Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha (1813–1868) was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat.

Mehmed Ali Pasha was born in 1813 in Hemşin, a city along the Black Sea coast in modern Turkey, and was of ethnic Hemshin descent.

It was while accompanying his father to Istanbul that Mehmed Ali Pasha opened to himself the doors of a brilliant career.

Mehmed Ali was hired by Ahmed Pasha Pabuççuzâde, grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet from 1828 to 1840.

Mehmed Ali made his career in the Palace, which led him to occupy, among others, the function of grand admiral[2] five times between 1845-1847, 1848–1849, 1851-1852, 1855–1858, and 1858–1863.