game show contestant
John Carpenter.
American millionaire on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
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About John Carpenter
John Carpenter is an American game show contestant and Internal Revenue Service agent. He is the seventeenth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. Carpenter is best known for becoming the first top-prize winner on the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and the first ever top-prize winner in the entire Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise. He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken in 2000 by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $1.12 million on another U.S. quiz show, Twenty One.
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- game show contestant
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- United States
- Born
- December 24, 1967