This is a list of beauty pageants from around the world. A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions. The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four international beauty pageants.[1][2][3] Pageant titles are subdivided into Miss, Mrs. or Ms., and Teen – to clearly identify the difference between pageant divisions. Similar events for men or boys are usually called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.
List of world's Big Four international beauty pageants (the original Big Four):[3][4][5][6][7][8]
(Those gross up the major beauty pageants into Big Six which favors the most pageantry fans around the world)
List of minor beauty pageants:
List of international marital beauty pageants:
List of teen beauty pageants:
The following are continental and regional pageants in alphabetical order:
List of world's six major beauty pageants (the Big Six);
List of teen beauty pageants: