- Miss World 1966
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Miss World 1966 Date 17 November 1966 Presenters Michael Aspel Venue Lyceum Theatre, London, UK Broadcaster BBC Entrants 51 Debuts Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Philippines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Yugoslavia Withdraws Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Liberia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Rhodesia, Spain, Tunisia, and Uruguay Returns Aruba, Chile, India, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey Winner Reita Faria
India
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.
Miss World 1966, the 16th Miss World pageant, was won by Reita Faria of India. It took place on November 17, 1966 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, UK.
Contents
Results
Final Results Contestant Miss World 1966 1st Runner-up 
Yugoslavia - Nikica Marinovic
2nd Runner-up 
Greece - Efi Fontini Plumbi
3rd Runner-up 
Brazil - Marlucci Manvailler Rocha
4th Runner-up 
Italy - Gigliola Carbonara
Finalists 
Norway - Birgit Andersen
United States - Denice Estelle Blair
Semifinalists 
Argentina - Graciela Guardone
Canada - Diane Coulter
Dominican Republic - Jeanette Dotel Montes de Oca
France - Michèle Boulé
Germany - Jutta Danske
Guyana - Umblita Van Sluytman
South Africa - Johanna Maud Carter
United Kingdom - Jennifer Lowe Summers
Contestants
- Argentina - Graciela Guardone
Aruba - Reina Patricia Hernandez
Bahamas - Dorothy Cooper
Belgium - Mireille de Man- Brazil - Marlucci Manvailler Rocha
- Canada - Diane Coulter
Ceylon - Priscilla Martensyn
Chile - Amelia Galaz
Costa Rica - Sonia Mora
Cyprus - Annoula Alvaliotou
Denmark - Irene Poller Hansen- Dominican Republic - Jeanette Dotel Montes de Oca
Ecuador - Alejandra Vallejo Klaere
Finland - Marita Gellman- France - Michèle Boulé
Gambia - Oumie Barry- Germany - Jutta Danske
Gibraltar - Grace Valverde- Greece - Efi Fontini Ploumbi
- Guyana - Umblita van Sluytman
Holland - Anneke Geerts
Honduras - Danira Miralda Buines
Iceland - Audur Hardardóttir- India - Reita Faria
Ireland - Helen McMahon
Israel - Segula Gohr
- Italy - Gigliola Carbonara
Jamaica - Yvonne Walter
Japan - Harumi Kobayashi
Jordan - Vera Jalil Khamis
Korea - Chung Eul-sun
Lebanon - Marlene Talih
Luxembourg - Mariette Sophie Stephano
Malaysia - Merlyn Therese McKelvie
Malta - Monica Sunnura
Mexico - Maria Cecilia González DuPress
Morocco - Naima Naim
New Zealand - Heather Gettings- Norway - Birgit Andersen
Philippines - Vivien Lee Austria- South Africa - Johanna Maud Carter
Suriname - Linda Haselhoef
Sweden - Ingrid Anna Andersson
Switzerland - Janine Solliner
Syria - Feriel Jelal
Trinidad & Tobago - Diane DeFreitas
Turkey - Inci Asena- United Kingdom - Jennifer Lowe Summers
- United States - Denice Estelle Blair
Venezuela - Jeannette Kopp Arenas- Yugoslavia - Nikica Marinovic
Trivia
Returning countries and Debuts
- Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Philippines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Yugoslavia competed in Miss World for the first time.
- Switzerland last competed in 1956.
- Norway last competed in 1960.
- India last competed in 1962.
- Chile and Mexico last competed in 1963.
- Aruba and Turkey last competed in 1964.
Nations not competing
Australia
Austria
Colombia - Maria Estela Sáenz Calero
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Spain - Paquita Torres Pérez (withdrew because Miss Gibraltar was in pageant)
Uruguay - Susana Regeden
Disqualified
Nigeria - Uzor Okafor (married to a Briton, was not nationally crowned)
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