How many women have won Big Brother

As CBS gives Big Brother fans a 24th instalment of the show, some viewers are casting their minds back to who has previously won the show. BB24 is nearing its finale which is due to air on September 25th. So, let’s take a look at how many female Big Brother winners there have been.

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How many women have won Big Brother USA?
There have been more Big Brother series
Where are the female Big Brother winners now?
When was the last time a female won Big Brother?
How many black women have won Big Brother?
Who was the first female winner of Big Brother?
Has any married person won Big Brother?

Big Brother first kicked off in both the UK and the USA in 2000, over two decades ago! Since then, the show has seen many memorable contestants take part, as well as many winners. The show now has series that air all over the world, as well as a celebrity edition in 2022.

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How many women have won Big Brother USA?

The first female Big Brother USA winner was Lisa Donahue. She won season 3 in 2022.

There have been six female winners of Big Brother USA in total since the show launched.

Here’s a look at the women who have come out on top on BB USA across all 21 seasons:

Lisa Donahue – season 3 in 2002
Jun Song – season 4 in 2003
Maggie Ausburn – season 6 in 2005
Rachel Reilly – season 13 in 2011
Nicole Franzel – season 18 in 2016
Kaycee Clark – season 20 in 2018

At the time of writing, there are three female contestants still in the Big Brother 24 house in 2022. The remaining house guests include Alyssa Snider, Taylor Hale, Brittany Hoopes, Monte Taylor and Matthew ‘Turner’ Turner.

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There have been more Big Brother series

As well as the regular Big Brother USA show, there have been more spin-off series from the US franchise.

Big Brother: All Stars aired in 2006 and 2020. Both winners were male, Cody Calafiore and Mike Malin.

The Big Brother: Over The Top spin-off series saw Morgan Willett win, adding another female winner to the history books.

All three seasons of Celebrity Big Brother in the US have been won by women, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Tamar Braxton and Miesha Tate.

Where are the female Big Brother winners now?

Some of the winners of the original BB USA series won the show around 20 years ago, so let’s take a look at where the female Big Brother winners are today.

The first female winner of BB is on Instagram with over 12K followers at @thelisadonahue and it appears that she’s a photographer.

Jun Song has almost 9K followers (@jundishes) and she’s now a mother and a content strategist.

With over 185K, season 13 winner Rachel Reilly can be found on Instagram at @rachelereillyvillegas.

Boasting 781K followers on Instagram, season 18 winner, Nicole Franzel, can be found at @coconuts_.

Season 20 winner Kaycee Clark is also on Instagram at @kcsince1987 with almost 500K followers.

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Big Brother is an Australian reality television show, and is the Australian version of the Big Brother franchise. Contestants are referred to as "housemates," and live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, housemates are evicted from the house. The last remaining housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize. The series began airing in 2001, and as of 2022, 14 seasons and 2 spin-off seasons have been broadcast.

As of Big Brother 14, there have been a total of 287 housemates, ten of which have been housemates on two seasons. There have been 16 winners of Big Brother; twelve men and three women (with one woman winning twice). The youngest winner is Aleisha Lee Cowcher, who was 20 at the time of winning Big Brother 7, and the oldest is Terri Munro, who was 52 when she won Big Brother 8.

