Pierre Gagnaire

Pierre Gagnaire, another renowned French chef, has devoted his 40-year career accumulating Michelin stars. He won his first Michelin star at the age of 26 after growing up in his family's Michelin-starred kitchen. The Michelin guide describes this iconoclastic chef as "in the vanguard of the fusion cuisine movement," and he is known for shattering traditional French cooking standards.

For more than two decades, Gagnaire's eponymous flagship restaurant on Rue Balzac in Paris has maintained three Michelin stars, a remarkable culinary feat. He now runs 18 culinary restaurants across the world, including Sketch in London, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair. Beginning his career in St. Etienne where he won three Michelin Stars, Gagnaire tore at the conventions of classic French cooking by introducing jarring juxtapositions of flavours, tastes, textures, and ingredients. On his website, Gagnaire gives his mission statement as the wish to run a restaurant which is 'facing tomorrow but respectful of yesterday'

• Michelin Stars: 14
• Born: 9 April 1950 (age 72)Apinac, Loire, France
• Current restaurant: Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire (Paris)