List of Kapudan Pashas
Table:
Name

Appointed

Vacated

Notes

Kara Mürsel Bey

1324

Saruca Pasha

1390

Turk?[2][3]

Çavlı Bey

1412

Turk?[2]

Baltaoğlu Süleyman Bey

1451

1453

Bulgarian?[2][4]

Hamza Bey

1453

1456

Albanian[2]

Has Yunus Bey

1456

1459

[2][4]

Kasım Bey

1459

1460

[2]

Kadim İsmail Bey

1461

1462

Devşirme?[2]

Yakup Bey

1462

1463

Albanian[2]

Zagan Pasha

1463

1466

Albanian;,[5][6][7] Greek or Serb;[8] previously grand vizier[2]

Veli Mahmud Pasha

1466

1478

Serb[9]Devşirme; later grand vizier[2][10]

Gedik Ahmed Pasha

1478

1480

Albanian or Serb[11]>Devşirme; invaded Mediterranean and seized Santa Maura, Kefalonia, and Zante; later grand vizier[2]

Mesih Pasha

1480

1491

Greek, converted member of the Palaiologoi; later grand vizier[2]

Güveği Sinan Pasha

1491

1492

Albanian , Devşirme,[2] founder of Vlora dynasty of Albanian generals and politicians [12]

Kara Nişancı Davud

1492

1503

Devşirme?[2]

Küçük Davud Pasha

1503

1506

[2]

Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha

1506

1511

Slav; later grand vizier [2]

İskender Ağa Pasha

1511

1514

Devşirme? [2]

Sinan Bey

1514

1516

Devşirme? [2]

Frenk Cafer Ağa Pasha

1516

1520

Devşirme [2]

Parlak Mustafa Pasha

1520

1522

Bosniak [2]

Bayram Pasha

1522

[2]

Kurdoğlu Muslihiddin Reis

[citation needed]

Süleyman Pasha

1531

[2]

Kemankeş Ahmed Bey

1531

1533

Devşirme? [2]

Hayreddin Barbarossa

1533

1546

Greek,[13][14] Albanian,[15][16] or Turk;[2][17][18] position raised to beylerbey, granted Eyalets of the Islands of the Mediterranean and Ottoman Algeria

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha

1546

1550

Bosniak>Devşirme; invaded Libya; later grand vizier [2]

Sinan Pasha

1550

1554

Croat; supported Turgut Reis's western raids; later grand vizier [2]

Piyale Pasha

1554

1567

Held the title of Kapudan Beg.[1] Croat;[19][20][21] captured Corsica with the French in 1554, defeated Spanish at Piombino in 1555, raided Calabria, Salerno, Tuscany, Spain, and seized the Balearics in 1558, won crushing Battle of Djerba in 1560; captured Naples in 1563 [2]

Müezzinzade Ali Pasha

1567

7 October 1571

First to hold the title of Kapudan Pasha.[1] Effected conquest of Cyprus from Venice, but killed at Lepanto[2]

Kılıç Ali Paşa

1571

21 June 1587

Italian, born Giovanni Dionigi Galeni, known after conversion as Uluç and Uluç Ali Reis;[2] rebuilt Turkish fleet, recaptured Tunis from Don Juan and ended War of Cyprus, raided Calabria and put down numerous revolts

Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha

1591

1595

Italian, born Scipione Cicala; first term; later grand vizier[2]

Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha

1599

1604

second term; previously grand vizier[2]

Derviş Pasha

1604

Bosniak[2]

Güzelce Ali Pasha

1617

?

