Jamie Ding
American game show contestant
Jamie Ding (born May 1, 1992) is a New Jersey state government employee, law student and former game show contestant.
Ding won 31 consecutive games on Jeopardy! before he finally lost in April 2026 with $882,605 in winnings and the fifth-longest winning streak in the show's history.
He is known for wearing sweater outfits with orange, the school color of his alma mater, Princeton University.
On July 29, 2026, he and Ben Affleck became the fourth duo and the fifth celebrities overall to win the $1,000,000 top prize for their charity, Eastern Congo Initiative, and the eighteenth overall million-dollar winners on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
To date, Ding is the sixteenth highest-earning game show contestant of all time, having accumulated a total of $1,385,605 on his game show appearances.
Early life and education
Born in Canberra, Australia on May 1, 1992, Ding is the son of a neuroscience professor and a high school math teacher who are immigrants from China. He grew up in Grosse Pointe Shores, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School in 2009.
As a student, he competed in geography bees and on his high school quiz bowl team. He lost a sixth-grade spelling bee when he misspelled the word "bolero" as "ballero."
He graduated from Princeton in 2013 with a degree in molecular biology and worked on The Daily Princetonian in multimedia.
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