Wikipedia / List of chefs
Wikipedia / List of chefs
Only those subjects who are notable enough for their own articles should be included here. That may include chefs who have articles in other languages on Wikipedia which have not as yet been translated into English.
This article is a list of notable chefs and food experts throughout history.
Antiquity
12th century
Liu Niangzi, Chinese Imperial chef
14th century
Guillaume Tirel, also known as Taillevent, first professional French master chef
15th century
16th century
Lancelot de Casteau, author of L'Ouverture de cuisine (1604)
Bartolomeo Scappi, author of Opera dell'Arte del Cucinare (1570)
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
Patrick Lamb, Master Cook to the British Crown from the reign of Charles II to Queen Anne
François Pierre de la Varenne, author of Le Cuisinier françois (1651)
François Vatel, maître d'hôtel to Nicolas Fouquet and to Grand Condé
18th century
Nicolas Appert, pioneer of canning
Antoine Beauvilliers, pioneering restaurateur
Hercules, chef of George Washington, and first US Presidential chef
François Massialot, author of Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois (1712) and Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois (1717)
Vincent la Chapelle, author of Cuisinier moderne (1733)
Menon, author of Nouveau Traité de la Cuisine (1739) and La Cuisinière bourgeoise (1746)
Paul Tremo, court chef to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland
James Hemings, personal, enslaved, chef to Thomas Jefferson. First American chef to be fully trained in France, commonly attributed as the origin of Macaroni and cheese.
19th century
Marie-Antoine Carême, founder of Haute cuisine
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
Fannie Farmer, author of bestselling cookbook (1896)
Joseph Favre, author of Grand Dictionnaire universel de la cuisine and founder of the Académie culinaire de France
Lucien Olivier, Belgian-born Russian chef
Henri-Paul Pellaprat, co-founder of Le Cordon Bleu
Louis Eustache Ude, author of The French Cook (1813)
20th century
Juan Mari Arzak, founder of New Basque Cuisine
Heston Blumenthal, pioneer of Molecular gastronomy
Caesar Cardini, inventor of Caesar salad (1924)
Chen Kenichi, son of Chen Kenmin
Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland)
Prosper Montagné, author of Larousse Gastronomique (1938)
21st century
Claus Meyer, co-founder of New Danish cuisine
René Redzepi, co-founder of New Danish cuisine
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