Miss Hawaii
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The Miss Hawaii competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii
in the Miss America
pageant. Hawaii has twice won the Miss America title.
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
pageant. Hawaii has twice won the Miss America title.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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| 2011 | Lauren Cheape Lauren Cheape Lauren Nicole Kealohilani Cheape, holds the title of Miss Hawaii 2011 and will compete in the Miss America 2012 Pageant in January 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Miss Hawaii:... |
Mililani | 23 | Miss East Oahu | Jump Rope Routine | Contestant at National Sweetheart National Sweetheart Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart.... 2010 |
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| 2010 | Jalee Fuselier | Hale'iwa Hale'iwa, Hawai'i Haleiwa is a North Shore community and census-designated place in the Waialua District of the island of Oahu, City and County of Honolulu.Haleiwa is located on Waialua Bay, the mouth of Anahulu Stream... |
22 | Miss North Shore | Vocal "Feeling Good Feeling Good "Feeling Good" is a song written by English singer-songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd starring Cy Grant, who sang the original version of the song... " |
2nd Runner-Up Miss America 2011 Miss America 2011 Miss America 2011 was the 90th Miss America pageant. Since the first Miss America pageant was held 90 years ago, in 1921, the Miss America Organization is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2011. It was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas... |
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | Previously Hawaii's Outstanding Teen 2005 |
| 2009 | Raeceen Anuenue Woolford | Pearl City | 24 | Miss Ko Olina | Hula "Ka'ena" | Top 7 at Miss America 2010 Miss America 2010 Miss America 2010, the 89th Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 30, 2010... |
Miss Congeniality | |
| 2008 | Nicole Fox | Honolulu | 23 | Miss Island O'ahu | Tahitian Otea Dance | Top 10 at Miss America 2009 Miss America 2009 Miss America 2009, the 88th Miss America pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 24, 2009. The winner was Katie Stam from Indiana.... |
Quality of Life Finalist | |
| 2007 | Ashley Layfield | Kailua | 21 | Miss Kahala | Jazz Dance "Listen" | Sister of Miss Hawaii USA Miss Hawaii USA The Miss Hawaii USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii in the Miss USA pageant.Hawaii is the most recent state to start competing at Miss USA, as it first competed in 1962. Prior to this delegates were sent to Miss Universe... 2008 |
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| 2006 | Pilialoha Gaison | Kaneohe | 23 | Miss Island Ilima | Tahitian Dance "Te Vaka Te Vaka Te Vaka is an Oceanic music group that performs original contemporary Pacific music or "South Pacific Fusion". The group was founded in 1995 by Opetaia Foa'i in New Zealand... " |
Top 10 at Miss America 2007 Miss America 2007 Miss America 2007, the 86th Miss America, pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 29, 2007, which was a Monday, making it the first time that the pageant was held on a weekday, rather than the traditional Saturday.... |
Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 2005 | Malika Dudley | Papaikou | 23 | Miss Kahala | Vocal "It's In His Kiss The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) "The Shoop Shoop Song " is a song written by Rudy Clark. The song was made a hit when recorded by Betty Everett, who hit #1 on the Cashbox magazine R&B charts with it in 1964... " |
Miss Congeniality | ||
| 2004 | Olena Rubin | Kilauea Kilauea, Hawaii Kīlauea, on the Island of Kauai, shares the name of the active volcano, Mt. Kilauea. The name literally translates to "spewing" or '"much spreading" in Hawaiian. Kilauea, the town, is a census-designated place in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States.... |
23 | Miss West O’ahu | Vocal "Do You Want To Dance? Do You Wanna Dance? "Do You Wanna Dance?" is a song written by Bobby Freeman , and recorded by him in 1958. It is also popular in a version performed by the Beach Boys, which was released in 1965, and in a version recorded by Bette Midler in 1972... " |
Contestant (1999) & Top 10 (2003) at National Sweetheart National Sweetheart Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart.... |
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| 2003 | Kanoelani Gibson | Kapolei Kapolei, Hawaii Kapolei is an unincorporated community in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States on the island of Oahu and is colloquially known as the "second city". Second to Honolulu in size, it is not a legal municipal corporation and thus not properly a city.... |
