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{{Short description|16th Miss Universe pageant}}
{{Infobox beauty pageant
| winner = † '''[[Sylvia Hitchcock]]''' 
| represented = United States<ref name="Tomato"/>
| date = 15 July 1967
| image= Sylvia Hitchcock (1967).jpg
| caption= [[Sylvia Hitchcock]], Miss Universe 1967
| presenters = [[Bob Barker]]<ref name="Tomato">{{cite news |title=Florida Tomato Reforms |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/254765617/ |access-date=5 September 2023 |work=[[Press and Sun-Bulletin]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=16 Jul 1967 |page=1 |language=en}}</ref>
| venue = [[Miami Beach Auditorium]], [[Miami Beach, Florida]], [[United States]]
| broadcaster = [[CBS]]
| entrants = 56
| placements = 15
| debuts = [[Bonaire]]
| withdraws = {{Hlist|[[Dominion of Ceylon|Ceylon]]|[[Ecuador]]|[[Guyana (1966–1970)|Guyana]]|[[Jamaica]]|[[Lebanon]]|[[Morocco]]|[[Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)|Surinam]]|[[Thailand]]|[[Trinidad and Tobago]]}}
| returns = {{Hlist|[[Dominican Republic]]|[[Honduras]]|[[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]|[[Mexico]] |[[United States Virgin Islands]]|[[Uruguay]]}}
| congeniality = Lena MacGarvie (Scotland)<ref name="Tomato"/>
| photogenic = Elia Kalogeraki (Greece)
| best national costume = Carmen Ramasco (Brazil)
| before = [[Miss Universe 1966|1966]]
| next = [[Miss Universe 1968|1968]]
}}

'''Miss Universe 1967''' was the 16th [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held on 15 July 1967 at the [[Miami Beach Auditorium]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]], [[United States]]. [[Sylvia Hitchcock]] of [[United States]] was crowned by [[Margareta Arvidsson]] of [[Sweden]] at the end of the event, This was [[Bob Barker]]'s first Miss Universe pageant as host.

==Results==
===Placements===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|- 
! Placement
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Universe 1967
|
* {{flag|United States}} – [[Sylvia Hitchcock]]<ref name="Tomato"/>
|-
| 1st runner-up
|
* {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Mariela Pérez]]<ref name="Tomato"/>
|-
| 2nd runner-up
|
* {{flag|England}} – Jennifer Lewis<ref name="Tomato"/>
|-
| 3rd runner-up
|
* {{flag|Finland}} – Ritva Lehto<ref name="Tomato"/>
|-
| 4th runner-up
|
* {{flag|Israel}} – Batya Kabiri<ref name="Tomato"/>
|-
| Top 15
|
* {{flag|Brazil|1960}} – Carmen Ramasco
* {{flag|Denmark}} – Gitte Knudsen
* {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}} – Elia Kalogeraki
* {{flag|Holland}} – Irene Van Campenhout
* {{flag|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} – Laura Roque
* {{flag|Ireland}} – Patricia Armstrong
* {{flag|Italy}} – Paola Rossi
* {{flag|Spain|1945}} – Francisca Delgado Sánchez
* {{flag|Sweden}} – Eva Lisa Svensson
* {{flag|Wales}} – Denise Elizabeth Page
|}

