The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1980. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
Geraldine "Gig" Gangel is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Before becoming a Playmate, Gangel appeared on the October 1979 cover of Playboy. In The Playmate Book, Gangel commented on her photo shoot with Burt Reynolds that, "I didn't think Burt was my type, until I met him."
February
Sandra Joyce Cagle is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Cagle had a brief stint as a Bunny at the Playboy Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin before her Playmate selection. She appeared on four covers of the Japanese edition in one year before she became a Playmate.
March
Henriette Allais is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Richard Fegley. In 1980, she posed for Helmut Newton's "Big Nudes" series. Her portrait "Big Nude III" became the poster for the first exhibition of the series at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris in 1981. A numbered print of "Big Nude III" was sold at an auction at Christie's in November 2005 for £176,000.
April
Liz Glazowski is a Polish-American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.
May
Martha Elizabeth Thomsen is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1980 issue.
June
Ola Ray is an American model and actress who costarred in the short film for "Thriller" in 1983. She modeled for Playboy and was the Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue.
July
Teri Peterson is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1980 issue.
August
Victoria Cooke is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
September
Lisa Welch Semler is an American model, actress and artist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1980 issue. Semler played Suzy, a cheerleader, in Revenge of the Nerds. She is married and lives in Malibu, California. She's a painter and photographer. She sells her paintings to greeting card companies. She and her husband also maintain their own vineyard and make their own wine.
October
Mardi Jacquet is a French-American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1980 issue.
Terri Welles is an American actress and model. Welles first appeared on the cover of the May 1980 issue of Playboy. She was the centerfold in the December 1980 issue and named Playmate of the Year for 1981. Her original Playmate pictorial was photographed by Richard Fegley. Playboy Enterprises sued Welles in 1998 over her online use of its trademark terms "Playboy" and "Playmate of the Year" for commercial purposes. In Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles, the courts ruled that virtually all of Welles' uses of the terms were allowed.
