Ohio representatives have won the Miss America pageant six times, joining California, and Oklahoma as the only states with six crowns. New York has the most winners with seven. Ohio is the only state to have a contestant who won the Miss America title twice:
The Miss Ohio pageant played a significant role in the saving of the Ohio Theatre and its renovation into the Renaissance Theatre. Mansfield originally hosted the Miss Ohio Pageant at the old Ohio Theatre from 1959 through 1962. After Jacquelyn Mayer, Miss Ohio 1962, was crowned Miss America 1963, the Miss Ohio pageant was relocated to the Ballroom Pavilion at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky. In 1975, the pageant returned to Mansfield, first to Malabar High School Auditorium from 1975 through 1978, then to the Madison Theatre in 1979. In 1980, it was decided to televise the pageant. Because of inadequate stage depth and backstage space at the Madison Theatre, then pageant producer Denny Keller and pageant set designer Paul Gilger persuaded the Miss Ohio Board of Directors to move the pageant back to Mansfield's Ohio Theatre, reopening the facility and sprucing it up for the pageant's first televised broadcast. The pageant's return to the old Ohio Theatre was the initial event that eventually led to the total renovation of the theatre and its reincarnation into the Renaissance Theatre, the history of which can be read here. The Miss Ohio Scholarship Program has been held at the Renaissance Theatre since 1980.
Matti-Lynn Chrisman of Cambridge was crowned on June 16, 2018 at Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2019 on September 9, 2018 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The year in parentheses indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered.
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes | | 2018 | Matti-Lynn Chrisman[1] | Cambridge | 22 | Miss Maple City | Musical Theater Vocal, "Life of the Party" from Wild Party |
| 2017 | Sarah Clapper[2] | Louisville | 22 | Miss Clayland | Piano, "White Water Chopsticks" | date=November 2018}}
Women in Business Scholarship Award[3] |
| 2016 | Alice Magoto[4][5] | Cincinnati | 18 | Miss Portsmouth | Vocal, "Astonishing" from Little Women | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | Later Miss Ohio USA 2019[6] |
| 2015 | Sarah Hider[7] | Wooster | 24 | Miss Maple City | Jazz Vocal, "Almost Like Being in Love" | Previously Miss Ohio's Outstanding Teen 2008[8] |
| 2014 | Mackenzie Bart[9] | Columbus | 22 | Miss Montgomery County | Ventriloquism, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award[10]
STEM Scholarship Award[10] | Winner of America's Next Weatherman |
| 2013 | Heather Wells[11] | Warren | 23 | Miss Montgomery County | Dance, "Alabaster Box" |
| 2012 | Elissa McCracken | Ada
Waynesburg[12] | 20 | Miss West Central Ohio | Piano "Cumana" |
| 2011 | Ellen Bryan | Celina | 22 | Miss Clayland | Vocal "On My Way" from Violet | Quality of Life Award Finalist |
| 2010 | Becky Minger | Sylvania | 22 | Miss All-American City | Vocal "A House Is Not a Home" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2008 & 2009 |
| 2009 | Erica Gelhaus | St. Henry | 21 | Miss Clayland | Classical Vocal "So Anch'io la Virtu Magica" from Don Pasquale | Previously National Sweetheart 2007 |
| 2008 | Karissa Martin | Woodsfield | 20 | Miss Clayland | Vocal "The Girl in 14-G" |
| 2007 | Roberta Camp | Grove City | 23 | Miss Maple City | Vocal "Blessed" |
| 2006 | Melanie Murphy | Brook Park | 20 | Miss Miami Valley | Dance "Pump It" | Later Mrs. Ohio America 2011 under married name, Melanie Miller |
| 2005 | Marlia Fontaine | Massillon | 23 | Miss Lake Erie | Vocal "The Impossible Dream" |
| 2004 | Amanda Beagle | Warren | 24 | Miss Lake Erie | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2003 |
| 2003 | Janelle Couts | Akron | 22 | Miss Medina | Vocal "When I Look At You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 2002 | Tiffany Haas | Cincinnati | 20 | Miss Heart of it All | Classical Vocal "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide | Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up |
