Jamie Oliver

James Trevor Oliver MBE (born 27 May 1975) is a British celebrity chef and restaurateur. His typically English cuisine has garnered him numerous television shows and restaurants.

Born and raised in the village of Clavering, Essex, he was educated in London before taking his first culinary engagement at Antonio Carluccio’s Neal Street restaurant as a pastry chef. When he moved to serve as a sous chef at The River Café he was noticed by the BBC and in 1999 debuted his television show, The Naked Chef which was followed by his first cook book subsequently becoming the No. 1 best-seller in the UK. After his Naked Chef series, he was endorsed by multiple companies and expanded his television capacity to include a documentary called Jamie’s Kitchen; garnering him an invitation from the Prime Minister to 10 Downing Street. In June 2003, Oliver was honoured as a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

In 2005, Oliver initiated a campaign originally called Feed Me Better to move British schoolchildren towards eating healthy foods and cutting out junk food; this campaign was eventually backed by the British government. Soon after he launched his first high-end restaurant, Jamie’s Italian, in Oxford in 2008 and hosted a TED Talk winning him the 2010 TED Prize.