This is a list of models who were chosen as a Playboy Playmate of the Year for the American edition of Playboy magazine.

List of Playmates of the Year

• 1953: Marilyn Monroe
• 1954:
• 1955:
• 1956:
• 1957:
• 1958:
• 1959:
• 1960: Ellen Stratton
• 1961: Linda Gamble
• 1962: Christa Speck
• 1963: June Cochran
• 1964: Donna Michelle
• 1965: Jo Collins
• 1966: Allison Parks
• 1967: Lisa Baker
• 1968: Angela Dorian
• 1969: Connie Kreski
• 1970: Claudia Jennings
• 1971: Sharon Clark
• 1972: Liv Lindeland
• 1973: Marilyn Cole
• 1974: Cyndi Wood
• 1975: Marilyn Lange
• 1976: Lillian Müller
• 1977: Patti McGuire
• 1978: Debra Jo Fondren
• 1979: Monique St. Pierre
• 1980: Dorothy Stratten
• 1981: Terri Welles
• 1982: Shannon Tweed
• 1983: Marianne Gravatte
• 1984: Barbara Edwards
• 1985: Karen Velez
• 1986: Kathy Shower
• 1987: Donna Edmondson
• 1988: India Allen
• 1989: Kimberley Conrad
• 1990: Reneé Tenison
• 1991: Lisa Matthews
• 1992: Corinna Harney
• 1993: Anna Nicole Smith
• 1994: Jenny McCarthy
• 1995: Julie Lynn Cialini
• 1996: Stacy Sanches
• 1997: Victoria Silvstedt
• 1998: Karen McDougal
• 1999: Heather Kozar
• 2000: Jodi Ann Paterson
• 2001: Brande Roderick
• 2002: Dalene Kurtis
• 2003: Christina Santiago
• 2004: Carmella DeCesare
• 2005: Tiffany Fallon
• 2006: Kara Monaco
• 2007: Sara Jean Underwood
• 2008: Jayde Nicole
• 2009: Ida Ljungqvist
• 2010: Hope Dworaczyk
• 2011: Claire Sinclair
• 2012: Jaclyn Swedberg
• 2013: Raquel Pomplun
• 2014: Kennedy Summers^[1]
• 2015: Dani Mathers
• 2016: Eugena Washington^[2]
• 2017: Brook Power
• 2018: Nina Daniele^[3]
• 2019: Jordan Emanuel^[4]
• 2020: All 12 (Vendela, Megan Moore, Miki Hamano, Fo Porter, Abigail O'Neill, Yoli Lara, Teela LaRoux, Geena Rocero, Sophie O'Neil, Hilda Dias Pimentel, Gillian Chan, Jordy Murray)^[5]

Playmates of the Year by original month of appearance

January

• Connie Kreski (1968)
• Liv Lindeland (1971)
• Marilyn Cole (1972)
• Kimberley Conrad (1988)
• Heather Kozar (1998)
• Jayde Nicole (2007)
• Vendela (2019)

February

• Cyndi Wood (1973)
• Julie Lyn Cialini (1994)
• Megan Moore (2019)

March

• Stacy Sanches (1995)
• Ida Ljungqvist (2008)
• Miki Hamano (2019)

April

• Linda Gamble (1960)
• Lisa Matthews (1990)
• Brande Roderick (2000)
• Carmella DeCesare (2003)
• Hope Dworaczyk (2009)
• Jaclyn Swedberg (2011)
• Raquel Pomplun (2012)
• Nina Daniele (2017)
• Fo Porter (2019)

May

• Marilyn Lange (1974)
• Kathy Shower (1985)
• Anna Nicole Smith (1992)
• Dani Mathers (2014)
• Brook Power (2016)
• Abigail O'Neill (2019)

June

• Kara Monaco (2005)
• Yoli Lara (2019)

July

• Sara Jean Underwood (2006)
• Teela LaRoux (2019)

August

• Sharon Clark (1970)
• Lillian Müller (1975)
• Dorothy Stratten (1979)
• Corinna Harney (1991)
• Christina Santiago (2002)
• Geena Rocero (2019)

September

• Christa Speck (1961)
• Angela Dorian (1967)
• Debra Jo Fondren (1977)
• Barbara Edwards (1983)
• Dalene Kurtis (2001)
• Sophie O'Neil (2019)

October

• Allison Parks (1965)
• Marianne Gravatte (1982)
• Jenny McCarthy (1993)
• Jodi Ann Paterson (1999)
• Claire Sinclair (2010)
• Hilda Dias Pimentel (2019)

November

• Lisa Baker (1966)
• Claudia Jennings (1969)
• Patti McGuire (1977)
• Monique St. Pierre (1978)
• Shannon Tweed (1981)
• Donna Edmondson (1986)
• Renee Tenison (1989)
• Gillian Chan (2019)

December

• Ellen Stratton (1959)
• June Cochran (1962)
• Donna Michelle (1963)
• Jo Collins (1964)
• Terri Welles (1980)
• Karen Velez (1984)
• India Allen (1987)
• Victoria Silvstedt (1996)
• Karen McDougal (1997)
• Tiffany Fallon (2004)
• Kennedy Summers (2013)
• Eugena Washington (2015)
• Jordan Emanuel (2018)
• Jordy Murray (2019)