This article is a list of notable chefs and food experts throughout history.

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.

Antiquity

• Mithaecus
• Apicius, chef to Emperor Trajan

12th century

• Liu Niangzi, Chinese Imperial chef

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 (1604)
• Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne
• 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
• 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

• 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 (1896)
• 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 (1813)[1]

20th century

21st century

See also

• Le Club des Chefs des Chefs
• List of female chefs with Michelin stars
• List of Indian chefs
• List of pastry chefs
• List of food writers

References

External links

• BBC list of chefs
• PBS list of chefs