Politicians
- Safiye Sultan - (albanian: Sulltanesha Safije) Was Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595-1603 as mother of Mehmed III and an important figure of the Sultanate of Women . Was born in the Dukagjin highlands in 1550.She died in 1619,aged 69,in the Old Palace/Eski Saray
- Bayezid II – Eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512[3][4]
- Mehmed III – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603[5]
- Bayezid Pasha – Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1417[6]
- Zagan Pasha – Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1456[7][incomplete short citation]
- Ishak Pasha – Ottoman general, statesman, and later Grand Vizier[8]
- Koca Davud Pasha – Albanian general and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1482 to 1497[9]
- Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman, serving as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1515[10]
- Ayas Mehmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1536 to 1539[11]
- Lütfi Pasha – Ottoman statesman and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire[11][12]
- Kara Ahmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman and grand vizier[13]
- Semiz Ahmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1579 to 1580[14]
- Koca Sinan Pasha – Ottoman Grand Vizier, military figure, and statesman[15]
- Serdar Ferhad Pasha – Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Hadım Hasan Pasha – Ottoman Grand vizier [16] He was also the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1580 to 1583.
- Yemişçi Hasan Pasha – Ottoman Grand vizier[17][18][need quotation to verify]
- Nasuh Pasha – Ottoman statesman
- Ohrili Hüseyin Pasha – Ottoman statesman
- Mere Hüseyin Pasha – Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1622 and 1623[19]
- Tabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier
- Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha – Ottoman military officer and statesman. He served as Kapudan Pasha and as grand vizier[20]
- Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman who was the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Kara Murat Pasha – Ottoman statesman and military officer
- Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha – Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 20 June 1652 until 21 March 1653 [21]
- Zurnazen Mustafa Pasha – Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire for 4 hours[22]
- Köprülü Mehmed Pasha – Founder of the Köprülü political dynasty of the Ottoman Empire[23]
- Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha – Member of the renowned Köprülü family originating from Albania, which produced six grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire.[23]
- Kara Mustafa Pasha – Ottoman military commander and Grand Vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central and Eastern Europe[24][25]
- Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha – Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1689 to 1691
- Arabacı Ali Pasha – Ottoman grand vizier from 1691 to 1692[26]
- Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha – Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Mustafa II from September 1697 until September 1702
- Köprülüzade Numan Pasha – Ottoman statesman who was the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Hacı Halil Pasha – Ottoman Grand vizier
- Ivaz Mehmed Pasha – Ottoman grand vizier and provincial governor
- Ivazzade Halil Pasha – Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier in 1769[27]
- Alemdar Mustafa Pasha – Ottoman military commander and a Grand Vizier[28]
- Mustafa Naili Pasha – Ottoman statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier twice during the reign of Abdülmecid I
- Mehmed Ferid Pasha – Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Said Halim Pasha – Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Abdi Pasha the Albanian – Ottoman politician and military leader
- Damat Ferid Pasha – Ottoman statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier
- Koçi Bey – high-ranking Ottoman bureaucrat
- Tabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman
- Şemiz Ahmed Pasha – Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Said Halim Pasha – Ottoman statesman
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy – Ottoman born Turkish poet, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem
- Djevdet Bey – Governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the Siege of Van
- Reshid Akif Pasha – Ottoman statesman during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire
- Mehmed Ferid Pasha – Ottoman statesman
- Abdülhalik Renda – Turkish civil servant and politician.
- Abdülkadir Aksu – Turkish politician [29]
- Eyüp Sabri Akgöl – Adjuntant Major, CUP member and a leader of the Young Turk revolution (1908), parliamentarian [30]
- Ahmet Piriştina – two term mayor (1999–2004) of Turkey's third largest city, Izmir
- Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu – Turkish diplomat and politician
- Elyesa Bazna – Secret agent for Nazi Germany during World War II
- Mehmet Fuat Köprülü – Influential Turkish Turcologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey.
- Ahmet Erdem – Turkish civil servant who served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security in the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu between 28 August and 17 November 2015
- Necdet Menzir – Turkish bureaucrat and politician who served as Minister of Transport from 1997 to 1998
- Kemal Derviş – Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme[31]
- Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş – Turkish politician
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