List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions

The list of WCW World Heavyweight Champions is a chronological list of wrestlers that have held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship by ring name.

The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which used the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) alliance name.

Turner's organization was renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and split from the NWA in 1991.

The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.

The shortest reigning champion was Chris Jericho, who held the title for approximately 13+1⁄2 minutes, since he unified the title with the WWF Championship at Vengeance.

Three-time champion Diamond Dallas Page holding the Big Gold Belt upside down, which represented the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 1991 and 1994–2001