List of sea captains

This is a list of sea captains. The list includes merchant ship's captains as well as naval ship's captains. It is limited to those notable in this role (those who already have Wikipedia articles).

Fictional sea captains

 * Captain Ahab, fictional character and hero of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
 * Captain Jack Aubrey, hero of the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
 * John Blackthorne, hero of James Clavell's 1975 novel 'Shōgun', based on William Adams
 * Captain Birdseye, advertising mascot for the Birds Eye frozen food brand
 * Captain Ned Dana, master of the S.S. Balaska in the series The Dana Girls
 * Captain Corcoran, captain of HMS Pinafore, from Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta of the same name; however, ultimately turns out to be a mere sailor on the Pinafore
 * Captain Crook, nominal spoof of Captain Cook; resident pirate captain of McDonaldland representing McDonald's "Filet-o-Fish" sandwich
 * Cap'n Crunch, mascot character for the cereal of the same name
 * Captain Gault, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson
 * Captain Jonas Grumby, a.k.a. "The Skipper", from Gilligan's Island
 * Captain Haddock, captain in the comic album series The Adventures of Tintin
 * Captain James Hook, captain in the play and novel Peter Pan
 * Horatio Hornblower, protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester
 * John Silas Huntly, captain in The Survivors of the Chancellor
 * Captain Jat, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson
 * Maak, ship's captain in the comic strip Maakies
 * Captain Horatio McCallister, recurring character from the TV series The Simpsons
 * Captain Nemo, a submarine captain first introduced in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
 * Captain Pugwash, captain of pirate ship in a cartoon of the same name
 * Quint, the captain of the Orca in Peter Benchley's Jaws (novel), popularized by Steven Spielberg's film of the same name
 * Ralph Rackstraw, originally a sailor on HMS Pinafore (again, from the aforementioned Gilbert & Sullivan operetta); ultimately turns out to be the real captain of the Pinafore
 * Captain Ron Rico, the delivery captain hired by the Harvey family in the film Captain Ron
 * Captain Alexander Smollett, the captain of the schooner Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
 * Captain Jack Sparrow, captain of the pirate ship Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean films
 * John Charity Spring, slave ship captain in Flash for Freedom and other novels of The Flashman Papers series by George MacDonald Fraser
 * Captain Merrill Stubing, captain in The Love Boat television series
 * Captain Disko Troop, the captain in Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous
 * Cap'n Turbot, a character in the Canadian TV series PAW Patrol
 * Captain Edward Kenway, captain of the Jackdaw, Assassin's Creed IV