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

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

Australia

 * Rob "Coach" Fulton, October 17, 2005
 * Martin Flood, November 14, 2005

Austria

 * Anton Sutterluetty, June 11, 2001

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.

Chile

 * Gonzalo Miranda, 2002

Colombia

 * Enrique Carlos, 2006

Croatia

 * Mira Bićanić, 2002

Ecuador

 * Maria Fernanda Compte, November 24, 2002

France
(French contestants' surnames aren't mentioned on the show)
 * Frédéric ???, 2000
 * Louis ???, 2001
 * Marie ???, August 28, 2004

Germany

 * Eckhard Freise, December 2, 2000
 * Marlene Grabherr, May 20, 2001
 * Gerhard Krammer, October 18, 2002
 * Dr. Maria Wienströer, March 29, 2004
 * Stefan Lang, October 6, 2006
 * Timur Hahn, January 8, 2007

Hong Kong

 * Wong Jim (黃霑) and Fung Bo Bo, 2001 (celebrity edition)
 * Chan Hon-cheung (陳漢翔), November 2, 2001

Hungary

 * Gábor Cserey, March 20, 2006

India
unknown couple from Orissa (won 1 crore rupees on KBC1)
 * Harshwardhan 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)

Israel

 * Yizhar Nevo 2000

Italy

 * Francesca Cinelli March 18, 2001
 * Davide Pavesi October 17, 2004

Japan

 * Yasuyuki Kunimitsu (國光恭幸), July 27, 2000
 * Yoshiaki Nagata (永田喜彰), August 10, 2000
 * Naoko Imao (今尾奈緒子), November 2, 2000
 * Hiroshi Hase (馳浩), member of the Japanese House of Representatives, November 23, 2000 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Kazuyuki Nose (能勢一幸), nicknamed "The Quiz King", February 15, 2001
 * Hitomi Sakamoto (坂本ひとみ), December 13, 2001
 * Kikuchi Akishi (菊地晃史), June 27, 2002
 * Michiko Eguchi (江口みち子), August 1, 2002
 * Naomi Osada (長田直美), November 14, 2002
 * Shoko Mishima (三島祥子), May 8, 2003
 * Daichi Suzuki (鈴木大地), September 18, 2003
 * Tsuyoshi Shinjo (新庄剛志), pro baseball player, January 2, 2004 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Kazuya Tanaka (田中一也) and Chiyo Tanaka (田中ちよ), June 10, 2004 (Couples Edition)
 * Takafumi Horie (堀江貴文), former CEO of Livedoor, Inc, December 30, 2004 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Kazuko Hosoki (細木数子), fortune teller, December 30, 2004　 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Masaaki Sakai (堺正章), April 7, 2005 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Yasuo Tanaka (田中康夫), author and governor of Nagano Prefecture, April 7, 2005 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Kikuchi Tomohisa (菊池友久), April 28, 2005
 * Masahiko Hamada (濱田敏彦), May 26, 2005
 * Kotaro Koizumi (小泉孝太郎), Japanese actor and the eldest son of the former Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, January 2, 2006 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Yuko Asano (浅野ゆう子), Japanese actress, March 23, 2006 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Junko Nozoe (野添潤子), June 29, 2006
 * Keiko Ohi (大井恵子), July 27, 2006
 * Dai Tamesue (為末大), Japanese athlete, September 14, 2006 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Mitsugoro Bando (坂東三津五郎), "Kabuki" Actor, October 5, 2006 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Dewi Sukarno (デヴィ・スカルノ), Japanese "celebrity" actress, October 26, 2006 (Celebrity Edition)
 * Misako Konno(紺野美沙子), Japanese actress, February 15, 2007 (Celebrity Edition)

Kazakhstan

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

Latvia

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

Middle East and North Africa

 * Khaled al-Mulla (خالد الملا), from United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2001
 * Mohammad Tanirah (محمد تنيرة), student of pharmacy from Gaza strip, March 2002
 * Marwa Anachar (مروة النشار) won 1.000.000 Saudi riyals, the second highest prize on the new version of the show "who will win 2 million" [March 2006].

Netherlands

 * Hans Peters, January 6, 2001 (won 1,000,000 NLG)

Philippines

 * Amy Lopez-Forbes, July 2001
 * Sharon Cuneta, movie actress and singer, December 2001 (Celebrity Edition)

Portugal

 * Renata Morgado, May 2000 (The first female millionaire in the entire series)
 * Ana Damásio, September 2000
 * José Fernandes, April 2001
 * Antônio Franco, December 2003

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

Slovenia

 * Peter Lazar
 * Akim Kysselef, 2002
 * Matjaž Tanko, newscaster, 2002 (Celebrity Edition for Humanitarian purposes)
 * Gorazd Škerbinek
 * Jaro Leskovsek, 2004

South Africa

 * David Paterson
 * Anna Tran

Sweden

 * Per Hörberg, February 17, 2006

Spain

 * Enrique Chicote, 2000

Ukraine

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

United Kingdom

 * Judith Keppel, November 20, 2000
 * David Edwards, April 21, 2001
 * Charles Ingram* (Prize retracted after found guilty of fraud), scheduled for September 18, 2001 but not actually broadcast until April 21 2003.
 * Robert Brydges, September 29, 2001
 * Pat Gibson, April 24, 2004
 * Ingram Wilcox, September 23, 2006

United States (prime time and syndicated versions)

 * John Carpenter, November 19, 1999 (the first millionaire of the entire series)
 * Dan Blonsky, January 18, 2000
 * Joe Trela, March 23, 2000
 * Bob House, June 13, 2000
 * Kim Hunt, July 6, 2000
 * David Goodman, July 11, 2000
 * Kevin Olmstead, ($2.18 Million) April 10, 2001
 * Bernie Cullen, April 15, 2001
 * Ed Toutant, ($1.86 Million) September 7, 2001
 * Kevin Smith (First winner of the syndicated version), February 18, 2003
 * Nancy Christy (First woman to win the million dollars in the U.S. version), May 8, 2003

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.

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.