Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan of Pataudi (Urdu: نوابزادہ شیر علی خان بڑیچ پٹوڈی) HJ (13 May 1913 – 29 May 2002)[citation needed] was a Pakistan Army general who served as Chief of the General Staff and later became a diplomat and politician.

Through his mother, he is related to the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, and the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan.

[3] In 1958, on retirement from active service, he was appointed Pakistan's High Commissioner to Malaysia and in 1963 as Ambassador to Yugoslavia with concurrent accreditation to Bulgaria and Greece.

He served in the cabinet of General Yahya Khan as Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting & and National Affairs 1969 – 71.

He bought lands near Islamabad which later would host a mausoleum for Muhammad of Ghor, built by nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in 1994-1995.