List of fictional pirates

Listed alphabetically are fictional pirates by the character's last name or full nickname.

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z • See also

A

• Captain Jesamiah Acorne - is Captain of the Sea Witch and featured in the Sea Witch Series of historical fantasy adventure novels by British author Helen Hollick.
• Morgan Adams - captain of the Morning Star, played by Geena Davis in the film Cutthroat Island.
• Johannes Alberic, captain of Perdita - lightning catcher airship, member of the Fellowship of the Castle - from Stardust novel by Neil Gaiman,
• Pirates of Algarth - (no individual names given) are major villains in "The Clocks of Iraz" by L. Sprague de Camp.
• Captain Anton - leader of villainous space pirates in Asimov's "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids".
• Atomsk - is the alien pirate king in the anime FLCL.
• Jean-Benoit Aubéry - a sympathetic and romantic 17th Century pirate in Daphne du Maurier's "Frenchman's Creek".
• Tom Ayrton's former crew of pirates and their pirate captain Bob Harvey who sailed on their pirate brig the Speedy in "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne.

B

• Captain Bizzarly - a pirate with aquaphobia who controlled all crime-related activities on the vast oceans of Water-O until the Waterians froze him and his crew many years ago. From "TigerSharks" part of The Comic Strip show.
• Bras Priqué is the nickname of a notorious French pirate hovering off New Orleans in 1780, in Victor Herbert's 1910's operetta "Naughty Marietta".
• The Bango Pirates are the pirates who sailed in a sailing steamship to attack a passenger ships and ships for the treasures in Sherlock Hound, Episode 1!
• Seth Balmore - a sea pirate and immortal in the video game Lost Odyssey.
• Balthier - is a sky pirate in the video game Final Fantasy XII.
• Hector Barbossa - is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Barbossa is portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush in all the films. Barbossa was first introduced as the main antagonist of the first film, and captain of the Black Pearl after mutiny against the ship's former captain, Jack Sparrow, the first film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Having met his demise in the climax of the film, his character is revealed to have been resurrected at the end of Dead Man's Chest, becoming a supporting protagonist in At World's End. In the third film, it is revealed that Barbossa is also one of the nine pirate lords as pirate lord of the Caspian Sea territory. In the fourth film, On Stranger Tides, he has become a privateer in the King's Navy and is ordered to be Jack's guide on an expedition for the Fountain of Youth.
• Captain Barrett - or "The Hook", is a comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film "The Princess and the Pirate" Played by Victor McLaglen
• The Berserkers are Viking pirates in the ThunderCats TV show.
• 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.
• Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon, an aggressive and highly predatory pirate leader who made the mistake of stalking Doctor Dolittle - with the result that the pirate band was completely outwitted by the doctor's animal allies and were forced to reform and become a bird-seed farmers, while the good doctor sailed off with their ship.
• Black John Licorice is an undead pirate, that was once human, made out of black licorice who appears in the "Codenamed Kids Next Door" episode Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.. He was the captain of Stickybeard when he was young and loves candy above anything else. When traveling in search of candy, Black John and his crew came upon an island of licorice trees, which they promptly cut down and stole. This cursed Black John and his crew, causing the pirates to become skeleton-like licorice figures alive only at night and collapse into piles of licorice bones by day.
• Black Bellamy - the Pirate Captain's cunning and black-hearted nemesis From The Pirates!. In the film he was voiced by Jeremy Piven.
• Biere Du Boucanier, the trademark rough pirate with an eye patch appearing on the labels of beer bottles produced at the Van Steenberge Brewery in Belgium ([1]).
• 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.
• Roger Blease, a young fictional lieutenant of the actual historical pirate Jack Ward whose English Free Rovers terrorized the Mediterranean in the early 17th Century. Blease is the protagonist of Thomas Costain's highly successful 1942 novel "For My Great Folly", which became a bestseller with over 132,000 copies sold, and of which the New York Times reviewer stated that "there will be no romantic-adventure lover left unsatisfied." .
• 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 Blood also appears in Martin Mystery animated television series episode Pirates of Doom where he is depicted as supernatural pirate.
• Bloody Bill, a pirate with a dark past who unexpectedly befriends the boy protagonists in Robert Michael Ballantyne's "The Coral Island".
• Captain Bloth - is the captain of the fossil-like ship Maelstrom, and the main villain of The Pirates of Dark Water.
• 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.
• Billy Bones - a pirate captain who kept the map of the island where Flint's treasure was hidden in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• 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.
• Captain Broom - is a pirate in the novel Pirates! by Celia Rees
• Douglas "Dawg" Brown - the villainous pirate uncle of Morgan Adams and captain of the Reaper. He appears in Cutthroat Island. Like Morgan, he wants to recover the three portions of the treasure map before she does. Dawg is portrayed by Frank Langella.