Series	Housemate	Age	Hometown	Status
1	Benjamin (Ben) Williams	21	Epping, Victoria	1st – Winner
Blair McDonough	19	Melbourne	2nd – Runner-up
Sara-Marie Fedele	22	Perth, Western Australia	3rd – Evicted
Christina Davis	27	Sydney	4th – Evicted
Jemma Gawned	26	Melbourne	5th – Evicted
John (Johnnie) Cass	30	Sydney	6th – Evicted
Anita Bloomfield	22	Sydney	7th – Evicted
Peter Timbs	28	Sydney	8th – Evicted
Lisa Standing	24	Melbourne	9th – Evicted
Rachel Corbett	20	Sydney	10th – Evicted
Gordon Sloan	28	Melbourne	11th – Evicted
Todd James	27	Melbourne	12th – Evicted
Sharna West	34	Melbourne	13th – Evicted
Andrea (Andy) Silva	25	Sydney	14th – Evicted
2	Peter Corbett	23	Wollongong, New South Wales	1st – Winner
Nathan (Marty) Martin	20	Toodyay, Western Australia	2nd – Runner-up
Sahra Kearney	23		3rd – Evicted
Jessica Hardy	24	Tweed Heads, New South Wales	4th – Evicted
Kieran Tanner	24	Sydney	5th – Evicted
Mirabai Peart	21		6th – Evicted
Alex Christie	30	Melbourne	7th – Evicted
Nathan Morris	25	Perth, Western Australia	8th – Evicted
Brodie Young	24	Melbourne	9th – Evicted
Turkan Aksoy	30	Sydney	10th – Evicted
Nicole Dickmann	23	Adelaide, South Australia	11th – Evicted
Shannon Cleary	31	Sydney	12th – Evicted
Aaron Benton	24	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales	13th – Evicted
Katrina Miani	21	Melbourne	14th – Evicted
Damian Hoo	21	Sydney	15th – Evicted
3	Regina Bird	29	Cambridge, Tasmania	1st – Winner
Chrissie Swan	29	Melbourne, Victoria	2nd – Runner-up
Daniel McInness	28	Adelaide, South Australia	3rd – Evicted
Patrick Flanagan	29	Sydney	4th – Evicted
Vincent Amato	29	Melbourne	5th – Evicted
Jamie O'Brien	22	Melbourne	6th – Evicted
Kim Drury	21	Armadale, Western Australia	7th – Evicted
Daniel (Saxon) Small	19	Central Coast, New South Wales	8th – Evicted
Joanne Ashton	23	Adelaide, South Australia	9th – Evicted
Claire Bellis	24	Gold Coast, Queensland	10th – Evicted
Benjamin (Ben) Archbold	28		11th – Evicted
Belinda Thorpe	20	Queensland	12th – Walked
Leah White	18		13th – Evicted
Carlo Marino	21		14th – Evicted
Jaime Cerda	18	Melbourne	15th – Evicted
Irena Bukhshtaber	29		16th – Evicted
4	Trevor Butler	30	Broken Hill, New South Wales	1st – Winner
Bree Amer	21	Gold Coast, Queensland	2nd – Runner-up
Paul Dyer	31	Victoria	3rd – Evicted
Ryan Fitzgerald	27	Adelaide, South Australia	4th – Evicted
Catherine Tremolada	33	Albion Park, New South Wales	5th – Evicted
Ashalea McWalters	19	Perth, Western Australia	6th – Evicted
Monica De Bolso	32	New South Wales	7th – Evicted
Wesley Dening	20	Brisbane, Queensland	8th – Evicted
Violeta Black	20	Melbourne	9th – Evicted
Kane Dignum	20	Queensland	10th – Evicted
Terri Mann	31	Western Australia	11th – Evicted
Merlin Luck	23	New South Wales	12th – Evicted
Bree (Elle) Quartermaine	22	Western Australia	13th – Evicted
Krystal Ince	20	Queensland	14th – Evicted
Igor Vurmeski	27	Melbourne	15th – Evicted
Aphrodite Vuitton	25		16th – Evicted
5	David and Greg (Logan) Matthew	23	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales	1st – Winner
Tim Brunero	27	Sydney	2nd – Runner-up
Vesna Tofevski	27	Melbourne	3rd – Evicted
Melanie Smerdon	19	Adelaide, South Australia	4th – Evicted
Richelle (Kate) Benson	21	Perth, Western Australia	5th – Evicted
Christie Mills	19	Gold Coast, Queensland	6th – Evicted
Rita Lazzarotto	29		7th – Evicted
Dean Glucina	24	Melbourne	8th – Evicted
