List of Top Chef contestants

This is a list of contestants who have appeared on the American reality television culinary competition, ''Top Chef''. As of October 2, 2013, there were a total of 177 chefs who had competed throughout the whole series with 22 of them competing again in a succeeding season.

Contestants

: The chef won his/her season.
: The chef previously competed in a preceding season.
: The chef previously competed in a preceding season and won his/her present season.

Notes

: This is the number of Quickfire Challenges the chef had won.

: This is the number of Elimination Challenges the chef had won.

: Cynthia chose to leave the competition because her father was ill.

: Andrea originally placed eleventh, but since another chef voluntarily left, she was brought back to the competition.

: Otto chose to leave the competition deciding that his misconduct contributed to most of his team's loss.

: Josie and Marisa were in a double elimination.

: Mia chose to leave the competition fearing that another chef would be eliminated.

: Cliff was disqualified from the competition for aggressive physical contact with another chef.

: Elia and Sam were in a double elimination.

: Casey and Dale both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Lisa and Richard both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Eugene and Melissa were in a double elimination.

: Jeff originally placed seventh, but was brought back to the competition for winning a Quickfire Challenge against two other most recently eliminated chefs.

: Fabio and Jeff were in a double elimination.

: Carla and Stefan both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Bryan and Kevin both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Arnold and Lynne were in a double elimination.

: Angelo and Ed both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Dale and Stephen were in a double elimination.

: Jamie and Tiffani were in a double elimination.

: Colin, Simon and Tyler were eliminated in the first qualifying round.

: Nina was eliminated in the second qualifying round.

: Ashley, Berenice, Chaz, Jonathan and Kim were eliminated in the third qualifying round.

: Andrew, Janine, Laurent and Molly were eliminated in the final qualifying round.

: Dakota and Nyesha were in a double elimination.

: Beverly originally placed seventh, but was brought back to the competition for winning the Last Chance Kitchen.

: Anthony, Daniel, Gina, Jorel, Stephanie and Tina were eliminated in the qualifying round.

: Carla and Chrissy were eliminated in a double elimination.

: CJ and Tyler were eliminated in a double elimination.

: Kristen originally placed seventh, but was brought back to the competition for winning the Last Chance Kitchen.

: Louis and Shirley were eliminated in a double elimination.

: Louis originally placed eleventh, but was brought back to the competition for winning the Last Chance Kitchen.

: Kevin originally placed eighth, but was brought back to the competition for winning the Last Chance Kitchen.

: Stephanie and Bryan both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Nelson and Gabriel were eliminated in a double elimination.

: Jamie originally placed eleventh, but was brought back to the competition for winning the Last Chance Kitchen.

: Dawn and Shota both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

: Robert and Sarah were in a double elimination, but Sarah later returned to the competition after winning Last Chance Kitchen.

: Ashleigh originally placed tenth, but was brought back to the competition following Episode 5 of Last Chance Kitchen.

: Sarah originally placed eleventh, but was brought back to the competition after winning Last Chance Kitchen.

: Sarah and Evelyn both shared the runner-up spot since both of them were eliminated in the finale.

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Top Chef contestants