C

• Captain Contagious was the pirate who escaped from the snow and kidnapped a French lady doll away and sailed into the sea in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, directed by Richard Williams.
• Cannonball (Transformers) - is a decepticon space pirate.
• Captain Gavin Capacitor - is a software pirate from the computer-animated series, ReBoot
• Captain Carryall - (aka Theodore Maltatlas the Second Son's Brother's Friend) commanded the much-feared Bread Pirates on the world of food, Pinfoot, in the novel Bubblegum Wishes by J.S. Longstreet.
• 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 Claw - An anthropomorphic cat pirate seeking the amulet of nine lives in the video game Claw
• 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. Other notable pirates in the book include Captain Satan, a black pirate leader whom Syn kills and whose ship and crew he then takes over; Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter and Syn/Clegg's loyal lieutenant; and Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who leads a mutiny and is killed by Syn.
• Captain Skunkbeard - a ghost pirate from Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, (2006 direct-to-video animated feature)
• 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 - though soon returning from the sea and regaining his throne.
• John Connor - one-eyed Welsh pirate and smuggler from Cardiff, helmsman aboard Jean Lafitte's ship the Pride in Italian comic book Zagor.
• 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 enemy's side in the later part of the war in J. R. R. Tolkien's The 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 Crook - was the pirate who sailed the sea to find the dish of the Filet-O-Fish in McDonaldland, at McDonald's fast food restaurants
• Conrad, who was in his youth rejected by society and later became a corsair fighting against humanity (excepting women) is the protagonist of "The Corsair", a tale in verse by Lord Byron published in 1814, which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale. [2] In the opera Il corsaro by Giuseppe Verdi, loosely based on Byron's work, Conrad becomes the dashing and chivalrous Corrado. Also based on The Corsair are the overture Le Corsaire by Hector Berlioz and the ballet Le Corsaire by Marius Petipa.
• 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").
• Henriette "One Eye" Cooper - a female raccoon pirate, ancestor of Sly Cooper from the Sly Cooper video game series.
• Captain Avery-the captain in doctor who "the curse of the black spot"
• Jack Crow - In Armor_(novel) a notorious celebrity and one-time pirate. A morally questionable character with views and opinions that are just as questionable, he is a tough man who does not hesitate to kill. He is constantly at odds with his own morality but he knows the difference between his celebrity reputation and his real personality. At times, his reputation is more of a burden than a blessing.

D

• 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.
• Captain Angstrom Darkwater - A Deceased Robotic Space Pirate, brought back to life in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty in an attempt to revive Captain Slag, his treacherous former first mate.
• Charlotte de Berry - is the name of a female pirate captain who stars in an 1836 book by Edward Lloyd.
• DeFlorres - was a pirate on the Fancy in the 17th century in the Dr Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot. He was bitten by a leech, giving him a black spot. He was then taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joined the rest of the crew when they took the ship for themselves.
• Cervantes de Leon - the former captain of the Adrian, is a Spanish ghost pirate who possesses Soul Edge in Namco's Soul series of fighting games. In later games, he loses Soul Edge and instead wields a longsword and pistol sword.
• Captain Michael K. DeMillzy - is one of the pirates that appear in some episodes of the Internet comedy series The Lord Mike Saga.
• Don Karnage - is the flamboyant leader of a band of air pirates (using airplanes rather than ships) in Disney's animated series, TaleSpin.
• 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.
• Dutch Hodgers - is a fictional 17th-century pirate in the Adventures of Dutch Hodgers series by John Roberts (author).

