Indians Who Won International Lotteries from India

People usually wake up in different moods every day. But what if one could wake up to a different life? Here we discuss an elite list of people whose life took a huge turn. A complete list of Indians who have experienced the ultimate happiness of winning an International lottery.

List Of International Lottery Winners

Hira Singh – Mega Millions (₹400.09 Crore)

Hira Singh from Kansas City in the US is the person who holds the record for winning the maximum amount through lottery ticket. He won the ultimate Mega Million through the Missouri Lottery at the QuikTrip located at 6641 E. Truman Road in Kansas City in March 2019. Singh claimed that he regularly buys Mega Millions tickets in Kansas. He bought the ticket while filling up his vehicle’s fuel which then became the most important event in his entire life. Even though Singh used to purchase online lottery tickets from the other side it was his Missouri lottery that turned out to be the change in his fortune. He was also unaware of the fact that he had won the big prize money until many days later. It was a Tuesday drawing and after many days he checked the lottery ticket to find out that he had won the US$50 million jackpot.

Sandeep ‘Sunny’ Singh – Mega Millions (₹227.8 Crore)

Sandeep Singh had a life changing moment in his life when he won the Mega Millions lottery worth 227 crores a few days after being dumped by his girlfriend. The saying of 

“Every cloud has a silver lining,” just became true in the case of Sandeep Singh. His life completely transformed in a matter of a few days. He was going through a tough time and the perfect turnover happened in his life during the Mega Millions lottery which was worth US$30.5 million. Sandeep was an employee at Best Buy and he used to live in California. He bought four Mega Million lottery with the winnings he received from a 

$4 scratchcard. He, along with another person, shared the jackpot worth $61 million.

Sandeep used to work two times a day to help his family and the 30 million turned out to be his life savior because it would indeed help his family clear all the debts and he also decided to donate a certain amount to charity as well. This also helped him pursue a degree in business. 

Tahir Ali – Ontario 49 (122 cr)

Tahir Ali has some of the weird ways of life changing moments in his life. He bought the Ontario 49 Lottery ticket after listening to an ad and that turned out to be his best decision ever. The Indian national Tahir Ali won the lottery worth 2 million after buying it on the 11th of June in 2014. The lottery ticket was drawn on the same day which ended up towards extreme happiness for Tahir Ali. He was surprised when he checked the result of the lottery ticket on the self-checker machine. The screen showed something like Big Winner which Ali thought was a fluke or an ad. He suddenly dismissed it thinking everything was fake. He only came to know the result was real when he again checked the result and numbers on the very next day. He was happy with the fact that every expense in his life including the educational costs of his children could be solved with this huge win. 

Krishna Barri (₹108.3 Crore)

Krishna Barri is an India born living in Tampa, Florida. He hit the jackpot prize of US$14.5 million when he decided to try his luck by buying multiple tickets. One among those tickets eventually became the game changer for Krishna Barri. Barri moved to the United States with the help of his brother-in-law, who loaned him funds to continue higher education at the University of Florida. Besides academics, he had to work part-time to maintain himself because he arrived on loaned funds. He used to work at Sun Dome and book stores to meet his expenses. Barri remains in awe at his success, but he is certain of one idea: he intends to spend a portion of his earnings to provide schooling to impoverished children in his nation of origin. He intends to establish a foundation in the honor of his late brother-in-law, with whom he moved to the United States and gained this much money and fame. The lottery proceeds will be used to fund the schooling of minimum 100 students. 

Balraj Awasthi (₹95.6 Crore)

Balraj Aswathi is a cook by profession who worked at Toronto in Canada. He is the winner of a lottery worth more than US$12.8 million. He scooped the Lottery 6/49 jackpot of around $12.8 million, which made him a substantial jackpot winner on a worldwide platform. He used it to work as a chef in Toronto for people of Indian heritage. He felt overjoyed to have gained one such significant quantity of cash and intended to use it to build his company and explore the world. He says that the lottery win has changed his life completely and says that the lottery win has given him the space to dream big and work on his business to make it grow according to his plans. 

Unlike others, Balraj was self oriented and wanted to travel to many places with the prize money he won from winning the Lottery.