List of fictional pirates

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Listed alphabetically by the character's last name or full nickname

• Atomsk is the alien pirate king in the anime FLCL.
• Belit 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.
• B. Jenet is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters universe.
• The Black Corsair An Italian nobleman turned Pirate in revenge for the death of one of his brothers. Maybe the strongest character created by author Emilio Salgari. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cannonball (Transformers), a decepticon space pirate.
• Captain Blood Peter Blood an Irish doctor turned slave, then pirate, 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 Levasseur 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. (as the film is called Captan Blood, guess who wins?)
• 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.
• Burt Lancaster played The Crimson Pirate a.k.a. Captain Vallo, 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, skipper of the Red Wench, is the hero of "The Red Seas", an ongoing feature in the British comic book series 2000AD.
• Captain Kevin Garrigan, captain of the famous Slocum Creek Pirates, a ferocious pirate gang that pillaged the Atlantic Coast.
• 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.
• Cervantes de Leon, 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 and other pirates appear in some episodes of the Internet comedy series The Lord Mike Saga.
• The Dread Pirate Roberts, a fearsome pirate dressed all in black (including a black mask and headrag) is reputed to "leave no survivors," and captains the pirate ship Revenge in the novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
• Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart.
• Tommy Lee Jones plays Captain Bully Hayes in the movie Nate and Hayes (US title), also known as Savage Islands (UK title).
• The notorious Captain Hook, from the play Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, leads a band of pirates in his ship, the Jolly Roger, which haunts Kidd's Creek in Neverland.
• Captain Gavin Capacitor, a software pirate from the computer-animated series, Reboot
• Captain Kennit is a pirate from Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders trilogy.
• Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist? please ID Celia Rees.
• 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.
• Jamie WaringThe swashbuckling hero of "The Black Swan" 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's novel played by Tyrone Power
• Maquesta Kar-Thon, 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 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.
• Monkey D. Luffy is the protagonist in a world of pirates in One Piece, an anime and manga series.
• Captain Horatio McCallister a.k.a. The Sea Captain in 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!"
• Captain Walker D. Plank, a villain in the animated TV series James Bond Jr., fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
• Captain Barrett AKA "The Hook" Comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film "The Princess and the Pirate" Played by Victor McGlaglen
• One-eyed Willy is the pirate whose "rich stuff" the kids set out to find in The Goonies
• Patchy the Pirate is the pirate captain that sings the theme song of Spongebob Squarepants.
• Pirate Pimm The central figure of the Pirate Pimm films and the self proclaimed "Greatest Pirate of Them All"
• Captain Pugwash appears in a series of children's comic strips]], books, and animated films]] created by John Ryan.
• Walter Matthau plays Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red in the Roman Polanski film Pirates.
• Captain Red Ned Lynch and his crew of the Blarney Cock are pirates in the romantic adventure film Swashbuckler (1976).
• Captain Syrup is a female pirate captain and the main enemy of videogames Wario Land and Wario Land 2.
• Kaptain Skurvy is a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series.
• 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.
• Redbeard (Barbe Rouge) is a comic book series since 1961, created by Jean-Michel Charlier & Victor Hubinon.
• Ridley is a member of the Zebesian Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games.
• Johnny Depp plays Captain Jack Sparrow in Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
• Geoffrey Rush plays evil Captain Hector Barbossa in Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Bill Nighy plays the squid-like Davy Jones, captain of the legendary Flying Dutchman in 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Sandokan, the "Tiger of Malaysia", from Italian author Emilio Salgari, is the scourge of the British in the South China Sea. He was portrayed onscreen, in a 1976 Italian TV series, by Indian actor Kabir Bedi.
• Captain Tempest in two classic novels by Emilio Salgari: Il capitano Tempesta (1905) and Il leone di Damasco ("The Lion of Damascus", 1910.)
• Vikram Szpirglas, airship pirate and antagonist in Airborn.
• Alan Tudyk plays Steve The Pirate, a dodgeball player who believes himself to be a pirate, in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
• 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.
• Monty Python alumni Graham Chapman played the main pirate character, Yellowbeard, in the 1983 comedy film Yellowbeard.
• A band of nameless and hapless pirates appears as a running joke in almost all Asterix adventures.
• Vyse is the main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia.
• "Captain Feathersword" played by Paul Paddick is a character in the stage and television shows of the popular children's troupe, "The Wiggles".
• Yanez de Gomera, a Portuguese. Sandokan's more level-headed, philosophical elder sidekick, 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.)
• 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. It's interesting to read how she becomes one of the most feared pirates of the 18th Century!
• 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.