Jennifer Hawkins (born 22 December 1983) is a beauty queen and television presenter from Newcastle, Australia who held the Miss Universe 2004 title.

Hawkins was a former cheerleader for the Newcastle Knights rugby league team, and the Hunter Pirates basketball teams, and then a sometime model. It was as a model that she was cast as Miss Australia for the Miss Universe competition.Hawkins represented Australia at the internationally televised Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Quito, Ecuador on 1 June 2004. She became the first Australian to make the semi-finals since 1992, and then proceeded to the top ten after competing in the evening gown competition. After the swimsuit competition, Hawkins advanced to the top five, and eventually won the Miss Universe title. The remaining top five were all from the Americas and Caribbean, and included Shandi Finnessey of the USA (1st runner-up), Alba Reyes of Puerto Rico (2nd runner-up), Yanina Gonzalez of Paraguay (3rd runner-up) and Danielle Jones of Trinidad and Tobago (4th runner-up). Hawkins was the first winner from Oceania since Lorraine Downes of New Zealand held the title in 1983, and the first Australian since Kerry Anne Wells in 1972.

Hawkins' ambition to become a television presenter was helped along when she announced that she had signed a contract with the Seven Network at the 2004 Melbourne Cup Carnival. Her first appearances were as a guest presenter on the network's travel show, The Great Outdoors, where she took viewers on tours throughout the world. When she ended her reign as Miss Universe, she became a regular presenter on the show, which resulted in a 2006 Logie nomination for Most Popular New Female Talent.

She was one of the participants in the fourth season of Australia's Dancing with the Stars in 2006, until she failed to receive enough audience votes, and was subsequently eliminated during the April 4 episode coming sixth. Her shock elimination made headlines the next day and the media suggested that jealous women would refuse to vote for her because Hawkins was 'too beautiful'. On February 15, 2006 Hawkins competed in a celebrity version of Deal or No Deal called Dancing with the Deal which featured celebrities from Dancing with the Stars.

She has made cameo appearances in multiple episodes of The Apprentice with Donald Trump, who stated that Jennifer Hawkins "is the most beautiful Miss Universe" he had ever seen.

For a few years, she has been dating international model and former carpenter Jake Wall who was in Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice. The Seven Network requested that she not attend the show, as Seven fears Nine will capitalise on her presence, which may boost ratings for Nine