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Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha

1493 - 1536

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Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (c. 1495 – 15 March 1536), was the first Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire appointed by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Ibrahim, born as Orthodox Christian, was enslaved during his youth. He and Suleiman became close friends in their youth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha is the 399th most popular politician (down from 241st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 31st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Greek Politician.

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha is most famous for being the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1811.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ranks 399 out of 19,576Before him are Peisistratos, Olof Palme, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ashurbanipal, Stephen I of Hungary, and Gerhard Schröder. After him are Alexander Dubček, Oscar II of Sweden, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Constantine III, Rudolf I of Germany, and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1493, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ranks 2Before him is Paracelsus. After him are Maximilian Sforza, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, Anne de Montmorency, Sten Sture the Younger, Tansen, Olaus Petri, Clarice de' Medici, Nicolaus Olahus, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and George I, Duke of Pomerania. Among people deceased in 1536, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ranks 4Before him are Erasmus, Anne Boleyn, and Catherine of Aragon. After him are George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Baldassare Peruzzi, Germaine of Foix, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, John of Leiden, William Tyndale, and Garcilaso de la Vega.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ranks 43 out of 1,024Before him are Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), Leonidas I (-540), Peisistratos (-600), and Theophrastus (-371). After him are Miltiades (-540), Aristarchus of Samos (-311), Pope Sixtus II (215), Alcibiades (-450), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), and Pindar (-517).

Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ranks 13Before him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Demosthenes (-384), Cleisthenes (-565), Lycurgus of Sparta (-800), Leonidas I (-540), and Peisistratos (-600). After him are Alcibiades (-450), Irene of Athens (752), Xanthippe (-500), Constantine II of Greece (1940), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (-308), and Ptolemy III Euergetes (-284).