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Charles Ingram

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Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963) is a British fraudster and a former major in the British Army who gained fame for his appearance on the ITV television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Across two episodes recorded in September 2001, Ingram correctly answered fifteen questions to win the show's maximum prize of £1 million, becoming the third recorded contestant ever to do so; however, he was denied the winnings due to suspicion of cheating. Following a lengthy trial at Southwark Crown Court, Ingram was convicted on a single count of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception. He was subsequently convicted of an unrelated offence involving insurance fraud in 2003 and ordered to resign his commission as a major by the Army Board. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Charles Ingram is the 377th most popular engineer (down from 369th in 2024), the 6,260th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,061st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Charles Ingram ranks 374 out of 389. Before him are Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Sergey Volkov, and Sydney Camm. After him are C. H. Douglas, Nick Wirth, Naoki Hattori, James Key, Douglas H. Wheelock, Tessy Thomas, Matthias Ettrich, Thomas Sopwith, and Henry M. Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Charles Ingram ranks 723. Before him are Igor Ashurbeyli, Mario Been, Steve Clarke, Alberto Nisman, Vladimir Turchinsky, and Jun'ichi Kanemaru. After him are Gian-Carlo Coppola, Carrie Ng, Rolando Maran, Kim Shattuck, Stephen Elop, and Betsy Russell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Ingram ranks 6,262 out of 8,785. Before him are Craig Harrison (1974), Jane Taylor (1783), Lee Evans (1964), Damien Magee (1945), Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947), and Sydney Camm (1893). After him are David Kelly (1944), Simon Wells (1961), Eric Linklater (1899), Daphne Guinness (1967), Daley Thompson (1958), and Martin Atkinson (1971).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Charles Ingram ranks 52. Before him are Pat Fry (1964), Mike Gascoyne (1963), Mike Coughlan (1959), John Rennie the Elder (1761), James Allison (1968), and Sydney Camm (1893). After him are C. H. Douglas (1879), Nick Wirth (1966), James Key (1972), Thomas Sopwith (1888), James Guthrie (1953), and Tim Goss (1963).

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