Hadım Süleyman Paşa

• Honorific Prefix — Hadım • Name — Suleiman • Honorific Suffix — Pasha • Office1 — 31st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire • Monarch1 — Suleiman I • Term Start1 — April 1541 • Term End1 — 28 November 1544 • Predecessor1 — Lütfi Pasha • Successor1 — Rüstem Pasha • Office2 — Ottoman Governor of Egypt • Term Start2 — 1537 • Term End2 — 1538 • Predecessor2 — Divane Hüsrev Pasha • Successor2 — Davud Pasha • Term Start3 — 1525 • Term End3 — 1535 • Predecessor3 — Güzelce Kasım Pasha • Successor3 — Divane Hüsrev Pasha • Born — c. 1467 • Died — September 1547 1467 • Place of death — Malkara, Sanjak of Vize, Ottoman Empire Hadım (Eunuch) Suleiman Pasha (Hadım Süleyman Paşa; c. 1467 – September 1547) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander of Greek descent. He served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1525–1535. He was appointed governor of Baghdad in 1535–1536 after the recent Capture of Baghdad (1534). He was appointed to Buda in 1536, and to Damascus in 1537. He again served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1537–1538. The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Suleiman Pasha, then governor of Egypt, to conduct a naval expedition in the Indian Ocean, where he led the capture of Aden and the siege of Diu (in Portuguese India) in 1538. Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor in the Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha (served 1538–1549), whom he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rüstem Pasha. Suleiman Pasha was designated as governor of Aleppo in 1539–1540. He finally became Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544. He was a eunuch.