Simon (Hotdogs) Deering	27	Western Australia	9th – Evicted
Heath Tournier	20	Grovedale, Victoria	10th – Evicted
Glenn Dallinger	21	Stawell, Victoria	11th – Evicted
Geneva Loader	19	Sydney	12th – Evicted
Rachael Burns	21		13th – Evicted
Michelle Carew-Gibson	24	Queensland	14th – Evicted
Michael Farnsworth	27	New South Wales	15th – Evicted
Jane (Gianna) Pattison	24	South Australia	16th – Evicted
Angela Aiken	29	Victoria	17th – Evicted
Nelson Russell	23	Queensland	18th – Evicted
Constance Hall	21	Melbourne	19th – Evicted
6	Jamie Brooksby	22	Claremont, Western Australia	1st – Winner
Camilla Halliwell	22	Victoria	2nd – Runner-up
David Graham	26	Goondiwindi, Queensland	3rd – Evicted
James (Max) Panebianco	20	Sydney	4th – Evicted
Chris Everden	22	Sydney	5th – Evicted
Krystal Forscutt	19	Batemans Bay, New South Wales	6th – Evicted
Claire Madden	22	Sunshine Coast, Queensland	7th – Evicted
Darren Bowley	24	Brisbane, Queensland	8th – Evicted
Perry Apostolou	39	New South Wales	9th – Evicted
Gaelan Walker	26	Melbourne	10th – Evicted
Michael (Ashley) Cox	20	Rockingham, Western Australia	11th – Ejected
Michael (John) Bric	20	Melbourne	12th – Ejected
Rob Rigley	26	Wollongong, New South Wales	13th – Evicted
Lauren Clayton	22	New South Wales	14th – Evicted
Katie Hastings	19	Perth, Western Australia	15th – Evicted
Danielle Foote	18	Adelaide, South Australia	16th – Evicted
Dino Delic	21	Melbourne	17th – Evicted
Shoshana (Jade) Stack	19	Penrith, New South Wales	18th – Evicted
Michael McCoy	25	Sydney	19th – Evicted
Anna Lind-Hansen	20	Melbourne	20th – Evicted
Karen Forscutt	36	Batemans Bay, New South Wales	21st – Evicted
Elise Chen	21	Sydney	22nd – Evicted
Matilda (Tilli) Clapham	19	Adelaide, South Australia	23rd – Evicted
7	Aleisha Lee Cowcher	20	Cobram, Victoria	1st – Winner
Zach Douglas	24	Echuca, Victoria	2nd – Runner-up
Travis Perkins	32	Pakenham, Victoria	3rd – Evicted
Chris (Billy) Bentley	23	Sydney	4th – Evicted
Zak (Zoran) Vidinovski	23	Queensland	5th – Evicted
Joel Scalzi	24	South Australia	6th – Evicted
Daniela Da Silva Pola	24	Western Australia	7th – Evicted
Michelle Olsen	33	Western Australia	8th – Evicted
Jamie McDonald	29	Ballarat, Victoria	9th – Evicted
Thomas Haynes	27	Western Australia	10th – Evicted
Andrew Temment	28	Victoria	11th – Evicted
Laura Haas	20	Tasmania	12th – Evicted
Rebecca Dent	23	Queensland	13th – Evicted
Emma Cornell	24	New South Wales	14th – Evicted
Susannah Murray	30	Melbourne	15th – Evicted
Nick Sady	25	Victoria	16th – Evicted
Hayley Zalewski	24	Victoria	17th – Evicted
Demet Sahan	25	Victoria	18th – Evicted
Bodie Czeladka	24	Western Australia	19th – Evicted
Theresa-Jane (TJ) Whitlock	22	Darwin, Northern Territory	20th – Evicted
Kate Gladman	25	Geelong, Victoria	21st – Evicted
Harrison Rhoades	20	Sydney	22nd – Evicted
Kara Otter	18	New South Wales	23rd – Evicted
Travers (Cruz) Chue	23	Queensland	24th – Evicted
8	Terri Munro	52	Sydney	1st – Winner
Rory Ammon	21	Geelong, Victoria	2nd – Runner-up
Benjamin (Ben) McCallum	19	Western Australia	3rd – Third place
Alice Redwood	25	Bendigo, Victoria	4th – Evicted
Travis Keyser	20	Sydney	5th – Evicted
Edward (Cherry) Cherry	22	Gold Coast, Queensland	6th – Evicted
Brigitte Stavaruk	20	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	7th – Evicted
Bianca Benigno	18	Queensland	8th – Evicted
