Miss World Winners -- 1980-2014

Priyanka Chopra - India - 2000

Starting in 1980, here are the rest of the winners.

Gabriella Brum - Germany - 1980 (Resigned)
Kimberley Santos - Guam - 1980 (Took the place of Gabriella Brum)
Pilín León - Venezuela - 1981 (Carmen Josefina León Crespo)
Mariasela Álvarez - Dominican Republic - 1982
Sarah-Jane Hutt - United Kingdom - 1983
Astrid Carolina Herrera - Venezuela - 1984
Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir - Iceland - 1985
Giselle Laronde - Trinidad and Tobago - 1986
Ulla Weigerstorfer - Austria - 1987 (Ulrike Weigerstorfer)
Linda Pétursdóttir - Iceland - 1988
Aneta Kręglicka - Poland - 1989 (First Eastern European woman to win)

Gina Tolleson - America - 1990
Ninibeth Leal - Venezuela - 1991
Julia Kourotchkina - Russia - 1992
Lisa Hanna - Jamaica - 1993
Aishwarya Rai - India - 1994 (Now an accomplished actress)
Jacqueline Aguilera - Venezuela - 1995
Irene Skliva - Greece - 1996
Diana Hayden - India - 1997
Linor Abargil - Israel - 1998
Yukta Mookhey - India - 1999

Priyanka Chopra - India - 2000 (Another actress)
Agbani Darego - Nigeria - 2001 (The first black African woman to win)
Azra Akın - Turkey (Dutch-Turkish) - 2002
Rosanna Davison - Ireland - 2003
María Julia Mantilla - Peru - 2004
Unnur Vilhjálmsdóttir - Iceland - 2005
Taťána Kuchařová - Czech Republic - 2006
Zhang Zilin - China - 2007
Ksenia Sukhinova - Russia - 2008
Kaiane Aldorino - Gibraltar - 2009
Alexandria Mills - America - 2010
Ivian Sarcos - Venezuela - 2011
Yu Wenxia - China - 2012
Megan Young - Philippines (Filipino-American) - 2013 (First Southeast Asian woman to win)
Rolene Strauss - South Africa - 2014

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