- Jamie Oliver
James Trevor Oliver MBE (May 27, 1975), better known as Jamie Oliver and nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an English celebrity chef. He is well known for his role in campaigning against unhealthy, processed foods in British schools. Since his early years, his Essex accent has become infamous - particularly the use of the hindi word "pukka" (colloquially meaning "brilliant" or "solid", originally "cooked" or "ripe"). - Bobby Flay
Robert William Flay is a fourth generation Irish-American celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is the owner and executive chef of six restaurants: "Mesa Grill", "Bolo Bar & Restaurant", and "Bar Americain" in New York City, "Mesa Grill" Las Vegas (Caesars Palace), "Mesa Grill" Bahamas (Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau), and Bobby Flay Steak (Atlantic City, New Jersey). Flay has hosted four Food Network television programs, … - Emeril Lagasse
Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry. He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts, where he later received an honorary doctorate in 1990. He is married and has four children. Emeril is most well-known for his TV show "Emeril Live" on the Food Network, one of its highest-rated programs. - Todd English
William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and television star based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is best known for his cooking show, "Cooking With Todd English", which appears on public television and is produced by Connecticut Public Television; and for his flagship restaurant, Olives, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As of 2007, Todd stars in "Food Trip with Todd English", … - Gary Rhodes
Gary Rhodes OBE (born April 22, 1960) is a British restaurateur, cookery writer, and celebrity chef, known for his love of British cuisine, distinctive hair style (which has since been shaved off) and use of butter in many of his recipes. He has fronted BBC shows such as "Masterchef", "Hell's Kitchen", and his own series, "Rhodes Around Britain". In 2006 he tried to represent the South of England in the BBC's Great British Menu, … - Antony Worrall Thompson
Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson (born 1 May 1951) is a British celebrity chef and television presenter. Born in Stratford upon Avon, he went to school at The King's School, Canterbury. - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, … - James Martin
James Martin (born June 30 1972 in Yorkshire) is an English celebrity chef who first appeared on television in 1996. - Rocco Dispirito
Rocco DiSpirito (born November 19, 1966 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, USA) is an American chef based in New York City. He is a 1986 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and a 1990 graduate of Boston University with a bachelor's degree in business. DiSpirito is known for his Italian-American cuisine and his innovative fusion cooking; his mother, Nicolina, is known for her Italian meatballs. - Michael Chiarello
Michael Chiarello (born January 26, 1962 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello", on the Food Network and hosts "NapaStyle" on the Fine Living Network. Chiraello owns a winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, and NapaStyle, a purveyor of food, cookware, and furniture. - Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa (松久 信幸 "Matsu-hisa Nobu-yuki"; born 1949 in Saitama, Japan) is an international celebrity chef and restaurateur. Nobu is known for his fusion cuisine which blends traditional Japanese dishes with South American (Peruvian and Argentinian) ingredients. His signature dish is black cod in miso. He was also the pioneer of soft shell crab and shrimp tempura rolls, both attempts to please the western palate. - Michael Mina
Michael Mina is an award-winning American celebrity chef and restaurateur, based out of San Francisco, California. He is also a super chef. - Ainsley Harriott
Ainsley Harriott (born February 28 1957) is a British celebrity chef. His most well-known role is perhaps that of presenting the quick-fire cookery programme "Ready Steady Cook". Harriott was born in Balham in south London. Harriott is married to former costume designer, Clare Fellows. They have two children and a dog called Oscar. Clare is the sister of the creator of "John Shuttleworth" and "Jilted John", Graham Fellows. - Nick Nairn
Nick Nairn, celebrity chef, born (January 12 1959) in Stirling, Scotland. Nairn has been a regular chef on BBC's popular Ready Steady Cook since the first series in 1994 and in 1990, he became the youngest chef to win a Michelin star in Scotland. A self-taught chef, his determination to master the culinary arts resulted in the creation of two successful restaurants - Braeval near Aberfoyle and the other in Glasgow, called Nairn's. - Jean-Christophe Novelli
