List of Indian beauty pageant winners

List of Indian beauty pageant winners

Indian winners of important beauty pageants:

Miss Universe

*Sushmita Sen (Miss Universe 1994)
*Lara Dutta (Miss Universe 2000)

Miss World

*Reita Faria (Miss World 1966)
*Aishwarya Rai (Miss World 1994)
*Diana Hayden (Miss World 1997)
*Yukta Mookhey (Miss World 1999)
*Priyanka Chopra (Miss World 2000)

Miss Asia-Pacific

*Zeenat Aman (1970)
*Tara Anne Fonseca (1973)
*Diya Mirza (2000)

Record Breakers

India also holds the record for Winning the Miss Universe crown and Miss World in the same year twice. Once in 1994 with Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai and again in 2000, Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra when India also won the third largest pageant Miss Asia Pacific by Indian Beauty Dia Mirza.

India holds the highest number of Miss World winners only to be tied with Venezuela.

Miss World 1994 winner Aishwarya Rai was also voted the most beautiful of all the Miss World in 2000.


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