# Miss Universe 1991

Miss Universe 1991, the 40th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1991 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Lupita Jones of Mexico crowned by Mona Grudt of Norway. Seventy-three contestants competed in the 1991 Miss Universe pageant.

## Results
### Placements

| Final results | Contestant |
| Miss Universe 1991 | Mexico – Lupita Jones |
| 1st Runner-Up | Netherlands – Pauline Huizinga |
| 2nd Runner-Up | Soviet Union – Julia Lemigova |
| Top 6 | Jamaica – Kimberley Mais  United States – Kelli McCarty  Venezuela – Jackeline Rodríguez |
| Top 10 | Curacao – Jacqueline Krijger  France – Mareva Georges  Paraguay – Vivian Benítez  Yugoslavia – Natasha Pavlovich |

### Final Competition

| Nation | Preliminary Average | Interview | Swimsuit | Evening Gown | Semifinal Average |
| Mexico | 9.006 (1) | 9.608 (1) | 9.450 (1) | 9.758 (1) | 9.605 (1) |
| Netherlands | 8.694 (10) | 9.592 (2) | 9.073 (6) | 9.600 (4) | 9.421 (4) |
| Soviet Union | 8.864 (3) | 9.550 (3) | 9.225 (3) | 9.717 (2) | 9.497 (3) |
| Venezuela | 8.719 (7) | 9.533 (4) | 9.412 (2) | 9.650 (3) | 9.531 (2) |
| Jamaica | 8.986 (2) | 9.418 (6) | 9.213 (4) | 9.542 (7) | 9.391 (5) |
| United States | 8.834 (4) | 9.425 (5) | 8.950 (8) | 9.542 (7) | 9.305 (6) |
| Curaçao | 8.753 (6) | 9.190 (8) | 9.135 (5) | 9.550 (6) | 9.291 (7) |
| Paraguay | 8.719 (7) | 9.375 (7) | 8.987 (7) | 9.350 (10) | 9.237 (8) |
| France | 8.706 (9) | 9.067 (10) | 8.867 (10) | 9.590 (5) | 9.174 (9) |
| Yugoslavia | 8.774 (5) | 9.167 (9) | 8.875 (9) | 9.442 (9) | 9.161 (10) |

### Special Awards

| Awards | Winners |
| Best National Costume | Colombia – Maribel Gutierrez |
| Miss Photogenic | Ireland – Siobhan McClafferty |
| Miss Congeniality | United States Virgin Islands – Monique Lindesay |
Order of Announcements
Top 10
* Jamaica
* France
* Yugoslavia
* Paraguay
* Curacao
* Soviet Union
* Venezuela
* Netherlands
* United States
* Mexico
Top 6
* Venezuela
* Netherlands
* United States
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Soviet Union
Top 3
* Soviet Union
* Netherlands
* Mexico

## Contestants

* Argentina - Verónica Honnorat
* Bahamas - Farrah Fiona Saunders
* Belgium - Katia Alens
* Belize - Josephine Gault
* Bermuda - Andrea Sullivan
* Bolivia - María Selva Landívar
* Brazil - Patricia Franco de Godói
* British Virgin Islands - Anne Lennard
* Bulgaria - Christy Drumeva
* Canada - Leslie McLaren
* Cayman Islands - Bethea Michelle Christian
* Chile - Cecilia del Rosario Alfaro
* Colombia - Maribel Gutiérrez Tinoco
* Cook Islands - Raema Chitty
* Costa Rica - Viviana Múñoz
* Curaçao - Jacqueline Krijger
* Czechoslovakia - Renata Gorecka
* Dominican Republic - Melissa Vargas
* Ecuador - Diana Neira
* El Salvador - Rebecca Dávila
* Finland - Tanja Vienonen
* France - Mareva Georges
* Germany - Katrin Richter
* Ghana - Dela Tamakole
* Greece - Marina Popou
* Guam - Jevon Pellacani
* Guatemala - Lorena Palacios
* Hong Kong - Anita Yuen
* Iceland - Dis Sigurgeirsdóttir
* India - Christabelle Howie
* Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty
* Israel - Miri Goldfarb
* Italy - Maria Biscotti
* Jamaica - Kimberley Mais
* Japan - Atsuko Yamamoto
* Lebanon - Fida Chehayeb
* Luxembourg - Annette Feydt
* Malaysia - Elaine Chew
* Malta - Michelle Zarb
* Mauritius - Dhandevy Jeetun
* Mexico - Lupita Jones
* Namibia - Ronel Liebenberg
* Netherlands - Pauline Huizinga
* Nicaragua - Ana Sofía Pereira
* Nigeria - Tonia Okogbenin
* Northern Mariana Islands - Sharon Rosario
* Norway - Lene Maria Pedersen
* Panama - Liz De León
* Paraguay - Vivian Benítez
* Peru - Eliana Martínez
* Philippines - Maria Lourdes Gonzalez
* Poland - Joanna Michalska
* Puerto Rico - Lissette Bouret
* Republic of China - Lin Shu-Chuan
* Romania - Daniella Nane
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Samantha Robertson
* Singapore - Eileen Yeow
* South Korea - Seo Jung-min
* Soviet Union - Julia Lemigova
* Spain - Esther Arroyo
* Sri Lanka - Diloka Seneviratne
* Suriname - Simone Vos
* Sweden - Susanna Gustafsson
* Thailand - Jiraprapa Sawettanan
* Trinidad and Tobago - Josie Anne Richards
* Turkey - Pinar Ozdemir
* Turks and Caicos Islands - Kathy Hawkins
* Uruguay - Adriana Comas
* United Kingdom - Helen Upton
* United States - Kelli McCarty
* United States Virgin Islands - Monique Lindesay
* Venezuela - Jackeline Rodríguez
* Yugoslavia - Natasha Pavlovich

### Order of Introduction

The following table is the order of introduction in the Parade of Nations segment in the regional groups, randomly-ordered.
| Geographical Region / Continent | Order of Country / Territory Introduction |
| Asia and The USSR | Singapore  Sri Lanka  Malaysia  Republic of China  Thailand  Hong Kong  Soviet Union  Japan  India  Korea  Philippines |
| South America | Suriname  Curaçao  Chile  Uruguay  Argentina  Bolivia  Venezuela  Peru  Brazil  Colombia  Paraguay  Ecuador |
| Europe and The British Isles | Bulgaria  Czechoslovakia  United Kingdom  Poland  Belgium  France  Iceland  Romania  Germany  Netherlands  Luxembourg  Finland  Sweden  Ireland  Norway |
| Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa | Nigeria  Lebanon  Namibia  Ghana  Spain  Malta  Israel  Turkey  Greece  Italy  Yugoslavia |
| The Islands | Dominican Republic  Mauritius  Northern Mariana Islands  Puerto Rico  British Virgin Islands  Cook Islands  Trinidad and Tobago  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Cayman Islands  Guam  Bahamas  Bermuda  Jamaica  Turks and Caicos Islands  United States Virgin Islands |
| Central and North America | Costa Rica  Panama  El Salvador  Belize  Mexico  Nicaragua  Guatemala  Canada  United States |