List of chefs

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.

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

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

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.