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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1959, the 5th anniversary year of the publication. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Virginia Gordon (born October 28, 1936, in Chaplin, West Virginia) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the January 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

February

Eleanor Bradley (born December 13, 1938, in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.

March

Audrey Daston (born April 25, 1936 in Boise, Idaho) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Lawrence Schiller.

April

Nancy Crawford (born April 16, 1941, in Valhalla, New York) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Barbara and Justin Kerr.

May

Cindy Fuller (May 13, 1938 – January 6, 2020) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
She was an American model who was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1959 issue.
Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager. Many years later, at around the turn of the 21st-century, she claimed to be the first Jewish Playmate. That means she was the first, by about seven years, before the previously presumed first one, December 1966's Susan Bernard. Fuller died on January 6, 2020, at the age of 81.

June

Marilyn Hanold (born June 9, 1938, in Jamaica, New York) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bruno Bernard.

July

Yvette Iola Vickers (née Vedder) (August 26, 1928 – c. 2010) was a blond-haired, blue-eyed American actress, pin-up model, and singer. In 1959 she appeared as the ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for the July issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Russ Meyer. She also appeared in several other men's magazines.

August

Clayre Peters born September 17, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, is an American model. She is best known for being ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck.

September

Marianne Gaba (November 13, 1939 – May 3, 2016) was an American model, actress and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. Marianne Gaba Starkman died from a brain tumor in Los Angeles, on May 3, 2016, at the age of 76.

October

Elaine Reynolds (born September 7, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck. Her centerfold appears in the 1989 film ''Dead Poets Society''.

November

Donna Lynn (born September 21, 1936, in Walukee, Oklahoma) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Bez.

December

Bonnie La Rue Miller (née Nix, June 9, 1939 – April 26, 2016), better known as Ellen Stratton, was an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1959. She also became the first "official" Playmate of the Year for 1960.
Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham. Stratton died in California, on April 26, 2016 at the age of 76.

See also

* List of people in Playboy 1953–1959

References

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