Captain (disambiguation)

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
• Captain of industry, business leader
• Captain of the Port, harbour (UK) or Coast Guard (USA) post
• Precinct captain, political party's representative at an election precinct
• School captain, student elected or appointed to represent the school
• The title of a chieftain in traditional Cretan society, as used by Nikos Kazantzakis in his novel Captain Michalis

Military ranks

NATO OF-5 / US O-6

• Captain (naval)
• Captain at Sea
• Captain of Sea and War
• Captain (Canadian naval rank)
• Captain (Royal Navy) (British)
• Captain (United States O-6)

NATO OF-2 / US O-3

• Captain (armed forces)
• Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)
• Captain (United States O-3)

Generic

• Captain (United States)
• other captain grades
  • Ship-of-the-line captain
  • Senior Captain
  • Staff captain
  • Group captain, a senior Air Force rank (generally in Britain and Commonwealth countries)

Media

Television and film

• Captain, nickname of Indian actor Vijayakanth
• Captain (film), a 1999 film
• The Captain (film), 1971 film
• The Captain, a minor character in the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Literature

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

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), a 1972 baseball manga series by Akio Chiba
• Captain (comics), a satiric superhero from the comic book Nextwave
• Captain (Bleach), the highest office available in the Gotei 13

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

Songs

• "The Captain" (Biffy Clyro song), 2009
• "The Captain" (Guster song), 2006
• "The Captain" (Kasey Chambers song), 1999
• "The Captain" (Leonard Cohen song), 1984
• "The Captain" (The Knife song), 2006

Ships

• HMS Captain, one of seven Royal Navy ships
• Captain-class frigates, a class of 78 Royal Navy frigates

Sports

• Captain (sports), the leader of an athletic team
  • Captain (association football)
  • Captain (Australian rules football)
  • Captain (cricket)
  • Captain (ice hockey)
  • Captain (baseball)
• Captains, the sports teams of Christopher Newport University
• "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

See also

• Captain Regent, head of state of San Marino
• Captain-major, colonial officer of a Portuguese possession
• Captain-commandant, a Belgian military rank
• The chieftain (Captein) of the Oorlam people in 19th-century South Africa
• In Ottoman-ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina (Kapetan), the equivalent of a city mayor and/or sheriff (see Bosnian uprising)
• Capitaine (disambiguation)
• Capitan (disambiguation)
• El Capitan (disambiguation), Spanish for "The Captain"
• Kapitan (disambiguation)
• Il Capitano
• Kapitän
• Katepano
• Kapudan Pasha
• Kapitan Cina