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These are the players who won an individual Grand Prix without losing a match. The records listed are the records against humans, that is, byes are ignored. It is possible that there are other instances of this happening in 1997-1999. As always, what draws were IDs involved some amount of guesswork.

Jon Finkel and Gan Yan are the only people to win every round they were paired in a GP. Walker MacMurdo and Steve Locke are the only two to win a GP undefeated from zero byes.

name record
W-L-D-ID
event format
Jon Finkel 13-0-0-0 GP Boston 1998 Tempest block
Jim Herold 11-0-1-1 GP Oslo 1999 ULG Limited
Masayuki Higashino 9-0-0-4 GP Hiroshima 2001 INV limited
Jose Barbero 10-0-1-2 GP Porto Allegre 2004 COK limited
Marcio Carvalho 13-0-1-1 GP Lisbon 2005 BOK limited
Kenji Tsumura 12-0-1-1 GP Kuala Lumpur 2006 DIS limited
Tomoharu Saito 11-0-1-2 GP Singapore 2009 extended
Gaudenis Vidugiris 12-0-1-2 GP Denver 2011 MBS limited
David Shiels 11-0-3-1 GP Dallas-Fort Worth 2011 MBS standard
Richard Parker 16-0-0-2 GP Lille 2012 DKA standard
Reid Duke 13-0-0-2 GP Nashville 2012 DKA limited
Alexandre Darras 12-0-1-2 GP Manchester 2012 DKA limited
Walker MacMurdo 12-0-3-1 GP Auckland 2012 RTR standard
Dan Lanthier 12-0-2-2 GP Vancouver 2015 modern
Scott Lipp 13-0-1-2 GP Sydney 2016 EMN limited
Brad Nelson 13-0-0-2 GP Omaha 2017 AKH standard
Thiago Saporito 13-0-1-1 GP Las Vegas 2017 (limited) AKH limited
Steve Locke 16-0-0-2 GP Minneapolis 2017 HOU standard
Gan Yan 16-0-0-0 GP Seattle 2018 (standard) RIX standard
Eli Kassis 12-0-1-2 GP Oakland 2019 modern
Allen Wu 13-0-0-2 GP Las Vegas 2019 (limited) MH1 limited
Dylan Nollen 15-0-0-1 GP Portland 2019 ELD standard

In the era of one-day SCG Opens, I know of 88 players who won undefeated. This is also a common occurrence at one-day Regional Championships—that is, those events where the number of Swiss rounds is tied to attendance. There are only two other two-day events in the database with an undefeated champion:

name record
W-L-D-ID
event format
Autumn Burchett 14-0-0-1 2017 GB National Championship XLN draft / standard
Marshall Arthurs 16-0-0-2 SCG Louisville 2018 modern

Additionally, three teams have gone undefeated in team GPs. I believe this list is complete.

name record
W-L-D-ID
event format
Scott Johns
Gary Wise
Mike Turian
10-0-2-1 PT New York 2000 PCY rochester
Darwin Kastle
David Humpherys
Rob Dougherty
8-0-2 GP Columbus 2001 APC limited
Greg Orange
Adam Jansen
Andrejs Prost
14-0-1-1 GP San Antonio 2017 unified modern