Gül Baba

male, deceased (1541)
Gül Baba was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe f...
Ahmet Şefik Mithat Pasha

Ahmet Şefik Mithat Pasha

male, deceased (1883)
Ahmed Midhat Pasha was a Turkish statesman. He was the son of a civil judge, was born at Der Saadet in 1822. His father, a declared partisan of...
Mustafa Pasha Yamolki

Mustafa Pasha Yamolki

male
Mustafa Pasha Yamolki (25 January, 1866 - 25 May, 1936) was a Kurd born in the Sulaymaniyah "vilayet" in the Ottoman Empire (now part of Iraq,...

Filibeli Hafız Ahmed Pasha

male, deceased (1632)
Müezzinzade Filibeli Hafız Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman Grand Vizier. Born as son of a Pomak Muezzin, he went to Istanbul in the age of 15 and was an...
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

female, deceased (1926)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a British writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator in Arabia, and an archaeologist who found...
John William Burgon

John William Burgon

male, deceased (1888)
John William Burgon (August 21, 1813 - August 4, 1888), English divine, was born at Smyrna, the son of a Turkey merchant, who was a skilled...
Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha

Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha

male, deceased (1855)
Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Paşa was an Ottoman admiral and statesman who reached the top position of Grand Vizier rather late in his career, between 2 Ju...

Fritz Rosen

male
Fritz Rosen was a German Orientalist, son of Georg Rosen, consul at the German embassy in Beirut in the late 19th century, at the time capital of...
Khalil Beidas

Khalil Beidas

male, deceased (1949)
Khalil Beidas was a Palestinian scholar, educator, translator and novelist. Beidas was the father of Palestinian Lebanese banker Yousef Beidas and...
Jevdet Bey

Jevdet Bey

male
Jevdet Bey was the governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the Armenian Genocide. He was portrayed by Elias Koteas...