E

• Edward Kenway- the main protagonist of ACIV Black Flag is a pirate that during the course of the game he will join the assassins.
• Elisabet Ramsey (a.k.a. "Lizzie the Pirate") - is a buccaneer from the Caribbean colonies in Age of Empires III. She is voiced by Jennifer Hale.
• Emperor Grog - Emperor Grog first appeared in the "Futurama" episode "Godfellas" and attacked the Planet Express ship and its crew with his fellow Space Pirates. Unfortunately, he was killed in the explosion of his own ship due to Bender crashing right through it. He later appeared on a barrel of Space Grog in "Möbius Dick", where his name was finally learnt.

F

• Mary "Jacky" Faber - is the protagonist the series by L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack.
• Captain Feathersword - is a character in the stage and television shows of the popular children's troupe, "The Wiggles". He is played by Paul Paddick. In the early years, he was played by Anthony Field.
• The Fishhawk, threatening the coasts of 17th century England and confronted by Solomon Kane in Robert E. Howard's "Blades of the Brotherhood".
• Patty Fleur/Pati Furuuru in the Tales of Vesperia - a 14-year old pirate girl who travels around the world in search of romance and the legendary treasure of the notorious pirate Aifread. An expert marksman, skillful with both gun and knife, and despite her young appearance, has an elderly personality and manner of expression. Bears resemblance to the pirate class of Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2.
• Captain Flint, in Treasure Island
• The Flying Dutchman is a recurring character in the Nickelodeon animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants. He is a green pirate ghost who haunts Bikini Bottom. When he had died, he had no funeral because his body was used as a window display. Now he haunts the Seven Seas because he was never put to rest. He expresses a dislike for the tradition in which others dress up as him for Halloween and claims that it "turns the Flying Dutchman name into a laughing stock".

G

• Captain Kevin Garrigan - is the captain of the famous Slocum Creek Pirates, a ferocious pirate gang that pillaged the Atlantic Coast.
• Gilbert - is a pirate played by Marty Feldman in the movie Yellowbeard.
• Gunpowder Gertie - (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart.
• Guinea Pirate/Michael Chertoff - was the Secretary of Homeland Security under George Bush and the main antagonist of South Parks "Pandemic" story arc. He is the one who has the Peruvian pan flute bands captured, allowing the Furry Death and Guinea Creatures to begin rampaging all over the world. He personally seeks to eliminate Craig. At the end it is revealed that he is Guinea Creature himself a "Guinea Pirate".
• Captain Gutt - Gutt will be making his debut as the primary antagonist of the fourth Ice Age film. Gutt is a Gigantopithecus. is a self-styled master and pirate captain of the high seas.A hostile ape, Gutt showed a short temper and anger in a flash when provoked, and was capable of grim humour at the expense of others.As a Gigantopithecus, Gutt was a large, sinewy primate that, despite his bulk, was capable of fast movements like an orangutan, and could climb virtually any surfaces if the need arose, as his weapon of choice, used a saw-fish skull as a sword-like implement. He attempts to capture Manny, Sid, Diego, and Scrat and make them part of his crew. Captain Gutt is a massive brute of a pirate & self-appointed Master of the Seas. Gutt absolutely loves being a pirate and taking whatever he wants in the world. Gutt, along with a small crew of other animals, took to the seas on a massive ice floe that resembled a galleon made of ice and plant matter. Out at sea, Gutt and his crew took to a piratical lifestyle and raided ice floes with other creatures, notably one ridden by Manny, Sid, Diego and Sid's Grandmother. Eventually Manny and his crew steals his ship and the bounty he has amassed. Gutt’s wrath knows no bounds and he becomes determined to find Manny and get revenge, even going as far as to attempt to kill Ellie and Peaches during the cilmax of the film. In the end, Gutt is defeated by Manny, and he crashes to a cave, where he encounters a female of his species, daring him to come to her. Unfortunately, the female is a siren (a predator who lures animals to their doom by disguising themselves as a female of the animals' species), and Gutt meets his demise when the siren devours him. He is voiced by Peter Dinklage.
• Gokaigers - The primary protagonists of the tokusatsu series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
• Gol D. Roger - The former Pirate King from the anime/manga One Piece
• Gorgon Isles pirates - in "The Tritonian Ring" by L. Sprague de Camp
• The ghost pirates of the old house in the river island who dug the treasures when Garfield the cat and Odie the dog as pirates in Garfield's Halloween Special.
• The Giant pirate who brought into a giant crook in Purff the Magic Dragon cartoon film.

