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

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

List of restaurateurs