Terrence Hardie	51	Perth, Western Australia	9th – Evicted
Nobuyuki (Nobbi) Tanaka	21	Victoria	10th – Evicted
Rhianna Baxter	25	New South Wales	11th – Evicted
Renee Black	22	Dubbo, New South Wales	12th – Evicted
Dixie Crawford	21	Dubbo, New South Wales	13th – Evicted
David Tchappat	32	Gosford, New South Wales	14th – Evicted
Nathan Strempel	27	South Australia	15th – Evicted
Rebecca Morgan	22	Western Australia	16th – Evicted
Saxon Pepper	22	South Australia	17th – Evicted
Craig (Barney) Barnett	32	Western Australia	18th – Evicted
Michael Crafter	26	Victoria	19th – Evicted
Rima Hadchiti	25	Victoria	20th – Walked
9	Benjamin Norris	32	Melbourne	1st – Winner
Layla Subritzky	24	Brisbane, Queensland/Hambleton, England	2nd – Runner-up
Estelle Landy	24	Morwell, Victoria	3rd – Third place
Michael Beveridge	26	Brisbane, Queensland	4th – Evicted
Zoe Westgarth	23	New South Wales	5th – Evicted
Sam Wallace	21	Gold Coast, Queensland/ Tamworth, New South Wales	6th – Evicted
Stacey Wren	24	Sydney	7th – Evicted
Angela (Angie) Murray	21	Gold Coast, Queensland	8th – Evicted
Josh Moore	28	South Australia	9th – Walked
Bradley Darke	19	Coraki, New South Wales	10th – Evicted
Ava David	29	Victoria	11th – Evicted
George Baramily	25	Western Australia	12th – Evicted
Ray Baxter	25	Brisbane, Queensland	13th – Evicted
Sarah Wentworth-Perry	30	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales	14th – Evicted
Ryan Buckingham	22	Victoria	15th – Evicted
Charne Louise	31	Gold Coast, Queensland	16th – Evicted
10	Tim Dormer	27	Sydney	1st – Winner
Jade Albany Pietrantonio	22	Ballina, New South Wales	2nd – Runner-up
Tahan Lew-Fatt	24	Darwin, Northern Territory	3rd – Third place
Anthony (Drew) Drew	24	Victoria	4th – Evicted
Alex (Boog) Roe	23	Melbourne, Victoria	5th – Evicted
Ed Lower	26	Adelaide, South Australia / Melbourne	6th – Evicted
Madaline Cogar	24	Sydney	7th – Evicted
Mikkayla Mossop	24	New South Wales	8th – Evicted
Benjamin (Ben) Zabel	30	Queensland	9th – Evicted
Nathan Little	35	Victoria	10th – Walked
Katie and Lucy Mercer	21 & 22	Perth, Western Australia	11th – Evicted
Justynn Harcourt	33	New South Wales	12th – Evicted
Tully Smyth	25	Sydney	13th – Evicted
Matthew (Matt) Filippi	27	Sunshine Coast, Queensland	14th – Evicted
Heidi Anderson	29	Newcastle, New South Wales	15th – Evicted
Caleb Geppert	33	Melbourne	16th – Evicted
Jasmin Aguilera	24	Victoria	17th – Evicted
Xavier Holland	27	Victoria	18th – Evicted
Rohan Mirchandaney	24	Melbourne	19th – Evicted
Sharon Smith	41	Victoria	20th – Evicted
11	Ryan Ginns	26	Sydney	1st – Winner
Travis Lunardi	24	Melbourne	2nd – Runner-up
Skye Wheatley	20	Gold Coast, Queensland	3rd – Third place
Priya Malik	27	Adelaide, South Australia	4th – Evicted
Penny Higgs	30	Melbourne	5th – Evicted
Lina Grant	24	Melbourne	6th – Evicted
David Hodis	31	Sydney	7th – Evicted
Ryan (Leo) Burke	30	Gold Coast, Queensland / Canada	8th – Evicted
Richard Hordern-Gibbings	25	Sydney	9th – Evicted
Tom Mackay	26	Sydney	10th – Evicted
Kate (Cat) Law	31	Melbourne	11th – Evicted
Aisha Mckinnon	22	Sydney / New Zealand	12th – Evicted
Lawson Reeves	23	Perth, Western Australia	13th – Evicted
Marina Rakovskaia	30	Adelaide, South Australia / Kazakhstan	14th – Evicted
Jason Roses	26	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	15th – Evicted
Sandra Nixon	30	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales	16th – Evicted
