Ragıp Gümüşpala (1897 – 6 June 1964) was the 11th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces and founder of the Justice Party in 1961.

[1] While he was a student at Edirne High School, he climbed into Talimgâha and in 1917 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

While he was Deputy Commander of the 63rd Regiment of the 12th Division, he was captured by the British on 2 October 1918 during the Battle of Nablus on the Sinai and Palestine Front.

After serving as Team and Company Commander, he graduated from the War Academy, which he entered in 1931, and became a staff officer in the same year.

He did not take part in the CHP-AP coalition government established on 20 November 1961 under the chairmanship of İsmet İnönü.