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| Date | September 6, 1981 |
| Venue | Kobe Convention Center, Port Island, Kobe, Japan |
| Entrants | 42 |
| Placements | 15 |
| Withdrawals | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Britain, Malta |
| Returns | England, Iceland, Scotland, Tahiti, Wales |
| Winner | Jenny Derek [1] [2] Australia |
Miss International 1981, the 21st Miss International pageant, was held on 6 September 1981 in Kobe, Japan. It was won by Jenny Annette Derek [1] [2] from Australia.
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Australia - Jenny Derek 
Austria - Barbara Reimund
Belgium - Dominique Van Eeckhoudt
Brazil - Taiomara Do Rocio Borchardt
Canada - Carol Donlon
Colombia - Victoria Eugenia Cárdenas Gerlein
Costa Rica - Trylce Jirón García
Denmark - Tina Brandstrup
England - Susan Elizabeth Hutt
Finland - Merja Orvokki Varvikko
France - Beatriz Peyet
Germany - Barbara Reimund
Greece - Katerina Kondylatou
Guam - Cecilia Daga Diaz
Hawaii - Dana Fu
Holland - Ine Hoedemaeckers
Honduras - Gloria Patricia Durón
Hong Kong - Deborah Carol Moore
Iceland - Hlif Hansen
India - Meenakshi Seshadri 
Ireland - Michelle Mary Teresa Rocca
Israel - Li’ora Goldberg
Italy - Veronica Piazza
Japan - Mika Moriwaki
Korea - Park Hyun-joo
Malaysia - Gurmit Kaur
Mexico - Maria Fabiola Torres Sariat
New Zealand - Elizabeth Mary Ivan
Norway - Helen Holager
Philippines - Alice Veronica "Peachy" Fernandez Sacasas
Scotland - Margaret Bisset
Singapore - Shanaz Ali Hussein Gandhi
Spain - Francisca "Paquita" Ondiviela Otero 
Sweden - Ana Helena Lindgow
Switzerland - Brigitte Voss
Tahiti - Maimiti Kinnander
Thailand - Seenuan Attasara
Turkey - Sevim Ciftci
Uruguay - Silvia Alonso
United States - Lisa Margaret Schuman
Venezuela - Miriam Quintana Quintana
Wales - Sally Douglas Williams
Bolivia - Rosario Suárez - became ill just before the finals.Douglass Residential College is a non-degree-granting program established in 2007 and open to female undergraduate students at any of the degree-granting schools of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. It replaced the liberal arts degree-granting Douglass College which had been opened in 1918. Douglass, originally named New Jersey College for Women, was renamed in 1955 after its founder and first dean, Mabel Smith Douglass.
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Jenny Annette Derek Miss Australia is the new Miss International and her favorite sports are jogging playing squash and cycling
