Corsair (disambiguation)

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Corsairs were French privateers: see corsair

Corsair may also refer to:

• The Barbary Pirates, who were also known as Corsairs
• Corsair (airline), a French airline
• The Corsair, a poem by Lord Byron
• USS Corsair (SS-435),a United States diesel-electric submarine
• O2U Corsair, a biplane scout and observation aircraft.
• F4U Corsair, a single-engined, single-seat shipborne fighter
• A-7 Corsair II, a single-seat light jet attack aircraft
• Ford Corsair, an automobile model
• Corsair Memory, a computer memory manufacturer
• Le Corsaire, a ballet created by Joseph Mazilier to music by Adolphe Adam et al.
• Corsaren, a nineteenth-century Danish magazine
• Corsairs, a game by Microïds.
• An early 1990s project founded inside the Novell corporation
• The Corsairs, a 1960s doo wop group

Corsair has been popular name for novels, including:

• A Corsair (novel) a fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
• A Corsair (Dudley Pope novel) a nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope

In Fiction:

• Corsair (comics), the leader of the Starjammers and father to Cyclops, Havok, and Vulcan in the Marvel universe
• Corsair-class starfighters, a Protoss dark templar spacecraft in the StarCraft science-fiction series.
• Corsairs (Freelancer), a fictional criminal organization in Freelancer
• An evolution to the Gambler class in Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
• Corsairs are the pirate ships in the Lord of the Rings book and movie series.