Gordon James Ramsay, OBE (born 8 November 1966)[1] is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur.[2] He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.[3][4]

Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, Ramsay's Best Restaurant, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and MasterChef.

Gordon Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland,[5] and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England from the age of 5.[6] Ramsay is the second of four children; he has an older sister, Diane, a younger brother, Ronnie, and a younger sister, Yvonne. Ramsay's father Gordon (died 1997)[7] was, at various times, a swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his mother, Helen Cosgrove,[8] and Yvonne[7] have been nurses.[9] Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", as his family moved constantly due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was violent.[7] In 1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon where he grew up in the Bishopton area of the town. In past public interviews, Ramsay has declined to describe his father as an alcoholic; however, his autobiography, Humble Pie,[9] describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser".[9][10] At the age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family house into a flat in Banbury.[11]

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