Earth Pirate Names
The following table lists many real pirates from Earth's history along with the pirate's gender, nationality, and the name of their ships. You can use this table as inspiration for names of your own or as a reference if you have a setting that includes Earth.
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Real World Pirate |
Gender |
Nationality |
Ship |
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Alvilda |
F |
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Anne Bonney (Anne Cormac) |
F |
Irish |
The William |
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Barbarossa Brothers (Aruj and Khayrad'din) |
M |
Turkish |
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Bartolomeo (El Portugués) |
M |
Portuguese |
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Benito de Soto |
M |
Portuguese |
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Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts) |
M |
Welsh |
Royal Fortune, Great Ranger & Great Fortune |
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Black Beard (Edward Drummond - Teach or Thatch) |
M |
English |
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Black Bellamy (Samuel Bellamy) |
M |
English |
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Black Caesar |
M |
African |
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Calico Jack (Jack Rackham) |
M |
English |
The William |
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Captain Benjamin Hornigold |
M |
English |
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Captain Charles Vane |
M |
English |
The Ranger |
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Captain Christopher Mings |
M |
English |
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Captain Edward England |
M |
English |
Victory, Pearl, & Fancy |
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Captain Enrique Brower |
M |
Dutch |
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Captain George Booth |
M |
English |
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Captain George Lowther |
M |
English |
Delivery |
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Captain Henry Every (Avery) |
M |
English |
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Captain Hook (fictional) |
M |
English |
Jolly Roger |
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Captain Ignatius Pell |
M |
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Royal James |
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Captain Jack Sparrow (fictional) |
M |
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Black Pearl |
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Captain Jackman |
M |
English |
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Captain James Kelley |
M |
English |
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Captain Jan de Bouff |
M |
Dutch |
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Captain John Bowen |
M |
English |
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Captain John Calles (Callis) |
M |
English |
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Captain John Gow |
M |
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The Revenge |
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Captain John Morris |
M |
English |
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Captain John Nutt |
M |
English |
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Captain John Ward (Yussuf Rais) |
M |
English |
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Captain Lawrence Prince |
M |
Dutch |
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Captain Manuel Pardel Rivero |
M |
Portuguese |
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Captain Nathaniel Butler |
M |
English |
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Captain Peter Easton |
M |
English |
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Captain Richard Worley |
M |
English |
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Captain Simon Simonson - der Tantzer (The Dancer) |
M |
Dutch |
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Captain Thomas Anstis |
M |
English |
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Captain Thomas Paine |
M |
English |
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Captain Thomas Tew |
M |
English |
Liberty and the Amity |
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Captain Tobias Bridge |
M |
English |
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Captain William Kidd |
M |
Scottish |
Adventure Galley |
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Captain William Moody |
M |
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The Rising Sun |
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Charlotte de Berry |
F |
English |
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Ching Shih (commanded 1800 ships and about 80,000 pirates) |
F |
Chinese |
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Count Maurycy Beniowski (Baron Maurice de Benyowski) |
M |
Polish |
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David Marteen |
M |
Dutch |
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Diabolitio (Little Devil) |
M |
Cuban |
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M |
French |
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Grace OMalley |
M |
Irish |
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Henriques the Englishman (Henry Johnson) |
M |
Irish |
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Howell Davis |
M |
Welsh |
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Jane de Belleville (French noblewoman turned pirate) |
F |
French |
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Long John Silver (fictional) |
M |
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Mary Read |
F |
English |
The William |
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M |
French |
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Rachel Wall (wife of George Wall) |
F |
American |
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Red Legs Greaves |
M |
Scottish/Irish |
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Redbeard (Barbarossa) |
M |
Greek/Turkish |
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Roberto Cofresi (Roberto Cofresí y Ramírez de Arellano) |
M |
Puerto Rican |
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Roche Brasiliano |
M |
Dutch |
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Samuel Burgess |
M |
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Margaret, Jacob & Neptune |
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Sir Henry Morgan |
M |
Welsh |
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Stede Bonnet |
M |
American |
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William Dampier |
M |
English |
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