{"id":39256,"date":"2025-11-23T04:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/these-8-countries-have-produced-the-most-miss-universe-winners\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:41:31","slug":"these-8-countries-have-produced-the-most-miss-universe-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/these-8-countries-have-produced-the-most-miss-universe-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"These 8 countries have produced the most Miss Universe winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/5c0ed1a4bfa5ba02597b7803?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Gabriela Isler of Venezuela wins Miss Universe 2013\"\/><figcaption>Gabriela Isler of Venezuela wins Miss Universe 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Golovkin\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Miss Universe competition was launched in 1952 to celebrate and empower women.<\/li>\n<li>The US has the highest number of competition wins at nine.<\/li>\n<li>F\u00e1tima Bosch won the 74th annual Miss Universe in November 2025, marking Mexico&#039;s fourth victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miss Mexico has won the 74th annual Miss Universe pageant. F\u00e1tima Bosch, 25, took the crown after competing against 120 women from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The Miss Universe competition has been a global event since 1952 and aims to &quot;empower and inspire women to shape a better world,&quot; according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Many countries, of course, vie for the crown, but certain ones have produced more winners than others throughout the competition&#039;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the countries with the most Miss Universe wins.<\/p>\n<p>The United States: 9<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/63c37dd9b4171f001957ed4c?format=jpeg\" alt=\"R&#039;Bonney Gabriel Miss Universe\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1954: Miriam Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>1956: Carol Morris<\/p>\n<p>1960: Linda Bement<\/p>\n<p>1967: Sylvia Louise Hitchcock<\/p>\n<p>1980: Shawn Weatherly<\/p>\n<p>1995: Chelsi Smith<\/p>\n<p>1997: Brook Lee<\/p>\n<p>2012: Olivia Culpo<\/p>\n<p>2022: R&#039;Bonney Gabriel<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela: 7<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/5c0ed0b1991c570259474d97?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Dayana Mendoza winning Miss Universe 2008\"\/><figcaption>Dayana Mendoza winning Miss Universe 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Yu\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1979: Maritza Sayalero<\/p>\n<p>1981: Irene S\u00e1ez<\/p>\n<p>1986: B\u00e1rbara Palacios<\/p>\n<p>1996: Alicia Machado<\/p>\n<p>2008: Dayana Mendoza<\/p>\n<p>2009: Stefan\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n<p>2013: Gabriela Isler<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico: 5<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/5c0ed3d45f191502eb583c24?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Miss Puerto Rico Dayanara Torres after winning Miss Universe 1993\"\/><figcaption>Miss Puerto Rico Dayanara Torres after winning Miss Universe 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Robbins\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1970: Marisol Malaret<\/p>\n<p>1985: Deborah Carthy-Deu<\/p>\n<p>1993: Dayanara Torres<\/p>\n<p>2001: Denise M. Qui\u00f1ones<\/p>\n<p>2006: Zuleyka Rivera<\/p>\n<p>Mexico: 4<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6921ebd889026fbb4d0e3ac2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Fatima Bosch Fern\u00e1ndez of Mexico won Miss Universe 2025.\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>Arnun Chonmahatrakool\/Thai News Pix\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1991: Lupita Jones <\/p>\n<p>2010: Ximena Navarrete<\/p>\n<p>2020: Andrea Meza<\/p>\n<p>2025: F\u00e1tima Bosch<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines: 4<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/5c0ec7727b643900412605d2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Miss Philippines 2015 Pia Wurtzbach wins the title\"\/><figcaption>Miss Philippines 2015 Pia Wurtzbach wins the title.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1969: Gloria Diaz<\/p>\n<p>1973: Margarita Moran<\/p>\n<p>2015: Pia Wurtzbach<\/p>\n<p>2018: Catriona Gray<\/p>\n<p>Sweden: 3<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6921ec7babd5e944effb5018?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Miss Universe 1984 Sweden&#039;s Yvonne Ryding\"\/><figcaption>Miss Universe 1984, Sweden&#039;s Yvonne Ryding.<\/p>\n<p>PL Gould\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1955: Hillevi Rombin<\/p>\n<p>1966: Margareta Arvidsson<\/p>\n<p>1984: Yvonne Ryding<\/p>\n<p>South Africa: 3<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/60a528b3e25d05001880c749?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Miss Universe South Africa\"\/><figcaption>Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>VALERIE MACON\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1978: Margaret Gardiner <\/p>\n<p>2017: Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters<\/p>\n<p>2019: Zozibini Tunzi<\/p>\n<p>India: 3<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/61b75b9070f9790019b6020e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Miss India at Miss Universe 2021\"\/><figcaption>Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu is crowned Miss Universe in Eilat, Israel on December 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>MENAHEM KAHANA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1994: Sushmita Sen<\/p>\n<p>2000: Lara Dutta<\/p>\n<p>2021: Harnaaz Sandhu<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriela Isler of Venezuela wins Miss Universe 2013. Pavel Golovkin\/AP The Miss Universe competition was launched in 1952 to celebrate and empower women. The US has the highest number of competition wins at nine. F\u00e1tima Bosch won the 74th annual Miss Universe in November 2025, marking Mexico&#039;s fourth victory. Miss Mexico has won the 74th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}