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Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on the Africa edition of Survivor.
At the start of the Africa season, Ethan was assigned to the Boran tribe. There he made an alliance with Lex van den Berghe and Tom Buchanan. In the fifth episode, Lex and Tom (along with Kelly Goldsmith, another Boran member), were sent to go on an unknown mission, and ended up being switched to the other tribe (three members of Samburu were sent to Boran). Despite the split with the other two alliance members, the other Boran members (new and old) didn't try to vote him out.
Eventually the two tribes merged. For the remainder of the season, Ethan's alliance controlled the game, until they were forced to vote Tom out (as the one remaining non-alliance member, Kim Johnson, won immunity). When Kim won immunity a second time, she chose to vote out Lex, making Ethan her competitor in the final vote. Ethan was chosen the winner by a 5-2 vote.
After winning Survivor:Africa, Ethan was chosen to participate in Survivor: All-Stars, which featured past players. This time around, he was voted out eighth.
Zohn was a soccer goalkeeper at Vassar College, and played professionally for the Hawaii Tsunami and Cape Cod Crusaders of the United Soccer Leagues and in Zimbabwe for Highlanders Football Club. He parlayed his success on Survivor to starting Grass Roots Soccer (http://www.grassrootsoccer.org/), an organization whose goal is to "mobilize the global soccer community to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa".
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