Yavuz Ali Pasha or Malkoç Ali Pasha (died 26 July 1604, Belgrade) was an Ottoman statesman. He belonged to the Malkoçoğlu family and served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 16 October 1603 to 26 July 1604Turkish State Archives replacing Yemişçi Hasan Pasha. He had previously served as the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1601 to 1603.Uzunçarsılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım, XVİ. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011 ) say.360 His installation as Grand Vizier took place on 29 December 1603, over two months after his appointment and a week after the accession of Ahmed I, due to the time it took him to settle affairs in Egypt and travel to Constantinople. He brought with him two years' worth of the province's back taxes.Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches, vol. 2, 1520–1623 (Pest, 1840), p. 674.
In the summer of 1604 he left the capital to take up command of Ottoman forces in the on-going war against the Habsburgs. He fell sick on the journey and died in Belgrade on 26 July 1604.Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches, vol. 2, 1520–1623 (Pest, 1840), p. 679. He was succeeded by Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha as the next Grand vizier of the Ottoman empire.
See also List of Ottoman grand viziers List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
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