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
Austria
Bahrain
Brazil
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
El Salvador
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
Hong Kong
India
Italy
Massimo Dobrovic
Japan
Lithuania
Mexico
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Turkey
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
Scotland
United States
By type
Restaurant founders
Fast casual chain founders
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
See also
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