Captain

A Captain is a person in authority over a certain area, unit, or group of people. The English word is derived from the Greek katepánō (Greek: κατεπάνω, lit. "[the one] placed at the top", or "the topmost"), a senior Byzantine military rank and office; most notably the head of the Catepanate of Italy. The word was Latinized as capetanus/catepan, and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the Italian "capitaneus" (from the Latin word caput, "head"). This hybridized term gave rise to the English language term captain and its equivalents in other languages (Capitan, Kapitan, Kapitän, El Capitan, Il Capitano, Kapudan Pasha etc.)

Captain may refer to:

Occupations

• Captain (nautical), senior person or officer usually and lawfully in command of a ship or another type of vessel
• Captain (airlines), senior person or officer usually and lawfully in charge of an aircraft
• Fire captain, officer in a fire department
• Police captain, officer in a police organization
• Caporegime ("Capo"), high-ranking member ("captain") in charge of a Mafia crew
• Captain of industry, business leader
• Captain of the Port, harbour (UK) or coastguard (USA) post
• Captain-major, colonial officer of a Portuguese possession
• Precinct captain, political party's representative at an election precinct
• School Captain, student elected or appointed to represent the school
• Sports Captain, The sports player in charge of directing his/her team.
• The title of a chieftain in traditional Cretan society, as used by Nikos Kazantzakis in his novel Captain Michalis
• The chieftain (Captein) of the Oorlam people in 19th-century South Africa
• In Ottoman-ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina, the equivalent of a city mayor and/or sheriff (see Bosnian uprising)
• Castellan, captain of a medieval castle
• Captain Regent, Head of State of San Marino

Military ranks

NATO OF-5 / US O-6

• Captain (armed forces)
• Captain (naval)
• Capitaine de vaisseau (French)
• Captain at Sea
• Captain of Sea and War
• Captain (Canadian naval rank)
• Captain (Royal Navy) (British)

NATO OF-2 / US O-3

• Captain (OF-2)
• Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Generic

• Captain (United States)
• other captain grades
  • Commander
  • Wing commander (rank)
  • Ship-of-the-Line Captain
  • Senior Captain
  • Captain-Commandant
  • Staff captain
  • Group Captain, a senior Air Force rank (generally in Britain and Commonwealth countries)
  • Commodore (rank), also a position for a naval captain commanding a squadron

Media

Television and film

• Captain, Starfleet ranks and insignia
• Welcome to The Captain, a television series on CBS
• Captain, nickname of Indian actor Vijayakanth
• The Sea Captain, a character in The Simpsons
• Captain Pirate, a 1952 film
• The Captain (film), 1971 film
• Captain Courageouse

Literature

• The Captain (play), a 1647 stage play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
• The Captain (1967 novel), by Jan de Hartog
• The Captain (1900s magazine), a magazine for young boys
• Captain (2012 novel), by Thomas Block

Comics/manga

• "The Captain", a former Captain America alternate identity, 1987–1989
• Captain (Hellsing), a fictional character from the Hellsing manga and OVA
• Captain (manga) (キャプテン), a baseball manga series by Akio Chiba
• Captain (comics), a satiric superhero from the comic book Nextwave
• Captain (Bleach) (隊長), the highest office available in the Gotei 13.
• Captain Boomerang, an Australian supervillain in the DC comics universe and member of the Flash's Rogues Gallery
• Captain Marvel (disambiguation), several fictional characters
• Captain Cold, a supervillain in the DC comics universe and member of the Flash's Rogues Gallery

Music

• Captain (album), a 1998 release from Scottish band Idlewild
• Captain (band), a London-based alternative rock band
• Captain, the pseudonym of Markus Kaarlonen, a Finnish musician/songwriter/producer
• The Captain, the stage name used by Daryl Dragon as part of the 1970s and 1980s duo Captain & Tennille
• The Captain (album), the 1999 solo debut album of Australian country music singer Kasey Chambers

Captain Sensible, 1970s and '80s British popular music artist.

• Captain, a nickname for Saki Shimizu, captain of girl group Berryz Kobo

Songs

• "The Captain" (Biffy Clyro song), a 2009 song the album Only Revolutions
• "The Captain" (Guster song), a 2006 song from the album Ganging Up on the Sun
• "The Captain" (Kasey Chambers song), a 1999 song form the album The Captain
• "The Captain" (Leonard Cohen song), a 1984 song from the album Various Positions
• "The Captain" (The Knife song), a 2006 song from the album Silent Shout
• "The Cap'm", a song from the 2007 They Might Be Giants album, The Else

Video games

• Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero series of video games
• Captain Price, British SAS Commander, Task Force 141 Commander, in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Ships

• HMS Captain, one of seven Royal Navy ships
• Captain class frigates, a class of 78 Royal Navy frigates
• Royal Captain (East Indiaman)

Sports

• Captain (sports), the leader of an athletic team, often with additional roles or responsibilities
  • Captain (association football)
  • Captain (Australian rules football)
  • Captain (cricket)
  • Captain (ice hockey)
  • Captain (baseball)
  • National Football League team captains
• The athletic moniker of Christopher Newport University is the Captains
• "The Captain", a nickname for hockey player Steve Yzerman
• "The Captain", a nickname for baseball player Derek Jeter

Other

• Captain (videotex), a Japanese videotex system, operational from 1983 to 2002.
• Marion 6360, a power shovel known as "The Captain"
• "The Captain", a nickname for the fascist Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
• "The Nottingham Captain", 19th Century rebel Jeremiah Brandreth

See also

• Capitan (disambiguation)
• El Capitan (disambiguation), Spanish for "The Captain"
• Kapitan (disambiguation)
• Il Capitano
• Kapitän
• Katepano
• Kapudan Pasha
• Captain Underpants, a book series by Dav Pilkey