Miss Universe 1977
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| Miss Universe 1977 | |
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| Date | 16 July 1977 |
| Presenters | Bob Barker, Helen O'Connell |
| Entertainment | Trío Los Juglares featuring Fernando Casado |
| Venue | National Theater, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  |
| Broadcaster | CBS |
| Entrants | 80 |
| Placements | 12 |
| Debuts | Antigua, British Virgin Islands, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Réunion, St. Kitts, St. Lucia |
| Withdrawals | Guatemala, Luxembourg, Turkey |
| Returns | Belize, Haiti, Lebanon, Tahiti |
| Winner | Janelle Commissiong Trinidad & Tobago |
| Congeniality | Pamela Mercer Canada |
| Best National Costume | Kim Sung-hee Korea |
| Photogenic | Janelle Commissiong Trinidad & Tobago |
Miss Universe 1977, the 26th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 16 July 1977 at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago crowned by Rina Messinger of Israel. She is the first Black woman to win the title.
Miss Universe was then owned by Gulf+Western Industries.
Results
Placements
| Final results | Contestant |
| Miss Universe 1977 | |
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| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
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| 4th runner-up |
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| Top 12 |
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Contestants
File:Miss Universe 1977 Map.PNG
Miss Universe 1977 participating nations and results
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Antigua - Sheryl Ann Gibbons
Argentina - Maritza Elizabet Jurado
Aruba - Margareth Eldrid Oduber
Australia - Jill Maree Minaham
Austria - Eva Maria Duringer
Bahamas - Paulette Rosetta Ogylvie Borghardt
Barbados - Margaret Sonia Rouse
Belgium - Claudine Marie Vasseur
Belize - Dora Maria Phillips
Bermuda - Connie Marie Frith
Bolivia - Liliana Gutiérrez Paz- 23x15px Brazil - Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira
British Virgin Islands - Andria Dolores Norman- Canada - Pamela Mercer
Chile - Priscilla Raquel Brenner
Colombia - Aura María Mojica Salcedo
Costa Rica - Claudia Maria Garnier Arias
Curaçao - Regine Tromp
Denmark - Inge Eline Erlandsen- Dominican Republic - Blanca Aurora Sardiñas
Ecuador - Lucía del Carmen Hernández Quiñones
El Salvador - Altagracia Arévalo
England - Sarah Louise Long
Finland - Armi Anja Orvokki Aavikko †
France - Véronique Fagot- French Guiana - Evelyne Randel
Germany - Marie-Luise Gassen
Greece - Maria Spantidaki
Guadeloupe - Catherine Reinette
Guam - Lisa Ann Caso
Haiti - Françoise Elie
Holland - Ineke Berends
Honduras - Carolina Rosa Rauscher Sierra
Hong Kong - Loletta Chu Ling-Ling
Iceland - Kristjana Þrainsdóttir
India - Bineeta Bose
Indonesia - Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin
Ireland - Jakki Moore
Israel - Zehava Vardi
Italy - Paola Biasini
Japan - Kyoko Sato- Korea - Kim Sung-hee
Lebanon - Hyam Saadé
Liberia - Welma Albertine Wani Campbell
Malaysia - Leong Li Ping
Malta - Jane Benedicta Saliba
Mauritius - Danielle Marie Françoise Bouic
Mexico - Felicia Mercado
New Zealand - Donna Anne Schultze
Nicaragua - Beatriz Obregón Lacayo
Northern Marianas - Margarita Benavente Camacho
Norway - Åshild Jenny Ottesen
Panama - Marina Valenciano
Papua New Guinea - Sayah Karakuru
Paraguay - María Leticia Zarza Perriet
Peru - María Isabel Frías Zavala
Philippines - Anna Lorraine Tomas Kier
Puerto Rico - Maria del Mar Rivera- Réunion - Yolaine Morel
Samoa - Virginia Caroline Suka
Scotland - Sandra Bell
Singapore - Marilyn Choon May Sim
South Africa - Glynis Dorothea Fester- 23x15px Spain - Luz María Polegre Hernández
Sri Lanka - Sobodhini Nagesan
St. Kitts - Annette Emelda Frank
St. Lucia - Iva Lua Mendes
St. Maarten - Marie Madeleine Boirard
Surinam - Marlene Roesmienten Saimo
Sweden - Birgitta Lindvall
Switzerland - Anja Kristin Terzi- Tahiti - Donna Aunoa
Thailand - Laddawan In-Yah- Trinidad & Tobago - Janelle Commissiong
Uruguay - Adriana María Umpierre Escudero
USA - Kimberly Louise Tomes
Venezuela - Cristal del Mar Montáñez Arocha
Virgin Islands - Denise Naomi George
Wales - Christine Anne Murphy
Yugoslavia - Ljiljana Sobajić
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