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16th-century people from the Ottoman Empire

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Mimar Sinan
16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
Hayreddin Barbarossa
Turkish admiral (1478–1546)
Piri Reis
Turkish admiral and cartographer
Şehzade Mustafa
Ottoman prince; son of Suleiman the Magnificent (1515-1553)
Gazi Husrev-beg
Bosnian noble (1480-1541)
Şehzade Korkut
Ottoman prince (1467–1513)
Starina Novak
Serbian Hajduk (1530–1601)
Kemal Reis
Turkish privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Empire
Fakhr-al-Din II
Lebanese prince
Yavuz Ali Paşa
Ottoman grand vizier (1501–1604)
Nakkaş Osman
Ottoman artist
Şahkulu
Şahkulu (; 1500–1511), also known as Şahkulu Baba, or Karabıyıkoğlu ( 'son of black moustache' in Turkish), was the leader of the pro-Shia and pro-Safavid uprising in Anatolia – the Şahkulu Rebellion – directed against the Ottoman Empire in 1511. He was viewed as a Messiah and Prophet by his followers. His death in battle signified the end of the uprising.
Meletius I Pegas
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria
Lodovico Gritti
Venetian politician (1480-1534)
Makarije Sokolović
Serbian patriarch
Yahya bey Dukagjini
Ottoman poet and military figure (1498-1582)
Üveys Pasha
Ottoman official
Hasan Agha
Ottoman regent of Algiers from 1533 to 1545
Patriarch Joachim of Alexandria
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, 1486–1567
Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa
Patriarch of Babylonia
Ridwan Pasha
Ottoman general and statesman of Bosniak origin (d. 1585)
Sinan Reis
pirate
Basarab VI
prince of Wallachia
Skenderbeg Crnojević
Serbian noble
Skender Pasha
Ottoman sanjakbey
Abdisho IV Maron
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon
Deli Husrev Pasha
Kadızade Mehmed
Jovan Kantul
Serbian Patriarch
Güzelce Kasım Paşa
governor of the Ottoman Egypt
Patriarch Silvester of Alexandria
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
Pierre Mehmed of Sayd
Ottoman prince, son of Şehzade Cem Sultan
Andreas Paleologos
Son of Manuel Palaiologos
Athanasius I of Ohrid
archbishop of Ohrid from 1596 to 1598
Sünbül Efendi
Ottoman Sufi Islamist
Hasan Corso
Mayor of Algiers and caliph of Salah Rais
Deli-Marko
Deli-Marko (, "Wild Marko"; 1596–1619) or Marko Segedinac (, "Marko of Segedin"), was a Serb hajduk and military commander in Habsburg service, active during the Long Turkish War.
Malkoč-beg
Ottoman soldier and statesman
Malkoçoğlu family
Ottoman noble family