Miss Universe 1999

{{Infobox beauty pageant }}
 * photo = File:Mpule Kwelagobe.jpg
 * caption = Mpule Kwelagobe
 * winner = Mpule Kwelagobe
 * represented=Botswana
 * congeniality = Marisa Ferreira, Portugal
 * photogenic = Brenda Liz Lopez, Puerto Rico
 * best national costume = Nicole Simone Dyer, Trinidad and Tobago
 * date = 26 May 1999
 * presenters = {{Hlist|Jack Wagner|Ali Landry|Julie Moran}}
 * venue = Chaguaramas Convention Centre, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago
 * broadcaster = {{Hlist|CBS (international)|Trinidad and Tobago Television (official broadcaster)}}}
 * entrants = 84
 * placements = 10
 * acts = Julio Iglesias Jr.
 * debuts = Botswana
 * withdraws = Bulgaria · Guam · Netherlands · Norway · Romania · Zimbabwe
 * returns = Austria · Barbados · Cayman Islands · Cook Islands · Guyana · Suriname · Turks and Caicos · Zambia
 * before = 1998
 * next = 2000

Miss Universe 1999 was the 48th Miss Universe pageant, held on 26 May 1999 at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago. Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana was crowned by Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago at the end of the event. This edition marks the most recent time that a first-time entry of a country at Miss Universe has won and the third time in pageant's history, after Colombia in 1958 and Finland in 1952. This edition also saw a back-to-back victory by black women. 84 contestants competed in this year.



Selection of participants
Contestants from eighty-four countries and territories were selected to compete in the pageant. Five of these delegates were appointees to their titles after being a runner-up of their national pageant or an audition process or other internal selection.

Replacements
Miss Barbados 1998, Michelle Selman did not compete for undisclosed reasons. Her first runner up, Olivia Harding replaced her. The winner of Miss Great Britain Universe 1999, Nicki Lane decided to give up the crown to her 1st runner up Cherie Pisiani, after Lane confessed that she had a child at 14 years old. The winner of Binibining Pilipinas 1999, Janelle Delfin Bautista had to resign due to citizenship issues as she was an American citizen. The Binibining Pilipinas World 1999, Miriam Quiambao assumed the Binibining Pilipinas Universe title.

Contestants
Eighty-four contestants competed for the title.

Returns
Last competed in 1966: Last competed in 1987: Last competed in 1993: Last competed in 1995: Last competed in 1996: Last competed in 1997:

Withdrawals
During the contest:
 * - Miss Guam 1999, Tisha Elaine Heflin had to withdraw a few days before the preliminary competition, after being discovered that she was pregnant.

Others:
 * , Miss Bulgaria 1999, Elena Angelova did not compete due lack of sponsorship.
 * - Henriette Dankertsen
 * - The Miss Romania 1999 pageant was cancelled and their organizers dropped the Miss Universe licence.
 * and - Did not send delegates due to lack of sponsorship and funding.