==Contestants==
[[File:Miss Universe 1967 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Miss Universe 1967 participating nations and results]]Fifty-six contestants competed for the title.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
!Country/Territory
!Contestant
!Age{{efn|Ages at the time of the pageant}}
!Hometown
|-
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Miss Argentina|Argentina]]
|Amalia Yolanda Scuffi<ref>{{Cite web|last=Braillard|first=Miguel|date=1 October 2021|title=Fue Miss Argentina, inspiró una canción emblemática y por un escándalo no logró ser Miss Mundo|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/lifestyle/fue-miss-argentina-inspiro-una-cancion-emblematica-y-por-un-escandalo-no-logro-ser-miss-mundo-nid09092021/|access-date=1 May 2025|website=La Nacion|language=es}}</ref>
|24
|[[Buenos Aires]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} [[Miss Aruba|Aruba]]
|Ivonne Maduro<ref>{{Cite news|date=30 June 1967|title=Ivonne Maduro elected Miss Aruba 1967|language=en|pages=1–5|work=Aruba Esso News|url=https://dloc.com/CA03400001/00725/images|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Digital Library of the Caribbean}}</ref>
|–
|[[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Miss Austria|Austria]]
|Christl Bartu<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|date=6 July 1967|title=Making a splash in Washington|language=en|pages=4-B|work=St. Petersburg Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-IdQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k1oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5914%2C3361845|access-date=1 May 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
|22
|[[Bludenz]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Bahamas|1953}} [[Miss Bahamas|Bahamas]]
|Elizabeth Knowles
|18
|[[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Miss Belgium|Belgium]]
|Mauricette Sironval<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=15 July 1967|title=Beauties believe in mod|language=en|pages=28|work=The Miami News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114549707/the-miami-news/|access-date=17 October 2023|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
|18
|[[Brussels]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} Bermuda
|Cheryl Smith<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 June 1967|title=Nurse's aid is crowned Miss Bermuda 1967|language=en|pages=1|work=The Bermuda Recorder|url=https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15212coll1/id/13497/rec/21|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Bermuda National Library}}</ref>
|20
|[[Hamilton, Bermuda|Hamilton]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} Bolivia
|Marcela Montoya<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 July 1967|title="Miss Brasil" lucio el "Mejor Vestido Nacional"|language=es|pages=1|work=[[El Tiempo (Colombia)|El Tiempo]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BRUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B4wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3989%2C2447660|access-date=17 October 2023|trans-title="Miss Brazil" wore the "Best National Dress"|via=[[Google News Archives]]}}</ref>
|18
|[[Oruro]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} Bonaire
|Cristina Landwier
|19
|[[Kralendijk]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Brazil|1960}} [[Miss Brazil|Brazil]]
|Carmen Ramasco
|21
|[[Campinas]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Canada}} Canada
|Donna Marie Barker
|20
|[[Ontario]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CHL}} Chile
|Ingrid Vila
|19
|[[Antofagasta]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[Señorita Colombia|Colombia]]
|Elsa María Garrido<ref>{{Cite news|date=13 November 1966|title=Elsa, reina|language=es|pages=1|work=[[El Tiempo (Colombia)|El Tiempo]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4iMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CmgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1402%2C1913030|access-date=17 October 2023|trans-title=Elsa, queen|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
|18
|[[Popayán]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} Costa Rica
|Rosa María Fernández
|18
|[[Guanacaste Province|Guanacaste]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} Cuba
|Elina Salavarría
|19
|[[Havana]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} Curaçao
|Imelda Thodé
|20
|[[Willemstad]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark
|Gitte Knudsen
|20
|[[Copenhagen]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} Dominican Republic
|Jeannette Rey
|18
|[[San Francisco de Macorís]]
|-
|{{flagicon|England}} England
|Jennifer Lynn Lewis
|20
|[[Leicester]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Finland}} Finland
|Ritva Lehto
|21
|[[Kangasala]]
|-
|{{flagicon|France|1830}} France
|Anne Vernier
|18
|[[Paris]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Kingdom of Greece}} [[Miss Star Hellas|Greece]]
|Elia Kalogeraki
|19
|[[Athens]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GUM}} Guam
|Hope Marie Alvarez
|18
|[[Sinajana, Guam|Sinajana]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Holland}} Holland
|Irene Van Campenhout<ref>{{Cite news|date=29 April 1967|title=Miss Holland thuis...|language=nl|pages=31|work=De Telegraaf|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110590222:mpeg21:p031|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref>
|22
|[[The Hague]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Honduras|1949}} Honduras
|Denia Alvorado Medina
|18
|[[Cortés Department|Cortés]]
|-
|{{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} Hong Kong
|Laura Roque
|20
|Hong Kong
|-
|{{flagicon|Iceland}} Iceland
|Guðrún Pétursdóttir
|–
|[[Garðabær]]
|-
|{{flagicon|India}} [[Femina Miss India|India]]
|Nayyara Mirza
|18
|[[Lucknow]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Ireland}} Ireland
|Patricia Armstrong
|19
|[[Dublin]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Israel}} Israel
|Batia Kabiri
|19
|[[Tel Aviv]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Italy}} Italy
|Paola Rossi
|21
|[[Veneto]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Japan
|Kayoko Fujikawa
|18
|[[Osaka]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Luxembourg
|Marie-Jossee Mathgen
|18
|[[Luxembourg City]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Malaysia}} Malaysia
|Monkam Siprasome
|24
|[[Kedah]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Mexico|1934}} Mexico
|Valentina Duarte
|19
|[[Yucatán]]
|-
|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand
|Pamela McLeod
|18
|[[Christchurch]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Norway}} Norway
|Gro Goskor
|21
|[[Oslo]]
|-
| [[File: USCAR flag of the Ryukyu Islands, 1954 (unofficial).svg|23px]] Okinawa
|Etsuko Okuhira
|18
|[[United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands|Okinawa]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Panama}} Panama
|Mirna Norma Castillero
|18
|[[Herrera Province|Herrera]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Paraguay|1954}} Paraguay
|María Eugenia Torres
|18
|[[Presidente Hayes Department|Presidente Hayes]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[Miss Peru|Peru]]
|Mirtha Calvo
|19
|[[Callao]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} [[Binibining Pilipinas|Philippines]]
|[[Pilar Pilapil]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lato-Ruffolo|first=Cris Evert|date=14 December 2019|title=Pilar Pilapil on beauty: 'It can be a curse'|url=https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/275191/pilar-pilapil-on-beauty-it-can-be-a-curse|access-date=17 October 2023|website=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|language=en}}</ref>
|18
|[[Camiling]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico|1952}} [[Miss Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]]
|[[Ivonne Coll]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Monell|first=Ray|date=12 June 2015|title=Ivonne Coll, 'Jane the Virgin' star, to receive Puerto Rican Day Parade Lifetime Achievement Award|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ivonne-coll-receive-pr-parade-lifetime-achievement-award-article-1.2254878|access-date=1 May 2025|website=[[New York Daily News]]|language=en}}</ref>
|18
|[[Fajardo, Puerto Rico|Fajardo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Scotland}} Scotland
|Lena MacGarvie
|19
|[[Glasgow]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SGP}} Singapore
|Bridget Ong
|19
|Singapore
|-
|{{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South Africa
|Windley Ballenden
|20
|[[Cape Town]]
|-
|{{flagicon|South Korea|1949}} South Korea
|Hong Jung-ae
|20
|[[Seoul]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain
|Francisca Delgado<ref name=":1" />
|19
|[[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Miss Sweden|Sweden]]
|Eva-Lisa Svensson
|21
|[[Gothenburg]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland
|Elsbeth Ruegger
|–
|[[Basel-Landschaft]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkey
|Yelda Gürani Saner<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>
|–
|[[Istanbul]]
|-
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[Miss USA|United States]]
|[[Sylvia Hitchcock]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=21 May 1967|title=Miss Alabama: Miss USA|language=en|pages=16|work=[[Tampa Bay Times]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22827969/tampa-bay-times/|access-date=17 October 2023|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
|21
|[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]]
|-
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} United States Virgin Islands
|Gail Garrison
|–
|[[Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} Uruguay
|Mayela Berton
|–
|[[Montevideo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Venezuela|1954}} [[Miss Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|[[Mariela Pérez]]
|21
|[[Caracas]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Wales}} Wales
|Denise Page
|19
|[[Pontypool]]
|-
|{{flagicon|West Germany}} West Germany
|Fee Von Zitzewitz<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 May 2017|title=Wahlessenerin gewinnt Miss-Wahl|url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/essen/wahlessenerin-gewinnt-miss-wahl-id210655195.html|access-date=1 May 2025|website=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung|language=de-DE}}</ref>
|23
|[[Kolberg]]
|}

