Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1970	Puerto Rico - Marisol Malaret Marisol Malaret Marisol Malaret Contreras was the very first Puerto Rican woman to be crowned Miss Universe.-Biography:She started to work from an early age due to the death of her father and chronic illness of her mother...
1st runner-up	United States - Deborah Shelton Deborah Shelton Deborah 'Debbie' Shelton is an American beauty queen and actress who held the Miss USA title and appeared on Dallas for three seasons.-Pageants:In 1970 Shelton competed in the Miss Virginia USA pageant to spite her then boyfriend...
2nd runner-up	Australia - Joan Lydia Zealand
3rd runner-up	Japan - Jun Shimada
4th runner-up	Argentina - Beatriz Martha Gross
Top 15	Brazil Miss Brasil The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held almost every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants.It is one of the most important beauty contest of the world, with USA and Venezuela... - Eliane Fialho Thompson  Czechoslovakia - Kristina Hanzalová  Greece - Angelique Bourlessa  Guam - Hilary Anne Best ' - Mabel Hawkett  Italy - Anna Zamboni  Malaysia - Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Leng  Sweden - Britt Johansson Kristina Wayborn Kristina Wayborn is a Swedish-born actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.- Biography :...  Switzerland - Diane Jane Roth  Venezuela - Bella La Rosa Bella La Rosa Bella Mercedes La Rosa de La Rosa is a pageant titleholder, was born in Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela on 1950. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1970, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1970 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 11, 1970, when she...

Order of announcement of semifinalists

• Group 1: Malaysia, Greece, Hong Kong, Argentina, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, & Puerto Rico
• Group 2: Australia, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan, Guam, Sweden & USA

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Guam - Hilary Anne Best
Miss Photogenic	Bermuda - Margaret Hill
Expo Queen	Malaysia - Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Leng
Best National Costume	Bolivia - Roxana Brown Trigo

Contestants

•  Argentina - Beatriz Marta Gros
•  Aruba - Linda Annette Richmon
•  Australia - Joan Lydia Zealand
•  Austria - Evi Ilfriede Kurz
•  The Bahamas - Antoinette Patrice DeGregory
•  Belgium - Francine Martin
•  Bermuda - Margaret Hill
•  Bolivia - Roxana Brown Trigo
•  Brazil - Eliane Fialho Thompson
•  Canada - Norma Joyce Hickey
• ' - Yolanda Shahzadi Ahlip
•  Chile - Soledad Errazuriz Garcia Moreno
•  Colombia - Maria Luisa Riascos Velasquez
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo -Marie-Josee Basoko
•  Costa Rica - Lillian Berrocal
•  Curaçao - Nilva Maduro
•  Czechoslovakia - Kristina Hanzalová
•  Denmark - Winnie Hollmann
•  Dominican Republic - Sobeida Fernandez Reyes
•  Ecuador - Zoila Montesinos Rivera
•  Kingdom of England - Yvonne Anne Ormes
•  Finland - Ursula Rainio
•  Early Modern France - Francoise Durand-Behot
•  Germany - Irene Neumann
•  Greece - Angelique Bourlessa
•  Guam - Hilary Ann Best
• ' - Maureen Joan Renzen
•  Honduras - Francis Irene Van Tuyl
•  Hong Kong - Mabel Hawkett
•  Iceland - Erna Johannesdottir
•  India - Veena Sajnani
•  Republic of Ireland - Rita Doherty

•  Israel - Moshit Tsiporin
•  Italy - Anna Zamboni
•  Jamaica - Sheila Lorna Neil
•  Japan - Jun Shimada
• ' - Yoo Young-ae
•  Lebanon - Georgette Gero
•  Luxembourg - Josee Reinert
•  Malaysia - Josephine Lena Wong
•  Malta - Tessie Pisani
•  Mexico - Libia Zulerna Lopez Montemayor
•  New Zealand - Glenys Elizabeth Treweek
•  Nicaragua - Graciela Salazar Lanzas
•  Norway - Vibeke Steineger
•  Panama - Berta Lopez Herrera
•  Paraguay - Teresa Mercedez Britez Sullow
•  Peru - Cristina Malaga Butron
•  Philippines - Simonette Berenguer De Los Reyes
•  Portugal - Ana Maria Diozo Lucas
•  Puerto Rico - Marisol Malaret Contreras
•  Kingdom of Scotland - Lee Hamilton Marshall
•  Singapore - Cecilia Undasan
•  Spain - Noelia Afonso Cabrera
•  Suriname - Ingrid Mamadeus
•  Sweden - Britt Johansson
•  Switzerland - Diane Jane Roth
•  Tunisia - Zohra Tabania
•  Turkey - Asuman Tugberk
•  Uruguay - Renee Buncristiand
•  United States - Debbie Dale Shelton
•  Venezuela - Bella Mercedes La Rosa De La Rosa
  Bella La Rosa
  Bella Mercedes La Rosa de La Rosa is a pageant titleholder, was born in Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela on 1950. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1970, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1970 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 11, 1970, when she...
  
  
•  Wales - Sandra Cater
•  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Snezana Dzambas

Panel of judges

• Julio Alemán
  Julio Alemán
  - Biography :After studying to be an Engineer Agronomist, he turned to show business. His first movie was El Zarco in 1957. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the MC of the Mexican version of the Italian children's puppet show Topo Gigio....
  
  
• Pearl Bailey
  Pearl Bailey
  Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968...
  
  
• Edilson Cid Varela
• Eileen Ford
  Eileen Ford
  Eileen Ford is a model agency executive and co-founder, in 1946, with her late husband Gerard William "Jerry" Ford, of Ford Models, one of the earliest and internationally best known modelling agencies in the world.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sukichiro Hirae
• Yousuf Karsh
  Yousuf Karsh
  Yousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...
  
  

• Dong Kingman
  Dong Kingman
  Dong Kingman was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry...
  
  
• David Merrick
  David Merrick
  David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...
  
  
• Line Renaud
  Line Renaud
  - Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...
  
  
• Corinna Tsopei
  Corinna Tsopei
  Kiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.-Career:...
  
  
• Earl Wilson
  Earl Wilson
  Robert Earl Wilson was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres . Wilson batted and threw right-handed...
  
  

External links

• Pageant summary