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list of chefs

This is an alphabetically ordered list of notable chefs. (See also cuisine; food; nouvelle cuisine; grande cuisine.)

  • Grant Achatz
  • Ferran Adrià
  • Nicolas Appert
  • Mario Batali
  • James Beard
  • Paul Bocuse
  • Anthony Bourdain
  • Marie-Antoine Carême
  • Robert Carrier
  • Julia Child
  • Paula Deen
  • Auguste Escoffier
  • Fannie Merritt Farmer
  • M.F.K. Fisher
  • Bobby Flay
  • Keith Floyd
  • Pierre Franey
  • Clement Raphael Freud
  • Paul Haeberlin
  • Lizzie Black Kander
  • Kurihara Harumi
  • Emeril Lagasse
  • Gaston-Albert-Célestin Lenôtre
  • Edna Lewis
  • Bernard Daniel Jacques Loiseau
  • Jamie Oliver
  • Jennifer Mary Paterson
  • Gordon Ramsay
  • Rachael Ray
  • René Redzepi
  • Santi Santamaría
  • Alice Waters
  • Justin Wilson
This article was most recently revised and updated by Richard Pallardy.
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Article Title: list of chefs
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 16 July 2015
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Access Date: June 15, 2025