==Notes==
<references group="lower-alpha" responsive="1"></references>
Miss Ecuador and Miss Thailand were disqualified upon arrival because they were only 17 years old and sent back to their countries,Herbert Landon, Executive Director of the contest, whose president at that time was Harold Glasser, said that the contestants must have a minimum 18 years and a maximum of 28 by the date of the final.

===Withdrawals===
* '''{{flag|Ceylon|1951}}''' - Seedevi de Zoysas Tewaitta Ragama {{citation needed|date=May 2023}}{{dubious|date=May 2023}}
* '''{{ECU}}''' – Laura Baquero Palacios was underage before February 1.
* '''{{GUY}}''' - Bone Jay
* '''{{JAM}}''' - Elham Warwar
* '''{{LBN}}'''
* '''{{MAR}}'''
* '''{{flag|Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)|name=Surinam}}'''
* '''{{THA}}''' - Prapassorn Panichakula was underage before February 1.
* '''{{TTO}}'''

===Did not compete===
* '''{{GTM}}''' - Maria Porras Rottman

===Awards===
* '''{{flag|Scotland}}''' - Miss Amity (Lena MacGarvie)<ref name="Tomato"/>
* '''{{flag|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}}''' - Miss Photogenic (Elia Kalogeraki)
* '''{{flag|Brazil}}''' - Best National Costume (Carmen Ramasco)

== References==
{{reflist}}

{{Miss Universe}}
{{Miss Universe 1967 delegates}}

[[Category:Miss Universe by year|1967]]
[[Category:1967 in Florida]]
[[Category:1967 beauty pageants]]
[[Category:Beauty pageants in the United States]]
[[Category:Events in Miami Beach, Florida]]
[[Category:July 1967 in the United States]]