22 | Miss Diamond Head | Vocal "Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel like) a Natural Woman " A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her... " |
First Runner-Up at Miss America 2004 Miss America 2004 Miss America 2004, the 83rd Miss America, pageant, was broadcast from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 20, 2003 on ABC Network.-Placements:*Miss America 2004: Ericka Dunlap... |
Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 2002 | Kehaulani Christian | Pearl City | 23 | Miss VIP | Tahitian Dance | |||
| 2001 | Denby Dung | Honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and... |
23 | Miss West O’ahu | Soprano Saxophone "G-Bop" | |||
| 2000 | Billie Kiyoka Takaki | Honolulu | Miss Diamond Head | Took over the crown after Angela Perez Baraquio won Miss America 2000 | ||||
| Angela Perez Baraquio Angela Perez Baraquio Angela Perez Baraquio Grey , known professionally by her birth name of Angela Perez Baraquio, was crowned Miss America 2001 on October 14, 2000 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the first Asian American and first teacher ever to win the pageant. She participated in the pageant as Miss Hawaii... |
Honolulu | 24 | Miss Leeward | Hula "Theme from Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 film starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh... " |
Winner - Miss America 2001 Miss America 2001 Miss America 2001, the 80th Miss America, pageant, was from on the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 14, 2000 on ABC Network.-Placements:*Miss America 2001: Angela Perez Baraquio... |
Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1999 | Candes Meijide Gentry | Honolulu | 22 | Miss Oahu | Vocal "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde Jekyll & Hyde (musical) Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543... |
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| 1998 | Jennifer Hera | Lanai City | 21 | Miss Hawaii Pacific University | Vocal "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1997 | Erika Kauffman | Kailua-Kona | 18 | Miss Hawaii Island | Vocal "God Help the Outcasts" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack) The Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Disney's 1996 animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame... |
Semi-Finalist at Miss America 1998 Miss America 1998 Miss America 1998, the 77th Miss America, pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 13, 1997 and was televised by the ABC Network... |
Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1996 | Melissa Ann Short | Ka'a'awa | 23 | Miss Hawaii Pacific University | Classical Vocal "Ah! Je Veux Vivre" from Romeo & Juliet Roméo et Juliette Roméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris on 27 April 1867... |
Semi-Finalist at Miss America 1997 Miss America 1997 Miss America 1997, the 72nd Miss America, pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 14, 1996 and televised by the NBC Network... |
Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | also competed in Miss Oregon |
| 1995 | Traci Toguchi | Honolulu | 20 | Miss Ala Moana | Vocal "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger... " |
Miss National Sweetheart Pageant 1994 - 2nd Runner Up, Interview Winner, Swimsuit Winner. Miss National Sweetheart Pageant 1993 - Top 10, Swimsuit Winner | ||
| 1994 | Courtney Nicolle Glaza | Kaneohe | 22 | Classical Piano | Miss Honolulu | |||
| 1993 | Kanoe Aberegg | Honolulu | 24 | Miss Oahu | Chant & Hula "Aloha ʻOe" | Semi-Finalist at Miss America 1994 Miss America 1994 Miss America 1994 was the 69th Miss America Pageant, and was held on September 18, 1993.-Placements:-Preliminary Awards:-Quality of Life Award:- External links :*... |
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| 1992 | Pamela Kimura | Honolulu | 24 | Vocal "Orange Colored Sky Orange Colored Sky "Orange Colored Sky" is a popular song, written by Milton DeLugg and Willie Stein and published in 1950.The best-known version of the song was recorded by Nat King Cole , but a number of other singers have recorded it, including Cole's daughter, Natalie.The recording by Nat King Cole was recorded... " |
Miss Waikiki | |||
| 1991 | Lani Stone | Miss Diamond Head | Assumed the crown after Carolyn Suzanne Sapp won Miss America | |||||
| Carolyn Suzanne Sapp Carolyn Suzanne Sapp Carolyn Suzanne Sapp is Miss America 1992 and the former Miss Hawaii 1991. She is a graduate of Hawaii Pacific University, which also sponsored her entry pageant into the Miss Hawaii contest... |
