List of restaurateurs

This is a list of restaurateurs. A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of the restaurant business.

Restaurateurs

 * Gastón Acurio
 * Pius Alibek Hermez
 * Alex Atala
 * Askar Baitassov
 * Eddie Blay
 * Marcel Boulestin
 * Norman E. Brinker
 * Ion Luca Caragiale
 * Engracia Cruz-Reyes
 * Teun van Dijck
 * Gato Dumas
 * Robert Earl
 * Guy Fieri
 * Will Guidara
 * Károly Gundel
 * Juan José Gutiérrez
 * Ching Hai
 * Leopold Hawelka
 * Jean-Pierre Koepp
 * Jimmy Lahoud
 * Brian McKenna
 * Georges Mora
 * Ken Oringer
 * Ioan Gyuri Pascu
 * Jacky Robert
 * Sakis Rouvas
 * Wilhelmina Skogh
 * Eduardo Sousa
 * Stephen Starr
 * Jean-Philippe Susilovic
 * Chin-hui Tsao
 * Oscar Tschirky
 * Mór Ungerleider
 * Virgilio Martínez Véliz
 * Cajsa Wahllund

Australia

 * George Calombaris
 * Andrew Cibej
 * Pete Evans
 * Manu Feildel
 * Shanaka Fernando
 * Michelle Garnaut
 * Guy Grossi
 * Peter Kuruvita
 * Karen Martini
 * Gary Mehigan
 * Matt Moran
 * Mietta O'Donnell
 * Rocco Pantaleo
 * Tetsuya Wakuda
 * Samuel Wynn
 * Yip Ho Nung
 * Gum Yuen

Austria

 * Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bahrain

 * Tala Bashmi

Brazil

 * Robert Falkenburg

Canada

 * Hugh Acheson
 * Shereen Arazm
 * Sean Avery
 * Nat Bailey
 * Joe Beef
 * Massimo Capra
 * Maggie Cassella
 * Christy Chung
 * Lynn Crawford
 * Meeru Dhalwala
 * Danica d'Hondt
 * Stefano Faita
 * Rob Feenie
 * Ryan Gosling
 * Wayne Gretzky
 * Ryan Holmes
 * Hector Jimenez-Bravo
 * Harry Kambolis
 * Jamie Kennedy
 * Susur Lee
 * Brad Long
 * Mark McEwan
 * Robert J. Patterson
 * Duke Redbird
 * Tim Rozon
 * Joey Ghazal
 * Guy Rubino
 * Michael Smith
 * Marc Thuet
 * Vikram Vij
 * Stephen Yan
 * Zal Yanovsky
 * Maurice Zbriger

Denmark

 * Silla Bjerrum
 * Jan Friis-Mikkelsen
 * Sven and Lene Grønlykke
 * Rasmus Kofoed
 * Claus Meyer
 * Adam Price
 * René Redzepi
 * Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong

El Salvador

 * Graciela de Holman

France

 * Antoine Beauvilliers
 * Louis Bignon
 * Georges Blanc
 * Raymond Blanc
 * Paul Bocuse
 * Joël Dupuch
 * Stéphane Froidevaux
 * Jean Galatoire
 * Jacques Genin
 * Michel Guérard
 * Jean Joho
 * Ludo Lefebvre
 * Édouard Loubet
 * Sébastien Masi
 * Michel Michaud
 * Jean-Christophe Novelli
 * Claude Philippe
 * Thierry Rautureau
 * Stéphane Reynaud
 * Kilien Stengel
 * Jean Sulpice
 * Pierre Troisgros
 * Roger Vergé

Germany

 * Lorenz Adlon
 * Eitel Brothers
 * Vincent Klink
 * Silvio Kuhnert
 * Paul Merker
 * Kadir Nurman

Hong Kong

 * Vicky Lau

India

 * Riyaaz Amlani
 * Ritu Dalmia
 * Ketan Kadam
 * Prahlad Kakkar
 * J.K. Kapur
 * Farrokh Khambata
 * Kumar Mahadevan
 * Manish Makhija
 * P. Rajagopal
 * Vivek Singh
 * Cyrus Todiwala
 * Nelson Wang

Italy

 * Emilio Baglioni
 * Massimo Bottura
 * Salvatore Cuomo
 * Toni Dalli
 * Pino Luongo
 * Sirio Maccioni
 * Modesto Marini
 * Lucia Pavin

Massimo Dobrovic

Japan

 * Hiroaki Aoki
 * Toshiro Kandagawa
 * Yoshihiro Narisawa
 * Nui Onoue

Lithuania

 * Linas Tadas Karosas
 * Tadas Karosas

Mexico

 * Cesar Balsa
 * Caesar Cardini
 * Eduardo Santamarina

New Zealand

 * Des Britten
 * Vernon Lawrence Clare
 * Stanley Nicholas Garland
 * Jack Macdonald

