Lourdes Cárdenas Gilardi * '''{{flag|Rhodesia|1964}}''' – Lesley Bunting<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|South Africa|1928}}''' – Carrol Adele Davis * '''{{flag|South Korea}}'''{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} – Lee Eun-ah * '''{{flag|Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)|name=Suriname}}''' – Anita van Eyck * '''{{flag|Sweden}}''' – Britt Marie Lindblad * '''{{flag|Syria|1963}}''' – Raymonde Doucco * '''{{flag|Tunisia}}''' – Zeineb Ben Lamine * '''{{flag|United Kingdom}}''' – [[Lesley Langley]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 /> * '''{{flag|United States}}''' – [[Dian Parkinson|Dianna Batts]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * '''{{flag|Uruguay}}''' – Raquel Luz Delgado * '''{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}''' – [[Nancy González (model)|Nancy González]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bellezacol.org/historiadeprensa/1965/1965.htm|title=Miss Venezuela 1965|access-date=2018-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230070953/http://www.bellezacol.org/historiadeprensa/1965/1965.htm|archive-date=2017-12-30|url-status=dead}}</ref> * '''{{flag|West Germany}}''' – Karin Schütze {{div col end}}
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== External links == * [http://www.missworld.com Miss World official website] {{Miss World}} {{Miss World 1965 delegates}} [[Category:Miss World]] [[Category:1965 in London]] [[Category:1965 beauty pageants]] [[Category:Beauty pageants in England]] [[Category:November 1965 in the United Kingdom]]