Top 10 Favorite Survivor Winners

The upper echelon. The creme de la creme. This is the pantheon and these are my top 10 favorite Survivor winners.

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[maxewart]

Denise is my favorite winner! I think she played an almost perfect social game and understood exactly what she needed to do to get to win. Lots of folks put her win down because she almost brought Malcolm but we judge folks based on what they did, not what they almost did.

[davstanley]

Chris from season 9 because of the way he epically bullshitted his way to the end is amazing

[keefthan]

Thanks for showing Fabio some love, I feel like he's rarely talked about super positively but one of my favorites of all time.

[daniellegershman]

While Yul is my second-favorite player ever (next to Ozzy), my favorite winner as a person has to be Ethan Zohn. Ethan is just such an amazing human being. He may not have played the best out of all winners, but he’s a great person. He gave away his luxury item to a group of Kenyan kids, created a soccer organization that helped I think either hundreds of thousands or millions of kids play soccer while raising awareness for HIV and AIDS, became an ambassador for an organization that helped create a cancer treatment, got diagnosed with cancer himself, and then got to use his organization’s treatment to save his own life. And even on top of all that, he’s truly just a nice guy. From watching him on the show, especially in WaW, you can tell he never wants to hurt anyone, even if it’s just gameplay. He’s just such a kind soul and he sees the joy in everything. Thinking about Ethan as a person literally moves me to tears. I don’t think the $1 million has ever gone to a person more deserving than him. Maybe not in terms of gameplay, but by quality of character. And not only that, but he used the money to change other people’s lives.

[dyeager]

Natalie's revenge tour saving an entire season and being a BA in WaW also Michelle "I don't need to be carried bro"

[sophietaleb]

FABIO was the first season my kids and I watched and were hooked. How could someone so unpretentious and unassuming win but we so wanted him to. Maryann was so stealthy, for all her theatrics, every syllable she uttered was measured and wise

[Shosci]

My rankings from 10-6:
10. Kim Spradlin- a winner with options, played a stellar game and very likeable
9. Earl Cole- real king of Fiji, also wished he returned
8. Amber Brkich- my personal most underrated winner, the original Natalie White, winning over her now husband-the runner up, and had them take more of the punches from the jury
7. Richard Hatch- something about the first winner, with the cocky attitude that will win him the money
6. Boston Rob- the godfather who always thinks ahead, has an intimidating cult leader presence that is fascinating to watch

[legendarysingh]

Tyson is literally a GOAT 🫡, I loved his story arc, going from a cocky ass in Tocantins to a person who made a dumb move in HvV, and then becoming a ringleader and still having his great humour and a lot of heart in BvW. Definitely a top 10 fav winner in my books

[basically]

Adam will always be my favorite winner/player. S33 was the first season I ever watched live and it was months after losing my dad to lung cancer so I really connected with him, his win also was one of the most shocking to me as everyone thought Jay or David would win going into the finale. And I've messaged him a few times on reddit and he's been incredibly nice to me.

[PatstarDeluxe]

Todd from China. China got me into Survivor and his Machiavellian way of controlling every aspect of each vote was exceptional

[garypickul]

Some of Tony’s moves in Winners, the most pressure packed season of all time, make him my favorite. The Sophie’blindside might be the best move in 40 seasons. Love his confessional prior to that tribal. “ I’m trying to convince Jeremy to save Jeremy”

[andrewlavender]

Jerermy Collins is my favorite survivor winner! Not only is he a firefighter in my home state, he’s an amazing player and an amazing guy!!! When he first played i was 11 years old, and he was my favorite player from the jump, and little me was so happy to root for him from the jump on Second Chance! and he blew away my expectations!!!

[Ffancrzy]

Here are my 10-5 favorite winners

10 Earl - I really love Cerebral, mild mannered, intelligent players and Earl is one of them. I actually see a lot of similarity between him and season neighboring winner Yul. Both were just calm smart players who really dictated a lot of how their season went. Great winner.

9 Tony - Most of my appreciation for Tony comes with post-season information on how he played. Tony is the Kobe of Survivor, he just absolutely outworked literally everyone. Any shortcomings he might have had he overcame with sheer hustle. His 2nd win however really sold me on him. He won so differently than his previous season and really started that more cerebral playstyle rather than the "tear shit up and kiss and make up later" if Cagayan. He's a little to frenetic for my tastes, but I respect his game immensely and I think he's the greatest player in Survivor history.

8 Parvati - Much like Tony, Parvati's game isn't my favorite style, I prefer the more reserved tactical players, whereas she's a much more social intelligence style player, but I respect it too much to leave it off the list. She also is among the best "play with a target on her head" players of all time. Its a shame the old timers never had much of afoothold in Season 40 because if her reputation wasn't as massive as it was she could've done damage. She also was incredibly close to being our first 2 time winner.

7 Sandra - Sandra 1.0 and 2.0 are such amazing characters and players. She could simultaneously get into it and make for great TV while still getting her castmates to love her. She's also the foil to 2 of the best villains in survivor history while not just being a white meat babyface to borrow some wrestling terms. I also like Sandra 4.0 as well where she knew no one was about to let her get anything for free and she tried swinging for the fences. 3.0 "Queen stays Queen" Sandra, didnt love that version as much but like Tony she's been to successful to criticize too badly.

6 Sophie - More than anyone else in the shows history I think Sophie is most like myself. I think the most underrated part of her game is being a non-religious person in the absolutely mother of all cult like religion based alliances of all time (not that every religious person is cult like, but the way that season panned out the overtones were rough). I dont think I could've handled being allied with Coach and Brandon Hantz the way that Coach used religion as a sort of crusading force. But Sophie just laid low didnt rock the boat, then turned on the afterburners in the home stretch. I also was loving her game in WAW until Tony caught wind of how good she was and cut her legs out.

[EricaandZion]

I love the queens- Pavarti, Amber, Maryann and Sandra 👸

[chrisneegaard-fvln]

Vecepia Towery (Season 4, “Survivor: Marquesas”) The First Winner to come from the minority tribe at merge. Will always be the most impressive win.

[kharihammon]

Natalie in SJDS had some of the most innovate strategic gameplay of all time. She’s my favorite winner.

[JustSomeHeroKid]

Wait, I LOVE your choices so far!! I'm so surprised at how much value to placed on personality versus straight strategy!

[chriscapps]

My Top 10 in no particular order, heads up a few International winners
-Tony Vlachos
-David Genat
-Mark Wales
-Chris D
-Sarah Lacina
-Dino Paulo
-Natalie Anderson
-Yul Kwon
-Hayley Leake
-Todd Herzog

[liamroberts]

Natalie White, Sophie Clarke and Parvati Shallow are probably my favorite winners honestly.

[letsgoblues]

For what its worth, Chip Underwood completely redeems himself in The Challenge USA.