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List of Playboy Playmates of the Month

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1430824 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following women have shown up in the American or international edition of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month. Those who were also named Playmate of the Year are highlighted in green.

A common misconception is that Marilyn Monroe was a Playmate of the Month. She appeared in the first issue of Playboy as the "Sweetheart of the Month". The term "Playmate" was introduced in the second issue, but that term was applied to Monroe in several later issues.

1954–1959

Note: Ellen Stratton was the first official Playmate of the Year.

1960–1969

1970–1979

1980–1989

1990–1999

2000–2009

2010–2019

Note: All 12 Playmates of the Month 2019 were named Playmate of the Year 2020.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1959, 1960, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, Playboy and Playmates can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1430824. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1959, 1960 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Playboy Playmates of the Month” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.