Raja Baba Ala Singh (1691–1765) was the first king of Jat princely state of Patiala. He was born in 1691 at Phul, in present-day Bathinda district of the Punjab, to Chowdhari Ram Singh of Phulkian Misl. His father had six kids, from eldest to youngest Dunna, Subha, Ala, Bakha, Budha, Ludha. The Chowdhriat of the Misl had been originally conferred on his ancestor Brahm by Babur, after the First battle of Panipat in 1526 A.D.