Commodore

Commodore may refer to:

Ranks

 * Commodore (rank), a naval rank
 * Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom
 * Commodore (India), in India
 * Commodore (United States)
 * Commodore (Canada)
 * Commodore (Finland)
 * Commodore (Germany) or Kommodore
 * Air commodore, a rank in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces
 * Commodore (yacht club), an officer of a yacht club
 * Commodore (Sea Scouts), a position in the Boy Scouts of America's Sea Scout program
 * Convoy commodore, a civilian in charge of a shipping convoy during the Second World War

Fiction

 * The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester
 * The Commodore (book), a novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian

Music and music venues

 * Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia
 * Commodore Records, a jazz and swing music record label
 * Commodores, an American soul/funk band

People

 * "The Commodore", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
 * "Commodore Kuehnle", the nickname of American entrepreneur and politician Louis Kuehnle (1857–1934)
 * Aaron Commodore (1819/20 – 1892), African American politician
 * Mike Commodore (born 1979), a Canadian ice hockey player
 * Commodore P. Vedder (1838–1910), New York politician

Places

 * Commodore, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Commodore Island, a Canadian island in Hudson Bay
 * Phoenix Park Hotel, hotel built in Washington, D.C., in 1922, known originally as "The Commodore"

Automobiles

 * Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced from 1941 to 1952 in the US by Hudson Motor Car Company
 * Opel Commodore, an automobile produced from 1967 to 1982 in Germany by Adam Opel AG
 * Holden Commodore, an automobile produced from 1978 to 2017 in Australia by the Holden division of General Motors

Ships and boats

 * Commodore (shipwreck), an American steamboat shipwrecked off the coast of Florida
 * Commodore 17, an American sailboat design
 * USS Commodore, the name of various United States Navy ships

Aircraft

 * Consolidated Commodore, a flying boat used for passenger travel in the 1930s

Computers

 * Commodore International (also named Commodore Business Machines), a computer company that operated from 1954 to 1994
 * Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International
 * Commodore USA, a computer company that operated from 2010 to 2013 after purchasing the classic brand name

Other uses

 * Several genera or species of brush-footed butterflies, in particular:
 * Precis
 * Auzakia danava
 * Junonia artaxia
 * Vanderbilt Commodores, intercollegiate athletics teams for Vanderbilt University