Morris Schinasi (Turkish: Moris Şinasi; 1855 – September 10, 1928) was a wealthy American businessman in the tobacco industry and philanthropist of Ottoman origins. He was born 1855 in Manisa, Ottoman Empire to relatively poor Sephardic Jew parents. At the age of nine, he contracted diphtheria. He was treated by a Muslim physician named Şinasi (Shinasi or Schinasi in European languages) and regained his health. His parents named him henceforth Moris Şinasi as a gesture of gratitude. He had two brothers Solomon, Yaakov and a sister Sultana.