List of chefs
This article is a list of notable chefs and food experts throughout history.
Antiquity
- Mithaecus
- Apicius, chef to Emperor Trajan
14th century
- Sidoine Benoît
- Guillaume Tirel, also known as Taillevent, first professional French master chef
15th century
- Maestro Martino
- Bartolomeo Platina
16th century
- Lancelot de Casteau, author of L'Ouverture de cuisine
- Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne
- Bartolomeo Scappi, author of Opera dell'Arte del Cucinare
17th century
- Procopio Cutò, Sicilian chef in Paris, founder of Cafe Procopio
- Stanisław Czerniecki, author of Compendium ferculorum, albo Zebranie potraw, the first cookbook written originally in Polish
- François Pierre de la Varenne, author of Le Cuisinier françois
- François Vatel, maître d'hôtel to Nicolas Fouquet and to Grand Condé
18th century
- Nicolas Appert, pioneer of canning
- Antoine Beauvilliers, pioneering restaurauteur
- Hercules, chef of George Washington, and first US Presidential chef
- François Massialot, author of Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois and Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois
- Vincent la Chapelle, author of Cuisinier moderne
- Menon, author of Nouveau Traité de la Cuisine and La Cuisinière bourgeoise
- Paul Tremo, court chef to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland
19th century
- Marcel Boulestin
- Marie-Antoine Carême, founder of Haute cuisine
- Alexandre Étienne Choron
- Jean-Louis Françoise-Collinet
- George Crum
- Marthe Distel, co-founder of Le Cordon Bleu
- Urbain Dubois, author of numerous works on food and creator of Veal Orloff
- Adolphe Dugléré, head chef of Café Anglais
- Auguste Escoffier
- Fannie Farmer, author of bestselling cookbook
- Joseph Favre, author of Grand Dictionnaire universel de la cuisine and founder of the Académie culinaire de France
- Charles Elmé Francatelli
- Jules Gouffé
- Lucien Olivier, Belgian-born Russian chef
- Henri-Paul Pellaprat, co-founder of Le Cordon Bleu
- Anne Boutiaut Poulard
- Alfred Prunier
- Charles Ranhofer
- Alexis Soyer
- Louis Eustache Ude, author of The French Cook
20th century
- Ferran Adrià
- Reed Alexander
- Tokuzo Akiyama
- Darin Allen
- Ida Bailey Allen
- Myrtle Allen
- Rachel Allen
- Joey Altman
- Elena Arzak
- Juan Mari Arzak, founder of New Basque Cuisine
- Kenny Atkinson
- Frances Atkins
- Jean Bardet
- Paul Bartolotta
- Joe Bastianich
- Lidia Bastianich
- Mario Batali
- Rick Bayless
- James Beard
- Simone Beck
- Martín Berasategui
- Mary Berry
- John Besh
- Marguerite Bise
- Jack Bishop
- Mark Bittman
- Raymond Blanc
- Heston Blumenthal, pioneer of Molecular gastronomy
- Martin Blunos
- Paul Bocuse
- Ettore Boiardi
- David Bouley
- Daniel Boulud
- Anthony Bourdain
- Michel Bras
- Madame Brassart
- Eugénie Brazier
- Alton Brown
- Jane Butel
- Caesar Cardini, inventor of Caesar salad
- Antonio Carluccio
- Andrew Carmellini
- Doña Petrona Carrizo
- Alain Chapel
- Éric Chavot
- Joyce Chen
- Cecilia Chiang
- Chen Kenichi, son of Chen Kenmin
- Chen Kenmin
- Michael Chiarello
- Julia Child
- Bobby Chinn
- Craig Claiborne
- Patrick Clark
- Gennaro Contaldo