H

• Captain Harlock - is the titular space pirate of his own anime series.
• Heinrich Von Marzipan - is a recurring Character in "Codename Kids Next Door" who was once cabin boy to Captain Stickybeard.
• Captain Henry Avery - was a naval officer in the 1690s from Dr Who who became a pirate. He left his wife and son, Toby behind in England. His wife died in his absence.
• Captain Charles Hunter, in Michael Crichton's "Pirate Latitudes", is a heroic English pirate based in 17th century Jamaica, whose burning aspiration to rob Spanish gold the book regards as completely justified.
• Captain James Hook who haunted his creek, Kidd's Creek at Neverland in Peter Pan by James M. Barrie.

I

• Captain Ironhook - was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
• Captain Isabela - female pirate from Dragon Age games.

J

• B. Jenet - is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters universe.
• Jason - and Roscoe - played respectively by Robert Urich and Michael D. Roberts, space pirates in the 1984 comedy/science-fiction film "The Ice Pirates".
• Jezebel Jack - (played by Tim Curry) is the main protagonist of Pirates of the Plain. He is a pirate who ends up in Nebraska where he befriends a young boy, after his crew mutinies against him.

K

• Kaptain K. Rool - the alter-ego of King K. Rool in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
• Kongre - leader of a band of murderous pirates in the South Atlantic in Jules Verne's "The Lighthouse at the End of the World".
• Korsars - (corsairs) are the scourge of the seas in the interior world of Pellucidar and major villains i n Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"
• King of the Atlantic - ship taken over by (unnamed) pirates in H.G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come"
• Captain Arthur Kirkland - The characters England's former title.
• Drongo Kane - repeated adversary of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes, is a clever and ruthless space adventurer whose acts constitute piracy by any common sense standard, but who manages to stay within the law by the help of sharp lawyers.
• Ker Karraje - (a.k.a. Count d'Artigas) is a sophisticated and ruthless pirate of Malay origin, using state-of-the-art technologies 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.
• Chung Khan, better known as "The Yellow Dragon" is a 19th-century Chinese pirate in Italian comic book Zagor, former nobleman and governor of one province in China.
• Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe - are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist Celia Rees.
• Killian Jones 'Captain Hook' - Captain Hook in the popular television series, Once Upon a Time

L

• Denise Lafitte - daughter of French pirate Jean Lafitte in Italian comic book Zagor.
• The Lagoon Company - the main protagonists of the anime and manga series Black Lagoon (also the name of their torpedo boat). The crew consists of:
  • Dutch, the Lagoon's captain.
  • Revy, the gunslinger.
  • Benny, the technician and computer hacker.
  • Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, the negotiator and interpreter.
• Trafalgar Law - He is the captain and the doctor of the 'Heart Pirates' in the anime/manga of One Piece.
• John Milton "Black Jack" Lee - the captain of the Ivory Web in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. He was once a Royal Navy officer, but was accused of treason and piracy, and he and his frigate are sunk in 1796 by a Royal Navy ship commanded by commodore Horatio Nelson. Two hundred years later, seamen fear him and his ship as ghosts.
• Missee Lee - a female Chinese pirate in Arthur Ransome's Missee Lee
• Captain LeFwee - An anthropomorphic Scarlet Macaw and one of the antagonists in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. He is the Captain of "The Death Hen".
• Lego Pirates - with all the typical pirate characteristics such as eye patches and wooden legs, launched by Lego in 1989 with considerable success.
• Captain Levasseur - is a dashing French Buccaneer 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).
• Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen, protagonists of Scott Lynch's "Red Seas Under Red Skies", are in essence land-bound thieves and swindlers "who don't know one end of a galley from another" but nevertheless get unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew.
• Monkey D. Luffy - He 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 swordsman
  • Nami, the navigator
  • Usopp, the marksman
  • Sanji, the chef
  • Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor
  • Nico Robin, the archeologist
  • Franky, the shipwright
  • Brook, the musician

