This is a list of notable pastry chefs. A

pastry chef A pastry chef or pâtissier (; the French female version of the word is pâtissière ), is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bi ...

is a station chef in a professional

kitchen A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running wate ...

, skilled in the making of

pastries Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" suggests ...

, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...

bistro A bistro or bistrot , is, in its original Parisian incarnation, a small restaurant, serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting. Bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve. French home-style cooking, and slow-cooked foods ...

s, restaurants,

bakeries A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, donuts, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who w ...

, and some

cafés A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-c ...

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Dominique Ansel Dominique Ansel (born 1978) is a French pastry chef and owner of Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City. He is best known for his invention of the Cronut, a croissant-donut hybrid that became a phenomenon. Early life Raised in a working-class ...

* Antonio Bachour * Florian Bellanger * Ron Ben-Israel * Willem Berkhoff * Wayne Harley Brachman *

Sébastien Canonne Sébastien Canonne, M.O.F. (born 1968) is a French pastry chef and co-founder of the French Pastry School in Chicago, the Butter Book online platform, and EQUII. In 2004, he earned the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2012, he was named ...

Philippe Conticini Philippe Conticini, a French chef and pastry chef, was born 16 August 1963 in Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne. Having worked in France, in the U.S. and in Japan, he conceived four innovations including verrines in 1994, which present dishes traditi ...

Cheryl Day Cheryl Day (born 1961) is a baker and author, who is owner of Back in the Day Bakery and co-founder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice. She is the author of two best-selling cookbooks, written with her husband Griff Day. In 2015 she was ...

Elizabeth Falkner Elizabeth Falkner (born February 12, 1966) is an American chef, pastry chef, author, restaurateur, and consulting chef. She has appeared as a competitor and sometimes a judge on reality television cooking competitions, and she is a Top Chef tele ...

* Gale Gand *

Duff Goldman Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman is a pastry chef, television personality, and cookbook author. He is the executive chef of the Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show '' Ace of Cakes'', ...

* Carine Goren * Shayne Greenman * Cédric Grolet * Tariq Hanna *

Maida Heatter Maida Heatter (September 7, 1916 – June 6, 2019) was an American pastry chef and cookbook author who specialized in baking and desserts. Biography Heatter was born in Baldwin, New York, the daughter of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter and Sa ...

Pierre Hermé Pierre Hermé (; born 20 November 1961) is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best R ...

Johnny Iuzzini Johnny Iuzzini /u-zee-nee/ (born August 31, 1974) is an American pastry chef, television celebrity, and cookbook author. He resides in New York City. He is a 1994 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and served as executive pastry chef ...

* Cheryl Koh * Beulah Levy Ledner * Alain LeNôtre * Gaston Lenôtre * Annie Lim * Nicholas Lodge * Norman Love * Emily Luchetti * Jean-Philippe Maury * Roland Mesnier *

Ho Chi Minh (: ; born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), commonly known as (' Uncle Hồ'), also known as ('President Hồ'), (' Old father of the people') and by other aliases, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as P ...

* Melissa Murphy *

Candace Nelson Candace Nelson (born May 8, 1974) is an Indonesian-born pastry chef and judge on the television series ''Cupcake Wars'' and ''Sugar Rush (Netflix TV series), Sugar Rush''. Early life Nelson grew up in Indonesia. Baking runs in her family, as h ...

* Ghaya Oliveira * Anna Olson * Pichet Ong * François Payard * Jacquy Pfeiffer * Claire Ptak *

Marc Rivière Marc Rivière is a French director, actor and screenwriter. He has worked extensively in French television. He directed the 2009 historic television drama La reine et le cardinal set during the early years of the reign of Louis XIV of France ...

* Alain Roby * Jordi Roca i Fontané *

Albert Roux Albert Henri Roux (8 October 1935 – 4 January 2021) was a French-British restaurateur and chef. He and his brother Michel operated Le Gavroche in London's Mayfair, the first restaurant in the UK to gain three Michelin stars. He helped tr ...

Michel Roux Michel Roux, OBE (; 19 April 1941 – 11 March 2020), also known as Michel Roux Snr., was a French chef and restaurateur working in Britain. Along with his brother Albert, he opened Le Gavroche, later to become the first three Michelin starr ...

* S. G. Sender *

Sally Seymour Sally Seymour (died 3 April 1824), was an African Americans, African American pastry chef and restaurateur. Seymour built up an elite culinary business in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina and was one of a few African American ...

* Heny Sison * Greggy Soriano *

Yves Thuriès Yves Thuriès (born June 5, 1938) is a French cooking and pastry chef, twice Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Life and career Early life and training Yves Thuriès was born in the village of Lempaut in the department of Tarn. He began at age ...

Jacques Torres Jacques Torres (born 14 June 1959) is a French pastry chef and chocolatier based in New York. Torres is a member of the International Culinary Center community as Dean of Pastry Arts, as well as holding pastry demonstrations. He appears on the sh ...

Christina Tosi Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American chef and cookbook author. She is founder and co-owner with Momofuku of Milk Bar and serves as its chef and CEO. ''Food & Wine'' magazine included her in their 2014 list of "Most Innovative Women in Food ...

* Buddy Valastro * Rudolph van Veen * Bronwen Weber * William Yosses * Pierrick Boyer File:Macaron 2.jpg, A

"olive oil and vanilla"

macaron A macaron ( , ) or French macaroon ( ) is a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and food colouring. The macaron is traditionally held to have been introduced in France by the ...

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Raymond T. Odierno Raymond Thomas Odierno (8 September 1954 – 8 October 2021) was an American military officer who served as a four-star general of the United States Army and as the 38th chief of staff of the Army. Prior to his service as chief of staff, Odiern ...

and other members of the United States Army in

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cutting a cake to celebrate the Army's 237th birthday in 2012

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Pastry chefs A pastry chef or pâtissier (; the French female version of the word is pâtissière ), is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels ...

Pastry Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" sugges ...

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