Koca Ragıp Pasha

Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763) was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat and poet. His epithet Koca meant great or giant.

After serving as a treasury official in Baghdad he joined the delegation that made the Treaty of Belgrade in 1739, became reis ül-küttab in 1740, and governed Egypt from 1744 to 1748, when local troops forced him to step down.

Appointed grand vizier in 1757, he served Sultans Osman III and Mustafa III for six years, reforming finance and administration and keeping the empire neutral in the Seven Years' War. He married Princess Saliha Sultan, exchanged verses with the poetess Fıtnat Hanım, and died in 1763.