Occupation – Entertainment – Beauty Pageant
Lorraine Patricia Baa (1953-2021)
Lorraine Patricia Baa, commentator, entrepreneur, and cancer cure advocate was born in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, on February 1, 1953,...
Kedist Deltour (1997- )
Kedist Deltour was a most unlikely winner of the 2021 Miss Belgium beauty pageant. At the time she was 24...
Rosemary Sauvageau Nestingen (1988- )
Rosemary Sauvageau Nestingen is a musical composer, a pianist, and the first African American woman to be crowned Miss North...
Brita Ababa Þórhallsdóttir (1999- )
In the northernmost of Nordic countries and the one with the smallest minority race population, a person of African heritage...
Fionnghuala Isibeal Tome O’Reilly, (1993- )
Few in the audience that began watching the 2019 Miss Universe Ireland Contest could have predicted that the winner, Fionnghuala...
Denny Méndez (1978- )
Beauty pageant queen, model, and actress Denny Andreina Méndez de la Rosa was born on July 20, 1978 in Santo Domingo,...
Janelle Penny Commissiong (1953- )
Janelle Penny Commissiong, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was born in June 1953, migrated to the United States at...
Pam Grier (1949- )
Actress Pam Grier is best known for her portrayal of tough and sexy crimefighters in the 1970s genre of “blaxploitation”...
Erika Harold (1980- )
Erika Harold, Miss America 2003, was the sixth black woman to win the Miss America title. Harold was born on...
