Damat Mehmet Ali Pasha
 Damat Mehmet Ali Pasha (1813 Hemşin – 1868 Istanbul) was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat. He served as the Grand Vizier from October 3 1852 to May 14 1853 on the eve of the Crimean War. Along with Fuad Pasha and Mustafa Reşit Pasha he was one of the main reformers of the Tanzimat era.Mehmet Ali was born in Hemşin a city along the Black Sea coast in modern Turkey and was of ethnic Hemshin descent.