Complete list of every Big Brother winner including all spinoff winners

No matter how they got there, the winners of every season of Big Brother did the impossible. Not only did they manage to beat out several other houseguests, each with their own fair share of strengths that were difficult to beat, but they also managed to position themselves in a way where the jury felt that there was no one better to represent their respective seasons than by granting them the cash prize and the title of the victor.

While some winners have tons of controversy surrounding them, be it because there was a bitter jury behind their win or floating their way to the top, getting to the end is no easy feat for any Big Brother winner. That's why we want to take a trip down memory lane and celebrate all the victors of the American reality TV series thus far.

Every winner of Big Brother US so far

Except for the first season, every other season of Big Brother crowned their winner with a board of jury members, former houseguests, who voted for who they wanted to win. (Season 1 saw to it that America voted for the winner.) Because of this, we have very different winners across the board, proving that there really is no way to tell who will make it all the way to the end.

While we wait to see what criteria the winner of Big Brother season 26 will have, let's look at all the previous winners!

(Note: Every winner up until season 23 won a grand prize of $500,000. After season 23, the winners secured a cash prize of $750,000.)

Season 1

Winner: Eddie McGee (Received 59% of America's Vote)
Runner-Up: Josh Souza (Received 41% of America's Vote)

Duration: July 5, 2000 - Sept. 29, 2000

Season 2

Winner: Will Kirby (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Nicole Schaffrich (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 5, 2001 - Sept. 20, 2001

Season 3

Winner: Lisa Donahue (9 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Danielle Reyes (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: July 10, 2002 - Sept. 25, 2002

Season 4

Winner: Jun Song (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Alison Irwin (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: July 8, 2003 - Sept. 24, 2003

Season 5

Winner: Drew Daniel (4 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Michael Ellis (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 6, 2004 - Sept. 21, 2004

Season 6

Winner: Maggie Ausburn (4 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Ivette Corredero (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 7, 2005 - Sept. 20, 2005

Season 7

Winner: Mike “Boogie” Malin (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Erika Landin (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: July 6, 2006 - Sept. 12, 2006

Season 8

Winner: "Evel” Dick Donato (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Daniele Donato (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 5, 2007 - Sept. 18, 2007

Season 9

Winner: Adam Jasinski (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Ryan Quicksall (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: Feb. 12, 2008 - Apr. 27, 2008

Season 10

Winner: Dan Gheesling (7 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Memphis Garrett (0 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 13, 2008 - Sept. 16, 2008

Season 11

Winner: Jordan Lloyd (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Natalie Martinez (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 9, 2009 - Sept. 15, 2009

Season 12

Winner: Hayden Moss (4 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Lane Elenburg (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 8, 2010 - Sept. 15, 2010

Season 13

Winner: Rachel Reilly (4 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Porsche Briggs (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 7, 2011 - Sept. 14, 2011

Season 14

Winner: Ian Terry (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Dan Gheesling (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: July 12, 2012 - Sept. 19, 2012

Season 15

Winner: Andy Herron (7 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: GinaMarie Zimmerman (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 26, 2013 - Sept. 18, 2013

Season 16

Winner: Derrick Levasseur (7 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Cody Calafiore (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 25, 2014 - Sept. 24, 2014

Season 17

Winner: Steve Moses (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Liz Nolan (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 24, 2015 - Sept. 23, 2015

Season 18

Winner: Nicole Franzel (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Paul Abrahamian (4 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 22, 2016- Sept. 21, 2016

Over the Top

Winner: Morgan Willett (Received the majority of America's Vote)
Runner-Up: Jason Roy

Duration: Sept. 28, 2016 - Dec. 1, 2016

Season 19

Winner: Josh Martinez (5 Votes)
Runner-Up: Paul Abrahamian (4 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 28, 2017 - Sept. 20, 2017

Celebrity Big Brother Season 1

Winner: Marissa Jaret Winokur (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Ross Matthews (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: Feb. 7, 2018 - Feb. 25, 2018

Season 20

Winner: Kaycee Clark (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Tyler Crispen (4 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 27, 2018 - Sept. 26, 2018

Celebrity Big Brother Season 2

Winner: Tamar Braxton (9 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Ricky Williams (0 Jury Votes)

Duration: Jan. 21, 2019 - Feb. 13, 2019

Season 21

Winner: Jackson Michie (6 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Holly Allen (3 Jury Votes)

Duration: June 25, 2019 - Sept. 25, 2019

Season 22 (All-Stars Season)

Winner: Cody Calafiore (9 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Enzo Palumbo (0 Jury Votes)

Duration: Aug. 5, 2020 - Oct. 28, 2020

Season 23

Winner: Xavier Prather (9 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Derek Frazier (0 Jury Votes)

Duration: July 7, 2021 - Sept. 29, 2021

Celebrity Big Brother Season 3

Winner: Miesha Tate (7 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Todrick Hall (1 Jury Vote)

Duration: Feb. 2, 2022 - Feb. 23, 2022

Season 24

Winner: Taylor Hale (8 Votes)
Runner-Up: Monte Taylor (1 Vote)

Duration: July 6, 2022 - Sept. 25, 2022

Season 25

Winner: Jag Bains (5 Jury Votes)
Runner-Up: Matt Klotz (2 Jury Votes)

Duration: Aug. 2, 2023 - Nov. 9, 2023

Reindeer Games

Winner: Nicole Franzel-Arroyo (Won by competition)
Runner-Up: Taylor Hale

Duration: Dec. 11, 2023 - Dec. 21, 2023

The moment each of these houseguests were crowned the winner of their season is something that fans will cherish forever. Soon enough, this list will continue to expand, as more and more houseguests from all over the world take home that grand prize and title of the winner of Big Brother!