List of fictional pirates

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• Captain Jesamiah Acorne is a charismatic rogue, captain of the Sea Witch a novel by Helen Hollick published by DA Diamonds U.K. "In the sexiest pirate contest Jesamiah Acorne gives Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow a run for his money." High sea adventure, fantasy and romance - a swashbuckling read. Sea Witch is the first in a series of pirate adventures.
• Morgan Adams is the captain of the Morning Star, played by Geena Davis in the film Cutthroat Island.
• Atomsk is the alien pirate king in the anime FLCL.
• Pirates of Algarth (no indivudual names given) are major villains in "The Clocks of Iraz" by L. Sprague de Camp.
• Balthier is a sky pirate in the video game Final Fantasy XII.
• B. Jenet is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters universe.
• John Milton "Black Jack" Lee the captain of The Ivory Web in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. He is accused of treason and piracy and he and his ship are sunk by the British Navy. Centuries later, seamen fear him and his ship as ghosts.
• Captain Hector Barbossa former first mate of Captain Jack Sparrow, after he mutinied, he became Captain of the Black Pearl. Sailed the seas for 10 years, cursed until the curse was finally removed and he was shot by Captain Jack Sparrow. After the second Pirates movie he reappeard and now the both Captains are constantly battling against each other above the captainship of the Black PearlWalt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / Dead Man's Chest / At World's End.
• Captain Anton is the leader of villanous space pirates in Asimov's "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids".
• Captain Barrett, or "The Hook", is a comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film "The Princess and the Pirate" Played by Victor McGlaglen
• Captain Skunkbeard, voice by Ron Perlman - Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
• Bêlit is the name of a female pirate captain who is one of the main protagonists along with her partner Conan of Cimmeria in the story "Queen of the Black Coast" by Robert E. Howard.
• The Black Corsair is an Italian nobleman turned pirate to avenge the death of his brothers. One of Emilio Salgari's most legendary creations. Portrayed in "El Corsario Negro" (1944) by actor Pedro Armendáriz. There was also an Italian film made in 1937, directed by Amleto Palermi.
• The Black Pirate is the title character of the 1926 silent film, played with acrobatic panache by Douglas Fairbanks.
• The Black Pirate - DC Comics character, no connection to the 1926 Douglas Fairbanks film. This Black Pirate was a masked hero.
• Black Vulmea is the nickname of Terrence Vulmea, a swashbuckling hero of the Spanish Main created by Robert E. Howard. Vulmea's adventures are collected in Black Vulmea's Vengeance.
• Art Blastside is a former gentlewoman named Artemesia Fitz-Willoghby Weatherhouse who lost her all memories of her life with her mother, Piratica, in a cannon accident that cost her mother her life. She regained it after 6 years of attending a finishing school and gathered her mother's former crew to set sail again. The Piratica Series, by Tanith Lee.
• Captain Blood is the alias of Peter Blood, an Irish doctor turned slave, then pirate, and is the title character of a series of novels by Rafael Sabatini. The novel was also adapted into a film starring Errol Flynn and directed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz.
• Captain Blubber and Captain Blackeye are two (fairly pathetic) pirates from the Banjo-Kazooie series. Blackeye's drunken comments and the furnishings of his room strongly suggest that he may have been a key aspect of the game's scrapped "Stop 'n Swop" feature.
• Antonio Bongo is a pirate that starts a journey to find the six magical keys with his friends cadman thomas, jerry king, gunter hilton and his father amen bongo. he was created by conor James cid-fuentes deely.
• Cannonball (Transformers) is a decepticon space pirate.
• Captain Gavin Capacitor is a software pirate from the computer-animated series, Reboot
• While Cap'n Crunch is not a pirate, Jean LaFoote, his commercial nemesis of bygone days, was not only a pirate, but a barefoot one to boot.
• Captain Clegg is the alias assumed by clergyman Doctor Syn when he turned to piracy in the novel Doctor Syn on the High Seas by Russell Thorndike.
• Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's most well-known character, had several times taken up the career of a pirate (sometimes among white fellow-pirates, sometimes among black ones) before finally becoming a king (see also Bêlit). He took up piracy one extra time after that, when being dethroned and exiled - through soon returning from the sea and regaining his throne.
• Carson Napier, Edgar Rice Burroughs's dashing space-traveler, got (by mistake) to Venus, discovered there a tyrannical regime which sorely needed opposing - and the best way to do that was to assume leadership pf the Pirates of Venus (title of the first book in the Venus series).
• Captain Corroboc is a giant parrot and a fierce, cunning and notoriously cruel captain of a pirate crew composed of assorted anthropomorphic animals, in the fantasy world of the Spellsinger series of Alan Dean Foster. After Corroboc's death, his place is taken by his brother, Captain Kamaulk, who had originally been the accountant of the family ("Pirating is a business, make no mistake of that, and somebody needs to take care of the ledgers" - "The Time of the Transference").
• The Corsairs of Umbar, of whom no personal name is given, have a strategic role (on the side of the Bad Guys) in the later parts of the titanic struggle unfolding in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings".
• The Crimson Pirate a.k.a. Captain Vallo, played by Burt Lancaster, is an acrobatic rogue who became a hero in the namesake 1952 movie. Lancaster's former circus partner Nick Cravat also appears as Vallo's mute sidekick, Ojo.
• Captain Jack Dancer is the skipper of the Red Wench and the hero of "The Red Seas", an ongoing feature in the British comic book series 2000AD.
• Ragnar Danneskjöld is a Norwegian 20th Century ideological pirate, completely dedicated to promoting the ideology of Capitalism and unrestrained Free Market by force of arms on the high seas, in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
• Gilbert is a pirate played by Marty Feldman in the movie Yellowbeard.
• Charlotte De Berry is the name of a female pirate captain who stars in an 1836 book by Edward Lloyd.
• Cervantes de Leon, the former captain of the Adrian, is a Spanish ghost pirate who possesses Soul Edge in Namco's Soul Calibur series of fighting games.
• Captain Michael K. DeMillzy is one of the pirates that appear in some episodes of the Internet comedy series The Lord Mike Saga.
• The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fearsome pirate dressed all in black (including a black mask and headrag) who is reputed to "leave no survivors," and captains the pirate ship Revenge in the novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
• Captain Feathersword is a character in the stage and television shows of the popular children's troupe, "The Wiggles". He is played by played by Paul Paddick.
• Captain Kevin Garrigan is the captain of the famous Slocum Creek Pirates, a ferocious pirate gang that pillaged the Atlantic Coast.
• Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart.
• Captain Harlock is the titular space pirate of his own anime series.
• Captain Hook is from the play Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. He leads a band of pirates in his ship, the Jolly Roger, which haunts Kidd's Creek in Neverland.
• Davy Jones is the captain of the legendary Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He is charged by Calypso, the sea goddess, with the task to ferry the souls of those who died at sea to the resting realm. As Captain of the Flying Dutchman he's granted one day ashore every tenth year to see the one he loved, Calypso herself. But she wasn't there, so he neglected the task angry about her betrayal and since that day he became more and more a threat to those sailing the seas.
• Captain Ironhook was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
• Don Karnage is an air pirate in the Disney animated series TaleSpin.
• Korsars (corsairs) are the scourge of the seas in the interior world of Pellucidar and major villains in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"
• Dutch Hodgers is a fictional 17th century pirate in the Adventures of Dutch Hodgers series by John Roberts(author) [[1]].
• Jason and Roscoe, played respectively by Robert Urich and Michael D. Roberts, space pirates in the 1984 comedy/science-fiction film "The Ice Pirates".
• King of the Atlantic, ship taken over by (unnamed) pirates in H.G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" (see[2]).
• Ker Karraje (a.k.a. "Count d'Artigas") is a sophisticated and ruthless pirate of Malay origin, using state-of-the-art techonologies of the late 19th Century, notably a submarine, in Jules Verne's "Facing the Flag".
