Miss Universe 1955 - Hillevi Rombin

The fourth edition of Miss Universe was held on 22 July 1955, at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium,Long Beach, California, USA. They had 33 young ladies in the competition. Miss Sweden, 21-year-old Hillevi Rombin, won the competition. As of 2009, she remains as the only Miss Universe winner to date to have died.

Result

 

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1955	Sweden - Hillevi Rombin
1st runner-up	El Salvador - Maribel Arrieta Gálvez
2nd runner-up	Ceylon - Maureen Neliya Hingert
3rd runner-up	Germany - Margit Nünke
4th runner-up	Japan - Keiko Takahashi
Top 15	Argentina - Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo  Belgium - Nicole De Mayer  Brazil - Emília Barreto Correia Lima  Canada - Cathy Diggles  England - Margaret Rowe  Guatemala - María del Rosario Molina Chacón  Honduras - Pastora Pagán Valenzuela  Norway - Solveig Borstad  USA - Carlene King Johnson  Venezuela - Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga

Special Awards

Congeniality:  El Salvador, Maribel Arrieta Gálvez

Most Popular Girl in Parade:  England, Margaret Rowe

Contestant

Alaska - Lorna McLeod  Argentina – Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo  Belgium - Nicole De Mayer  Brazil - Emília Barreto Correia Lima  Canada - Cathy Diggles  Ceylon - Maureen Neliya Hingert  Chile - Rosa Merello Catalán  Costa Rica - Clemencia Martínez de Montis  Cuba - Gilda Marín  Ecuador - Leonor Carcache Rodríguez  El Salvador - Maribel Arrieta Gálvez  England - Margaret Rowe  Finland - Sirkku Talja  France - Claude Petit  Germany - Margit Nünke  Greece - Sonia Zoidou  Guatemala - María del Rosario Molina Chacón  Honduras - Pastora Pagán Valenzuela  Israel - Ilana Carmel  Italy - Elena Fancera  Japan - Keiko Takahashi  Korea - Kim Mee-Chong  Lebanon - Hanya Beydoun  Mexico - Yolanda Mayen  Nicaragua - Rosa Argentina Lacayo  Norway - Solveig Borstad  Philippines - Yvonne Berenguer de los Reyes  Puerto Rico - Carmen Laura Betancourt  Sweden - Hillevi Rombin  Uruguay - Inge Hoffmann  USA - Carlene King Johnson (VT)  Venezuela - Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga  West Indies - Noreen Campbell (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) Did not compete Misses  Denmark (Karin Pamella Rasmussen),  Egypt (Gladir Leopardi), and  Turkey (Suna Soley)