List of beauty pageants


A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round in the finals. The term "beauty pageant" originally refers to the Big Four international beauty pageants.
Pageant titles are divided into Miss, Mrs., Mister, and Teen, as well as international, regional, and national—to clearly identify the differences among these categories. Similar events for male pageants are usually called by other names, some are likely to be bodybuilding competitions.

Women's pageants

International competitions

;Major
The following are list of the world's Big Four beauty pageants considered the most important in the world.
;Minor
The following are minor beauty pageants. These lists are based on the year they were established.
The following are continental and regional pageants:
;Teen
List of teen beauty pageants:
;Marital
List of international marital beauty pageants:
;Senior
List of senior women beauty pageants:
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International competitions

;Major
The following is a list of the world's premier male beauty pageants, known as major male pageants. Six male beauty pageants are considered major competitions:
;Minor
The following is a list of minor male beauty pageants. This list is based on the year they were established.
  • Mister Model International
  • Mister Universe International
  • Man of the Year
  • Mister Planet
  • Mister Tourism World
  • Mister Grand International
  • *Brazil
  • *Asia
  • Mister National Universe
  • Mister Universe Tourism
  • Mister Earth World
  • Man of the Globe International
  • Mister Continental World
  • Mister Glam International
  • Mister Tourism Globe
  • Caballero Universal
  • Mister Friendship International
  • Man Hot Star International
  • Mister Heritage
  • Mister Universe
  • *India
  • *USA
  • World Fitness Supermodel
  • Great Man of the Universe
  • Mister Celebrity International
  • Mister Cosmopolitan
  • Mister Culture International
  • Mister Earth International
  • Mister Fashion Model
  • Mister Fitness Supermodel World
  • Mister Tourism Intercontinental
  • Masters of the World
;Continental and regional
  • Mister Asian International
  • Mister Global Asian
  • Mr. Latinoamérica Internacional
;Teen
List of teen beauty pageants:
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  • Mr. Europe
  • Mr. Joven Internacional
  • Mr. Scandinavia
  • Hombre Internacional
  • Male International Model
  • Mister Handsome International
  • Mister Intercontinental
  • Mr. International
  • Mister Continents
  • Mister Young International
  • Mister Tourism International
  • Mister Latino International
  • Mister Model Millenium
  • Mister Teen Continents
  • Mister Tourism Universe
  • International Best Male Model of the World
  • Axe Men World Male Model
  • Mister Teen Model World
  • Zeus of the World
  • Mister Continentes del Mundo
  • Mister Expo World
  • Mister Mundial
  • Mister Pacific of the World
  • World Most Beautiful Bum
  • Mister Sea World
  • Men Universe Model
  • Fresh Faces
  • Mister Teen Jade Universe
  • Mister Jade Universe
  • Mister Pacífico y el Caribe
  • Mister Universo Mundial
  • Mister América Internacional
  • Mister Mesoamérica International
  • Mister Teen Mesoamérica Universe
  • Mr. Joven Mesoamérica International
  • Mister Real Universe
  • Mister Teen América International
  • Mister Teen Earth
  • Mister Global Teen
  • Mister United Continents
  • Mister Universal Ambassador
  • Mister Model Universe
  • Mister Globe
  • Mister Grand International
  • Mister Trifinio Mundo Internacional
  • Mister Tourism and Culture Universe
  • Mister United World
  • Man of the Earth

    National

Africa

International

Here is the following list of the largest international LGBTQIA+ competitions in pageantry.
Here is the following list of the largest international deaf competitions in pageantry.
;Continental and regional
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