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
Eswatini Philippa Mdluli
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
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
See also Lists of Michelin-starred restaurants