Paul A Young in his Islington Chocolaterie in 2007

This is a list of notable chocolatiers. A

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is a person or business who makes

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chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civ ...

. Chocolatiers are distinct from chocolate makers, who create chocolate from

cacao bean The cocoa bean (technically cocoa seed) or simply cocoa (), also called the cacao bean (technically cacao seed) or cacao (), is the dried and fully fermented seed of ''Theobroma cacao'', from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances ...

s and other ingredients.

Chocolatiers

Michel Allex Michel Allex (31 October 1947, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère – 21 April 2008) was a French chocolatier and politician, the appointed mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, France since 2002. He was named by Dominique Perben as his replacement when Perben ...

* Louis Barnett *

Anthon Berg Anthon Berg is a Danish chocolatier and the name of a corporate division within Toms International. The company produces a diverse variety of chocolate products. The title " Purveyors to the Royal Danish Court" was awarded to Anthon Berg in 195 ...

* Fran Bigelow *

John Cadbury John Cadbury (12 August 1801 – 11 May 1889) was a Quaker and English proprietor, tea and coffee trader and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England. Life John Cadbury was born in Birmingham on 12 August 1801 t ...

* Pascal Caffet * Thomas Caffrey *

François-Louis Cailler François-Louis Cailler (11 June 1796 – 6 April 1852) was a Swiss entrepreneur and early chocolatier who founded Cailler, the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate and the oldest still in existence, in 1819. Biography Cailler was born in Ve ...

* María Fernanda Di Giacobbe *

Gilbert Ganong Gilbert White Ganong (May 22, 1851 – October 31, 1917) was a Canadian politician, the 14th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and co-founder of Ganong Bros. Limited, candy makers in the town of St. Stephen. Born in Springfield, New ...

* Jacques Genin *

Domingo Ghirardelli Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli (; February 21, 1817 – January 17, 1894) was an Italian-born chocolatier who was the founder of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco, California. Biography Early life Domenico Ghirardelli was bor ...

* Mott Green * Harry Specters *

Milton S. Hershey Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist. Trained in the confectionery business, Hershey pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk. He launched t ...

Jean-Paul Hévin Jean-Paul Hévin (born 10 December 1957 in Méral, Mayenne, France) is a French manufacturer of high-end chocolate, who operates 6 stores in Paris, 11 in Japan , 1 in Hong Kong, and 2 stores in Taipei headquartered in Paris. Career In 1974 Hevin ...

* Ernest Hillier *

Coenraad Johannes van Houten Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting pro ...

Hans Imhoff Hans Imhoff (March 12, 1922 – December 21, 2007) was a German chocolate producer and founder of the Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum (Imhoff Chocolate Museum) in Cologne, Germany.

* JaCiva's Bakery and Chocolatier, Portland, Oregon *

Andreas Jacobs Dr. W. Andreas Jacobs (born October 1963) is a Bremen-born entrepreneur who lives in Germany and is a German national. Biography Andreas Jacobs (1963) studied law at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Montpellier and subsequen ...

Klaus Johann Jacobs Klaus Johann Jacobs (3 December 1936 – 11 September 2008) was a German-born billionaire in the coffee and chocolate industry, with Swiss citizenship. Biography Early life an education He was born on 3 December 1936 in Bremen, Germany. Jac ...

Leonidas Kestekides Leonidas Kestekides (1876 - 1948) was an Ottoman empire-born Belgian chocolate manufacturer, founder of the internationally famous Leonidas company in Belgium. The company's primary focus is pralines (chocolate shells with soft fillings), but th ...

* Fritz Knipschildt *

Charles-Amédée Kohler Charles-Amédée Kohler (born Charles-Gottlieb Kohler; 15 June 1790 – 15 September 1874) was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Chocolat Kohler. He notably invented hazelnut chocolate, in his factory opened in 1830 in Lausanne. ...

Emeril Lagasse Emeril John Lagassé III ( ; born October 15, 1959) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regio ...

* Norman Love *

Franklin Clarence Mars Franklin Clarence Mars (; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M's and the Mars ...

Menier family The Menier family of Noisiel, France, was a prominent family of chocolatiers who began as pharmaceutical manufacturers in Paris in 1816. They would build a highly successful enterprise, expanding to London, and New York City. The Menier Chocolat ...

Antoine Brutus Menier Jean-Antoine Brutus Menier (May 17, 1795 – December 19, 1853) was a French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Germain-de-Bourgeuil, Indre-et-Loire, he was the third child in a family of merchants. In 1811 Ant ...

* Émile-Justin Menier *

Daniel Peter Daniel Peter (9 March 1836 – 4 November 1919) was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Peter's Chocolate. A neighbour of Henri Nestlé in Vevey, he was one of the first chocolatiers to make milk chocolate and is credited for inven ...

H.B. Reese Harry Burnett Reese Sr (May 24, 1879 – May 16, 1956) was an American inventor and businessman known for creating the number one-selling candy brand in the United States Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H. B. Reese Candy Company ...

Robert Steinberg Robert Steinberg (May 25, 1922, Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania (present-day Moldova) – May 25, 2014) was a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He introduced the Steinberg representation, the Lang–Steinberg theorem, t ...

Philippe Suchard Philippe Suchard (9 October 1797 – 14 January 1884) was a Swiss chocolatier, industrialist and entrepreneur. He founded Chocolat Suchard in 1826. Early life Suchard was born on 9 October 1797, in Boudry, to Louise Sophie Dubey and Guillaume Suc ...

Joseph William Thornton Thorntons Limited is a British chocolate manufacturer owned by the Italian confectionery company, Ferrero SpA, Ferrero. It was established in 1911 by Joseph William Thornton and his father in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. When Cadbury became ...

* Paul A. Young * Herman Wockenfuss

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