Top Prize Losers

"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" has had a few Top Prize losers from some countries of the world. All of the following list of who answered the final question incorrectly. This list gives all of these players who answered the last question wrong in chronological order of their lose.

2000 Losers

 * LaSalle Ishii lost ¥6,500,000 on October 12, 2000. First Japanese and worldwide loser.

2001 Losers

 * Ganesh Shinde lost 4,680,000 rupees on March 2001. First Indian loser.


 * Per Eivind lost 900,000 NOK on March 2, 2001.


 * Kuniko Asagi lost ¥6,500,000 on April 5, 2001. First female worldwide loser.
 * Michalis Mavrogenis lost 22,000,000 drachmas on April 30, 2001. First and only Greek loser.
 * Kyoko Toyoshima lost ¥6,500,000 on August 2, 2001.
 * Tatsumi Takara lost ¥6,500,000 on October 18, 2001
 * Yasuhito Sema lost ¥6,500,000 on November 8, 2001.
 * Ling Wing Kuen and Ling Shuk Ling lost HK$440,000 on November 9, 2001. First and only Chinese losers.


 * Yōko Mashita lost ¥6,500,000 on November 15, 2001.
 * Masaki Numuta lost ¥6,500,000 on November 22, 2001.
 * Kalin Evtimov lost 47,500 lev on December 10, 2001. First Bulgarian loser.

2002 Losers

 * Musoyama Masashi lost ¥6,500,000 on April 3, 2002.
 * Ken Watanabe lost ¥6,500,000 on May 2, 2002.
 * Filip Łapiński lost 468,000 ztolys on June 2, 2002. First Polish loser.


 * Shizuka Kawamoto lost ¥6,500,000 on July 18, 2002.
 * Saburo Kitajima lost ¥6,500,000 on October 3, 2002.
 * Tatsuya Yamaguchi lost ¥6,500,000 on November 14, 2002.
 * Yoshiharu Kamino lost ¥6,500,000 on December 19, 2002.

2003 Losers

 * Yutaka Take lost ¥6,500,000 on April 3, 2003.
 * Kenji Mouri lost ¥650,000 on September 4, 2003.
 * Rina Oooka lost ¥650,000 on September 4, 2003.
 * Tsunemi Kusakabe lost ¥6,500,000 on December 18, 2003.
 * Menno de Ruijter lost €234,000 on December 20, 2003. First and only Dutch loser.

2004 Losers

 * Kyoyo Kano lost ¥6,500,000 on January 2, 2004.
 * Masami Sato lost ¥6,500,000 on May 6, 2004.
 * Fujita Tomoko lost ¥6,500,000 on May 27, 2004.
 * Keito Tokuda lost ¥6,500,000 on July 8, 2004.
 * Tomoki Matsuoka lost ¥650,000 on August 26, 2004.
 * Masashi Mori lost ¥6,500,000 on September 2, 2004.
 * Yuri Takano lost ¥6,500,000 on September 30, 2004.

2005 Losers

 * Ushikubo Etsuko lost ¥6,500,000 on January 20, 2005.
 * Galina Semenova lost 468,000 roubles on January 22, 2005. First Russian loser.


 * Yavor Kostov lost 97,000 lev on June 28, 2005.
 * Wakanohana Masaru lost ¥6,500,000 on October 6, 2005.
 * Cherish lost ¥6,500,000 on November 10, 2005.
 * Akiko Yoshinoji lost ¥6,500,000 on November 17, 2005.

2006 Losers

 * Sakura Yokomine lost ¥6,500,000 on January 2, 2006.
 * Haruo Kitamura lost ¥6,500,000 on January 19, 2006.
 * Masahiko Tsugawa lost ¥6,500,000 on March 23, 2006.
 * Unknown Player lost ¥6,500,000 on July 13, 2006.
 * Masai Maya lost ¥6,500,000 on July 13, 2006.
 * Unknown Player lost ¥6,500,000 on August 31, 2006.
 * Yoshiyuki Kôzu and Meiko Nakamura lost ¥6,500,000 on November 23, 2006.
 * Kenji Eda lost ¥6,500,000 on November 30, 2006.

2007 Losers

 * Senichi Hoshino lost ¥6,500,000 on January 2, 2007.
 * Hidekazu Nagai lost ¥6,500,000 on February 22, 2007.
 * Yakkun Sakurazuka lost ¥6,500,000 on March 8, 2007.


 * Hideo Higashikokubaru lost ¥6,500,000 on March 29, 2007.
 * Shiro Ito and Takaaki Ito lost ¥6,500,000 on May 3, 2007.
 * Shirō Asano lost ¥6,500,000 on July 5, 2007.
 * Kazuya Maruyama lost ¥6,500,000 on August 29, 2007.
 * Ayako Nishikawa lost ¥6,500,000 on December 23, 2007.

2008 Losers

 * Takahuru Miyamoto lost ¥15,000,000 on March 27, 2008.
 * Dilan Pavlov lost 47,000 lev on June 13, 2008.


 * Takeshi Kitano lost ¥6,500,000 on September 18, 2008.

2009 Losers

 * Yuji Tanaka lost ¥6,500,000 on April 1, 2009.
 * Barry Soraghan lost $249,000 on June 8, 2009. First Australian and Hot Seat loser.


 * Ken Basin lost $475,000 on August 23, 2009. First American loser.


 * Jeff Tarr lost $249,000 on September 28, 2009.

2010 Losers

 * Orlando Morales lost ₡22,000,000 on June 1, 2010. Only Costa Rican loser.


 * Paul Wolfenden lost $249,000 on June 14, 2010.


 * Prashant Batar lost 9,680,000 rupees on November 9, 2010.

2011 Losers

 * Vladimir Yefremov lost 700,000 roubles on April 30, 2011.


 * Jim Graham lost $249,000 on June 20, 2011.

2012 Losers

 * Alan Edwards lost $249,000 on April 16, 2012.

2013 Losers

 * Kevin Short lost $249,000 on May 13, 2013.


 * Şeyma Özin lost 235,000 TL on June 1, 2013. First Turkish loser.


 * Josina Reaves lost $75,000 on September 25, 2013.

2014 Losers

 * Nikolaj Hübbe and Alexander Kølpin lost Kr 450,000 on March 17, 2014. First Danish losers.


 * Georges Devalois Yepnang Mouhoutou lost €15,500 on October 17, 2014. First German loser.

2015 Losers

 * Kyle Andaya lost P850,000 on August 23, 2015. Only Filipino loser.

2016 Losers

 * Chukwuma Eze lost ₦4,750,000 on March 7, 2016. First Nigeria loser.

2017 Losers

 * Dušan Perović and Yekaterina Andreyeva lost 1,100,000 roubles on April 1, 2017.


 * Viktor Verzhbitsky and Andrey Burkovsky lost 1,300,000 roubles on May 27, 2017.
 * Victor Vasiliev and Gavriil Gordeyev lost 1,100,000 roubles on November 11, 2017.

Unknown Year Losers

 * Musoyamo Masashi lost another ¥6,500,000 on 2002 or 2003.

Losers who stripped of their winnings

 * Krešo Lilić lost 468.000 Kn on May 8, 2003. First and Only Croatian loser. He later lost all of his 32.000 winnings by a violation.

Losers Originally By A Bad Question

 * Laurence and Jackie Llewellyn Bowen lost £468,000 on January 2006 by a bad question. Instead, they walked away with £500,000 on February 11, 2006.

Fictional Losers

 * Barry lost $468,000.