Jean-Christophe Novelli (born 22 February 1961) is a French celebrity chef. - Phil Vickery
Philip Vickery (born 2 May 1961) is a British celebrity chef. He is the former Head Chef of the Castle Hotel, Taunton where he won, amongst other awards, a Michelin star, 4 AA rosettes and the AA Chef of the Year. He now owns a gastropub, in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire. He currently appears on the television programmes "Ready Steady Cook" and "This Morning". He has written one book, Just Food, published by Headline in 1999. - Lesley Waters
Lesley Waters is an English celebrity chef. She regularly appears on such cookery programmes as Ready Steady Cook, and is currently one of the featured chefs on This Morning. London born, she studied French Cuisine at Ealing College for three years, before cooking in top hotels, and winning awards including a scholarship to the Hotel Intercontinental in Dusseldorf. She then joined Prue Leith's restaurant, where she was promoted to senior chef. - Roy Yamaguchi
Roy Yamaguchi is a Japanese-American Celebrity Chef. Yamaguchi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan but now lives in the U.S. State of Hawaii. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in New York, he spent time in Los Angeles in apprenticeships at L'Escoffier and L'Ermitage under the late master chef Jean Bertanou. He was soon elevated to executive chef status with stints at Le Serene and Le Gourmet. He then opened the Euro-Asian 385 North in West Hollywood, … - Ross Burden
Ross Burden is a celebrity chef from New Zealand. Ross Burden's early career was as a model but became a chef later in life. His inspiration for being a chef was his mother's extremely bad cooking skills, which meant that he spent a lot of time cooking with his grandmother. Ross was brought up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand and is a self-taught cook. He has hosted and been a guest on programmes across the world and was recently voted one of the UK's most eligible bachelors. - Clarissa Dickson-Wright
Clarissa Dickson-Wright (born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright on June 28 1947) is an English celebrity chef best known from her appearances with Jennifer Paterson in the BBC series "Two Fat Ladies". She was born in St John's Wood, London, the only child of a Protestant father Sir Arthur Dickson-Wright KCVO who was surgeon to the British Royal Family after World War II, … - Juliette Rossant
Juliette Rossant (born 1959) is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom she first wrote for "Forbes" magazine and for whom she has defined if not coined the term "Super Chef," also the title of her first book and of her online magazine. - Sophie Grigson
Sophie Grigson (born Hester Sophia Frances Grigson on June 19 1959 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is a British cookery writer and celebrity "chef" (though she would prefer to be known as a cook), the daughter of Jane Grigson. She is known for her extravagant, dangly earrings and her ever ballooning girth. Sophie appears regularly on the BBC Food television channel. After graduating in 1982 with a B.Sc. - Jeremiah Tower
Jeremiah Tower is a celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters, is generally credited with inventing California cuisine. - Alan Coxon
Alan Coxon is a TV Chef and British television presenter. He presented ITV1's The Mint as a stand in for the first few weeks of broadcast. He has a recipe book called Ready In Minutes: The Cookbook. - Tobie Puttock
Tobie Puttock is an Australian celebrity chef, best known for his association with British chef Jamie Oliver. - Marguerite Patten
Marguerite Patten, OBE (born Marguerite Brown on November 4 1915, in Bath) is an English home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She began giving cookery advice whilst working for the Ministry of Food. She was one of the first 'celebrity chefs', presenting her first television cookery programme on the BBC in 1947. She has written over 165 books, and continues to contribute to BBC food programmes to the present day. - Gordon James Ramsay OBE
Gordon Ramsay (Fee Group £16k - £25k) Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in England after his parents moved south to Stratford-upon-Avon. His first career break came whilst playing football for Oxford United where he was spotted by a Glasgow Rangers scout in a F.A. youth club match. After completing trials he was signed by the Scottish champions at the age of 15. - Christine Cushing
