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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
- 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
- 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