List of Culinary Institute of America alumni

Anthony Bourdain, chef, author, television host

Duff Goldman

Michael Mina

Michael Chiarello

The Culinary Institute of America has more than 55,000 graduates in the culinary industry. ^[1] Notable alumni include:

• Grant Achatz ^[2]
• David Adjey ^[3]
• Stephen Asprinio
• Emel Başdoğan
• Jonathan Benno ^[4]
• John Besh ^[5]
• Richard Blais ^[2]
• Marcy Blum ^[6]
• Jérôme Bocuse
• Anthony Bourdain ^[2]
• David Burke ^[5]
• Anne Burrell ^[7]
• Andrew Carmellini ^[8]
• David Carmichael
• Josef Centeno ^[9]
• Maneet Chauhan ^[10]
• Richard Chen
• Michael Chiarello ^[11]
• Roy Choi ^[2]
• Mike Colameco ^[12]
• Scott Conant ^[13]
• Cat Cora ^[14]
• Dan Coudreaut ^[15]
• Robert Danhi
• Gary Danko
• Jill Davie
• Marcel Desaulniers ^[16]
• Harold Dieterle ^[4]
• Rocco DiSpirito ^[17]
• John Doherty
• Steve Ells ^[18]
• Sohla El-Waylly ^[19]
• Todd English ^[4]
• Dean Fearing ^[20]
• Susan Feniger ^[2]
• Larry Forgione ^[4]
• Amanda Freitag ^[21]
• Alex García
• Geoffrey Gatza
• Duff Goldman ^[2]
• Todd Gray
• Ilan Hall ^[22]
• Johnny Hernandez ^[23]
• Rochelle Huppin
• Hung Huynh
• Johnny Iuzzini ^[4]
• Joseph Johnson
• Melissa Kelly
• Vikas Khanna ^[24]
• Eli Kulp
• Maciej Kuroń
• Sara La Fountain
• Francis Lam
• Stephen Langlois
• Andrew Le (chef)
• Bruce Lefebvre
• Matthew Levin ^[25]
• Kelly Liken
• Shane Lyons
• Christina Machamer
• Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel ^[26]
• Erin Jeanne McDowell
• David McInerney ^[27]
• Thomas McNaughton
• Jehangir Mehta
• Spike Mendelsohn
• George Mendes
• Michael Mina ^[28]
• Rick Moonen ^[29]
• Sara Moulton ^[30]
• Bradley Ogden ^[4]
• Ken Oringer
• Ralph Pagano ^[31]
• Charlie Palmer ^[32]
• Stella Parks
• Rajat Parr
• Melissa Perello
• Tina Pickett
• Ben Pollinger
• Alfred Portale
• Ana Liz Pulido ^[33]
• Britt Rescigno ^[34]
• L. Timothy Ryan
• Jeffrey Saad
• Roshara Sanders ^[35]
• Walter Scheib ^[36]
• Pedro Miguel Schiaffano
• Chris Schlesinger
• Barton Seaver
• Kerry Simon ^[37]
• Michael Smith ^[38]
• Greggy Soriano
• Lon Symensma
• Michael Symon ^[39]
• Dale Talde
• Sue Torres
• Marcel Vigneron ^[40]
• Jason Vincent
• Paul Virant
• Bryan Voltaggio
• Brendan Walsh
• Chris Waters
• Jasper White
• Laurie Wolf
• Roy Yamaguchi ^[41]
• Sherry Yard
• Geoffrey Zakarian ^[42]
• Eric Ziebold

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