M

• "The Master of Ballantrae" (James Durie), in Robert Louis Stevenson's well known novel of that name, has become a ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate after being forced into exile following his involvement in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745.
• Mad Jack the Pirate - A pirate who goes treasure hunting with his first mate rat Snuk.
• Malgo in L. Sprague de Camp's "The Unbeheaded King" and "The Honourable Barbarian" is a former mercenary soldier and prison guard driven to the far islands of the East - where he gathers a pirate crew on board his notorious ship, The Maneater, commits many nefarious deeds, tangles with the adventurous ex-king Jorian and Jorian's young brother Kerin, and eventually comes to a deserved bad end along with his crew.
• Jean Malot, better known as Captain Snake, is a 16th-century French pirate in Italian comic book Zagor. All his male descendants share his name and nickname.
• Maxi - an Okinawan pirate from the Soul series of video games who wields nunchaku. Unlike Cervantes de Leon from the same series, Maxi does not resemble stereotypical depictions of pirates. His ship is a playable stage in Soulcalibur IV.
• Morgan "Moonscar" McWright - Captain of the Maelstrom who led his crew onto an island in the Louisiana bayou and killed the inhabitants of a peaceful pagan village. Moonscar and his crew were subsequently slain by a pair of vicious were-cats. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
• McGrath - was a 17th-century pirate on The Fancy in the Dr. Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot. He was injured while fixing the rigging, giving him the black spot. He was then taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joined the rest of the crew when they took the ship for themselves.
• John Merrick, a former Royal Navy Lieutenant turned pirate captain in the 1850s Pacific, is the villain of O. V. Falck-Ytter's 1873 young adult action-adventure story "Haakon Haakonsen. En Norsk Robinson" ("Haakon Haakonsen. A Norwegian Robinson"), partly inspired by Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". It was adapted to the 1990 film "Shipwrecked", where Merrick is played by Gabriel Byrne.
• MooBeard - the Cow Pirate from the first episode of Random Cartoons
• Mulligan - was a pirate on the Fancy in the 17th century in the Dr. Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot. Mulligan started a mutiny with Boatswain against Captain Avery. However, he cut his hand, giving him the black spot. He was then taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joined the rest of the crew when they took the ship for themselves.
• Murdoch Juan - is a bold space adventurer in Poul Anderson's story "The Pirate", part of the Psychotechnic League series. Whether Murdoch is to be actually defined as a pirate, or rather as a very daring but legitimate entrepreneur, is a major issue on which the whole story turns.
• Marquise Spinneret Mindfang - female corsair and distant ancestor of Vriska Serket in the Homestuck universe, a webcomic on the website MS Paint Adventures.
• 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
• Captain Morgan - is the pirate character for the rum of the same name.
• Andrew Murray a.k.a. "Captain Rip-Rap" is the idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in A. D. Howden Smith's Porto Bello Gold (1924) 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.
• Harry Markel - was a former captain turned into a pirate, who been captured and transferred to England, but he escapes along with his right-hand man John Carpenter and the rest of his accomplices — known collectively as the "Pirates of the Halifax" — and seizes the Alert, a three-masted leaving, after having massacred the captain and crew. In Traveling Scholarships by Jules Verne.
• Captain Marika Kato takes over her deceased father's position of the space pirate ship Bentenmaru in the anime Bodacious Space Pirates (2012).