| 2001 | Natalie Witwer | Dublin | 19 | Miss Ashland | Piano "America the Beautiful" |
| 2000 | Stephanie Meisberger | Hopewell | 23 | Miss North Coast | Vocal "You Do Something to Me" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 |
| 1999 | Tiffany Baumann | Cleveland | 22 | Miss Greater Cleveland | Vocal "But the World Goes Round" by Kander and Ebb | Niece of Miss Ohio 1969, Kathrine Baumann |
| 1998 | Cheya Watkins | Cincinnati | 21 | Miss Southeastern Ohio | Gospel Vocal "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" | Later Miss Ohio USA 2000 |
| 1997 | Kelly Creager | Hamler | 19 | Miss Conneaut | Vocal "Remember Me This Way" from Casper |
| 1996 | Robyn Hancock | Grand Rapids | 21 | Miss Crestline | Classical Ballet en Pointe "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker | Non-finalist Talent Award |
| 1995 | Ellen Pasturzak | Portsmouth | 23 | Miss Portsmouth | Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard |
| 1994 | Lea Mack | Pickerington | 21 | Miss Pickerington-America | Vocal "Think of Me" | Top 10 | Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up | Previously Ohio's Junior Miss 1991 |
| 1993 | Titilayo Adedokun | Cincinnati | 20 | Miss Americana | Classical Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award |
| 1992 | Robin Michelle Meade | New London | 23 | Miss Mansfield | Vocal "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Top 10 | Lead news anchor for HLN morning show, Morning Express with Robin Meade since 2011 |
| 1991 | Renee Autherson | Newark | 21 | Miss Central Ohio | Vocal / Dance "Fabulous Feet" from The Tap Dance Kid |
| 1990 | Kristi Cooke | Marion | 22 | Miss Willard | Vocal "Nothing" from A Chorus Line |
| 1989 | Kristin Huffman | Canal Winchester | 24 | Miss Pickerington-America | Classical Vocal "Csárdás" from Die Fledermaus | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award |
| 1988 | Sarah Ann Evans | Van Wert | 23 | Miss Pickerington-America | Vocal "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera | Non-finalist Talent Award |
| 1987 | Susan Kay Johnson | Columbus | 22 | Miss Canton | Vocal "Believe" |
| 1986 | Mary Zilba | Toledo | 22 | Miss Greater Toledo | Vocal "My Mammy" | Sister of Miss Ohio 1981, Juliana Zilba |
| 1985 | Suellen Cochran[13] | Heath | 21 | Miss Southeastern Ohio | Piano Solo "Variations on Chopsticks" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award |
| 1984 | Melissa Ann Bradley | Mansfield | 23 | Miss Clayland | Vocal "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl | 1st runner-up | Mother of actor Chad Buchanan |
| 1983 | Pamela Helean Rigas | Canfield | 22 | Miss Cuyahoga Co. Fair | Vocal / Dance "Shine It On" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Previously Ohio's Junior Miss 1978
Previously Miss Alabama USA 1980
3rd runner-up at Miss USA 1980 |
| 1982 | Debra Gombert | Bexley | 22 | Miss North Central | Semi-classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" |
| 1981 | Juliana Zilba | Mansfield | 21 | Miss North Central | Vocal Medley "Up the Ladder to the Roof" & "With One More Look At You" from A Star Is Born | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship
Non-finalist Talent Award | Sister of Miss Ohio 1986, Mary Zilba |
| 1980 | Kathy Vernon | Youngstown | 24 | Miss North Central | Vocal Medley "I Have Dreamed" & "I Loved You Once In Silence" | Top 10 |
| 1979 | Tana Carli | Lakewood | 23 | Miss Willard | Accordion Medley "Tea for Two" & "Dizzy Fingers" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award |
| 1978 | Sher Patrick | Centerville | 19 | Miss South Central | Middle-Eastern Dance | 3rd runner-up | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1977 | Joan Gilger | Mansfield | 21 | Miss Bowling Green | Gymnastic Trampoline | N/A | N/A | 4th runner-up at Miss Ohio 1977 but accepted the title after the three other runners-up turned it down to be eligible to compete for Miss Ohio the following year
