Let's Take A Look Back At Every Playboy Playmate Of The Year (55 pics)

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1957 Lisa Winters
The first PMOTY, thought they did not begin to award it annually until 1959.

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1959 Joyce Nizzari

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1960 Ellen Stratton

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1961 Linda Gamble

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1962 Christa Speck

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1963 June Cochran

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1964 Donna Michelle

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1965 Jo Collins

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1966 Allison Parks

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1967 Lisa Baker

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1968 Angela Dorian

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1969 Connie Kreski

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1970 Claudia Jennings

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1972 Liv Lindeland

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1973 Marilyn Cole

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1974 Cyndi Wood

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1977 Patti McGuire

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1978 Debra Jo Fondren

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1979 Monique St. Pierre

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1980 Dorothy Stratten

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1981 Terri Welles

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1982 Shannon Tweed

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1983 Marianne Gravatte

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1984 Barbara Edwards

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1985 Karen Velez

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1986 Kathy Shower

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1987 Donna Edmondson

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1988 India Allen

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1989 Kimberley Conrad

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1991 Lisa Matthews

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1992 Corinna Harney

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1993 Anna Nicole Smith

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1994 Jenny McCarthy

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1995 Julie Lynn Cialini

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1996 Stacy Sanches

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1997 Victoria Silvstedt

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1998 Karen McDougal

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1999 Heather Kozar

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2000 Jodi Ann Paterson

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2001 Brande Roderick

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2002 Dalene Kurtis

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2003 Christina Santiago
No that isn’t 2003’s PMOTY Christina Santiago on the cover. It created a controversy when they did it but in 2003 Playboy’s editors decided to put “celebrity” Sarah Kozer from reality show Joe Millionaire instead. They chose to keep the PMOTY honor a mystery with the answer inside.

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2004 Carmella DeCesare
2004’s cover continued the trend of hiding the PMOTY inside in favor of a celebrity on the cover. This would continue off and on for a few more years.

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2005 Tiffany Fallon

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2006 Kara Monaco

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2007 Sara Jean Underwood

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2008 Jayde Nicole

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2009 Ida Ljungqvist

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2010 Hope Dworaczyk

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2011 Claire Sinclair

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2012 Jaclyn Swedberg

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2013 Raquel Pomplun

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2014 Kennedy Summers

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2015 Dani Mathers