Honolulu | 24 | Miss Hawaii Pacific University | Vocal "Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Misbehavin' (song) "Ain't Misbehavin" is a 1929 song written by Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf . Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later performed the song in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. It was used in the off-broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolates... " |
Winner at Miss America 1992 Miss America 1992 Miss America 1992 was the 67th Miss America Pageant, and was held on September 15, 1991.- Placements :-Preliminary Awards:-Quality of Life Award:... |
Preliminary Swimsuit Award | National Sweetheart 1990 Winner | |
| 1990 | Cheryl Akemi Toma | Pearl City | 26 | Miss Diamond Head | Piano / Vocal "Gershwin Medley" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Ligaya Stice | Honolulu | 22 | Miss Kahala | Vocal "Quiet Please, There's a Lady On Stage" | Allman Medical Scholarship recipient | ||
| 1988 | Desiree Moana Cruz | Hilo | 26 | Miss Maui | Vocal "I Am Changing" | Semi-Finalist at Miss America 1989 Miss America 1989 Miss America 1989, the 68th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1988 and was televised by the NBC Network.- Results :*Miss America 1989 Gretchen Carlson... |
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| 1987 | Luana Alapa | Honolulu | 26 | Miss Island International | Vocal "South Sea Sadie" | |||
| 1986 | Cheryl Bartlett | Honolulu | 23 | Miss Kaneohe | Vocal "America the Beautiful America the Beautiful "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1985 | Jeanne Miyamoto | Honolulu | 25 | Miss Kalihi | Vocal / Piano "Bali Ha'i Bali Ha'i "Bali Ha'i", also spelled "Bali Hai", is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.-In musical South Pacific:... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1984 | Debbie Nakanelua | Honolulu | 26 | Miss Diamond Head | Stylized Hula "Hawaiian Hula Eyes" | Semi-Finalist at Miss America 1985 Miss America 1985 Miss America 1985, the 60th Miss America, pageant, was broadcast from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 8, 1984, on NBC Network.- Results :*Miss America 1985 Sharlene Wells Hawkes... |
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| 1983 | Wendy Sue Nelson | Kihei Kihei, Hawaii Kīhei is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 16,749 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kīhei is located at .... |
21 | Miss Maui | Vocal "Hit Me With a Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce" from Sophisticated Ladies Sophisticated Ladies Sophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, conceived by Donald McKayle, directed by Michael Smuin, and choreographed by McKayle, Smuin, Henry LeTang, Bruce Heath, and Mercedes Ellington, opened on March 1, 1981 at... |
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| 1982 | Gale Lee Thomas | Honolulu | 21 | Miss Kalihi | Baton Twirling "Theme from Magnum, P.I. Magnum, P.I. Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.... " & "Hawaiian War Chant Hawaiian War Chant "Hawaiian War Chant" was an American popular song whose original melody and lyrics were written in the 1860s by Prince Leleiohoku. The original title of the song was Kaua I Ka Huahua`i or "We Two in the Spray." It was not written as a chant, and the Hawaiian lyrics describe a clandestine meeting... " |
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| 1981 | Pamela Iwalani Offer | Honolulu | 23 | Miss Ala Moana Americana | Vocal "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" | Mother of Kathryn Bulkley, Miss Arizona 2010. | ||
| 1980 | Kanoelehua Cook | Aiea | 23 | Miss Leeward | Interpretive Dance | |||
| 1979 | Sheron Lehuanani Bissen | Kahului | 20 | Miss Maui | Vocal "Over the Rainbow Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie... " |
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| 1978 | Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey was born and raised in Hawaii by traditional Hawaiian elders. In 2008 she became the first Polynesian explorer and female Fellow in the history of the National Geographic Society. A cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, she is the Founder and CEO of Mapping the... |
Laie | 22 | Miss Waikiki | Silhouette Interpretive Dance & Monologue | |||
| 1977 | Libby Kawaikikilani Lee | Aiea | 18 | Miss Kalihi | Hawaiian Dance & Nose Flute "A Hamakua Au" | |||
| 1976 | Haunani Asing | Kailua | 18 | Miss Kailua | Guitar & Vocal "Hawaiian Lullaby" | |||
| 1975 | Catherine Foy | Aiea | 22 | Miss Hawaii Kai | Vocal / Dance "Look What Happened To Mabel" from Mack & Mabel Mack & Mabel Mack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars... |
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| 1974 | Coline-Helen Kanaloku Aiu | Honolulu | 23 | Miss Hawaii Kai | Modern Jazz Dance "Hospital Shootout" | voted Miss Congeniality (tie) | ||
