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The chefs the food world orbits, from Michelin-starred icons to the personalities who turned cooking into must-watch entertainment. 177 tracked, sorted by the attention they pull across search, Wikipedia, the news cycle, and social platforms, recalculated every day.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Gordon Ramsay	United Kingdom	Chefs	84.3	19.2
#2	new	Jamie Oliver	United Kingdom	Chefs	81.1	11.1
#3	new	Nick DiGiovanni	United States	Chefs	81.0	8.7
#4	new	Philippe Etchebest	France	Chefs	76.5	5.4
#5	new	CZN Burak	Turkey	Chefs	73.7	0.0
#6	new	Alton Brown	United States	Chefs	73.5	0.0
#7	new	Andrew Zimmern	United States	Chefs	73.5	10.6
#8	new	Rachel Khoo	United Kingdom	Chefs	71.3	23.6
#9	new	Paik Jong-won	South Korea	Chefs	71.3	0.0
#10	new	Alberto Chicote	Spain	Chefs	70.4	9.8
#11	new	Devina Hermawan	Indonesia	Chefs	70.3	2.2
#12	new	Nelson Müller	Germany	Chefs	70.2	16.5
#13	new	James Kenji López-Alt	United States	Chefs	70.1	0.7
#14	new	Lidia Bastianich	Italy	Chefs	69.7	0.0
#15	new	Eitan Bernath	United States	Chefs	68.4	10.9
#16	new	Stalic Khankishiev	—	Chefs	68.2	0.1
#17	new	Francesco Bellissimo	Italy	Chefs	66.2	4.2
#18	new	Robert Irvine	United Kingdom	Chefs	62.8	0.0
#19	new	Thomas Keller	United States	Chefs	62.4	2.7
#20	new	NM Nita Mehta	India	Chefs	59.4	10.1
#21	new	Alain Ducasse	France	Chefs	59.1	12.9
#22	new	Nusret Gökçe	Turkey	Chefs	57.8	15.0
#23	new	Brian Boitano	United States	Chefs	57.4	17.9
#24	new	René Redzepi	—	Chefs	57.2	17.8
#25	new	Marco Pierre White	United Kingdom	Chefs	56.2	0.5
#26	new	Bethenny Frankel	United States	Chefs	55.8	2.3
#27	new	Prue Leith	United Kingdom	Chefs	55.8	16.7
#28	new	Ainsley Harriott	United Kingdom	Chefs	55.4	10.0
#29	new	Paula Deen	United States	Chefs	55.3	1.0
#30	new	José Andrés	Spain	Chefs	55.3	0.4
#31	new	Heston Blumenthal	United Kingdom	Chefs	54.8	1.4
#32	new	Bobby Flay	United States	Chefs	54.5	1.2
#33	new	Pierre Gagnaire	France	Chefs	54.5	10.0
#34	new	Guy Savoy	France	Chefs	54.2	35.0
#35	new	Dominique Crenn	France	Chefs	54.1	1.3
#36	new	Curtis Stone	Australia	Chefs	53.5	7.5
#37	new	Buddy Valastro	United States	Chefs	53.4	1.8
#38	new	Juan Arbelaez	—	Chefs	53.0	16.4
#39	new	Nobu Matsuhisa	Japan	Chefs	53.0	4.4
#40	new	Marcus Samuelsson	Sweden	Chefs	53.0	3.9
#41	new	Gino D'Acampo	Italy	Chefs	52.7	3.2
#42	new	Jacques Pépin	France	Chefs	52.7	1.9
#43	new	Massimo Bottura Italian chef, Osteria Francescana	Italy	Chefs	52.6	0.1
#44	new	Rick Stein	United Kingdom	Chefs	52.6	0.0
#45	new	Cyril Lignac	France	Chefs	52.6	5.0
#46	new	MF Manon Fleury	France	Chefs	52.5	25.0
#47	new	Michel Roux, Jr.	United Kingdom	Chefs	52.5	9.0
#48	new	Delia Smith	United Kingdom	Chefs	52.4	15.1
#49	new	Alain Passard	France	Chefs	52.3	21.7
#50	new	Alice Waters	United States	Chefs	52.3	1.3
#51	new	Carlo Cracco	Italy	Chefs	52.3	8.0
#52	new	Nancy Silverton	United States	Chefs	52.2	7.7
#53	new	David Chang	United States	Chefs	52.1	2.4
#54	new	GC Gabriele Corcos	Italy	Chefs	51.9	21.1
#55	new	Léa Linster	—	Chefs	51.9	9.4
#56	new	KF Kenji Fujimoto	Japan	Chefs	51.9	0.0
#57	new	Martin Yan	United States	Chefs	51.8	2.9
#58	new	ST Shima Tassin	—	Chefs	51.7	15.4
#59	new	Yannick Alléno	France	Chefs	51.6	2.9
#60	new	Anne-Sophie Pic	France	Chefs	51.4	0.0
#61	new	Eric Ripert	France	Chefs	51.4	3.3
#62	new	Hélène Darroze	France	Chefs	51.2	0.7
#63	new	Choi Hyun-seok	South Korea	Chefs	51.1	5.5
#64	new	Christine Ha	United States	Chefs	51.1	3.4
#65	new	MS Max Stiegl	—	Chefs	51.0	25.0
#66	new	Raymond Blanc	France	Chefs	50.9	10.1
#67	new	Harumi Kurihara	Japan	Chefs	50.8	9.0
#68	new	Marc Veyrat	France	Chefs	50.6	10.1
#69	new	Gesine Bullock-Prado	United States	Chefs	50.5	0.0
#70	new	Pascal Brodnicki	—	Chefs	50.5	13.5
#71	new	Vikas Khanna	India	Chefs	50.4	0.0
#72	new	TD Tamasin Day-Lewis	United Kingdom	Chefs	50.3	15.3
#73	new	Anjum Anand	United Kingdom	Chefs	50.3	10.0
#74	new	Masaharu Morimoto	Japan	Chefs	50.2	1.7

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