Champions (35)
- Agnieszka Rojewska — The Polish barista who became the first woman to win the World Barista Championship, in Amsterdam in 2018 — then won a second world title in a completely different discipline, coffee cocktails, in 2022.
- Alejandro Mendez — Alejandro Mendez — World Barista Championship champion 2011, representing El Salvador.
- Anthony Douglas — The Melbourne barista who won the 2022 World Barista Championship on home ground, competing for Axil Coffee Roasters — Australia’s third world barista title, and the one that made an obscure Colombian farm famous.
- Benjamin Brassart — The Brussels roaster who won the 2026 World Coffee Roasting Championship in his own city — the first Belgian ever to take a world coffee title of that size.
- Berg Wu — The Taipei barista who went from selling coffee off a tricycle to winning the 2016 World Barista Championship — Taiwan’s first and still only world barista title, and the foundation of the roastery Simple Kaffa.
- Chatchalerm — The Bangkok cupper known as “Boss” who won the 2025 World Cup Tasters Championship in Geneva — three years of daily palate drills to spend a few seconds per cup deciding which one is the odd one out.
- Dale Harris — The British barista who won the 2017 World Barista Championship in Seoul for Has Bean after nine years of trying — and did it on an El Salvador SL28, the only finalist in the top six who did not bring a Geisha.
- Diego Campos — Diego Campos — World Barista Championship champion 2021, representing Colombia.
- Emi Fukahori — Japanese-born, Zürich-based co-founder of MAME who won the 2018 World Brewers Cup with a Brazilian Laurina from Daterra — the win that made Brazil a competition-coffee country.
- Gwilym Davies — The London street-market coffee-cart operator who won the 2009 World Barista Championship in Atlanta with 623 points — third going into the final, and 17 seconds over the time limit.
- Heather Perry — The only person to win the United States Barista Championship twice in the 2000s, runner-up at the world final, later president of the Specialty Coffee Association — and now chief executive of the family roastery, Klatch Coffee, that put the world’s most expensive coffee on a suburban menu board.
- Hidenori Izaki — The first Japanese and first Asian barista to win the World Barista Championship, in Rimini in 2014 — who then stopped competing, started training other people’s champions, and built a four-seat coffee omakase room in Tokyo.
- Jack Simpson — The Melbourne barista who won the 2025 World Barista Championship in Milan for Axil Coffee Roasters, after finishing third in 2023 and second in 2024 — the second world title for the same Hawthorn roastery in four years.
- James Hoffmann — The English barista who won the 2007 World Barista Championship in Tokyo, co-founded Square Mile Coffee Roasters, and then became coffee’s most-watched teacher — a blog, three books and a YouTube channel with millions of subscribers.
- Jooyeon Jeon — Jooyeon Jeon — World Barista Championship champion 2019, representing South Korea.
- Klaus Thomsen — Klaus Thomsen — World Barista Championship champion 2006, representing Denmark.
- Martin Hildebrandt — Martin Hildebrandt — World Barista Championship champion 2001, representing Denmark.
- Mathieu Theis — French-born, Zürich-based co-founder of MAME — a four-time Swiss Barista Champion who came third at the 2018 World Barista Championship and now buys the green coffee his own company roasts.
- Matt Perger — The Australian barista who won the 2012 World Brewers Cup and finished 3rd and 2nd at the World Barista Championship — then became better known for writing about coffee than for competing in it.
- Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood — Three-time UK Barista Champion and Bath café owner who co-wrote Water for Coffee — the book that made brewing water a serious subject in specialty coffee.
- Michael Harris Conlin — Filipino barista champion and coffee entrepreneur — the first person from the Philippines to reach the World Barista Championship semi-finals, and the loudest voice for Philippine Liberica on the world stage.
- Michael Phillips — Michael Phillips — World Barista Championship champion 2010, representing United States.
- Mikael Jasin — The Jakarta barista who won the 2024 World Barista Championship in Busan — Indonesia’s first world barista title — and who has spent the years since building an export company that pushes controlled fermentation into Indonesian coffee at scale.
- Morgan Eckroth — The Portland barista who became coffee’s most-followed video creator and then won the 2022 United States Barista Championship — the first person to arrive at the competition stage with the audience already built.
- Nas Jaafar — The 2026 World Brewers Cup champion — a Malaysian barista who went from part-time café work to the first world coffee title Malaysia has ever won, brewing a Panamanian Geisha from Finca Nuguo.
- Paul Bassett — Paul Bassett — World Barista Championship champion 2003, representing Australia.
- Pete Licata — Pete Licata — World Barista Championship champion 2013, representing United States.
- Raúl Rodas — Raúl Rodas — World Barista Championship champion 2012, representing Guatemala.
- Robert Thoresen — Robert Thoresen — World Barista Championship champion 2000, representing Norway.
- Sasa Sestic — Sasa Sestic — World Barista Championship champion 2015, representing Australia.
- Serkan Sağsöz — Turkish barista champion turned Dubai roaster, and the man who bought the most expensive coffee ever sold at auction.
- Stephen Morrissey — Stephen Morrissey — World Barista Championship champion 2008, representing Ireland.
- Tetsu Kasuya — The 2016 World Brewers Cup champion — the first Asian winner — who turned his competition routine into the 4:6 method, the most widely copied pour-over recipe in specialty coffee.
- Tim Wendelboe — The Norwegian barista who won the 2004 World Barista Championship, then opened a tiny Oslo roastery under his own name and eventually bought his own farm in Colombia — competitor, roaster and grower in one career.
- Troels Overdal Poulsen — Troels Overdal Poulsen — World Barista Championship champion 2005, representing Denmark.