List of foods named after people - Definition and Overview

This is a list of food items named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

• Alfredo sauce – Alfredo di Lello
• Baby Ruth candy bars – Ruth Cleveland, daughter of Pres. Grover Cleveland, or Babe Ruth
• Béchamel sauce, named after Louis de Béchamel, a courtier to King Louis XIV
• Beef Wellington – Duke of Wellington
• Bismarck herring – Otto von Bismarck
• Boysenberry - Rudolf Boysen
• Caesar salad – Caesar Cardini, the Mexican chef who invented it (contrary to popular belief, it was not named for or invented by Julius Caesar)
• Chicken Tetrazzini - named for operatic soprano Luisa Tetrazzini
• Dom Perignon (wine) – Dom Perignon (1638-1715), a blind French Benedictine monk
• Garibaldi biscuits – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Graham crackers, Graham flour – Sylvester Graham
• Horlicks – W. Horlick (1846-1936)
• Linzer torte – Josef Linzer
• Mozartkugel – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Melba toast – Nellie Melba
• Napoleon – Napoleon Bonaparte
• Nesselrode – Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode
• Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
• Pêche Melba – Nellie Melba
• Pizza Margherita – Queen Margherita of Savoy
• Reuben – Possibly Arnold Reuben
• Sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
• Sachertorte – Franz Sacher, Vienna
• Stroganoff – named for a Count Stroganov (possibly Count Pavel Alexandrovitch Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov)
• Tarte Tatin – Stéphanie Tatin and Caroline Tatin
• Tournedos Rossini – Gioacchino Rossini

Food-related

• Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur

See also

• List of food topics
• Lists of people
• lists of foods