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 AubreyâÂÂMaturin series by Patrick O'Brian
- John Blackthorne, hero of James Clavell's 1975 novel ShÃ
Âgun, based on William Adams
- Captain Birdseye, advertising mascot for the Birds Eye frozen food brand
- 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 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
- Captain Jat, sea captain of a number of stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson
- 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
- 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
- Cap'n Turbot, a character in the Canadian TV series PAW Patrol
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