| Winner: | Margarita Moran |
| Represented: | Philippines |
| Date: | 21 July 1973 |
| Presenters: | Bob Barker |
| Venue: | Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, Greece |
| Broadcaster: | CBS (international) EIRT (official broadcaster) |
| Entrants: | 61 |
| Placements: | 12 |
| Debuts: | Cyprus |
| Photogenic: | Margarita Moran (Philippines) |
| Best National Costume: | María del Rocío Martín (Spain) |
| Congeniality: | Jeanette Robertson (Chile) |
| Before: | 1972 |
| Next: | 1974 |
Miss Universe 1973 was the 22nd Miss Universe pageant, held on 21 July 1973 at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece. Margarita Moran of the Philippines was crowned by Kerry Anne Wells of Australia at the end of the event, thus making her the second Filipino to win the title after Gloria Diaz.[1]
There were 61 delegates from around the world who competed for the 1973 title. This was the first Miss Universe event to be held in Europe, as well as in the Eastern Hemisphere.
| Placement | Contestant | |
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| Miss Universe 1973 | ||
| 1st runner-up | ||
| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
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| 4th runner-up | ||
| Top 12 |
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Sixty-one contestants competed for the title.
| Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Hometown | |
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| Susana Romero[3] | 20 | Buenos Aires | ||
| Ethline Oduber[4] | 18 | Oranjestad | ||
| Susan Mainwaring[5] | 22 | Brisbane | ||
| Roswitha Kobald[6] | 18 | Styria | ||
| Christiane Devisch | 20 | Antwerp | ||
| Judy Richards | 19 | Hamilton | ||
| Roxana Sittic Harb | 18 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | ||
| Sandra Mara Ferreira | 21 | São Paulo | ||
| Deborah Ducharme | 20 | Ontario | ||
| 20 | Badulla | |||
| Jeanette Robertson | 18 | Santiago | ||
| Ana Lucía Agudelo[7] | 20 | Valle del Cauca | ||
| María del Rosario Mora | 18 | Alajuela | ||
| Ingerborg Zielinski | 18 | Willemstad | ||
| Johanna Melaniodos | – | Nicosia | ||
| Anette Grankvist | 20 | Copenhagen | ||
| Liliana Fernández | 18 | Salcedo | ||
| Gloria Ivete Romero | – | San Salvador | ||
| Veronica Ann Cross | 23 | London | ||
| Raija Stark | 20 | Helsinki | ||
| Isabelle Krumacker | 18 | Lorraine | ||
| 18 | Bavaria | |||
| Sikta Vana Papadaki | 19 | Athens | ||
| Beatrice Benito | – | Agana | ||
| Monique Borgeld[8] | 23 | Amsterdam | ||
| Nelly Suyapa González | – | El Paraíso | ||
| Elaine Sung | 18 | Hong Kong | ||
| Farzana Habib | 18 | New Delhi | ||
| Pauline Fitzsimons | 20 | Dublin | ||
| 19 | Tel Aviv | |||
| Antonella Barci | 18 | Milan | ||
| Reta Faye Chambers | 20 | Saint James | ||
| Miyoko Sometani | 22 | Ibaraki | ||
| Marcelle Herro | 21 | Beirut | ||
| Lydia Maes | – | Esch-sur-Alzette | ||
| Margaret Loo[9] | 19 | Cheras | ||
| Marthese Vigar | – | Msida | ||
| Rossana Villares[10] | 18 | Yucatán | ||
| Pamela King | 20 | Auckland | ||
| Ana Cecilia Saravia | 18 | Leon | ||
| Aina Walle[11] | 20 | Oslo | ||
| Jeanine Lizuaín[12] | – | Panama City | ||
| Teresita María Cano | 20 | Concepción | ||
| Margarita Moran[13] | 19 | Manila | ||
| Carla Barros | – | Lisbon | ||
| Gladys Colón | 19 | Orocovis | ||
| Caroline Meade | 18 | Glasgow | ||
| Debra de Souza | 19 | Singapore | ||
| Kim Young-joo | – | Seoul | ||
| María del Rocío Martín[14] | 19 | Seville | ||
| Yvonne Ma Ajong | 18 | Paramaribo | ||
| Monica Sundin | 20 | Stockholm | ||
| Barbara Schöttli | 19 | Zürich | ||
| 20 | Chachoengsao | |||
| Camella King | – | San Fernando | ||
| Yildiz Arhan | – | Istanbul | ||
| Yolanda Ferrari | – | Montevideo | ||
| Amanda Jones[15] | 22 | Evanston | ||
| Cindy Richards | – | Saint Croix | ||
| Desirée Rolando | 18 | |||
| Deirdre Greenland[16] | 23 | Newport |
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