Assumed title after Susan Perkins won Miss America 1978 title |
| Susan Perkins | Middletown | 23 | Miss Clayland | Vocal "Good Morning Heartache" | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | Judge for the preliminary competition of the Miss America 2018 pageant[14] |
| 1976 | Janice Cooley | Portsmouth | 20 | Miss Ohio Valley | Piano Solo "Mephisto Waltz" | Non-finalist Talent Award |
| 1975 | Susan Banks | Ravenna | 24 | Miss Warren | Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | First Miss Ohio crowned in Mansfield upon pageant's return to the city in 1975 |
| 1974 | Lorrie Kapsta | Columbus | 26 | Miss Franklin County | Classical Piano "Piano Concerto in B Minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Last Miss Ohio crowned at Cedar Point Ballroom Pavilion |
| 1973 | Cheryl Yourkvitch | Lorain | 21 | Miss Lorain County | Vocal Medley | Non-finalist Talent Award |
| 1972 | Karen Sparka | Bowling Green | 21 | Miss Bowling Green | Vocal Medley "My Man" & "My Man's Gone Now" | Non-finalist Talent Award |
| 1971 | Judy Jones | West Alexandria | 19 | Miss Miami University | N/A | N/A | Assumed the title after Laurie Lea Schaefer became Miss America 1972 |
| Laurie Lea Schaefer | Bexley | 22 | Miss Central Ohio | Semi-classical Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award |
| 1970 | Grace Bird | Alliance | 21 | Miss Alliance | French Horn Solo & Classical Vocal "1st Concerto for French Horn" & "Ouvre ton Coeur" from Vasco da Gama by Georges Bizet |
| 1969 | Kathrine Baumann | Bowling Green | 19 | Miss Bowling Green | Gymnastics Dance "Those Were the Days" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award | Aunt of Miss Ohio 1999, Tiffany Baumann |
| 1968 | Leslyn Hiple | Louisville | 19 | Miss Canton | Vocal Medley "If My Friends Could See Me Now" & "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity |
| 1967 | Pamela Robinson | Dayton | 22 | Miss Dayton | Vocal "Oh To Be a Movie Star" from The Apple Tree | Previously Ohio's Junior Miss 1963
3rd runner-up at America's Junior Miss |
| 1966 | Sharon Phillian | Delaware | 21 | Miss Delaware | Vocal Medley "This Is My Country" & "Où va la jeune Hindoue" from Lakme | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1965 |
| 1965 | Valerie Lavin | Canton | 20 | Miss Canton | Vocal / Dance "I Ought to Dance" |
| 1964 | Diane Courtwright | Columbus | 19 | Miss Columbus | Popular Vocal & Modern Jazz Dance |
| 1963 | Peggy Emerson | Akron | Miss Akron | Semi-classical Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | First Miss Ohio crowned at Cedar Point Ballroom Pavilion |
| 1962 | Bonne Gawronski | Toledo | 19 | Miss Toledo | Modern Jazz Interpretation of "Let There Be Drums" | N/A | N/A | Assumed the title after Jacquelyn Mayer became Miss America 1963 |
| Jacquelyn Mayer | Sandusky | 20 | Miss Vacationland[15] | Broadway Vignette "Wishing Upon a Star", "My Favorite Things", & "The White Cliffs of Dover" | Winner |
Noted for her recovery from a near-fatal stroke suffered at age 28{{Citation needed>date=June 2017}} |
| 1961 | Darlene Depasquale | Dayton | 18 | Miss Dayton | Comedy Skit "Betty at the Baseball Game" | Contestant at Miss Sun Fun USA 1961 |
| 1960 | Alice McClain | Marion | 18 | Miss Marion | Vocal "Summertime" & "I Got Plenty of Nothin" |
| 1959 | Carole Weiler | Circleville | 18 | Miss Circleville | Dramatic Reading |
| 1958 | Margaret Putman | Ada | Miss Ada | Dramatic Sketch "Student Nurse" |
| 1957 | Linda Hattman | Mansfield | Miss Mansfield | Ballet |
| 1956 | Roberta Palmer | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland | Vocal "On the Street Where You Live" | Mother of Matthew Porretta |
| 1955 | Marguerite Garr | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Vocal & Zither "Old Black Joe" |
| 1954 | Barbara Quinlin | Alliance | Miss Alliance | Classical Vocal "Habanera" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award |
| 1953 | Martha Zimmerman | Salem | Miss Salem | Drama / Piano |
| 1952 | Carol Koontz | Bolivar | Miss Bolivar | Fire Baton Twirling & Clarinet Solo |
