Wolfgang Puck

Wolfgang Puck fascinates me less as a cook than as the man who made the chef a celebrity. Leaving a small Austrian town for America, he turned fine dining into showmanship and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an honour almost unheard of for someone in the kitchen. What I respect most is the lack of snobbery: he will obsess over an Oscars banquet and a humble pizza with equal seriousness. To me he represents the rare creative who scaled an empire without losing the joy of the craft, and that balance is genuinely admirable.

Name (English)

Wolfgang Puck

Name (Japanese)

ウルフギャング・パック

Reading

うるふぎゃんぐ・ぱっく

Born

July 8, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

St. Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria

Occupation

chef / restaurateur / cook

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2019 Eckart Witzigmann Prize
• Order of Honour (Carinthia)

• Official sitehttps://wolfgangpuck.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/wolfgangpuck/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Puck
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78893

Tags

• Carinthia
• chef
• restaurateur
• cook

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.