# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isma-il-pasha
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:56:08.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isma-il-pasha"
name: "Isma'il Pasha"
slug: "isma-il-pasha"
description: "He spent a fortune to turn Egypt into Europe's equal—building, modernizing, declaring his country no longer merely African—then watched Britain and France force him from the throne when the bills came due."
tagline: "Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isma'il_Pasha.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1831-12-31"
deathDate: "1895-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.14158239143367
  historical:           24.660004
  currentAttention:     11.89767995240928
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Founders"
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  - name: "Turkey"
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  - name: "Middle East"
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  - name: "19th Century"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ইসমাইল পাশা"
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    title: "Ismail Pascha"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ismail pašša"
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    title: "Ismaïl Pacha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Isma'il Pasha yn Egypt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אסמאעיל פאשא"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Իսմայիլ-Փաշա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ismail Pasha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isma'il_Pasci%C3%A0"
    title: "Isma'il Pascià"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "イスマーイール・パシャ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "الخديوي إسماعيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الخديوى اسماعيل"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Isma'il Pasha ruled Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, inheriting his grandfather Muhammad Ali's appetite for transformation. He poured money into industry, infrastructure, and territorial expansion, determined to remake his realm in a European image. In 1867 he paid the Ottoman Sultan handsomely for the upgraded title of Khedive and the right to pass it only to his direct heirs, cutting out the rest of the dynasty. But the modernization binge buried Egypt in debt so deep that Isma'il had to sell the country's stake in the Suez Canal to Britain. In 1879, London and Paris—creditors grown impatient—had him removed. The city of Ismailia still carries his name.