Political people from the Ottoman Empire

Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , mamālīk (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Mongol, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and administrative duties in the Muslim world. They were purchased as military slaves, converted to Islam, and trained in martial and courtly skills. Upon completion of their training they were manumitted but remained part of the ruling military caste, forming elite regiments and, in some periods

Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)

Dragut (; 1485 – 23 June 1565) was an Ottoman corsair, naval commander, governor, and noble. Under his command, the Ottoman Empire's maritime power was extended across North Africa. Recognized for his military genius, and as being among "the most dangerous" of corsairs, Dragut has been referred to as "the greatest pirate warrior of all time", "undoubtedly the most able of all the Turkish leaders", and "the uncrowned king of the Mediterranean". He was nicknamed "the Drawn Sword of Islam". He was described by a French admiral as "a living chart of the Mediterranean, skillful enough on land to be

Ottoman grand vizier, reformist, and creator of the first Ottoman constitution (1822-1883)

Romanian politician (1816–1897)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580–82, 1589–91, 1593–95, 1595–96)

Ottoman Grand Vizier (1853-1923)

Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 1501 to 1516

Ottoman polymath

Egyptian noble (1750–1801)

Ottoman Grand Mufti

Mamluk of Egypt (1728-1773)

Ottoman Jewish statesman and financier

Mamluk chieftain (1735–1817)

18th-century Ottoman governor

Armenian writer, politician and opinion journalist (1861-1915)

Ottoman politician (1874–1922)

Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet

Ottomon civil servant

Ottoman liberal journalist, politician and poet (1867-1922)

Ottoman noble (1877–1948)

Ottoman diplomat

Ottoman physician, politician and governor

Armenian politician

Turkish writer (1864–1932)

Mamluk of Egypt

Armenian writer and journalist (1851–1908)

Ottoman governor

Prince of Walalchia (1564-1601)

Venetian politician (1480-1534)

Ottoman military commander and statesman (1794–1816)

Ottoman politician (1826-1883)

Ottoman scholar and writer (1536–1599)

Armenian fedayi (1867-1915)

Armenian journalist, historian and writer

Turkish physician and statesperson (1882–1955)

Syrian politician (1883–1951)

Bulgarian politician (1822-1910)

Turkish statesperson (1877–1939)

Ottoman diplomat (1670–1732)

Albanian politician

Ottoman monarchist, administrator and statesman (1826–1885)

Armenian physician

Armenian politician

ottoman statesman

Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (), pseudonym of Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (; Bursa, 3 December 1495 – Istanbul, 16 April 1561), was an Ottoman Turkish historian and chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was famous for his great biographical encyclopedia titled Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya ().

Kurdish prince of Rawanduz

Kurdish emir (1803–1869)

Syrian counselor to Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II

Ottoman statesman

Turkish author (1852-1887)

Ottoman general (1804–1892)

Ottoman statesman (1839–1899)

Religious and political leader (1800–1893)

Mamluk of Egypt

prominent pasha family in Palestine in the 1560s

Ottoman chief justice (şeyhülislam) from July 2, 1615, to May 22, 1625 (1570–1625)

Ottoman statesman during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman soldier and statesman of Bedouin origin (1824–1895)

Ottoman Empire ambassador