In 1989 Ms. Juliette Powell was the first Black Montreal and Black Canadian to win. She has dual Canadian/US citizenship. Juliette is perfectly bilingual.
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Miss France: Flora Coquerel
Nationality: French Ethnicity: father is French & her mother is Beninese, African. An international business student, Coquerel conquered French people’s hearts with her words — she stated a desire to represent a cosmopolitan, modern France claiming that “today’s France is a mixed France, where there is every culture, and I think a lot of people […]
Read MoreMiss Switzerland: Alina Buchschacher
Nationality: Swiss Ethnicity: Her father is Swiss and her mother is from Trinidad And Tobago. Alina Buchschacher was raised in a quiet area of Berne, Switzerland. Alina has been an active horseback rider for 14 years and is currently training in show jumping and dressage. Her career ambition is to obtain her degree in Business […]
Read MoreMiss France: Veronique De La Cruz from Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe-born Véronique de la Cruz Crowned Miss France in 1993, she broke new ground as she led the way for other black women.
Read MoreMiss France: Corinne Coman from Guadeloupe
Miss France 2003: Corinne Coman, a 19-year-old engineering student from Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, accepts her crown as Miss France 2003 from last year’s Miss France, Sylvie Tellier, during the recent competition in Lyon, France. It was the first time a young woman from Guadeloupe has won the event since 1993, event organizers […]
Read MoreMiss France: Chloé Mortaud
Chloé Mortaud (September 19, 1989, born in Lisieux, Calvados) is a French beauty pageant contestant and actress who won Miss France 2009. She represented the Albigeois-Midi-Pyrénées, a southwest region of France, and became the first winner of the Miss France beauty pageant to have dual citizenship, French and American. Mortaud received US citizenship through her […]
Read MoreMiss America: Nina Davuluri
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, is the first Indian American to be chosen as Miss America and the first to perform a Bollywood dance on the Miss America stage.
Read MoreVanessa Williams the First Black Miss America
In 1983, Vanessa Williams made history when she was crowned the first African-American Miss America. Entertainer Vanessa Lynn Williams was born on March 18, 1963, in Bronx, New York. Williams’s parents, Milton and Helen, both worked as music educators. Though she thought she might place in the top 10, Williams didn’t think it would go […]
Read MoreMiss World: Jennifer Hosten
First black woman to win the Miss World Contest. She was born in St. George’s, Grenada. She was 22 when she won the Miss World contest. Jennifer Hosten won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first woman from her country to win the title. Her winning made a complete outrage among […]
Read MoreMiss World: Agbani Darego
In November that year, she became the first black African citizen, and the second black woman overall (after Jennifer Hosten), to claim the Miss World title (Although past winners such as Penelope Coelen and Anneline Kriel are South African, they are of European descent, and Antigone Costanda, who represented Egypt in 1954 is of Greek […]
Read MoreMiss Brazil: Deise Nunes
The crowning of the first Miss Brazil that has Black features has stirred up feelings … After 18-year-old Deise Nunes de Souza beat out a bevy of blonde-haired, … Jet – Aug 4, 1986 – Page 29 – Google Books Result Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire […]
Read MoreThe first black Miss Israel: Yityish Aynaw
Nationality: Israeli Place of birth: Ethiopia, Africa Aynaw was born in Chahawit, a small village in northern Ethiopia, near the city of Gondar. Her father died when she was young and when she was just 12 years old she lost her mother to a painful illness. Heartbroken, she arrived in Israel with her brother to […]
Read MoreMiss Norway: Iman Kerigo
Iman Kerigo, the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss Norway. She is the daughter of Kenyan parents. Iman Kerigo is a 22 year old black woman who at the age of 18 was crowned Miss Norway in 2010. She was the first woman of African descent to hold the title. Kerigo and […]
Read MoreMiss Sweden: Malou Hansson
Malou Hansson, (born in 1983 in Järfälla, Uppland, Sweden) served as Miss Sweden in 2002. She was the first black woman to hold this beauty pageant title. Hansson, competing as “Miss Uppland”, was suggested as a potential candidate for the Miss Universe pageant by a celebrity panel, and the viewers selected her as the winner […]
Read MoreMiss Switzerland: Whitney Toyloy
She was crowned Miss Switzerland 2008 in Lugano. Whitney Toyloy has a multicultural background, with her ancestors coming from the United States, China, Panama and Switzerland. Ms. Toyloy Speaks French, English & German. Lugano is a city in southern Switzerland. Whitney Toyloy was born on July 21, 1990 in Switzerland.
Read MoreMiss Belgium: Tatiana Silva
Tatiana Silva Braga Tavares is a model who was crowned Miss Belgium in 2005. She is the First black woman to win the crown of Miss Belgium. She fluently speaks French (native), Dutch, English, Cape Verdean and Portuguese. Tatiana was crowned most beautiful woman of Belgium Tatiana Silva is not of Belgian descent, but of […]
Read MoreMiss France: “Sonia Rolland”
Nationality: French Place of Birth: Kigali, Rwanda Ethnicity: French and African At the age of 18, the actress and model was the first with an African background to win Miss France. Born in Kigali, Rwanda, from a Rwandese mother, Landrada, and a French father, Jacques, the family escaped to the neighbouring country of Burundi, the year before […]
Read MoreKenya Moore
Nationality: American Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan Ethnicity: African ancestry She is a former Miss USA, an American film and television actress, model and author. Was a psychology major at Wayne State University Was 4th place in Miss Universe 1993 Founder of the Kenya Moore foundation which awards scholarships to under-privileged girls from her high school alma-mater. She has […]
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