List of chefs

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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

16th century

Bartolomeo Scappi

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

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

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

Charles Ranhofer

Auguste Escoffier

Marcel Boulestin
Marie-Antoine Carême, founder of Haute cuisine
Alexandre Étienne Choron
Jean-Louis-François 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

Fanny Cradock

21st century

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