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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	—	Jamie Oliver	United Kingdom	Chefs	83.1	10.0
#2	—	Nick DiGiovanni	United States	Chefs	82.2	14.5
#3	—	CZN Burak	Turkey	Chefs	79.0	14.1
#4	—	Alton Brown	United States	Chefs	73.5	0.0
#5	—	Stalic Khankishiev	—	Chefs	72.2	4.1
#6	—	Paik Jong-won	South Korea	Chefs	71.9	0.0
#7	—	Rachel Khoo	United Kingdom	Chefs	71.3	23.6
#8	—	Nelson Müller	Germany	Chefs	70.2	16.5
#9	—	James Kenji López-Alt	United States	Chefs	70.1	0.7
#10	—	Devina Hermawan	Indonesia	Chefs	68.2	0.1
#11	—	Francesco Bellissimo	Italy	Chefs	66.2	4.2
#12	—	Thomas Keller	United States	Chefs	64.0	0.2
#13	—	Alain Ducasse	France	Chefs	58.8	13.1
#14	—	Robert Berdella	United States	Chefs	57.5	14.8
#15	—	René Redzepi	—	Chefs	57.2	16.5
#16	—	Anne Burrell	United States	Chefs	57.1	15.7
#17	—	Brian Boitano	United States	Chefs	56.9	16.2
#18	—	Auguste Escoffier	France	Chefs	56.4	0.0
#19	—	Paul Bocuse	France	Chefs	56.4	0.0
#20	—	José Andrés	Spain	Chefs	56.4	2.0
#21	—	Marc Newson	Australia	Chefs	56.0	10.0
#22	—	Bernard Loiseau	France	Chefs	55.9	10.9
#23	—	Bethenny Frankel	United States	Chefs	55.8	2.3
#24	—	Prue Leith	United Kingdom	Chefs	55.8	16.7
#25	—	May Pang	United States	Chefs	55.6	0.6
#26	—	Joël Robuchon	France	Chefs	55.5	0.0
#27	—	Ainsley Harriott	United Kingdom	Chefs	55.4	10.0
#28	—	Marie-Antoine Carême	France	Chefs	55.3	0.0
#29	—	Clement Freud	United Kingdom	Chefs	55.3	7.0
#30	—	Bobby Flay	United States	Chefs	54.5	1.2
#31	—	Curtis Stone	Australia	Chefs	54.4	14.6
#32	—	Rosanjin	Japan	Chefs	54.4	3.6
#33	—	Sandra Lee	United States	Chefs	54.3	4.6
#34	—	Ruth Graves Wakefield	United States	Chefs	54.3	15.2
#35	—	Michel Roux	France	Chefs	54.1	20.3
#36	—	Dominique Crenn	France	Chefs	54.1	1.3
#37	—	Massimo Bottura Italian chef, Osteria Francescana	Italy	Chefs	54.0	2.0
#38	—	David Chang	United States	Chefs	53.9	15.0
#39	—	Heston Blumenthal	United Kingdom	Chefs	53.9	0.0
#40	—	Judy Ann Santos	—	Chefs	53.9	4.6
#41	—	George Crum	United States	Chefs	53.7	15.0
#42	—	Ina Garten	United States	Chefs	53.5	0.0
#43	—	Buddy Valastro	United States	Chefs	53.4	1.8
#44	—	Yi Yin	—	Chefs	53.3	14.0
#45	—	Marcus Gavius Apicius	—	Chefs	53.1	2.0
#46	—	Pierre Gagnaire	France	Chefs	53.1	3.4
#47	—	Juan Arbelaez	—	Chefs	53.0	16.4
#48	—	LO Lucien Olivier	—	Chefs	53.0	14.5
#49	—	Marcus Samuelsson	Sweden	Chefs	53.0	3.9
#50	—	Albert Roux	France	Chefs	52.9	17.8
#51	—	Cyril Lignac	France	Chefs	52.9	5.6
#52	—	Nobu Matsuhisa	Japan	Chefs	52.8	4.4
#53	—	Jacques Pépin	France	Chefs	52.7	1.9
#54	—	Rick Stein	United Kingdom	Chefs	52.6	0.0
#55	—	Magda Gessler	—	Chefs	52.6	0.0
#56	—	Wolfgang Puck	United States	Chefs	52.4	0.0
#57	—	Delia Smith	United Kingdom	Chefs	52.4	15.1
#58	—	Antonio Carluccio	Italy	Chefs	52.4	3.2
#59	—	Alice Waters	United States	Chefs	52.3	1.3
#60	—	Chen Kenichi	Japan	Chefs	52.2	6.4
#61	—	Elsa Peretti	Italy	Chefs	52.2	8.6
#62	—	Pankaj Bhadouria	India	Chefs	52.2	10.0
#63	—	Nancy Silverton	United States	Chefs	52.2	7.7
#64	—	Jean-Georges Vongerichten	France	Chefs	52.1	10.0
#65	—	Harumi Kurihara	Japan	Chefs	52.1	5.1
#66	—	Ted Allen	United States	Chefs	52.0	2.2
#67	—	David Emge	United States	Chefs	52.0	18.0
#68	—	GC Gabriele Corcos	Italy	Chefs	51.9	21.1
#69	—	Samak Sundaravej	—	Chefs	51.9	0.0
#70	—	Léa Linster	—	Chefs	51.9	9.4
#71	—	James Beard	United States	Chefs	51.9	0.8
#72	—	KF Kenji Fujimoto	Japan	Chefs	51.9	0.0
#73	—	Michel Guérard	France	Chefs	51.8	14.5
#74	—	ST Shima Tassin	—	Chefs	51.7	15.4
#75	—	Yannick Alléno	France	Chefs	51.6	2.9
#76	—	Akiyama Tokuzō	Japan	Chefs	51.5	9.3
#77	—	Eric Ripert	France	Chefs	51.4	3.3
#78	—	Darío Barrio	Spain	Chefs	51.3	10.0
#79	—	Hélène Darroze	France	Chefs	51.2	0.7
#80	—	Choi Hyun-seok	South Korea	Chefs	51.1	5.5
#81	—	Christine Ha	United States	Chefs	51.1	3.4
#82	—	Raffaele Esposito	—	Chefs	51.0	7.7
#83	—	Raymond Blanc	France	Chefs	50.9	10.1
#84	—	Spiridon Putin	—	Chefs	50.8	0.0
#85	—	Gustav Fabergé	—	Chefs	50.8	3.5
#86	—	Marc Veyrat	France	Chefs	50.6	10.1
#87	—	Gesine Bullock-Prado	United States	Chefs	50.5	0.0
#88	—	Vikas Khanna	India	Chefs	50.4	0.0
#89	—	TD Tamasin Day-Lewis	United Kingdom	Chefs	50.3	15.3
#90	6	Fatima Ali	—	Chefs	50.2	3.1
#91	1	Sanjeev Kapoor	India	Chefs	50.1	0.7
#92	1	Lucia Cunanan	—	Chefs	50.1	10.0
#93	1	Geoffrey Zakarian	United States	Chefs	50.1	0.6
#94	1	Elizabeth David	United Kingdom	Chefs	50.0	0.0
#95	1	Clare Smyth	United Kingdom	Chefs	50.0	0.0
#96	1	Fernand Point	France	Chefs	50.0	1.9
#97	—	Giovanni Passannante	—	Chefs	49.9	0.0
#98	—	Paul Wahlberg	United States	Chefs	49.9	0.0
#99	—	Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme	Italy	Chefs	49.9	6.1
#100	—	Christina Tosi	United States	Chefs	49.8	0.0

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