Mehmed Sherif Rauf Pasha (1838 – 1923) was an Ottoman senator and liberal politician during the Second Constitutional Era, who was a member of the Freedom and Accord Party.

A fluent French speaker and strident reformer, he participated in writing the constitution of the Ottoman Empire in 1876 and was a close supporter of fellow reformist Midhat Pasha.

[1] Rauf Pasha was the governor of Jerusalem for 12 years (1877-1889), during which he put down strengthened the administrative apparatus in the province, organized a population census in 1883, built roads, and put down tribal rebellions in the Gaza region.

[1] Subsequent roads, including the 1892 east road connecting Jerusalem to Jericho, was opened and helped establish Jerusalem as the centre of a modern and coherent network of both roads and regional administration.

[1] After Jerusalem, he was appointed as governor of Beirut (1889), Erzurum (1895-1901), and Salonica (1904-1908).