Gordon Ramsay

Ramsay married Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson, known as Tana, a Montessori-trained schoolteacher, in 1996. They have four children, Megan, Holly, Jack and Mathilda and live in Battersea, in South London.

This short-tempered yet highly likable chef has a net worth of $80 million. His salary per episode is $225,000 and he earns an additional $10 million per year from his media and restaurant empire.

Gordon Ramsay was born on November 8, 1966 in Renfrewshire, Scotland, to Gordon a man with no permanent profession and Helen Cosgrove, a nurse. He was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England from the age of 5.

The second of four children, he has an older sister, Diane, while Ronnie and Yvonne were his younger siblings. His early life was marked by abuse and neglect from his father, a "hard-drinking womanizer".

He played football and was first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12. He was selected to play for Warwickshire. His football career came to an end because he was plagued by injuries.

By the time he was nineteen, he became serious about acquiring a culinary qualification and Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College, sponsored by the Rotarians, to study Hotel Management.

In the early 1980s, he worked at the Wroxton House Hotel and the Wickham Arms. He moved to London, where he worked in a series of restaurants.

He worked for the temperamental Marco Pierre White at Harvey's for nearly 3 years and decided to study French Cuisine. On White’s advice, he began working for Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in Mayfair.

After working at Le Gavroche for a year, Roux invited him to work with him at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two and later moved to Paris.

He continued in France for three years, and benefited from the mentorship of Guy Savoy. He, then, accepted the less stressful work of a personal chef on the private yacht, Idlewild, based in Bermuda.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London was voted Top Restaurant in the U.K. in the London Zagat Survey in 2001and awarded its third Michelin star, making him the first Scottish chef to win three Michelin stars.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 honors list for services to the hospitality industry and also been inducted in to the Culinary Hall of Fame.

In 2006, he won the Catey award for "Independent Restaurateur of the Year", only the third person to have won three Catey awards, the biggest awards of the UK hospitality industry.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, London, is acknowledged for its perfect food execution, service and the food provided has been described as "classic cooking; sophisticated, well-edited and flavor-first".

Ramsay has presented, The F Word, on Channel 4 since 2005 which invariably includes a competitions, a food related investigative report and a project of raising animals to be served in the finale.