America's Most Successful Chefs Slideshow

Having finally lived down the lascivious-sounding moniker “The Naked Chef” (which in fact referred to his penchant for simplicity in food, not his uniform while cooking), Oliver has become as well-known for his charity and food activism as for his stripped-down, ingredient-focused cuisine. Although Oliver has over 20 restaurants in the U.K., Dubai, and Australia, Americans are more familiar with his cooking shows and more recently his reality series about America’s child obesity rates, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. In 2011, he once again made the Sunday Times 1,000 Richest Britons list, which listed his net worth at £106 million — about $172 million. 

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