N

• Nabel a nasty cyborg space pirate on the 1996 film "Space Truckers"
• 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 of the Pirates of Venus (title of the first book in the Venus series).
• Captain Nemo - Indian Raja driven by his hatred of the British Empire to become an underwater pirate, destroy ships with his submarine the Nautilus and help Greek insurgents in Crete - in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

O

• One-Eared Pirate - was a pirate in Robert Arthur's book The Three Investigators The Mystery of the Talking Skull. The Legend says that he stole money and before they caught him, he put all of the money into the geyser. After many years there stayed only a few coins.
• 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".

P

• Painty the Pirate and Patchy the Pirate are pirates that appear on the animated comedy SpongeBob SquarePants. Painty is a pirate captain in a painting that sings the theme song along with an unseen group of children, while Patchy is a live-action character who hosts many of the show's "special episodes".
• 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"
• Pirate Beard - A Raposa Pirate from Drawn to Life, originally set on plundering the village with his crew, but is convinced to stay after being given a pirate ship by the Mayor. He and Jowee were going on a treasure hunt, but Jowee decides to stay with Mari. Pirate Beard seems to be a spoof on the character Jack Sparrow from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.
• The Pirate Captain - The main character in The Pirates!, self-deluded and mostly incompetent as a pirate and as a sea captain, but he's ultimately kind-hearted and very much respected by his crew. He doesn't appear to possess any of the stereotypical pirate accoutrements, though he dresses in the traditional manner, and much is made of his luxuriant beard. He is said to have a "pleasant, open face", though he is quite successful at terrifying non-pirates. In the Film he was voiced by Hugh Grant. His crew include:
  • Cutlass Liz in the film voiced by Salma Hayek
  • Peg-Leg Hastings in the film voiced by Lenny Henry
  • The Pirate with a Scarf in the film voiced by Martin Freeman
  • The Pirate with Gout in the film voiced by Brendan Gleeson
  • The Albino Pirate in the film voiced by Anton Yelchin(US version) & Russell Tovey(UK version)
  • The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate, a female pirate in disguise in the film voiced by Ashley Jensen
  • The Pirate in Green
  • The Pirate with a Hook where his Hand should Be
  • The Pirate in Red
  • The Pirate who likes Kittens and Sunsets in the film voiced by Al Roker
  • The Burly Pirate
  • The Pirate with an Accordion
  • The Sassy Pirate
  • Jennifer, a sensible Victorian lady who becomes an invaluable member of the crew.
• The Pirates - are a band of nameless and hapless pirates that appear as a running joke in almost all of the Asterix adventures.
• The Pirats are pirate rats in Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6–9. They are "enemies" of Reader Rabbit and friends. They consist of Captain Ratbeard, Pearl, Vermina, Cheester and Riley.
• Piet Piraat ("Pete the Pirate") - a good-natured adventurous pirate in a Flemish children's program [3].
• 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.
• The Pepper Pirates is a pirates who robbed and pilling pepper from the smurfs at their sailing ship in The Smurfs.
• The Pirate King and his crew of pirates were known as the Pirates of Penzance in Gilbert and Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance.
• The pirate captain who racing with Bobby at his day dream in Bobby's World.
• The pirates and their ship is falling gentle from the sky in Dennis the Mence.
• The Pie-Rats are a band of rodent thieves who specialise in stealing pastries, dress as pirates from Pocket Dragon Adventures.
• Portgas D. Ace - He is the ex-captain of the Spade Pirates and the current Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates in One Piece

Q

• Quartermaster - is the pirate who served as the quartermaster aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, under the command of Blackbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

