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Miss International Queen 2025
Miss International Queen 2025, the 19th edition of the world transgender women's pageant held September 20, 2025 at Tiffany's Show Pattaya, Thailand, was won by Midori Monet of the USA; runners-up Olivia Lauren and Ha Tam Nhu; 23 contestants; crowning controversy reported.
Miss Israel (מלכת היופי של ישראל)
Miss Israel (מלכת היופי של ישראל, מיס ישראל) was Israel's national beauty pageant, founded 1950 by LaIsha magazine; won Miss Universe 1976 and Miss World 1998, cancelled 2022, relaunched privately in Miami.
Miss Julie
Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is August Strindberg's 1888 one-act naturalistic tragedy of class and sex, set on Midsummer's Eve in a count's kitchen, premiered in Copenhagen in 1889 and endlessly adapted for stage, film, and ballet.
Miss Kaninna
Miss Kaninna is an Aboriginal Australian rapper and singer from Bruny Island, Tasmania (Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Kalkadoon, Yirendali), known for "Blak Britney", the EP KANINNA, 2025 AIR Award wins, and the 2026 mixtape BLACKPRINT.
Miss Kittin
Miss Kittin (Caroline Hervé, born 1973 in Grenoble, France) is a French electronic music vocalist, DJ, and producer, a central figure of the late-1990s electroclash movement.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (小林さんちのメイドラゴン) is a comedy manga by Coolkyousinnjya, serialized by Futabasha since 2013 and adapted by Kyoto Animation into 2017 and 2021 anime seasons plus a 2025 film, with spin-offs on Kanna, Elma, Fafnir, Lucoa, and Ilulu.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved (小林さんちのメイドラゴン さみしがりやの竜)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved (小林さんちのメイドラゴン さみしがりやの竜) is a 2025 Kyoto Animation anime film, the series' first theatrical feature, directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, released June 27, 2025 by Shochiku, about Kanna's father Kimun Kamui and a Chaos-Harmony dragon war.
Miss Korea
Miss Korea (미스코리아 선발대회) is South Korea's national beauty pageant, founded by Hankook Ilbo in 1957 to select Miss Universe delegates; winners ranked Jin, Sun, Mi; 70th edition 2026 won by Woo Seo-yun.
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael West's 1933 short novel about a male advice columnist crushed by readers' letters and his cynical editor Shrike; a Depression-era black comedy ending in Doyle's shooting of the columnist.
Miss Machine
Miss Machine (2004) is The Dillinger Escape Plan's second album and first with vocalist Greg Puciato, released by Relapse; 11 tracks, 40 minutes, UK rock chart No. 10.
Miss March
Miss March is a 2009 American teen sex comedy written, directed by, and starring Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore of The Whitest Kids U' Know, about a coma patient whose girlfriend becomes a Playboy centerfold; it grossed $4.5 million and was critically panned.
Miss Marple
Miss Marple, Jane Marple, is Agatha Christie's elderly spinster amateur detective of St Mary Mead, appearing in twelve novels and twenty short stories from 1927 to 1976, most famously portrayed on screen by Joan Hickson in the BBC's 1984–1992 series.
Miss Marple (TV series)
Miss Marple denotes the BBC television series of 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992, which adapted all twelve Agatha Christie Marple novels in 21 episodes starring Joan Hickson; distinct from ITV's later Agatha Christie's Marple with Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie.
Miss Martian
Miss Martian (M'gann M'orzz, alias Megan Morse) is a DC Comics White Martian superheroine posing as a Green Martian, created by Geoff Johns and Tony S. Daniel, debuting in Teen Titans #37 (2006) and best known as a central character of the Young Justice animated series voiced by Danica McKellar.
Miss Match
Miss Match is an American comedy-drama series starring Alicia Silverstone as a Los Angeles matrimonial lawyer who doubles as a matchmaker, airing on NBC in 2003.
Miss Meadows
Miss Meadows (2014) is an American black comedy crime film written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, starring Katie Holmes as a tap-dancing schoolteacher vigilante. Premiered at Tribeca April 21, 2014; released November 14, 2014; 88 minutes; 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 43.
Miss Melera
Miss Melera is the stage name of Kim de Lange, an Amsterdam-based Dutch DJ and producer who founded the COLOURIZON radio show and event series in 2012.
Miss Moneypenny
Miss Moneypenny is M's fictional private secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and films, first appearing in Casino Royale (1953) and Dr. No (1962).
Miss Monique
Miss Monique, real name Olesia Arkusha (미스모니크), is a Ukrainian DJ and producer of progressive house and melodic techno who founded Siona Records in 2019.
Miss Nepal (मिस नेपाल)
Miss Nepal (मिस नेपाल) is Nepal's national beauty pageant, held annually in Kathmandu since 1994 and organized by The Hidden Treasure. Winners compete at Miss World, Miss International, and from 2025 Miss Cosmo; 2026 titleholders are Deepmala Dhakal, Kashis Subba, and Arya Nishaant.
Miss Night and Day (낮와 밤이 다르다)
Miss Night and Day (낮과 밤이 다른 그녀) is a 2024 JTBC, 16-episode K-drama streamed on Netflix in which 28-year-old Lee Mi-jin (Jung Eun-ji) becomes a woman in her 50s (Lee Jung-eun) by day and interns at a prosecutors' office beside prosecutor Gye Ji-ung (Choi Jin-hyuk); its finale hit 11.7% Nielsen, a 2024 JTBC high.
Miss Oyu (お遊さま)
Miss Oyu (お遊さま, Oyu-sama) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1951 Daiei drama, his first film for Daiei and first with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, adapting Tanizaki's The Reed Cutter about a widow, her sister, and a sham marriage.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Ransom Riggs's 2011 Quirk Books debut YA dark-fantasy novel, built around found vintage photographs, about Jacob Portman and a Welsh time loop; it spawned a 10-million-copy series and Tim Burton's 2016 film.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Tim Burton's 2016 fantasy film adapting Ransom Riggs's 2011 novel, written by Jane Goldman, starring Eva Green and Asa Butterfield, set in a 1943 time loop; grossed $296.5M worldwide.
Miss Perfect
Miss Perfect (मिस परफेक्ट) is a 2024 Telugu-language Disney+ Hotstar comedy series directed by Vishvak Khanderao, starring Lavanya Tripathi as a cleanliness-obsessed consultant mistaken for a housemaid; 8 episodes, released February 2, 2024 in 7 languages.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, adapted from Winifred Watson's 1938 novel.
Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy, Muppet diva and Kermit the Frog's love interest, designed by Bonnie Erickson in 1974 as Miss Piggy Lee, performed by Frank Oz then Eric Jacobson, star of The Muppet Show since 1976.
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
"Miss Polly Had a Dolly" is a traditional English nursery rhyme and action song in which Miss Polly calls a doctor to her sick doll.
Miss Pooja
Miss Pooja, stage name of Gurinder Kaur Kainth, is an Indian Punjabi Bhangra, folk and pop singer, the "Queen of Duets", with over 100 duet albums since her 2006 debut Jaan Ton Pyari.
Miss Porter's School
Miss Porter's School, founded by Sarah Porter in 1843 in Farmington, Connecticut, is a private all-girls boarding and day school for grades 9-12, with about 340 students, 65% boarding, led by 12th head Katherine G. Windsor.