Corsair

A corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially:


 * Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber privateers operating from North Africa
 * French corsairs, privateers operating on behalf of the French crown

Corsair may also refer to:

Comic books

 * Corsair, a Marvel Comics character, a “space pirate” and the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops and Havok

Novels

 * Corsair, a nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope, published in 1987
 * Corsair (Bunch novel), a 2001 fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
 * Corsair (Cussler novel), a 2009 adventure novel by Clive Cussler

Music

 * Il corsaro (The Corsair), an 1848 opera by Giuseppe Verdi
 * Le Corsaire Op. 21, an 1844 overture by Hector Berlioz
 * The Corsairs, a 1960s doo-wop group
 * "Corsair", a song on the 2002 album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
 * "Corsair", a 2007 song from the EP Voyage by In Fear and Faith

Video games

 * Corsairs: Conquest at Sea, a 1999 game by Microïds
 * Corsairs (Freelancer), a fictional criminal organization in Freelancer
 * Corsair, an evolution to the Gambler class in Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
 * The Corsair, a persona in the Assassin's Creed: Revelations multiplayer game
 * Corsair class in Black Desert Online
 * Drake Corsair, a flyable star ship in Star Citizen

Other arts and entertainment

 * The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
 * Le Corsaire, an 1856 ballet, still popular, based on Byron's poem
 * Corsair (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
 * Corsair (film), a 1931 American gangster film

Companies

 * Corsair Gaming (formerly Corsair Components), an American computer peripherals and hardware company
 * Corsair International (formerly Corsairfly and Corsair), a French airline
 * Corsair Marine, a builder of trimaran sailboats
 * Corsair, an imprint of publisher Constable & Robinson

Military

 * Vought F4U Corsair, a US Navy World War II and Korean War fighter aircraft
 * Vought SBU Corsair, a US Navy biplane dive bomber first flown in 1933
 * Vought O4U Corsair, two different experimental biplane scout-observation aircraft, neither of which entered regular service
 * LTV A-7 Corsair II, a US Navy and later US Air Force jet attack aircraft
 * Vought O2U Corsair, a US Navy biplane scout and observation aircraft
 * Corsair, a subclass of the Tench-class submarine, a US Navy World War II class
 * USS Corsair (SS-435), a US Navy submarine
 * USS Corsair (SP-159), a private steam yacht briefly chartered by the US Navy in World War I

Air

 * Cessna 425, a light aircraft originally known as Corsair
 * Corsair International, a French airline subsidiary of the TUI Group
 * Corsair (G-ADVB), a Short Empire flying boat flown by Imperial Airways and BOAC

Land

 * Edsel Corsair, an American automobile of the late fifties
 * Ford Corsair, a British car model of the late 1960s, and an Australian model of the late 1980s
 * Corsair motorcycle, built by Cotton
 * Corsair, a GWR Bogie Class broad gauge locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1849 and 1873
 * Corsair, locomotive No. 3037 of the GWR 3031 Class that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1894 and 1908
 * Lincoln Corsair, a compact American crossover
 * Phantom Corsair, a prototype two-door sedan built in 1938

Sea

 * Corsair I, a yacht built by William Cramp and Sons for Charles J. Osborn and bought by J. P. Morgan in 1882
 * Corsair II, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan in 1891, which served as USS Gloucester (1891) during the Spanish–American War
 * Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 for J. P. Morgan (the last he owned), that served the US Navy in World Wars I and II, in the latter as USS Oceanographer
 * Corsair IV, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr. in 1930, the largest built in the United States
 * Corsair (dinghy), a class of sixteen-foot three-handed sailing dinghies

Other uses

 * Corsair (Novell), a former operating system and user interface project for NetWare
 * Onitsuka Tiger Corsair, a type of running shoe from Onitsuka Tiger
 * Corsair Bay, a bay located in Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury New Zealand
 * The Corsair (Santa Monica College newspaper), the student newspaper of Santa Monica College, California
 * The Corsair (Pensacola State College newspaper), the student newspaper of Pensacola State College, Florida