R

Redbeard, the The Phantom's foe turned ally

• Ragnar Danneskjöld is a fictional pirate in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, whose activities are motivated by radical pro-capitalist ideology.
• Sir Raleigh - An Anthropomorthic Welsh Frog of aristocratic lineage who turns to piracy. He was a Member of the villanous Fiendish Five who were responsible for the Death of Sly Cooper's Family. He appeared as the First Villan in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.
• Red Rodney Radcliffe, captain of "The Black Hand", and his daughter Ethel Radcliffe, in Harry Turtledove's "Atlantis" alternate history series.
• Red Rackham - is a pirate in the The Adventures of Tintin comic 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.
• Redbeard, a fearsome pirate leader whom The Phantom challenged, defeated and made into an ally ([4]). No connection to previous two of this name.
• Redbeard, a LEGO minifig sailing The Black Seas Barracuda and Renegade Runner. No connection to previous three of this name.
• The Red Rover - a famous pirate, the main antagonist of the various sailing characters in James Fenimore Cooper's 1827 novel of the same name.
• Red Sonja. A female pirate in the works of Robert E. Howard.
• Ridley - is a member of the Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games.
• Robert the Terrible was the hideous veggie pirate character who sailed for revenge of his brother the king for the thorn of his brother kingdom with technology in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie.
• Jonathan Rockhal is a space pirate in Italian comic book Nathan Never. Before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth.
• Captain Roger (aka Redbeard) - was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
• Rhine River Pirates - infesting this and other European rivers in the post-nuclear war world of Poul Anderson's story "Marius".
• Russell, a friendly sea otter pirate and a character from Happy Tree Friends.
• Rusty Pete - The Robotic Drunkard First Mate of Captain Slag from Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty

S

• Captain Stingaree was the first supervillain pirate in the Batman comic books!
• Captain Samuel Salt - was the pirate captain of his magic pirate ship and his crew of pirates sailed through sea and air to Nonestic Ocean (which surrounds the continent Oz is on) in Pirates in Oz and Captain Salt in Oz at the Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.
• Captain Shakespeare - of the Caspartine From movie Stardust, a famous pirate with a reputation for being cruel, though in reality he is kind-hearted and rather effeminate, in the book he has name Johannes Alberic.
• Captain John Sharkey - was the pirate who flying his green Jolly Roger flag, his green flag in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1897 short stories and his 1925 novel The Dealings of Captain Sharkey
• 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 together in their ship, the Black Lady in search of mystical treasures arounds in his voyages.
• Sandokan - or "The Tiger of Malaya", 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 Scarblade - The vicious captain of the Revenge in the Neopets plot Curse of Maraqua, Scarblade and his crew of marauding pirates attempted to destroy the underwater city of Maraqua.
• 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.
• Sea Hawk - is a pirate and anti-hero from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power. He was originally a transporter for the Evil Horde, but later defects to The Great Rebellion when persuaded by Princess Adora/She-Ra.
• Searats - anthropomorphic rats engaged in piracy, often appearing as villains in the Redwall series of books by Brian Jacques. Noted ones are the highly intelligent Cluny the Scourge, the insane Gabool the Wild and the opportunistic Ripfang.
• Sed - Son of Seth Balmore in the video game Lost Odyssey. Owns the submarine Nautilus.
• Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington - are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist Celia Rees.
• Sissy Le Poop, Smelly Pete and Shark Bait - are characters from children's animated series Those Scurvy Rascals,they are three underwear obsessed pirates (plus Polly the Parrot) which the show follows the adventures. They all live on the ship called "The Soiled Pair" and go on a different random adventure in every episode.
• Captain Skunkbeard - voice by Ron Perlman - Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
• Long Joan Silver is the female version of the iconic one-legged pirate from Treasure Island in the play Long Joan Silver by Arthur M. Jolly. Other pirates in the play are Anne Bonney, Mary Reade, Tess Morgan, Jen Gunn and Sally Bones The play is published by YouthPlays, inc.
• 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.
• John Silver is a space pirate with mechanical leg in Italian comic book Nathan Never. He is second in command to captain Jonathan Rockhal. Before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth.
• Singh Brotherhood,arch-enemies of The Phantom, already had a long history as fearsome pirates before the first Phantom encountered them in 1536, and they continue existing into thee 20th Century, though now as a crime syndicate rather than pirates.
• Skull Pirates - from the Legend of Zelda - series are a group of undead skeleton pirates, found most prominently in the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons games.
• Kaptain Skurvy - is a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series.
• Space pirates - various groups, distinct from each other, use this name (see separate article)
• Captain Romulus Slag - A Robotic Space Pirate from Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
• Space Pirate Monkey From Pluto! - Recurring character on Robot Chicken
• Solomon - was a 24th-century trader From the Doctor Who episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship whose ship was intercepted by a Silurian Ark which had crossed his route. He sent out a distress signal and was picked up by the Silurians. He discovered that they were transporting dinosaurs upon their Ark and quickly set about taking them for his own. He ordered his two robots to wake the Silurians from stasis in small groups and then dispatched them into space. He ended up being killed when The Doctor placed the homing device thet was aimed at the Silurian Ark in Solomon's ship, so that the missiles would hit it instead.
• 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.
• Stickybeard (voiced by Mark Hamill) - A candy-hunting pirate From Codename: Kids Next Door who sails the suburbs in his ship, The Sweet Revenge, with his crew of pirates, robbing kids of their candy.
• Syndicate of Pirates, using flying machines (not yet invented at the time of writing) and secret rays to terrorise the adventurers of the Klondike Gold Rush at Alaska - in George Griffith's The Great Pirate Syndicate (1899) [5] [6].
• Captain Syrup - is a female pirate captain and the main antagonist of video games Wario Land and Wario Land 2.
• Vikram Szpirglas - is an airship pirate and antagonist in Airborn.
• Captain Spade was the henchmen pirate captain of Ker Karraje in Jules Verne's "Facing the Flag".
• Starjammers, heroic space pirates in the Marvel Universe, who became pirates for eminently justified reasons.
• Captain Jack Sparrow - (played by Johnny Depp) is one of the main characters in "Pirates of the Caribbean". He is the son of Captain Teague and one of the nine Pirate Lords.
• Captain Ishmael Squint - (voiced by Charles Napier) - He's the cruel pirate who sailed the Jumanji Sea. In "Eye of the Sea", He lost his nose during the battle against the one-eyed sea monster with a hideous odor, called "The Draken", over 20 years ago. He wanted revenge on the Draken, but Squint was eaten alive by The Draken before Alan killed it. In "Return of Squint" He later came back with 2 new shipmates of his.
• Elizabeth Swann - is a female pirate in "Pirates of the Caribbean". She is played by Keira Knightley.

