Hadım Suleiman Pasha
Hadım Suleiman Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and military commander. He served as the viceroy of Ottoman Egypt in 1525-1535 and 1537-1538, and as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544. He was a Hungarian eunuch, his epithet hadım meaning "eunuch" in Turkish.
The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Suleiman Pasha as 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 1538. Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor in the Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha, whom he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rüstem Pasha.