- Helen Corbitt
- Richard Corrigan
- Fanny Cradock
- Curnonsky
- Hélène Darroze
- Jean-Robert de Cavel
- Traci Des Jardins
- Avis DeVoto
- Rocco DiSpirito
- Alain Ducasse
- Wylie Dufresne
- Todd English
- Mary Ann Esposito
- Philippe Etchebest
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- Susan Feniger
- Annie Féolde
- Barbara Figueroa
- Bobby Flay
- Tyler Florence
- Keith Floyd
- Zonya Foco
- John Folse
- Pierre Franey
- Lois Ellen Frank
- Laura Frankel
- Pierre Gagnaire
- Ina Garten
- Henri Gault
- Alexis Gauthier
- André Gayot
- Elka Gilmore
- Frédy Girardet
- Joyce Goldstein
- Rose Gray
- Gael Greene
- Loyd Grossman
- Michel Guérard
- Skye Gyngell
- Martin Hadden
- Dorothy Cann Hamilton
- Ainsley Harriott
- Angela Hartnett
- Marcella Hazan
- Roland Henin
- Ingrid Hoffmann
- Ken Hom
- Peter Hudson and David Halls
- Chuck Hughes
- Annemarie Huste
- Yutaka Ishinabe
- Elijah Joy
- Toshiro Kandagawa
- Sanjeev Kapoor
- Mollie Katzen
- Hubert Keller
- Thomas Keller
- Chen Kenichi
- Matthew Kenney
- Graham Kerr
- Christopher Kimball
- Masahiko Kobe
- Pierre Koffmann
- Erez Komarovsky
- Emeril Lagasse
- Annabel Langbein
- Nigella Lawson
- Rustie Lee
- Susur Lee
- Ludovic Lefebvre
- Gaston Lenôtre
- Edna Lewis
- Paul Liebrandt
- Cyril Lignac
- Patrick Lin
- Bernard Loiseau
- Emily Luchetti
- Dione Lucas
- Karen MacNeil
- James Martin
- Rokusaburo Michiba
- Christian Millau
- Prosper Montagné, author of Larousse Gastronomique
- Rick Moonen
- Masaharu Morimoto
- Sara Moulton
- Tamara Murphy
- Koumei Nakamura
- Joan Nathan
- Rafael Nazario
- Jean-Christophe Novelli
- Jamie Oliver
- Raymond Oliver
- Ken Oringer
- Jean-Louis Palladin
- Charlie Palmer
- Merrilees Parker
- Russ Parsons
- Alain Passard
- Mark Peel
- Jacques Pépin
- Anne-Sophie Pic
- Jacques Pic
- Fernand Point
- Debra Ponzek
- Anne Boutiaut Poulard
- Paul Prudhomme
- Wolfgang Puck
- Steven Raichlen
- Carmen Ramírez Degollado
- Gordon Ramsay
- Paul Rankin
- Ruth Reichl
- Gary Rhodes
- Éric Ripert
- Claire Robinson
- Joël Robuchon
- Philippe Rochat
- Judy Rogers
- Irma S. Rombauer
- Michel Roux
- Michel Roux Jr.
- Michael Ruhlman
- Carme Ruscalleda
- Hiroyuki Sakai
- Marcus Samuelsson
- Nadia Santini
- Guy Savoy
- Alain Senderens
- John Shields
- Nancy Silverton
- Nigel Slater
- Art Smith
- Delia Smith
- Charmaine Solomon
- Henri Soulé
- Rick Stein
- Martha Stewart
- Curtis Stone
- Holger Stromberg
- Michael Symon
- Louis Szathmary
- Tommy Tang
- John Martin Taylor
- Matt Tebbutt
- Stephen Terry
- Amy Thielen
- Antony Worrall Thompson
- John Thorne
- Sanjay Thumma
- John Torode
- Jacques Torres
- Jeremiah Tower
- Jerry Traunfeld
- Troisgros family
- * Claude Troisgros
- * Pierre Troisgros
- Barbara Tropp
- Charlie Trotter
- Ming Tsai
- Brian Turner
- Roger Vergé
- Marc Veyrat
- Andreas Viestad
- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
- Tetsuya Wakuda
- Gregg Wallace
- Brendan Walsh
- Chef Wan
- Paul Bentley
- Alice Waters
- Jonathan Waxman
- Annabelle White
- Marco Pierre White
- Bryn Williams
- Justin Wilson
- Pierre Wynants
- Martin Yan
- Stephen Yan
- Chan Yan-tak
- Geoffrey Zakarian
- Andrew Zimmern
21st century
