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The Most Famous

CHEFS from India

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Chefs. The pantheon dataset contains 7 Chefs, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 6th most number of Chefs behind Spain and Denmark.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Chefs of all time. This list of famous Indian Chefs is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Floyd Cardoz (1960 - 2020)

With an HPI of 29.31, Floyd Cardoz is the most famous Indian Chef.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Floyd Cardoz (October 2, 1960 – March 25, 2020) was an Indian-American chef. He was born in Mumbai. He owned the New York City eatery Paowalla and was executive chef at Tabla, as well as victor on Top Chef Masters Season 3 in 2011. His New York restaurants were known for food melding Indian flavours and spices with western cuisine.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chefs born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chefs include Floyd Cardoz.

Deceased Chefs

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