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(s) in the finals. The term "beauty pageant" originally refers to the Big Four international beauty pageants.[1][2][3][4][5]
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.
Major
The following are list of the world's Big Four international beauty pageants (the original Big Four) considered the most important in the world[3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Minor
The following are minor beauty pageants:
The following are continental and regional pageants:
List of teen beauty pageants:
List of international marital beauty pageants:
List of senior women (aged 40+) beauty pageants:
Major
List of the world's seven major male beauty pageants (the Big Seven);
Minor
The following are list of minor male beauty pageant.
List of teen beauty pageants:
With the triumph of SJ Pretorius, South Africa celebrates a back-to-back win for the first time in history.
In the men's version the winners were: SJ Pretorius, Mr. Teen World 2022, who achieved a second consecutive victory for South Africa.