List of fictional pirates

A stereotypical caricature of a pirate.

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

A

• Captain Jesamiah Acorne - is a charismatic rogue, captain of the Sea Witch a novel by Helen Hollick
• Morgan Adams - is the captain of the Morning Star, played by Geena Davis in the film Cutthroat Island.
• Pirates of Algarth - (no indivudual names given) are major villains in "The Clocks of Iraz" by L. Sprague de Camp.
• Captain Anton - is the 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 name Bob Harvey who sailed on their pirate brig the Speedy in The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

B

• 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.
• 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 reappeared and now the both Captains are constantly battling against each other above the captaincy of the Black Pearl Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / Dead Man's Chest / At World's End.
• 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.
• 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.
• Davey Blast-Bastard - is the drummer and boatswain of the Leeds based Pirate Metal band Skull Branded Pirates. Davey is the son of the governor of the Prince Rupert Islands, but was captured by marauders and driven insane. Nothing remains within his soul other than the rhythmic pounding of the drums.
• 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.
• Miss Blimey - Fictional female pirate who sails the seven and a half seas on her ship, "The Raven", along with her first mate, Betty hates Veronica, her clockwork parrot Napalm, and her pirate zombie boyfriend Vincent Blackshadow. All tales and characters created and owned by Jo Spurling, an Australian based author. Website: www.missblimey.com
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 kinapped 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 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 - through soon returning from the sea and regaining his throne.
• 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 Crook - was the pirate who sailed the sea to want the dish of the filet-o-fish in McDonaldland, at McDonald's fast food restaurants!
• 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").

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.
• 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 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.
• 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).

F

• 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.

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.
• 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 Oddie the dog as pirates in Garfield's Halloween Special.

H

• 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.

I

• Captain Ironhook - was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.

J

• B. Jenet - is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters universe.
• 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.
• 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.
• Captain Jolly Roger - is an undead pirate in the game Pirates of the Caribbean Online, captain of the Death Omen.

K

• Don Karnage - is an air pirate in the Disney animated series TaleSpin.
• 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 in 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"
• 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.
• Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe - are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist? please ID - Celia Rees.

L

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 - 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

M

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 - 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.

N

• 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 - was happing to be a pirate who wreck down ships with his submarine ship the Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

O

• One-Ayed Wilson - The singer and Captain of the Leeds based Pirate Metal band Skull Branded Pirates. Wilson is a battle hardened blagard, with an insatiable lust for gold and a love for his wine, war and wenches... despite this, he is a notorious skinflint
• One-Eared Pirate - was a pirate in Robert Arthur's book The Three Invistigators 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 of SpongeBob SquarePants, 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"
• 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.

R

• Red Rodney Radcliffe [1], captain of "The Black Hand" [2], and his daughter Ethel Radcliffe [3], in Harry Turtledove's "Atlantis" alternate history series [4].
• 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 in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tale Movie.
• 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.
• Rhine River Pirates - infesting this and other European rivers in the post-nuclear war world of Poul Anderson's story "Marius".
• Russell, a character from Happy Tree Friends.

S

• 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 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 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.
• 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.
• Sed - Son of Seth Balmore in the video game Lost Odyssey. Owns the submarine Nautilus.
• Captain Skunkbeard - voice by Ron Perlman - Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
• 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.
• Space pirates - various groups, distinct from each other, use this name (see separate article)
• 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 - (played by Keira Knightley) is a protagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. She succeeded Sao Feng as Captain of the Empress after he dies. He gives the Captaincy to her, believing she is the sea goddess Calypso.
• 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".

T

• 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.
• William Turner. A protagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Succeeded Davy Jones as Captain of the Flying Dutchman after the tragic 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.

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.
• Three veggie pirates known as The Pirates who Don't do Anythings tells a story of Jonah in Jonah the Veggie Tales Movie.

V

• Vyse - is the main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia.

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 GI Joe toyline/comics. His real name, Morgan Teach, is a reference to Captain Morgan and Edward Teach.

See also

• Pirates in popular culture