10 people who can be considered as the luckiest people
Here’s a list of ten people who are often considered to be incredibly lucky due to surviving near-impossible situations or encountering extraordinary life events:
1. Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010)
- Why Lucky?: Yamaguchi survived not one, but two atomic bombings. He was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, during the first atomic bomb attack, and then traveled to Nagasaki, where the second bomb was dropped on August 9. He survived both blasts and lived to the age of 93.
2. Roy Sullivan (1912–1983)
- Why Lucky?: Known as the "Human Lightning Rod," Sullivan survived being struck by lightning seven timesthroughout his life, earning him a place in the Guinness World Records.
3. Vesna Vulović (1950–2016)
- Why Lucky?: A Serbian flight attendant, Vulović holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She fell over 33,000 feet (10,000 meters) after her plane was bombed in 1972. She miraculously survived, though with severe injuries.
4. Frane Selak (1929–2016)
- Why Lucky?: Often called the world’s luckiest unlucky man, Selak, a Croatian music teacher, survived a series of accidents, including a train derailment, a plane crash, a bus accident, and two car explosions. He later won the lottery in 2003, capping his unbelievable string of luck.
5. Juliane Koepcke (b. 1954)
- Why Lucky?: Koepcke was the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508, which disintegrated in mid-air over the Peruvian rainforest in 1971. She fell from a height of 10,000 feet strapped to her seat and survived a 9-day journey through the jungle before being rescued.
6. Nichiren (1222–1282)
- Why Lucky?: A Japanese Buddhist monk who survived multiple assassination attempts, including being sentenced to death and then spared at the last moment when a lightning bolt struck the executioner.
7. Harrison Okene (b. 1980s)
- Why Lucky?: A Nigerian chef who survived three days underwater after his tugboat capsized. He managed to find an air pocket and was miraculously rescued by divers.
8. Joe Simpson (b. 1960)
- Why Lucky?: Simpson, a mountaineer, survived a harrowing fall into a crevasse while descending from Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Despite being left for dead, he crawled back to base camp over several days, an ordeal that became famous in the book and movie Touching the Void.
9. Anna Mae Dickinson
- Why Lucky?: Though her story is more of legend, Dickinson is said to have survived three of the 20th century’s worst disasters: the sinking of the Titanic (1912), the Hindenburg disaster (1937), and the bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941).
10. Joan Ginther
- Why Lucky?: An American mathematician, Ginther won the lottery four times, with total winnings amounting to over $20 million. The odds of winning multiple times are astronomically low, making her one of the luckiest lottery winners ever.
These individuals are often celebrated for their seemingly miraculous survival stories or extraordinary good fortune that defied the odds.
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