| 1973 | Kanoelehua Kaumeheiwa | Hawaii Kai Hawaii Kai, Hawaii Hawaii Kai is a largely residential area located in the City & County of Honolulu, in the Honolulu CDP on the island of Oahu. Hawaii Kai is the largest of several communities at the eastern end of the island. The area was largely developed by Henry J. Kaiser around the ancient Maunalua... |
19 | Miss Hawaii Kai | Hula | voted Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1972 | Marlene Diane Kehaulani Kalahiki | Kailua-Kona | 22 | Miss West Kauai | Modern Jazz Dance "Shotgun Shotgun (song) "Shotgun" is a 1965 single by Junior Walker & the All Stars, produced by Berry Gordy Jr. and Lawrence Horn. It reached number one on the U.S. R&B Singles chart for four non-consecutive weeks and was a Top 10 Pop smash, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100... " |
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| 1971 | Aurora Joan Ka'awa | Makakilo City | 19 | Miss Aloha Hawaii | Silhouette Hula Dance & Speech "In the Islands" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1970 | Kathleen Puanani O'Sullivan | Kailua | 18 | Miss Kailua | Modern Dance "Ritual Fire Dance" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1969 | Sheryl Hung Lan Lokelani Akaka | Honolulu | 22 | Miss Waikiki | Piano Solo "Prelude in E-flat Major Prelude in E-flat major (Rachmaninoff) The Prelude in E-flat Major, Op. 23, No. 6 is a 1903 composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is part of Rachmaninoff's Ten Preludes, Op. 23. The piece is reminiscent of sections of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto.- Structure :... " |
Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1968 | Deborah Ynez Gima | Kailua | 18 | Miss Lehua | Hawaiian Song "Wonderful World of Aloha" & "Kaneha" | |||
| 1967 | Robin Ruth Engle | Honolulu | 21 | Miss Ala Moana | Piano Solo "Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse" by Aaron Copland Aaron Copland Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"... |
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| 1966 | Lorretta Ann Perreira | Kauai | 18 | Miss West Kauai | Pantomime Song & Dance | |||
| 1965 | Roberta Rosaria Conlan | Honolulu | 18 | Miss Honolulu | Monologue "Hawaiian History" | |||
| 1964 | Leina'ala Ann Teruya | Honolulu | 18 | Miss Wai-Kahu | Interpretive Monologue "Footprints" from Leaves of a Grass House by Don Blanding Don Blanding Donald Benson Blanding was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, and speaker.... |
Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1963 | Susan D. Pickering | Honolulu | Miss Honolulu | Combination Dance of Can-Can, Jazz & Freestyle Ballet with Art Display | 2nd Runner-up | |||
| 1962 | Patricia Lei Anderson | Honolulu | 19 | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco... |
4th Runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1961 | Joan Whitney Vine | Honolulu | 18 | Miss Honolulu | Vocal Medley "Ah! Je Veux Vivre" & "Thou Swell Thou Swell "Thou Swell" is a show tune, a popular song and a jazz standard.The music was written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart, for the 1927 musical A Connecticut Yankee. There are jazz vocal renditions by Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Blossom Dearie, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe... " |
Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1960 | Gabriella Haleakala 'I | Honolulu | 20 | Hula | ||||
| 1959 | Gordean Leilehua Lee | Honolulu | 20 | Hula | voted Miss Congeniality | |||
| 1958 | Georgietta Kahalelaukoa Parker | Honolulu | Hula | |||||
| 1957 | Sandra Lei Lauhiwa Forsythe | Honolulu | Hula | |||||
| 1956 | Jere Wright | Honolulu | Comedy Monologue from "Gigi Gigi Gigi is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.... " |
Semi-Finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1955 | Barbara Mamo Vieira | Honolulu | Vocal / Hula "The Night Is Young" | Semi-Finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | voted Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1954 | Gertrude Kapi'olani Miller | Honolulu | Hula | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1953 | Dorothy Leilani Ellis | Lihue | Hula | |||||
| 1952 | Beverly Kathleen Rivera | Honolulu | Hula | Semi-Finalist | ||||
| 1951 | Claire Katherine Heen | Honolulu | voted Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1950 | Dell'finn Kalaupaona Poaha | Honolulu | voted Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1949 | Betty Jane Johnson | Honolulu | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1948 | Yun Tau Zane | Honolulu | Hula | voted Miss Congeniality, first Asian-American to compete at Miss America, became Miss Hawaii after the original winner, Irmgard Waiwaiole, resigned due to feeling she would not be able to complete her high school education in time to compete at Miss America. |