| 1951 | Ruth Howell | Apple Creek | Miss Apple Creek | Drama |
| 1950 | Irene Farren | Grand River | Miss Grand River | Fashion Design |
| 1949 | Florence Bondi | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland |
| 1948 | Maxine Waack | Fairview | Miss Fairview | Rumba Dance |
| 1947 | Nancy Nesbitt | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland | Vocal "I Don't Know Enough About You" |
| 1946 | LaVonne Bond | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Vocal "Thine Alone" from Eileen | Top 16 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Mary Eileen Kelly | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland |
| 1945 | Julia Donahue | Oxford | Miss Ohio | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Virginia Lee Pleasant | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati |
| 1944 | Madeline Bohanon | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Competed as Miss Cincinnati |
| 1943 | Joan Hyldoft | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Ice skating | Preliminary Talent Award | Competed as Miss Cincinnati |
| 1942 | Barbara Patterson | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Competed as Miss Cincinnati |
| 1941 | Lois Jean Beck | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Janice Sulzman | Willoughby | Miss Ohio | Top 15 |
| 1940 | Violet Berze | Steubenville | Miss Ohio | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Bette Jane Hart | Miss Central Ohio |
| 1939 | Maxine Drumm | Miss East Ohio | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Jeanne Saboda | Cleveland | Miss Ohio |
| 1938 | Evelyn Bertelsbeck | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland | Top 15 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Marilyn Meseke | Marion | 21 | Miss Ohio | Tap Dance "How'd You Like to Love Me", "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise", & "Joseph, Joseph" | Winner |
| 1937 | Jean Fadden | Cleveland | Miss Ohio | Top 16 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Sally Lillian Frank | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati |
| Evelyn Townley | Miss Buckeye Lake | Top 16 | Competed a second time as Miss Buckeye Lake
Multiple Ohio representatives |
| 1936 | Dorothy A. Duncan | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Evelyn Townley | Miss Buckeye Lake | Acrobatic Dance | Top 15 |
| 1935 | Eleanore Papin | Cleveland | Miss Cleveland | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Beatrice Pfeiffer | Cincinnati | Miss Cincinnati | Vocal |
| 1934 | No pageant was held |
| 1933 | Corinne Porter | 18 | Miss Ohio | Top 18 |
| 1932 | No pageants were held |
| 1931 |
| 1930 |
| 1929 |
| 1928 |
| 1927 | Erma Shorwood Steele | Miss Canton | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | Miss Ohio |
| 1925 | Elsie Connor | Miss Cleveland | Top 15 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Emilia Kaniewska | Miss Toledo |
| Isabel Robertson | Miss Youngstown |
| Elarka Towne | Conneaut | Miss Ohio |
| 1924 | Mary Katherine Campbell | Columbus | 18 | Miss America 1922 and 1923 | 1st runner-up | Returned to try and defend her title |
| Pauline James | Miss Youngstown | Top 15 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Lenore O'Ryan | Miss Columbus |
| 1923 | Thelma Boyd | Miss Akron | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Mary Katherine Campbell | Columbus | 17 | Miss America 1922 | Winner | Successfully defended her title, the only woman to win the pageant twice |
| Mary Jane Clark | Miss Cleveland | Top 23 | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Olga Emrich | Miss Cincinnati | Top 23 |
| Elizabeth Genevieve Mambourg | Miss Columbus | Top 23 |
| 1922 | Mary Katherine Campbell | Columbus | 16 | Miss Columbus | Winner | Multiple Ohio representatives |
| Leila Charles | Miss Cleveland |
| Loraine Foskey | Miss Toledo |
| Helen Frances Smith | Miss Dayton | Top 8 |
| Doris Widdensheim | Miss Akron |
| 1921 | No Ohio representative at Miss America pageant |
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