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Miss Brazil Hometown State Age [a] Height Notes Miss Brazil 1954 Martha Rocha [1] Salvador Bahia: 17 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) First Runner-Up at Miss Universe 1954: 1955 Emília Barreto [2] Sobral Ceará: 18 1.71 m (5 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Top 15 at Miss Universe 1955: 1956 Maria José Cardoso [3] São Francisco do Sul Rio Grande do Sul: 21 1.70 m (5 ft ...
Martha Rocha, Miss Brazil 1954. Since 1900, competitions in the vein of Miss Brazil had existed sporadically throughout the country in a non-consecutive manner. Violeta Lima Castro, crowned Miss Brazil 1900, is sometimes considered the first Miss Brazil, although the records surrounding her being the alleged first winner are inconsistent and some records allege that a different woman was ...
Miss São Paulo, also referred to as Miss Estado de São Paulo, is a Brazilian Beauty pageant which selects the representative for the State of São Paulo at the Miss Brazil contest. The pageant was created in 1954 and has been held every year since with the exception of 1990, 1993, and 2020.
0–9. Miss Brazil World 1996; Miss Brazil 1999; Miss Brazil World 2001; Miss Brazil 2003; Miss Brazil 2004; Miss Brazil 2005; Miss Brazil 2006; Miss Brazil World 2006
Among the personalities portrayed by Gioconda were the first Miss Brazil, Zezé Leone (1922), and the Miss Universe, Yolanda Pereira (1931) [7] She is the author of the photograph of writer Zélia Gattai 's family that illustrates the 1979 edition of her work Anarquistas, Graças a Deus, by Círculo do Livro. [8]
Vera Fischer (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvɛɾa ˈfiʃeʁ]; born 27 November 1951) is a Brazilian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brazil 1969 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1969 where she placed Top 15.
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Martha was the seventh of eleven children of engineer Álvaro Rocha and his wife Hansa. Martha married Argentinian banker Álvaro Piano and had two sons with him before his death in a plane crash when she was about 23 years old. She married for the second time Rio de Janeiro businessman Ronaldo Xavier de Lima, with whom she lived for 13