Gordon James Ramsay, Jr.

Gordon James Ramsay, Jr. OBE (born 8 November 1966) is a Scottish celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His

restaurants have been awarded 15 Michelin stars in total and currently hold 14. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in

Chelsea, London has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. Ramsay is known for presenting TV

programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen,

The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's

Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, and Masterchef Junior.

Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire on 8 November 1966. From the age of five, he was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

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 James Senior, (died 1997) was - at various times - a

swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his

sister Yvonne and their mother Helen (maiden name: Cosgrove)

have been nurses.

Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant"; his family moved constantly due to

the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an at-times-violent alcoholic. In

1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he grew up in the Bishopton area of the town. In his autobiography, Humble Pie, he describes his early life as being marked by

abuse and neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser". At the age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family house into a flat in Banbury.

Scottish by birth, Gordon Ramsay was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in football, he went back

to college to complete a course in hotel management. His dedication and natural talent

led him to train with some of the world’s leading chefs, such as Albert Roux and Marco Pierre White in London, and Guy Savoy and Joël

Robuchon in France.

In 1993 Gordon became chef of Aubergine in London, which within three years, was awarded

two Michelin stars. In 1998, at the age of 31, Ramsay set up his first wholly owned and namesake restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, which quickly received the most

prestigious accolade in the culinary world – three Michelin stars. Today, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is London’s longest-running restaurant to hold this award, and Ramsay is one of only four chefs in the UK to maintain three stars.

Now internationally renowned, Gordon has opened a string of successful restaurants across the globe, from Italy to the United States and

holds seven Michelin stars. The group continues to grow with two ventures in Doha, Qatar

opened in 2012; a total of three restaurants in Las Vegas with Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris,

GR Pub and Grill at Caesars Palace and GR BurGR at Planet Hollywood; and the latest now

open Union Street Café in London’s borough market.

Ramsay received an OBE (Order of the British Empire awarded by Queen Elizabeth II) in 2006 for

services to the industry.

Gordon has also become a star of the small screen both in the UK

and internationally, with UK shows such as GORDON

BEHIND BARS, ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE, GORDON’S GREAT

ESCAPES and GORDON RAMSAY: SHARK BAIT, as well as four top-rated FOX shows that

air in more than 200 countries worldwide: KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, HELL’S

KITCHEN, MASTERCHEF US and HOTEL HELL. He is also a published author of a

number of books, many of which have become bestsellers around the world, most notably his

autobiography, Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen.

Gordon has a global partnership with Royal Doulton, which offers quality home and lifestyle

products.

He lives with his wife, Tana and four children, along with their bulldog Rumpole and two cats. He divides his time between Los Angeles and

South London.