{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | image = Eva Rueber-Staier during USO tour, 1969.jpg | caption = Eva Rueber-Staier, Miss World 1969 | winner = [[Eva Rueber-Staier]]<ref name="E! 2014">{{cite web | title=Miss World Competition Through the Years | website=[[E!]] | date=December 12, 2014 | url=http://www.eonline.com/photos/14545/miss-world-competition-through-the-years/443143| accessdate=January 23, 2016}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2512&dat=19691128&id=EAFIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U_8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3487,4349241&hl=en ''The Morning Record''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | entertainment = [[Frank Ifield]], [[Lionel Blair]] & his Dancers | represented = Austria | date = 27 November 1969 | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Michael Aspel]]|[[Pete Murray (DJ)|Pete Murray]]}} | venue = [[Royal Albert Hall]], London, United Kingdom | broadcaster = [[BBC]] | entrants = 50 | placements = 15 | debuts = {{Hlist|Seychelles}} | returns = {{Hlist|Czechoslovakia|Gambia|Iceland|Lebanon|Paraguay}} | withdrawals = {{Hlist|Ceylon|Ghana|Italy|Kenya|Morocco|Peru|Switzerland|Thailand|Uganda}} | before = [[Miss World 1968|1968]] | next = [[Miss World 1970|1970]] }}
'''Miss World 1969''' was the 19th edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, held for the first time at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] on 27 November 1969, broadcast for the first time in colour by the [[BBC]]. Fifty delegates vied for the crown won by [[Eva Rueber-Staier]] of Austria.<ref name="E! 2014"/><ref name=autogenerated1 /> She was crowned by actor [[Omar Sharif]], not by Miss World 1968 winner [[Penelope Plummer]] of Australia.
== Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals == This edition marked the debut of Seychelles, and the return of Paraguay, which last competed in [[Miss World 1959|1959]], and Czechoslovakia, Gambia, Iceland and Lebanon, who last competed in [[Miss World 1967|1967]].
Ceylon, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Switzerland, Thailand and Uganda withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.
== Results == [[File:Miss World 1969 Map.PNG|thumb|240px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results]] {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | Miss World 1969 | * {{flag|Austria}} – [[Eva Rueber-Staier]]<ref name="E! 2014"/><ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 1st runner-up | * {{flag|United States}} – [[Gail Renshaw]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 2nd runner-up | * {{flag|West Germany}} – Christa Margraf<ref name=autogenerated1 /> |- | 3rd runner-up | * {{flag|Guyana}} – Pamela Lord |- | 4th runner-up | * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Marzia Piazza]] |- | Top 7 | * {{flag|Norway}} – Kjersti Jortun * {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Linda Collett |- | Top 15 | * {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} – Marcela Bitnarova * {{flag|Finland}} – Päivi Ilona Raita * {{flag|France}} – Suzanne Angly * {{flag|Israel}} – Tehila Selah * {{flag|Jamaica}} – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor * {{flag|Malta}} – Mary Brincat * {{flag|New Zealand}} – Carole Robinson * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Sheena Drummond |}
=== Special awards === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" !Award !Winner |- |Miss Photogenic | * {{flagicon|MEX}} Mexico – Gloria Leticia Hernández<ref>{{cite web |title=Afiche retro. Señorita México 1969 Gloria HDZ |url=https://www.todocoleccion.net/coleccionismo-carteles-pequenos/afiche-retro-senorita-mexico-1969-gloria-hdz-martin~x469492367 |accessdate=April 8, 2021 |website=todocoleccion |language=es}}</ref> |- |Miss Personality | * {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgium – Maud Alin |}
== Contestants == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * {{flag|Argentina|alt}} – Graciela Marino * {{flag|Australia}} – Stefane Meurer * {{flag|Austria}} – [[Eva Rueber-Staier]] * {{flag|Bahamas|1953}} – Wanda Pearce * {{flag|Belgium}} – Maud Alin * {{flag|Brazil|1968}} – Ana Cristina Rodrigues * {{flag|Canada}} – [[Jacquie Perrin]] * {{flag|Chile}} – Ana María Nazar * {{flag|Colombia}} – Lina María García Ogliastri * {{flag|Costa Rica}} – Damaris Ureña * {{flag|Cyprus}} – Flora Diaouri * {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} – Marcela Bitnarova * {{flag|Denmark}} – Jeanne Perfeldt * {{flag|Dominican Republic}} – Sandra Simone Cabrera Cabral * {{flag|Ecuador}} – [[Ximena Aulestia]] * {{flag|Finland}} – Päivi Ilona Raita * {{flag|France}} – Suzanne Angly * {{flag|Gambia}} – Marie Carayol * {{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}} – Marilou Chiappe * {{flag|Greece|old}} – Heleni Alexopoulou * {{flag|Guyana}} – Pamela Patricia Lord * {{flag|Holland}} – Nente van der Vliet * {{flag|Iceland}} – Ragnheiður Pétursdóttir * {{flag|India}} – Adina Shellim * {{flag|Ireland}} – Hillary Clarke * {{flag|Israel}} – Tehila Selah * {{flag|Jamaica}} – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor * {{flag|Japan|1947}} – Emiko Karashima * {{flag|Lebanon}} – Roula Majzoub * {{flag|Liberia}} – Antoinette Coleman * {{flag|Luxembourg}} – Jacqueline Schaeffer * {{flag|Malta}} – Mary Brincat * {{flag|Mexico}} – Gloria Leticia Hernández Martín del Campo<ref>{{cite web |title=Miss World Contestants Arrive at Heathrow Print 1969 |url=https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/framed-prints/memory-lane-prints/miss-world-contestants-arrive-heathrow-print-1969-21259141.html?_gl=1*1vp74hb*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTQxMjcxNTE3Mi4xNzc2ODAyMzIy*_ga_Server*czE3NzY4MDIzMjEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzY4MDIzMjQkajU3JGwwJGgxNzIzNzg1NzMy |accessdate=April 21, 2026 |website=mediastorehouse}}</ref> * {{flag|New Zealand}} – Carole Robinson<ref>{{cite news |title=HAPPY “MISS N.Z.” |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1969/06/04/3 |work=[[The Press]] |page=3 |access-date=1 January 2026 |date=4 June 1969 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * {{flag|Nicaragua}} – Carlota Marina Brenes López * {{flag|Nigeria}} – Morenike Faribido * {{flag|Norway}} – Kjersti Jortun * {{flag|Paraguay|1954}} – Blanca Zaldívar * {{flag|Philippines|1946}} – [[Feliza Teresa Miro]] * {{flag|Seychelles|1961}} – Sylvia Labonte * {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Linda Meryl Collett * {{flag|South Korea}}{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} – Kim Seung-hee * {{flag|Sweden}} – Ing-Marie Ahlin * {{flag|Tunisia|1959}} – Zohra Tabania * {{flag|Turkey}} – Şermin Ayşin<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=tr|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> * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Sheena Drummond * {{flag|United States}} – [[Gail Renshaw]] * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Marzia Piazza]] * {{flag|West Germany}} – Christa Margraf * {{flag|Yugoslavia}} – Radmila Živković {{div col end}}
== Notes == {{notelist}}
=== Did not compete === * {{flagu|Malaysia}} – Pauline Chai Siew Phin
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Miss World}} {{Miss World 1969 delegates}}
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