(KTXL) — A couple of very lucky California residents have become instant millionaires so far every month this year.
In February, the California Lottery revealed that Edwin Castro was the winner of the largest jackpot in U.S. history: $2.04 billion.
Here are all players the California Lottery announced to have won $1,000,000 or more in 2023:
January
The biggest winner was announced in January was Edward Lojewski who won $247 million from matching all six numbers with the Mega Millions lottery purchased at a 7-Eleven in Santa Clara County.
Other winners announced in January:
•Mary Higelin won $20,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket purchased in Riverside County
•Salvador Carbajal who won $10,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket purchased in Los Angeles County
•Louis Farillas won $10,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
• Roberto Nunes won $10,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
• Nicholas Simpson won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
•Lazaro Macias won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Orange County
•Cesar Escamilla won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
February
Aside from Edwin Castro, who was announced to have the $2.04 billion jackpot, Jose Sanchez and Eduardo Pingquian were both announced in February to have won $5,000,000 from scratch-off tickets
Other winners announced in February:
•Reynaldo Phillips won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Contra Costa County
• Ruici Wu won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
•Omar Balderas won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Tulare County
•Steve Bisset won $1,120,390 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in Lassen County
•Ariana Rosas won $1,044,212 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in San Bernardino County
March
Walter Amaya and Paul Coggins were the biggest winners announced in March. Both men won $5,000,000 from scratch-off tickets purchased in Los Angeles County.
Other winners announced in March:
•Van Le won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Alameda County.
•Teddy Young won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Santa Clara County
•Ana Contreras won $1,149,661 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in Los Angeles County
•Victor Varela won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in San Diego County
•Luis Cruz won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Fresno County
•Ramon Torres won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
April
The California Lottery’s two biggest announced winners in April were Lenora Watson and Alec Bucu who both won $5,000,000 from scratch-off tickets.
Other winners announced in April:
•Misael Cruz won $3,987,249 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in San Bernadino County
• Kaleb Heng won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Stanislaus County
•John Vang won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Fresno County
•Eugenio Anaya won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
•Martin Ramirez won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
•Susana Corona won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Los Angeles County
•Miguel Ambriz won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Ventura County
•Jose Sanchez won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Orange County
May
In May the California Lottery announced the winner of a full jackpot for the California Super Lotto, Jimmie Coleman, who won $41,000,000.
Other winners announced in May:
•Luis Castaneda Esparza won $5,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Orange County
•Baltazar Hernandez-Jimenez won $5,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Alameda County
•Ali Dib won $2,082,652 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Mega Millions numbers on a ticket purchased in San Mateo County.
•Raul Ozuna won $1,801,715 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in San Diego County
•Enrique Viquez Garcia won $1,120,390 from matching 5 of the 6 winning Powerball numbers on a ticket purchased in San Diego County
•Mae Chielo Siendo won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off purchased in Santa Clara County
•Karen Gallardo won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Fresno County
•Nabi Hasani won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in San Diego County
•Ajay Shah won $1,000,000 from a scratcher purchased in Stanislaus County
•Ruby Evans won $2,000,000 from a scratcher in Los Angeles County
•Job Aguirre won $2,000,000 from a scratcher in Los Angeles County
June
Pamela Adelamini was June’s biggest announced lottery winner in the state. She won $5,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket in Los Angeles County.
•Roger Jiminez won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Orange County
•Orsiris Perez Olvera won $1,044,212 from the Powerball in Santa Clara County
•Michael Marks became a millionaire after playing a scratch-off ticket in Los Angeles County
•Robert Gage won $2,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket in Kern County
•Rudy Mendoza won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Fresno County
•Prince Chand won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Stanislaus County
July
While one person in California won $1.08 billion from a Powerball ticket in Los Angeles in July, they have yet to be named. That leaves Lilia Gharbian as the month’s biggest-named winner. Gharbian won $5,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket in Los Angeles County.
•Miguel Hernandez won $2,000,000 after playing a scratch-off ticket in Los Angeles County
•Efren Figueroa won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket in San Bernardino County
•Dana Treadway won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Los Angeles County
•Francisco Fajardo won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Orange County
•Jesus Rojo won $1,000,000 from a scratch-off ticket in Orange County
•Thomas Bockover won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Los Angeles County
•Larry Fox won $1,000,000 from a scratcher in Orange County
