List of Famous Chefs

Serving great food and cuisine has been going on since ages. Right from the Middle Ages in Europe legendary chefs like Coroebus of Elis have set the stage for food preparation and serving. Cuisine has been a natural ingredient of human civilization and is one of those facets which has always stayed away from much of controversies. It is one aspect that has gone on to evolve to be able to satisfy human taste with all its glory. Several prominent chefs such as the French chef Auguste Escoffier revolutionized the art of cooking and serving food. Let us look at some of the great and famous chefs from all over the world:

Famous TV Chefs

• Aiden Byrne
  - from UKTV's Market Kitchen and BBC's Food Poker and MasterChef series
• Allegra McEvedy
  - from UKTV's Great Food Live, BBC1's Saturday Kitchen and Full on Food
• Bobby Chinn 
• Caroline Bretherton
  - from Channel 4's Light Lunch, UKTV's Great Food Live and Great Food Bites
• Clodagh McKenna
  - from Out of The Blue, Rick Stein's Food Heroes and BBC1's Saturday Kitchen
• Dean Edwards
  - from BBC's Take on the Takeaway and Masterchef Goes Large
• Jo Pratt
  - from ITV's Saturday Cooks, Daily Cooks, Soapstar Superchef, UKTV's Great Food Live and Market Kitchen
• Jun Tanaka
  - from Channel 4's Cooking It, Food Uncut, Saturday Cooks, Daily Cooks, Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen and BBC's Food Poker
• Leila Lindholm 
• Levi Roots
• Manju Malhi
  - from ITV's Saturday Cooks and This Morning, UKTV Food's Market Kitchen, BBC1's Saturday Kitchen and Sky One's Taste
• Paul Merrett
  - from BBC2's Fresh Food and UKTV's Great Food Live
• Richard Fox
  - from UKTV Food, ITV's Saturday Cooks and The Good Food Show on BBC Radio 4
• Richard Phillips
  - from BBC's Ready Steady Cook, Step Up To The Plate, ITV's Daily Cooks Challenge, UKTV's Great Food Live, and SKY1's Taste
• Sophie Grigson
  - from Grow Your Greens and Eat Your Greens
• Stefan Gates
  - from BBC2's Full on Food, UKTV's Food Uncut and BBC1's Gastronuts
• Theodore Kyriakou
  - from BBC's Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen and Good Food Live
• Tom Kime
• Tony Allan
• Tony Tobin
  - from BBC2's Ready Steady Cook, ITV's This Morning, Channel 4's Light Lunch, BBC's Friends For Dinner and Food and Drink and UKTV's Great Food Live

Famous Italian Chefs

• Benedetta Vitali (from Florence, Italy)
• Davide Scabin
• Ettore Boiardi (aka Chef Boyardee)
• Francesco Mazzei (from Cerchiara di Calabria, Italy)
• Gualtiero Marchesi (creator of the Total Cuisine philosophy)
• Sal Anthony (owner of the Sal Anthony's Restaurant)
• Sal Scognamillo (the founder of Patsy's Italian Restaurant)

Famous French Chefs

• Alain Ducasse
• François Massialot
• Georges Auguste Escoffie
• Guillaume Tirel (aka Taillevent)
• Jean-Christophe Novelli
• La Varenne
• Marie-Antoine Carême
• Raymond Blanc

Famous Indian Chefs

• Sanjeev Kapoor
• Anjum Anand
• Vikas Khanna
• Madhur Jaffrey
• Dev Kishan
• Atul Kochhar
• Hari Nayak