• Maquesta Kar-Thon is the pirate captain of the Perechon who attempted to provide passage to the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Winter Night.
• Captain Kennit is a pirate from Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders trilogy, who - while far from being a paragon of virtue - has many redeeming features.
• Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist? please ID Celia Rees.
• Captain Levasseur is a dashing French Bucaneer who briefly partners with Captain Blood , played by Basil Rathbone in the film. Levasseur and Blood fight a duel to the death over the fate of Arabella Bishop.
• Captain Red Ned Lynch and his crew of the Blarney Cock are pirates in the romantic adventure film Swashbuckler (1976).
• Captain Mission, a pirate alleged by Daniel Defoe to have established a floating socialist pirate republic.
• Manjanungo, bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the Spaceways series by John Cleve.
• Elaine Marley is the governor of several pirate islands in the Monkey Island series of video games.
• Captain Horatio McCallister, or The Sea Captain, is a character from the animated TV series The Simpsons, admits in one episode that he is not actually a sea captain, but he is still known for his frequent, pirate-like "Yarrr!"
• Bosun Moon is a petty officer on a pirate ship in the film Yellowbeard
• Monkey D. Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and the protagonist in the world of One Piece, an anime and manga series. His crew includes:
  • Roronoa Zoro, the first mate
  • Nami, the navigator
  • Usopp, the marksman
  • Sanji, the chef
  • Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor
  • Nico Robin, the archeologist
  • Franky, the shipwright
  • Brook, the musician
• Captain Morgan is the pirate character for the rum of the same name.
• Andrew Murray is the idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in A. D. Howden Smith's "The Porto Bello Gold" (1934) captures from a Spanish galleon - and secretly buries - the same treasure which would a generation later be recovered with considerable trouble by the protagonists of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
• Captain Mutiny was one of the main villains on Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In Japan, he was known as Captain Zahab (a play on Captain Ahab) and was the primary villain of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, the series that became Lost Galaxy in America.
• One-Eyed Jane is a fictional pirate from the Wicked Travels of One-Eyed Jane, a saga of epic proportions that begins in London's merchant district with the pretty, naive lass Jane Spiess, and ends twenty years later in Mandalay with a black-hearted, murderous, and extremely rich, One-Eyed Jane.
• One-eyed Willy is the pirate whose "rich stuff" the kids set out to find in The Goonies
• Orm the Red, a 10th Century viking whose piratical exploits in Christian and Muslim Spain, England and southern Rus (present-day Ukraine) are narrated with considerable empathy and humor in "The Long Ships".
• Patchy the Pirate is the pirate captain that sings the theme song of Spongebob Squarepants.
• Harvey 'Blind' Pew is a pirate in the movie Yellowbeard.
• Pirate Pimm is the central figure of the Pirate Pimm films and the self proclaimed "Greatest Pirate of Them All"
• The Pirates are a band of nameless and hapless pirates that appear as a running joke in almost all of the Asterix adventures.
• Captain Walker D. Plank is a villain in the animated TV series James Bond Jr.. He fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
• Captain Pugwash is a character from a series of children's comic strips, books, and animated films created by John Ryan.
• Red Rackham is a pirate in the Tintin adventure The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé. He was killed by Sir Francis Haddock after Rackham attempted to take over Haddock's ship, the Unicorn.
• Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red is a character from the Roman Polanski film Pirates. He is played by Walter Matthau.
• Redbeard (Barbe Rouge) is a comic book series since 1961, created by Jean-Michel Charlier & Victor Hubinon.
• Redbeard (voice by John Stephenson), Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - season 1, Go Away Ghost Ship. No connection to the comic book character.
• Red Sonya. A female pirate in the works of Robert E Howerd
• Ridley is a member of the Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games.
• Captain Roger (aka Redbeard) was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
• Captain Jolly Roger is an undead pirate in the game Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
• Rhine River Pirates - infesting this and other European rivers in the post-nuclear war world of Poul Anderson's story "Marius" (1957).