Sam Bramham	26	Melbourne	17th – Evicted
Lisa Clark	29	Sydney	18th – Evicted
Jake Richardson	25	Brisbane, Queensland	19th – Evicted
Katie Schepis	25	Sydney	20th – Evicted
Dion Kallis	24	Brisbane, Queensland	21st – Evicted
Gemma Kinghorn	29	Perth, Western Australia	22nd – Evicted
12	Chad Hurst	27	Campbelltown	1st – Winner
Daniel Gorringe	27	Melbourne	2nd – Runner-up
Sophie Budack	25	Darwin
Mat Garrick	30	Broken Hill	4th – Evicted
Sarah McDougal	19	Melbourne	5th – Evicted
Kieran Davidson	21	Adelaide	6th – Walked
Casey Mazzucchelli	25	Perth	7th – Evicted
Marissa Rancan	61	Sydney	8th – Evicted
Xavier Molyneux	23	Sydney	9th – Evicted
Hannah Campbell	26	Perth	10th – Evicted
Angela Clancy	37	Perth	11th – Evicted
Shane Vincent	39	Tweed Heads, New South Wales	12th – Evicted
Zoe George	39	Melbourne	13th – Evicted
Garth Saville	50	Sydney	14th – Evicted
Ian Joass	25	Perth	15th – Evicted
Danni Keogh	34	Townsville	16th – Evicted
Talia Rycroft-Sommariva	21	Adelaide	17th – Evicted
SooBong Hwang	48	Adelaide	18th – Evicted
Allan Liang	30	Sydney	19th – Evicted
Laura Coriakula	25	Melbourne	20th – Evicted
13	Marley Biyendolo	25	Melbourne, Victoria	1st – Winner
Christina Podolyan	21	Melbourne, Victoria	2nd – Runner-up
Sarah Jane "SJ" Adams	65	Sydney, New South Wales
Ari Kimber	22	Sydney, New South Wales	4th – Evicted
Daniel Hayes	48	Geelong, Victoria	5th – Evicted
Sid Pattni	34	Perth, Western Australia	6th - Evicted
Adriana Fernandez	53	Wollongong, New South Wales	7th – Evicted
Tilly Whitfeld	20	Sydney, New South Wales	8th – Evicted
Charlotte McCristal	25	Melbourne, Victoria	9th – Evicted
Mary Kalifatidis	55	Melbourne, Victoria	10th – Evicted
Jess Trend	29	Melbourne, Victoria	11th – Evicted
Brenton Balicki	31	Sydney, New South Wales	12th – Evicted
Mitch Giles	26	Perth, Western Australia	13th – Evicted
Gabe Christe	27	Brisbane, Queensland	14th – Walked
Charlotte Hall	23	Brisbane, Queensland	15th – Evicted
Alex McCristal	25	Melbourne, Victoria	16th – Evicted
Katie Williams	26	Sydney, New South Wales	17th – Evicted
Melissa McGorman	33	Cambrai, South Australia	18th – Evicted
Nick Benton	29	Adelaide, South Australia	19th – Evicted
Mitchell Spencer	26	Cairns, Queensland	20th – Evicted
Carlos Castro	39	Perth, Western Australia	21st – Evicted
Christopher Wayne	37	Brisbane, Queensland	22nd – Evicted
Michael Brown	29	Perth, Western Australia	23rd – Evicted
Renata Bubeniene	45	Adelaide, South Australia	24th – Evicted
Lillian Ahenkan	26	Sydney, New South Wales	25th – Evicted
Max Beattie	28	Gold Coast, Queensland	26th – Evicted

When was the last time a female won Big Brother?

Season 6: Maggie Ausburn 20, 2005, Maggie Ausburn beat Ivette Corredero on Day 80 with a 4-3 jury vote.

How many black women have won Big Brother?

After 24 seasons, Taylor Hale, a 27-year-old personal stylist and former Miss Michigan USA, became the first Black woman to win the long-running CBS series.

Who was the first female winner of Big Brother?

Lisa Donahue As the first female winner in Big Brother history, Lisa took home the winnings in Big Brother 3.

Has any married person won Big Brother?

Victor Arroyo and Nicole Franzel from season 18 are married. Nicole Franzel won "Big Brother" season 18, breaking a five-year male competitor winning streak, and becoming the first woman to ever win "Big Brother" against a man in the final two.