T

• Taicoon Chang and Taicoon Wu — leaders of the Three Island Pirates who want to chop off heads in Arthur Ransome's Missee Lee.
• Captain Teague - is a Pirate Lord of Madagascar and keeper of the Pirata Codex, captain of the Misty Lady, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
• 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.
• James Turner, nicknamed Captain Flint, in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series
• William Turner - one of the protagonists of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Played by Orlando Bloom.
• 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.
• Three veggie pirates known as The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything tells a story of Jonah in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.

U

• Unnamed one-eyed pirate appearing on the cover of the Pirate's Booty snacks, with Speech balloons voicing praise for the product accompanied by "Yo ho ho" and "Shiver me timbers" (expressions derived from Stevenson's "Treasure Island", though the pirate depicted does not precisely correspond to any of its characters).

V

• Captain Vasquez- a pirate mentioned in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? episode "Hassle in the Castle"
• Vyse - is the main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia.

W

• Captain Whisker - is a robot look-alike of Doctor Eggman as seen in Sonic Rush Adventure.
• 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.
• Whitebeard Pirates in One Piece, led by Edward Newgate a.k.a. Whitebeard
• Wolf O'Donnell A one-eyed space pirate and bounty hunter in the Star Fox video game series.

Y

• 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 alumnus Graham Chapman.

Z

• Zack - is the lead pirate in the game Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure.
• Zanzibar - is a Dreadnok pirate in the G.I. Joe toyline/comics. His real name, Morgan Teach, is a reference to Captain Morgan and Edward Teach.
• Zhang Heng - became a pirate after losing money by gambling.

See also

• Pirates in popular culture
• List of space pirates
• List of pirate films