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]
Pageant titles are divided into Miss, Mrs or Ms, 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.
List of the world's Big Four international beauty pageants (the original Big Four):[3][4][5][6][7][8]
List of 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:
List of the world's seven major male beauty pageants (the Big Seven);
List of teen beauty pageants: