Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ("Ibrahim Pasha of Parga"; 1493, parga, Republic of Renice – 15 March 1536, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire), also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha ("the Westerner"), Makbul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Favorite"), which later changed to Maktul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Executed") after his execution in the Topkapi palace, was the first Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire appointed by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Born a Christian and having been taken as a slave during his youth, Ibrahim was a close childhood friend of Suleiman when the latter was still a crown prince. In 1523, Suleiman appointed Ibrahim as Grand Vizier to replace Piri mehmed Pasha,  who had been appointed in 1518 by Suleiman's father, the preceding sultan Selim I. Ibrahim remained in office for the next 13 years. He attained a level of authority and influence rivaled by only a handful of other grand viziers of the Empire, but in 1536, he was executed by Suleiman and his property was confiscated by the state.