Piri Reis

Piri Reis (c. 1465/1470–1553), born Muhiddin Piri at Gallipoli, was an Ottoman corsair, admiral and cartographer. He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis on coastal raids and in the Ottoman–Venetian wars, and after his uncle's death drew his celebrated world map of 1513.

He blockaded Alexandria during the 1517 conquest of Egypt and presented the map to Selim I, while his nautical atlas the Kitab-ı Bahriye was dedicated to Suleiman the Magnificent. As Indian Ocean fleet commander he fought the Portuguese in the Red Sea, but after retreating from the siege of Hormuz he was beheaded in 1553.