Celebrity NAMED: By People Staff Published on January 9, 1998 12:00AM EST Share Tweet Pin Email Sophia Loren, 65, as the world’s most beautiful woman in a poll of 3,000 Britons, conducted by beauty-care company Beautiko. The manufacturer plans to put photographs of Loren and the top 19 other 20th century beauties named in the poll into Europe’s largest time capsule, the Millennium Vault in Surrey, England.