List of foods named after people
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
- 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
- Melba toast – Nellie Melba
- Napoleon – Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nesselrode – Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode
- Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
- Peach Melba – Nellie Melba
- 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 РSt̩phanie Tatin and Caroline Tatin
- Tournedos Rossini – Gioacchino Rossini