| Formation | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Essex |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss World America (1951–present) |
Official language | English |
State Director | Faith Hassou |
| Website | Official Website |
The Miss Maryland World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for Maryland in the Miss World America pageant.[1][2]
The current Miss Maryland World is Carissa Wu.
Winners[edit]
- Color key
- Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- Ended as special awards winner
- Ended as Miss USA
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age [notes 1] |
Placement at Miss World America | Special awards at Miss World America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| 2020 | Carissa Wu[3] | 20 | ||||
| 2019 | Kenyatta Beazer[4] | Baltimore | 22 | Top 25 | ||
| 2018 | did not compete | |||||
| 2017 | Mariela Pepin | Severn | 21 | Top 10 | Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 2014 and unplaced at Miss Teen USA 2014. Later Miss Maryland USA 2019 and Top 10 finalist at Miss USA 2019. Later Miss Luquillo World 2022 and competed for Miss World Puerto Rico 2022 | |
| Chelsea Boone | Glenn Dale | 26 | ||||
| 2016 | Christina Denny | Baltimore | 25 | Top 12 | Previously Miss Maryland 2013 and Miss Maryland USA 2016. Top 10 semi-finalist at Miss America 2014 and unplaced at Miss USA 2016. | |
| Sujita Basnet | Baltimore | 23 | Top 12 | |||
| Tarese Taylor | Baltimore | 25 | Top 12 | People's Choice | ||
| Ruby Johnson | Annapolis | 19 | Previously Miss Earth Maryland 2015 and a finalist at Miss Earth United States 2015. | |||
| 2015 | Syanne Centeno[5] | Hughesville | 23 | Top 12 | ||
| Miss Maryland United States 2014 | ||||||
| 2014 | Amanda Ross[6] | Baltimore | 23 | |||
| Miss Maryland World | ||||||
| 2013 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013. | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2005 | No known representatives from Maryland from 2003 to 2005. | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| 2002 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002. | |||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| 1994 | Jennifer Kelly | |||||
| 1993 | Michelle Robert | |||||
| 1992 | Jeanne Hangliter | |||||
| Miss Maryland USA 1981-1991 | ||||||
| 1991 | Lisa Marie Lawson | Crofton | ||||
| 1990 | Julie Stanford | Edgewater | Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1986 | |||
| 1989 | Jackie Carroll | Gaithersburg | ||||
| 1988 | Rowanne Brewer | Silver Spring | 23 | Top 10 | Miss Photogenic | Married rock musician Jani Lane |
| 1987 | Michelle Snow | Germantown | ||||
| 1986 | Kelly Koehler | Churchton | ||||
| 1985 | Christine Marie | Baldwin | ||||
| 1984 | Betsy Cook* | Bethesda | ||||
| 1983 | Shawn Keller | Ashton | ||||
| 1982 | Angie Boyer | Dunkirk | 18 | Top 12 | ||
| 1981 | Linda Susan Lambert | Baltimore | 22 | Top 12 | ||
| Miss Maryland World | ||||||
| 1980 | Lori Estep | Washington, D.C. | Later Miss District of Columbia USA 1982 and contestant at Miss USA 1982. | |||
| 1979 | Sheri Clineman | |||||
| 1978 | Celeste Woschke | |||||
| 1977 | Lydia Vuynovich | |||||
| 1976 | Amy Whiting | |||||
| 1975 | Elizabeth Erinn Pittengee | |||||
| 1974 | Deborah Lynn Goode | |||||
| 1973 | Bonnie Joy Bidlack | Top 16 | ||||
| 1972 | Pia Nancy Canzani | Baltimore | 23 | Later Miss American Beauty 1973 (Miss U.S. International 1973). Competed at Miss International 1973 as Miss American Beauty (USA). | ||
| 1971 | Gail Somerville | Top 18 | ||||
| 1970 | Carlotta V. Moore | |||||
| 1969 | Paulette Reck | Perry Hall | 21 | 2nd Runner-Up | Previously Miss Maryland USA 1968 and 1st Runner-Up at Miss USA 1968. | |
| 1968 | Evelyn Everhart | |||||
| 1967 | Paula Jean Martin | Top 15 | ||||
| 1966 | Unknown | |||||
| 1965 | Sharon Jane Dennis | |||||
| 1964 | Laurie Mills | Competed as Maryland | ||||
| Gloria Mathis | Annapolis | Competed as Annapolis, Maryland | ||||
| 1963 | Kathy Alexander | Baltimore | Competed as Baltimore, Maryland
| |||
| 1962 | Betsy Reeves | |||||
| 1961 | Diane Dolores White | Baltimore | 26 | 3rd Runner-Up | Previously Miss Maryland USA 1959 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1959. | |
| 1960 | Carolyn Clark | |||||
| 1959 | No known representatives from Maryland in 1958 & 1959. | |||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Miss Maryland USA 1953-1957 | ||||||
| 1957 | Mary Leona Gage* | Glen Burnie | 18 | Miss USA 1957 |
| |
| 1956 | Charlene Holt* | Annapolis | 28 | Top 15 | ||
| 1955 | Gloria Ruth King | Baltimore | ||||
| 1954 | Barbara Eschenburg | Berlin | Top 21 | Later Disqualified (under age) | ||
| 1953 | Diane Gale Durham | Silver Spring | ||||
| Miss Maryland World | ||||||
| 1952 | No known representatives from Maryland in 1951 & 1952. | |||||
| 1951 | ||||||
- Notes to table
- ^ Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant
References[edit]
- ^ "Miss World USA Pageant". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ The American representatives to Miss World 1978-1994
- ^ "Miss World America Maryland 2020 – Miss World America". Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ^ "Miss World America - Maryland".
- ^ "Miss Maryland World 2015 Syanne Centeno - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- ^ "Former MSU Cheerleader Crowned Miss Maryland". Morgan State University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
- ^ Woestendiek, John (10 April 2005). "The long, unhappy pageant of Mary Leona Gage". The Baltimore Sun.