List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters

1979 hostess: Yardena Arazi.
1994 host: Gerry Ryan, pictured in March 2010, one month before his death.
2006 hostess: Maria Menounos.
Petra Mede, host of 2013 and 2016 editions and Eurovision's Greatest Hits

This list includes those who have acted as presenters of the Eurovision Song Contest, since the competitions inception in 1956. From 1988, it has been the norm to have two presenters for the contest. All contests before 1978 have had one presenter, and only a few after 1988 have had only one presenter. The 1999 contest was the first contest to consist of three presenters in one contest.

Presenters

Year Presenter(s) Year Presenter(s)
1956 Switzerland Lohengrin Filipello 1987 Belgium Viktor Lazlo
1957 West Germany Anaïd Iplicjian 1988 Republic of Ireland Michelle Rocca and Pat Kenny
1958 Netherlands Hannie Lips 1989 Switzerland Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux
1959 France Jacqueline Joubert 1990 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Helga Vlahović and Oliver Mlakar
1960 United Kingdom Katie Boyle 1991 Italy Gigliola Cinquetti and Toto Cutugno
1961 France Jacqueline Joubert 1992 Sweden Lydia Cappolicchio and Harald Treutiger
1962 Luxembourg Mireille Delannoy 1993 Republic of Ireland Fionnuala Sweeney
1963 United Kingdom Katie Boyle 1994 Republic of Ireland Cynthia Ní Mhurchú and Gerry Ryan
1964 Denmark Lotte Wæver 1995 Republic of Ireland Mary Kennedy
1965 Italy Renata Mauro 1996 Norway Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket
1966 Luxembourg Josiane Shen 1997 Republic of Ireland Carrie Crowley and Ronan Keating
1967 Austria Erica Vaal 1998 United Kingdom Ulrika Jonsson and Terry Wogan
1968 United Kingdom Katie Boyle 1999 Israel Dafna Dekel, Sigal Shahamon and Yigal Ravid
1969 Spain Laurita Valenzuela 2000 Sweden Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin
1970 Netherlands Willy Dobbe 2001 Denmark Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark
1971 Republic of Ireland Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir 2002 Estonia Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere
1972 United Kingdom Moira Shearer 2003 Latvia Marie N and Renārs Kaupers
1973 Luxembourg Helga Guitton 2004 Turkey Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay
1974 United Kingdom Katie Boyle 2005 Ukraine Maria Efrosnina and Pasha Shylko
1975 Sweden Karin Falck 2006 Greece Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas
1976 Netherlands Corry Brokken 2007 Finland Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi
1977 United Kingdom Angela Rippon 2008 Serbia Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović
1978 France Denise Fabre and Léon Zitrone 2009 Russia Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov (semi-finals)
Russia Alsou and Ivan Urgant (final)
1979 Israel Yardena Arazi and Daniel Pe'er 2010 Norway Nadia Hasnaoui, Erik Solbakken and Haddy N'jie
1980 Netherlands Marlous Fluitsma 2011 Germany Anke Engelke, Stefan Raab and Judith Rakers
1981 Republic of Ireland Doireann Ní Bhriain 2012 Azerbaijan Leyla Aliyeva, Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen
1982 United Kingdom Jan Leeming 2013 Sweden Petra Mede
1983 West Germany Marlene Charell 2014 Denmark Lise Rønne, Nikolaj Koppel and Pilou Asbæk
1984 Luxembourg Désirée Nosbusch 2015 Austria Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer
1985 Sweden Lill Lindfors 2016 Sweden Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw
1986 Norway Åse Kleveland

Green room hosts

Year Presenter(s)
1976 Netherlands Hans van Willigenburg
1980 Netherlands Hans van Willigenburg
2003 Latvia Ilze Jaunalksne and Dīvs Reiznieks
2004 Turkey Sertab Erener
2005 Ukraine Ruslana Lyzhychko and Wladimir Klitschko
2007 Finland Krisse Salminen
2008 Serbia Kristina Radenković and Branislav Katić
2009 Russia Dmitry Shepelev
2013 Sweden Eric Saade (final)
2015 Austria Conchita Wurst

Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest

Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest was a special TV show was broadcast from Copenhagen, Denmark to mark the Eurovision Song Contest's fiftieth anniversary and to determine the Contest's most popular entrant of its fifty years. The event was hosted by two former participants:

Location Presenters
Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark United Kingdom Katrina Leskanich and Latvia Renārs Kaupers

Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits

Location Presenters
United Kingdom London, United Kingdom Sweden Petra Mede and United Kingdom Graham Norton

Presenters born outside of the host country

Presenters who formerly competed at Eurovision

Arazi, Rouvas and Joksimović all had formerly competed at Eurovision before hosting the contest, but also returned as competitors after their hosting role.

Presenters who resigned

See also

References

  1. de:Helga Guitton
  2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313382/trivia
  3. Bakker, Sietse (2005-05-04). "Ruslana resigns as host". ESCToday. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
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