The Culinary Institute of America has approximately 49,000 graduates in the culinary industry. Notable alumni include:
Nicole Abiouness
Grant Achatz
David Adjey
Stephen Asprinio
Emel Başdoğan
Wilo Benet
Jonathan Benno
John Besh
Richard Blais
Marcy Blum
Jérôme Bocuse
Anthony Bourdain
David Burke
Anne Burrell
Andrew Carmellini
David Carmichael
Josef Centeno
Maneet Chauhan
Richard Chen
Michael Chiarello
Roy Choi
Mike Colameco
Scott Conant
Cat Cora
Dan Coudreaut
Robert Danhi
Gary Danko
Jill Davie
Marcel Desaulniers
Harold Dieterle
Rocco DiSpirito
John Doherty
Steve Ells
Sohla El-Waylly
Todd English
Dean Fearing
Susan Feniger
Larry Forgione
Amanda Freitag
Alex García
Geoffrey Gatza
Duff Goldman
Todd Gray
Ilan Hall
Johnny Hernandez
Rochelle Huppin
Hung Huynh
Johnny Iuzzini
Joseph Johnson
Melissa Kelly
Vikas Khanna
Eli Kulp
Maciej Kuroń
Sara La Fountain
Francis Lam
Stephen Langlois
Bruce Lefebvre
Matthew Levin
Kelly Liken
Shane Lyons
Christina Machamer
David McInerney
Thomas McNaughton
Jehangir Mehta
Spike Mendelsohn
George Mendes
Michael Mina
Rick Moonen
Sara Moulton
Bradley Ogden
Ken Oringer
Ralph Pagano
Charlie Palmer
Stella Parks
Rajat Parr
Melissa Perello
Tina Pickett
Ben Pollinger
Alfred Portale
Eamon Rockey
L. Timothy Ryan
Jeffrey Saad
Walter Scheib
Pedro Miguel Schiaffano
Chris Schlesinger
Barton Seaver
Kerry Simon
Michael Smith
Greggy Soriano
Lon Symensma
Michael Symon
Dale Talde
Sue Torres
Marcel Vigneron
Jason Vincent
Paul Virant
Bryan Voltaggio
Brendan Walsh
Chris Waters
Jasper White
Laurie Wolf
Roy Yamaguchi
Sherry Yard
Geoffrey Zakarian
Rob Zerban
Eric Ziebold
References
Lists of people by university or college in New York (state)