Kemal Reis

Kemal Reis (c. 1451–1511), born Ahmed Kemaleddin in Manisa, was an Ottoman privateer and admiral, and uncle of the cartographer Piri Reis. In 1487 Bayezid II sent him to support the Nasrid emir of Granada; he raided Málaga and the Andalusian coast and between 1490 and 1492 ferried fleeing Muslims and Jews to Ottoman lands.

He later commanded fleets against Venice and the Knights of St. John, and in 1507 carried oars and cannon to Egypt for the Mamluk sultan. In early 1511, while escorting a supply convoy to Egypt, he perished with twenty-seven ships in a Mediterranean storm.