Christine Cushing (born Athens, Greece) is a Canadian celebrity chef, host of the television programmes "Christine Cushing Live", and "Cook With Me" on Food Network Canada. She originally studied linguistics at the University of Toronto, but in 1986, she graduated from the Food and Beverage Management program at George Brown College in Toronto. In the issue of TV Guide in Canada for the week of April 24-30 April 2004, … - Tina Nordström
Tina Nordström is a Swedish television chef and presenter. She is currently starring in her second season on "New Scandinavian Cooking" on PBS stations statewide. She succeeds Andreas Viestad as host of the show. Besides the cookery show "Mat" ("Food"), which she made together with Tomas Tengby, she has written cookbooks - "Tinas mat" ("Tina's food"), "Tina" and "Jättegott Tina". - Sam Stern
Sam Stern (born 29 August 1990) is a British celebrity chef and author. He has written two cookbooks and has a contract for two more. Stern grew up as the youngest of five siblings in Yorkshire, England Stern writes a regular column called "Sam's Super Kids" in "First News". In addition to his dream of owning his own restaurant, he would like to trek to the North Pole and China. - Tommy Miah
Tommy Miah (born Mohammad Ajman Miah) is a British celebrity chef of Bangladeshi origin. His flagship restaurant is located in Edinburgh. - Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his north Norfolk hotel, Morston Hall, is Michelin starred and has 3 AA Rosettes. Galton has never trained formally as a chef, instead gleaning experience on the job as he worked his way to head chef at his first job at the Miller Howe country hotel in the Lake District. Of his beginnings, Galton says: :"As a cash strapped 17 year old I set up a market stall in Rye selling home made cakes, … - Andreas Viestad
Andreas Viestad, also known as "The Charming Ambassador", is a Norwegian food writer and television chef. He has homes in Oslo, Norway and Cape Town, South Africa. Viestad authored "Kitchen of Light: New Scandinavian Cooking" and has been dubbed "Norway’s Culinary Ambassador". Viestad’s weekly column for the Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" since 1999 and his cooking show on the USA's PBS channel, in which he speaks in accented but very good English, … - Marie-Antoine Carême
Marie Antoine (Antonin) Carême, was a French chef and author. He is well known for greatly simplifying and codifying the style of cooking known as "haute cuisine", the high art of French cooking which is central to France's national cuisine. Known as "chef of kings and king of chefs," he is often thought of as the first celebrity chef. - Jenny Morris
Jenny Morris, also known as "The Giggling Gourmet," is a celebrity chef from South Africa. She lives with her family in Cape Town. - Fenton Keogh
Fenton Brian Keogh (born December 21, 1971) is an Australian celebrity chef and winner of Lifestyle FOOD's Great BBQ Challenge in January 2007. He and his wife Lisa are the owners of Fentons Cafe Restaurant located in Ipswich, Queensland & his son Jacob who helps run the restaurant. His signature dish (Aussie Pav with Boozy Summer Fruits) was featured on the Australia Day special on the Today Show 26.01.07 (Nine Network). Though not prepared the traditional way in an oven, … - Wolfgang Johann Puck
Wolfgang Puck was one of the first celebrity chefs , rising to fame as a young man with his inspired "California cuisine" which he has served at famed Los Angeles restaurant Spago since its debut in 1982 . ... Before moving to America, Puck apprenticed at restaurants in Provence, Monaco , and Paris . The first restaurant he part owned was Ma Maison in Los Angeles, California . He pioneered California cuisine in the 1980s, with the opening of his restaurant Spago in 1982. - Martino da Como
Martino da Como (Martino of Como) was a 15th century culinary expert who was unequalled in his field at the time and is the western worlds first celebrity chef. He was the chef at the Roman palazzo of the papal chamberlain ("camerlengo"), the Patriarch of Aquileia. Martino was applauded by his peers, earning him the epitath of "the prince of cooks". - Koumei Nakamura
Komei Nakamura, is a celebrity chef. Most famous for being the second Japanese Iron Chef on the show, Iron Chef, he has worked at numerous restaurants such as the Oriental Hotel in Osaka, Nadaman in the Hotel New Otani, and the "Nadaman" Singapore in the Shangri La Hotel. He later became the manager of "Nadaman" in the "Hotel New Otani". He now has his own restaurant in Tokyo, Koumei Ariake. - Tōru Takemitsu
Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer, author of crime fiction, writer on aesthetics and music theory, and celebrity chef. Largely self-taught in music, Takemitsu is known for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen.
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