List of Famous Pageant Winners

Halle Berry
1985 - Miss Teen All American
1986 - Miss Ohio USA

Oprah Winfrey
1971 - Miss Fire Prevention - Oprah was the first African American to win this crown
1971 - Miss Black Nashville

Vanessa Williams
1983 - Miss New York
1984 - Miss America - Vanessa was the first-ever African American Miss America

Diane Sawyer
1963 - America's Junior Miss

Sharon Stone
1976 - Miss Crawford County

Raquel Welch

Kathie Lee Gifford
Maryland Junior Miss

Paula Zahn
1973 - Miss Teenage America

Mary Hart
1970 - Miss South Dakota

Cloris Leachman
1946 - Miss Chicago

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
1987 - Miss Junior America

Jeri Ryan
1989 - Miss Illinois

Delta Burke
1974 - Miss Florida
Burke won eighteen pageants by the time she was 17

Deborah Norville
1976 - Georgia's Junior Miss