• Captain Sabertooth (Norwegian: Kaptein Sabeltann) is the pirate and the main character in some Norwegian theatre plays created by Norwegian singer and actor Terje Formoe. He is the skipper of his bands of pirates who sailed toaghter in their ship, the Black Lady in search of mystical treasures arounds in his voyages.
• Sandokan, or the "Tiger of Malaysia", is the scourge of the British in the South China Sea by Italian author Emilio Salgari. He was portrayed onscreen, in a 1976 Italian TV series, by Indian actor Kabir Bedi.
• Captain Scratch is the evil captain of the Bloody Hand in Sid Fleischmann's The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Scratch hires a young man he believes can see ghosts to help him find the treasure of a dead pirate.
• Cuthbert Conyers, nicknamed Old Cut-throat had a long and successful piratical career in the tropics and in 1732 settled with his loot for a "respectable" old age at an English country house - where two centuries later Lord Peter Wimsey discovered his hidden treasure ("The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head").
• ScurvyBeard is the Captain of the PirateVan from Lookit vol. 2 YARG! (A Graphic Novel by Ray Friesen) Along with his Crew, YoHoJoe (First Last and Always Mate) Peg Leg Pete (CabinBoy Guy) NoEyes Johnson (Public Relations) and Lester (Accent Coach) They sell pirate cookies.
• Long John Silver is one of several pirates who appear in the Robert Louis Stevenson, novel Treasure Island, which weaves together many pirate myths and motifs including maps of hidden treasure, villany among pirates, marooning, parrots, missing limbs, and eye patches.
• Skull Pirates from the Legend of Zelda series are a group of undead skeleton pirates, found most promintently in the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons games.
• Kaptain Skurvy is a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series. Also in Donkey Kong Country 2 K. Rool is dressed as a pirate due to the pirate theme of the game.
• Captain Jack Sparrow is a protagonist from Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He's Captain of the Black Pearl, although he had lost her for ten years to Captain Barbossa. He's a trickster, and very witty as well.
• Steve The Pirate is a dodgeball player who believes himself to be a pirate, in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. He is played by Alan Tudyk.
• Elizabeth Swann A Protagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. She inherited Sao Feng as Captain of the Empress after he dies and handed over the Captainship to her, believing she is the sea goddess Calypso.
• Captain Syrup is a female pirate captain and the main enemy of videogames Wario Land and Wario Land 2.
• Vikram Szpirglas is an airship pirate and antagonist in Airborn.
• Captain Tempest is from two classic novels by Emilio Salgari: Il capitano Tempesta (1905) and Il leone di Damasco ("The Lion of Damascus", 1910.)
• Tetra is a female captain of a band of pirates in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass video games.
• Gammis Turek - leader of a space pirate fleet in Vatta's War.
• William Turner. A protagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Inherited Davy Jones as Captain of the Flying Dutchman after the tragical turn of events in the last movie. He's married to Elizabeth Swann, who is herself now Captain of The Empress, former Sao Feng's ship.
• Guybrush Threepwood is the bumbling hero of Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. His antagonist is the evil zombie ghost pirate LeChuck.
• Vyse is the main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia.
• Jamie Waring is the swashbuckling hero of "The Black Swan" 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's novel played by Tyrone Power
• Duchy of Waldegren, haunt of notorious space-pirates (no individual name given) in A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes series.
• Yanez de Gomera is the Portuguese, more level-headed, philosophical elder sidekick of Sandokan in the 12 novels of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan Cycle, the last of which, posthumously published, is titled Yanez' Revenge (La rivincita di Yanez, 1913.)
• Yellowbeard is the protagonist of the 1983 comedy film Yellowbeard. He was played by Monty Python alumni Graham Chapman.
• Zack is the lead pirate in the game Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure.
• Zanzibar is a Dreadnok pirate in the GI Joe toyline/comics. His real name, Morgan Teach, is a reference to Captain Morgan and Edward Teach.