List of top prize winners in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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The winners of the top prize for each version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? are

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[edit] Australia

[edit] Austria

[edit] Bulgaria

  • Asen Angelov answered the major prize question and was awarded 100,000 levs, but soon returned them, when it became clear that his daughter - Iskra Angelova, was working in Nova TV (the TV channel that airs the show), which is against the rules.

[edit] Chile

  • Gonzalo Miranda, 2002 (won 100,000,000 CLP)
  • Melly Shields, 2003 (won 65,000,000 CLP)

[edit] Colombia

  • Enrique Carlos, 2006

[edit] Croatia

  • Mira Bićanić, 2002

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] Estonia

[edit] France

(French contestants' surnames aren't mentioned on the show)

[edit] Germany

[edit] Hong Kong

[edit] Hungary

[edit] India

  • Harshvardhan Navathe (winner of KBC started in 2000)
  • Brajesh Dubey (First winner of 1 crore rupees in KBC2; started in 2005 with a maximum prize money of 2 crore rupees)
  • Ravi Saini (winner of KBC Junior)
  • unknown couple from Orissa (won 1 crore rupees on KBC1)

[edit] Israel

  • Yizhar Nevo 2000

[edit] Italy

[edit] Japan

[edit] Kazakhstan

  • Saule Akhmetova (Сауле Ахметова), 2002
  • Irina Stal'naya (Ирина Стальная), 2003

[edit] Latvia

  • Elita Rumpe, 2003 (won 10,000 Lats, as then 10,000, not 20,000 Lats was value of 15th question)

[edit] Middle East and North Africa

  • Khaled al-Mulla (خالد الملا), doctor from United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2001
  • Mohammad Tanirah (محمد تنيرة), student of pharmacy from Gaza strip, March 15, 2002
  • Sidi Ahmed weld A'ala(سيدي أحمد ولد أعلى), journalist from Mauritania January 2, 2003
  • Marwa Anachar (مروة النشار), from Egypt won 1.000.000 Saudi riyals, the second highest prize on the new version of the show "who will win 2 million" March 14, 2006.
  • Mustapha Tammam (مصطفى تمّام), social studies teacher from Kingdom of Bahrain won 1.000.000 Saudi Riyals, 2nd highest prize in arabian millionaire May 1, 2007
  • Kenaan Matar (كنعان مطر), lawyer from Lebanon, the first 2.000.000 Saudi Riyals winner on the new version of the show May 15 2007

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Nigeria

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Russia

  • Igor Sazejev (Игорь Сазеев), March 21, 2001
  • Jurij and Irina Chudinovskih (Юрий и Ирина Чудиновских), 18 January 2003 (Couple Edition)
  • Svetlana Yaroslavtseva (Светлана Ярославцева), 19 February 2006

[edit] Slovenia

  • Peter Lazar
  • Akim Kysselef, 2002
  • Matjaž Tanko, newscaster, 2002 (Celebrity Edition for Humanitarian purposes)
  • Gorazd Škerbinek
  • Jaro Leskovsek, 2004 (first winner of 15,000,000 Slovenian tolars)

[edit] South Africa

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Spain

  • Enrique Chicote, 2000 (won 50,000,000₧)

[edit] Ukraine

  • Sergey Karabinskiy (Сергий Карабиньскiй)
  • Svyatoslav Vakorchuk (Святослав Вакорчук) (Celebrity Special), 2005

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States (prime time and syndicated versions)

In addition, Robert Essig won $1,000,000 on Super Millionaire on 23 February 2004, but did not win the top prize of $10,000,000.

[edit] Venezuela

  • Eugenio Vargas
  • Zulay Marcano, July, 2007

In March 2002, Paddy Spooner became the first and only person to sit in the hot seat in three countries when he won in Republic of Ireland, having previously won $250k in Australia and £250k in the United Kingdom. In Ireland though, he didn't make it to the €32,000 level, according to an Australian game show website.

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