Damat (, from (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title for a man who entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom of an Ottoman princess, usually a daughter or sister of the Ottoman sultan.

Among others, the following people were damats to the Ottoman dynasty:

• Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1497–98, 1503–06, 1511, 1512–14, 1515–16)

• Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1706–10)

• Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1713–16)

• Bayram Pasha, Grand Vizier (1637–38)

• Kara Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1622)

• Koca Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1482–97)

• Ebubekir Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1732–33, 1750–51)

• Enver Pasha, Minister of War (1913–18)

• Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier (1919, 1920)

• Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier (1616–19, 1626–28)

• Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1703–04)

• Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1601–03)

• Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1792–1803)

• Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1596, 1596–97, 1599–1601)

• Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1718–30)

• Lütfi Pasha, Grand Vizier (1539–41)

• Ibşir Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier (1654–55)

• Kara Mustafa Pasha, governor of Egypt (1623, 1624–26)

• Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1852–53)

• Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1614–16, 1619)

• Gümülcineli Damat Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier (1611–14)

• Ahmed Nami Bey, the 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria (1926–28), and a lecturer of History and Politics

• Köprülü Numan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1710)

• Koca Ragıp Pasha, Grand Vizier (1757–63)

• Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier (1544–53, 1555–61)

• Ahmad Beg

• Ughurlu Muhammad

See also

• Yabancı Damat, a popular Turkish television series

• Cici Damat, the Turkish title of the French film Le gendarme se marie

• Berat Albayrak, nicknamed "Damat".

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