Yukihira Soma♂

As the main protagonist, Soma fights his odds in the elite school in order to become the best chef in the world, even with strong background discrimination of his academy. He is currently a first-year student at Totsuki Culinary Academy and a resident of Polar Star Dormitory. Soma isn't afraid of any challenge that he either gets himself in or gets involved with, which is seen a couple of times in the manga. He even challenges his father to a cooking match and seems to always lose to him. Soma is a very confident and positive person though he can be quite dense when it comes to romantic matters or his rivarly with Takumi which he sometimes takes it in a light-hearted manner. He can be serious too when it is needed. He is not afraid to challenge anyone.

Despite many of his classmates having hostile feelings towards him, Soma has a very friendly, cheerful and energertic personality and gets along with everyone in the Polar Star Dormitory and even some of his other classmates.
He does have a tendency to create experimental "special dishes" and have his friends taste them even though most of these are terrible; something he shares with his father. Soma's specialty is common cooking, making artful dishes out of common and/or cheap ingredients and using common Japanese dishes (i.e. curry or beef bowls) as bases for his dishes during competition.

[From Wikipedia]