- Connie Achurra
- Samia Ahad
- Reed Alexander
- Rachel Allen
- Ted Allen
- Anjum Anand
- Shauna Anderson
- Sunny Anderson
- José Andrés
- Dave Arnold
- Alex Atala
- Eric Aubriot
- Ed Baines
- Dan Barber
- Nieves Barragán Mohacho
- Danni Barry
- Francesco Bellissimo
- Emma Bengtsson
- Ron Ben-Israel
- Jamie Bissonnette
- Richard Blais
- April Bloomfield
- Justin Bogle
- Michael Bolster
- Cristina Bowerman
- Danny Bowien
- Sean Brock
- Frank Bruni
- Anne Burrell
- Laura Calder
- David Chang
- Erchen Chang
- Maneet Chauhan
- Michael Chiarello
- Gianfranco Chiarini
- Angelo Ciccone
- Derry Clarke
- Mike Colameco
- Tom Colicchio
- Scott Conant
- Cat Cora
- Chris Cosentino
- Denis Cotter
- Madison Cowan
- Salvatore Cuomo
- Melissa d'Arabian
- Jean-Robert de Cavel
- Paula Deen
- Tiffany Derry
- Traci Des Jardins
- Matt Dowling
- Martie Duncan
- Kevin Dundon
- Lillian Elidah
- Graham Elliot
- Pete Evans
- Mark Flanagan
- Guy Fieri
- Amy Finley
- Toni Fiore
- Marc Forgione
- Lois Ellen Frank
- Amanda Freitag
- Catherine Fulvio
- Conrad Gallagher
- Jose Garces
- Adam Gertler
- Nadia Giosia
- Anette Grecchi Gray
- Suzette Gresham
- Sarah Grueneberg
- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
- Patrick Guilbaud
- Christine Hà
- Elizabeth Haigh
- Carla Hall
- Anna Hansen
- Catherine Healy
- Tanya Holland
- Paul Hollywood
- Ching He Huang
- Robert Irvine
- Rita Jaima Paru
- Colombe Jacobsen
- Margot Janse
- Celia Jiménez
- Pati Jinich
- Mikael Jonsson
- Matthew Kenney
- Tom Kerridge
- Karen Keygnaert
- Dawar Khan
- Selin Kiazim
- Anita Klemensen
- Florence Knight
- Erez Komarovsky
- Edward Young-min Kwon
- Thierry Laborde
- Annabel Langbein
- Jessica Largey
- Vicky Lau
- Giada De Laurentiis
- Katie Lee
- Susur Lee
- Ludo Lefebvre
- Yvan Lemoine
- Alvin Leung
- Nathan Lyon
- Shane Lyons
- Beau MacMillan
- Francis Mallmann
- Neven Maguire
- Karen Martini
- Nikki Martin
- Daisy Martinez
- Nobu Matsuhisa
- Jeff Mauro
- Aaron McCargo, Jr.
- Dylan McGrath
- Lenny McNab
- Claus Meyer, co-founder of New Danish cuisine
- Mary Sue Milliken
- Rick Moonen
- Saiphin Moore
- Dan Mullane
- Marc Murphy
- Magnus Nilsson
- Michel Nischan
- Kelsey Nixon
- Franco Noriega
- Ben O'Donoghue
- Enzo Oliveri
- Martha Ortiz
- James Oseland
- Yianni Papoutsis
- Lorraine Pascale
- Mark Peel
- Damaris Phillips
- Stacey Poon-Kinney
- Wolfgang Puck
- Titti Qvarnström
- Michele Ragussis
- Wendy Rahamut
- Gordon Ramsay
- René Redzepi, co-founder of New Danish cuisine
- Rachael Ray
- Jay Rayner
- Simon Rimmer
- Missy Robbins
- Daniel Rose
- Andre Rush
- Declan Ryan
- Jeffrey Saad
- Marcus Samuelsson
- Aarón Sanchez
- Chris Santos
- Benjamin Sargent
- Miyoko Schinner
- Kamilla Seidler
- Aarti Sequeira
- Sean Sherman
- John Shields
- Nancy Silverton
- Gail Simmons
- Vivek Singh
- Donal Skehan
- Clare Smyth
- Kevin Sousa
- Nick Stellino
- Jun Tanaka
- Bryant Terry
- Haile Thomas
- Luke Thomas
- Kevin Thornton
- Sue Torres
- Christina Tosi
- Paolo Tullio
- Bryan Voltaggio
- Nikola Vuković
- Justin Warner
- Valentine Warner
- Emily Watkins
- Jody Williams
- Kate Williams
- Wang Gang
- Lee Anne Wong
- Sophie Wright
- Seiji Yamamoto
- Aldo Zilli