# Miss World 1965 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_World_1965 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_World_1965.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_1965 > Source revision: 1351474482 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Beauty pageant edition Miss World 1965 Date 19 November 1965 Presenters David Jacobs Michael Aspel [1] Venue Lyceum Ballroom, London, England, United Kingdom Broadcaster BBC Entrants 48 Placements 16 Debuts Costa Rica Gambia Malta Rhodesia Syria Withdrawals Aruba Montserrat Nicaragua Portugal Spain Republic of China Turkey Returns Australia Bolivia Cyprus French Polynesia Israel Jordan Malaysia Peru Winner Lesley Langley[2][3] United Kingdom ← 1964 1966 → **Miss World 1965** was the 15th edition of the [Miss World](/source/Miss_World) pageant, held at the [Lyceum Ballroom](/source/Lyceum_Theatre%2C_London) in [London](/source/London), England, United Kingdom, on 19 November 1965. The winner was [Lesley Langley](/source/Lesley_Langley) of the United Kingdom.[2][3] She was crowned by Miss World 1964, [Ann Sidney](/source/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](/source/Rosemarie_Frankland), [Miss World 1961](/source/Miss_World_1961), performed a dance routine alongside [Lionel Blair](/source/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[a] and Syria, and the return of Australia and French Polynesia,[b] which last competed in [1960](/source/Miss_World_1960), and Bolivia, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia and Peru in [1963](/source/Miss_World_1963). Aruba, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, and the Republic of China, withdrew from the competition. [Zerrin Arbaş](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerrin_Arba%C5%9F) of Turkey withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons.[4] ## Results Placement Contestant Miss World 1965 United Kingdom – Lesley Langley[2][3] 1st runner-up United States – Dianna Batts[2] 2nd runner-up Ireland – Gladys Anne Waller[2] 3rd runner-up Austria – Ingrid Kopetzky[2] 4th runner-up French Polynesia – Marie Tapare[2] Top 7 Canada – Carol Ann Tidey[2] Rhodesia – Lesley Bunting[2] Top 16 Costa Rica – Marta Eugenia Escalante[2] Denmark – Yvonne Hanne Ekman[2] Finland – Raija Marja-Liisa Salminen[2] France – Christiane Sibellin[2] Japan – Yuko Oguchi[2] New Zealand – Gay Phelps[2] South Korea – Lee Eun-ah[2] Sweden – Britt-Marie Lindblad[2] West Germany – Karin Schütze[2] ## Judge Miss World 1965 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges, among whom included [Martine Carol](/source/Martine_Carol), a French actress.[2] ## Contestants - **[Argentina](/source/Argentina)** – Lidia Alcira Díaz - **[Australia](/source/Australia)** – Jan Rennison - **[Austria](/source/Austria)** – Ingrid Kopetzky[2] - **[Belgium](/source/Belgium)** – Lucy Emilie Nossent - **[Bolivia](/source/Bolivia)** – Gabriela Cornel Kempff - **[Brazil](/source/Brazil)** – Berenice Lunardi - **[Canada](/source/Canada)** – Carol Ann Tidey[2] - **[Ceylon](/source/Dominion_of_Ceylon)** – Shirlene Minerva de Silva - **[Colombia](/source/Colombia)** – Nubia Angelina Bustillo Gallo - **[Costa Rica](/source/Costa_Rica)** – Marta Eugenia Escalante Fernández - **[Cyprus](/source/Cyprus)** – Krystalia Psara - **[Denmark](/source/Denmark)** – Yvonne Hanne Ekman - **[Ecuador](/source/Ecuador)** – Corine Mirguett Corral - **[Finland](/source/Finland)** – Raija Marja-Liisa Salminen - **[France](/source/France)** – Christiane Sibellin - **[French Polynesia](/source/French_Polynesia)** – Marie Tapare[2] - **[Gambia](/source/The_Gambia)** – Ndey Jagne - **[Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar)** – Rosemarie Viňales - **[Greece](/source/Greece)**- Maria Geka - **[Honduras](/source/Honduras)** – Edda Inés Mungula - **[Iceland](/source/Iceland)** – Sigrún Vignisdóttir - **[Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland)** – Gladys Anne Waller[2] - **[Israel](/source/Israel)** – Shlomit Gat - **[Italy](/source/Italy)** – Guya Libraro - **[Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)** – Carol Joan McFarlane - **[Japan](/source/Japan)** – Yuko Oguchi - **[Jordan](/source/Jordan)** – Nyla Munir Haddad - **[Lebanon](/source/Lebanon)** – Yolla George Harb - **[Liberia](/source/Liberia)** – Melvilla Mardea Harris - **[Luxembourg](/source/Luxembourg)** – Marie-Anne Geisen - **[Malaysia](/source/Malaysia)** – Clara Eunice de Run - **[Malta](/source/Malta)** – Wilhelmina Mallia - **[Morocco](/source/Morocco)** – Lucette Garcia - **[Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)**[c] – Janny de Knegt - **[New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand)** – Gay Phelps[5] - **[Peru](/source/Peru)** – Lourdes Cárdenas Gilardi - **[Rhodesia](/source/Rhodesia)** – Lesley Bunting[2] - **[South Africa](/source/South_Africa)** – Carrol Adele Davis - **[South Korea](/source/South_Korea)**[d] – Lee Eun-ah - **[Suriname](/source/Suriname_(Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands))** – Anita van Eyck - **[Sweden](/source/Sweden)** – Britt Marie Lindblad - **[Syria](/source/Syria)** – Raymonde Doucco - **[Tunisia](/source/Tunisia)** – Zeineb Ben Lamine - **[United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)** – [Lesley Langley](/source/Lesley_Langley)[2][3] - **[United States](/source/United_States)** – [Dianna Batts](/source/Dian_Parkinson)[2] - **[Uruguay](/source/Uruguay)** – Raquel Luz Delgado - **[Venezuela](/source/Venezuela)** – [Nancy González](/source/Nancy_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(model))[6] - **[West Germany](/source/West_Germany)** – Karin Schütze ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** After the dissolution of the [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland](/source/Federation_of_Rhodesia_and_Nyasaland) in 1963, Rhodesia (later renamed [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe)) participated for the first time this year as an independent territory 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Competed as Tahiti in the pageant 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Competed as Holland in the pageant 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Competed as Korea in the pageant ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["*Miss World 1965*"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160914220433/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1bcfebb3d304fb78ebd4616900c3a4e). 19 November 1965. Archived from [the original](http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b1bcfebb3d304fb78ebd4616900c3a4e) on 14 September 2016. BBC Genome Project Retrieved 2016-6-24 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-8) [***j***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-9) [***k***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-10) [***l***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-11) [***m***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-12) [***n***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-13) [***o***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-14) [***p***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-15) [***q***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-16) [***r***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-17) [***s***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-18) [***t***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-19) [***u***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-20) [***v***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-21) [***w***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-22) [***x***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-23) [***y***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-24) [***z***](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-25) [*Ottawa Citizen*](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19651120&id=QbgyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uewFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4809,1678818&hl=en) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-autogenerated2_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-autogenerated2_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-autogenerated2_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-autogenerated2_3-3) [*The Sydney Morning Herald*](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19651121&id=rg0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_uYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6482,6927681&hl=en) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Tarihi, Güncelleme (4 May 2020). ["Güzeller canlı yayında buluştu"](https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916) [Beauties met on live broadcast]. *[Hürriyet](/source/H%C3%BCrriyet)* (in Turkish). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230102125519/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916) from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["'Miss New Zealand'"](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1965/06/08/1). *[The Press](/source/The_Press)*. [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand. 8 June 1965. p. 1. Retrieved 1 January 2026 – via [Papers Past](/source/National_Library_of_New_Zealand#Papers_Past). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Miss Venezuela 1965"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171230070953/http://www.bellezacol.org/historiadeprensa/1965/1965.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.bellezacol.org/historiadeprensa/1965/1965.htm) on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018. ## External links - [Miss World official website](http://www.missworld.com) v t e Miss World Editions 1950s 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020s 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Related Titleholders Runners-up and finalists Editions Countries Beauty with a Purpose v t e Miss World 1965 national titleholders Anel Noreña Lesley Langley Dianna Lynn Batts Nancy González --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Miss World 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_1965) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_1965?action=history)). 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