Semiz Ahmed Pasha

Semiz Ahmed Pasha (; 1492 – 27 April 1580) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 13 October 1579 until his death on 27 April 1580.

Marriage and issue On 27 November 1557, Semiz Ahmed Pasha married Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan,

They had ten children, five sons and five daughters.

Sons Sultanzade Mahmud Pasha (died 1602 buried in the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque) sanjak-bey of Kastamonu and Nakhchivan Sultanzade Mehmed Bey (died 1593), sanjak-bey of Herzegovina; Sultanzade Şehid Mustafa Pasha They had two sons, Mehmed Bey and Hüseyin Bey, and a daughter. Hatice Hanımsultan, married Kapıcıbaşı Mahmud Bey in December 1584. Mahmud was initially supposed to marry Ayşe Sultan, granddaughter of his patroness Nurbanu Sultan, but after Nurbanu's death in 1583, the bride's mother, Safiye, married him to Hatice instead, so that he could marry her daughter to a candidate of her choice. Ayşe Hanımsultan Fatma Hanımsultan, married Yemenli Hasan Pasha in March 1596. She had two sons and a daughter.

Death Semiz Ahmed Pasha died on 27 April 1580 and was buried at Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, Edirnekapı.