Ali Pasha
1741 – 1822
Albanian

Regional Ottoman ruler. He came to epitomize Western notions of "oriental luxury and cruelty." His Turkish overlords eventually executed him.

Contemporaries
1818–1883Ivan Turgenev
1799–1837Alexander Pushkin
1748–1779Kazimierz Pulaski
1739–1791Grigoriy Potemkin
1745–1813Mikhail Kutuzov
1802–1894Lajos Kossuth
1768–1826Johann Falk
1821–1881Fyodor Dostoevsky
1781–1848Bernhard Bolzano
1814–1876Mikhail Bakunin
1699–1760Baal-Shem-Tov
1818–1881Alexander II
1777–1825Alexander I