Cataldjali Hasan Pasha

1625

1631

[2]

Gazi Hüseyin Pasha

1632

1635

Turk; later grand vizier[2][22]

Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha

17 October 1635

24 December 1638

Albanian, later grand vizier [2]

Gazi Hüseyin Pasha

1639

1641

Turk[2]

Yusuf Pasha

164X

164X

Dalmatian Slav; executed by Sultan

Koca Musa Pasha

1645

1647

Bosniak;[2] died at Kandiye during Cretan War before he could receive his promotion to grand vizier

Kara Musa Pasha

1647

21 September 1647

Kılavuz Köse Ali Pasha

1647

1648

[citation needed]

Koca Dervish Mehmed Pasha

1652

1653

Circassian; later grand vizier [2]

Kara Murad Pasha

1653

11 May 1655

Albanian;[2][23] effected the breakout First Battle of the Dardanelles during the Cretan War; prior and later grand vizier

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha

1666

1670

Albanian; later grand vizier [2]

Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha

1680

1684

Later grand vizier

Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha

1695

1701

Turk[2][24] or Aragonese;[25] commanded at Andros in 1696 during the Morean War, attempted moderate reforms and published the Kannunname

Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

1704

1704

Turk; later grand vizier[2]

Veli Mehmed Pasha

1706

1707

Turk

Moralı Ibrahim Pasha

November 1707

1709

Küçük Ali Pasazade Mehmed Pasha

1709

1711

Turk

Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha

December 1714

February 1717

Turk from Koroni, former galley slave in the Venetian fleet. Led the Ottoman navy in the Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18); first term.[26]

Kaymak Mustafa Pasha

1721

1730

Bosniak[2][27]

Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha

1730

1730

Second term, lasted for only a few days.[26]

Hacı Hüseyin Pasha

1732

1732

[2][28]

Koca Bekir Pasha

1732

1732

Turk; first term[2][29]

Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha

1732

1736

Third term.[26]

Hacı Mehmed Pasha

c. 1735. Turk?[2]

Hatibzade Yahya Pasha

1743

1743

Râtip Ahmed Pasha

1743

1744

Turk [2]

Koca Bekir Pasha

1750

1753

Turk; second term[2]

Macar Hacı Hasan Pasha

February 1761

December 1761

[30]

Ahıskalı Mehmed Pasha

December 1761

August 1762

[31]

Eğribozlu İbrahim Pasha

1769

Turk?[2][32]

Mandalzade Hüsameddin Pasha

1770

1770

Removed following the disastrous naval defeat at Chesma during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774[2]

Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha

1770

1789[2] or 1790

Georgian;[33] Dislodged Russians from Aegean, commanded forces during the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768–1774 and 1787–1792; later grand vizier

Koca Yusuf Pasha

19 December 1789

Georgian; former grand vizier[2]

Giritli Hüseyin Pasha [tr]

1789

1792

[34]

Küçük Hüseyin Pasha

11 March 1792

7 December 1803

Georgian; commanded the Turkish invasion fleet of French-occupied Egypt[2][35][36]

Mehmed Kadri Pasha

1803

1804

[2]

Hafız İsmail Pasha

1804

1805

[2] later grand vizier

Hacı Salih Pasha

1805

1805

Turk;[2] later grand vizier

Hacı Mehmed Pasha II

21 November 1806

1808

Turk[2][37]

Seydi Ali Pasha

1807 or 1808[2]

1808

Georgian

Abdullah Ramiz Efendi

1808

1808

Crimean Tatar[2]

Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha

1811

1818

Abazin; later grand vizier[2][38]

Deli Abdullah Pasha

1821

Turk[2] later grand vizier

Nasuhzade Ali Pasha

1821

7 June 1822

Albanian;[2] also known as Kara-Ali Pasha; commanded Turkish fleet during the Greek War of Independence: directed Massacre of Samothrace, killed by fireship directed by Constantine Kanaris following Massacre of Chios;[39] ancestor of Turkish author Nasuh Mahruki

Kara Mehmet

1822

Husrev Pasha

December 1822

1826

Aghan Ephrikian Pasha

1828

Governor

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

1830

1832

Çengeloğlu Tahir Mehmed Pasha

November 1832

1836

Turk[2]

Ahmed Fevzi Pasha

10 November 1836

1839

Greek, defected to Egypt[2]

Topal İzzet Pasha

1840

Reformer[citation needed]

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

1843

1845

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

1847

1848

unknown

Lost administrative control of the Eyalet of the Islands c. 1848

Mahmud Pasha

1853

1854

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

1854

1855

unknown

13 March 1867

Office abolished[40]

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