Nigeria

 * Bolanle Austen-Peters
 * Muma Gee
 * Kehinde Kamson
 * Nike Oshinowo

Norway

 * Ole Jonny Eikefjord
 * Julius Fritzner
 * Eyvind Hellstrøm
 * Kari Innerå
 * Einar Rose
 * Christen Sveaas

Pakistan

 * Zubaida Tariq

Russia

 * Anatoly Komm

Spain

 * Cesar Balsa

Sweden

 * Gustafva Björklund
 * Niklas Ekstedt
 * Carl Jan Granqvist
 * Marcus Samuelsson

Thailand

 * Gaggan

Turkey

 * Hüseyin Özer
 * Nusret Gökçe

United Kingdom

 * Muquim Ahmed
 * Enam Ali
 * Kaniz Ali
 * Siraj Ali
 * Jamie Barber
 * Aldo Berni
 * Frank Berni
 * Mark Birley
 * Peter Boizot
 * Vito Cataffo
 * Foysol Choudhury
 * Peter Evans
 * John Maria Gatti
 * Rose Gray
 * Nick Jones
 * Omar Khan
 * Joel Kissin
 * Atul Kochhar
 * Abdul Latif
 * Alvin Leung
 * Magnus Lindgren
 * Simon Loftus
 * Tommy Miah
 * David Moore
 * Timothy Moxon
 * Alan Murchison
 * Jean-Christophe Novelli
 * Hüseyin Özer
 * Claude Philippe
 * Gordon Ramsay
 * Bajloor Rashid
 * Mandy Rice-Davies
 * Egon Ronay
 * Mohammed Sabir
 * Siegi Sessler
 * Lisa Vanderpump
 * Iqbal Wahhab
 * Marco Pierre White
 * Sarah Willingham
 * Simon Wright
 * Alan Yau

England

 * Jill Adams
 * Amjad Bashir
 * Walter Baxter
 * Aiden Byrne
 * Lee Chapman
 * Atique Choudhury
 * Terence Conran
 * Robert Earl
 * Keith Floyd
 * Jeff Galvin
 * Damien Hirst
 * Aktar Islam
 * Disley Jones
 * Keith McNally
 * Mary-Ellen McTague
 * Thomasina Miers
 * Jamie Oliver
 * Sid Owen
 * James Pimm
 * Vaughan Smith

Scotland

 * Bashir Ahmad
 * Mac Henderson

Restaurant founders

 * Robert Earl
 * Adam Fleischman
 * Gordon Hamersley
 * Prue Leith
 * Juanita Musson
 * David M. Overton
 * Bob Payton
 * Melissa Perello
 * P. Rajagopal
 * Daniel R. Scoggin
 * Lydia Shire
 * Jasper White

Fast casual chain founders

 * Gus Boulis
 * Leeann Chin
 * Arthur Cores
 * Steve Ells

Fast-food chain founders

 * Dave Barham
 * Burt Baskin
 * Glen Bell
 * Samuel Truett Cathy
 * Derek Cha
 * Blake Chanslor
 * Andrew Cherng
 * George W. Church, Sr.
 * Al Copeland
 * Lucia Cunanan
 * Fred DeLuca
 * David Edgerton
 * Tom Forkner
 * Jack Fulk
 * Todd Graves
 * Murray Handwerker
 * Nathan Handwerker
 * Wilber Hardee
 * Pete Harman
 * Tim Horton
 * Howard Deering Johnson
 * Ron Joyce
 * Carl Karcher
 * Margaret Karcher
 * Daniel J. Kim
 * Ray Kroc
 * Young Lee
 * Gust E. Lundberg
 * Pat McDonagh
 * Richard and Maurice McDonald
 * James McLamore
 * Hugh Morris
 * Albert Okura
 * Robert O. Peterson
 * Harold Pierce
 * Irv Robbins
 * Joe Rogers, Sr.
 * William Rosenberg
 * Vernon Rudolph
 * Nabi Saleh
 * Colonel Sanders
 * Ike Sewell
 * Troy Smith
 * Esther Snyder
 * Harry Snyder
 * Felix Stehling
 * Brody Sweeney
 * Tony Tan
 * Dave Thomas
 * Lovie Yancey

Pizza chain founders

 * Nolan Bushnell
 * Dan and Frank Carney
 * Aaron Fechter
 * Carol Grimaldi
 * Marian Ilitch
 * Mike Ilitch
 * Sherwood Johnson
 * Gennaro Lombardi
 * Tom Monaghan
 * John Schnatter
 * Ken Selby
 * William Theisen