# 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

## By nationality
### 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

### 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

### United States
## By type
### 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