Note : This site uses Javascript extensively. While you will still be able to read articles, it is recommended you turn on Javascript for your browser. CLICK HERE if you are unsure how to do that...
Pirates born active died
1775 ca 1805-1819 1819/20
a 19th-century Italian pirate. He was one of the most violent and bloodthirsty men in the Gulf of Mexico during the early 19th century and raided shipping in the gulf for well over a decade before his death. Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte and later assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans along with Dominique You , Rene Beluche and another fellow Italian-born pirate Louis "Cut Nose" Chigizola.
50
Pirates
Category -all- Architects Artists Astronomers Cartographers Clergy Commerce Composers Educators Explorers Governance Inventors Legal Military Naval Performers Physicians Pirates Scientists Sculptors Writers Nationality -all- Barbados Bermuda Canada China Cuba Curaçao Denmark England France Haiti Kuwait Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Spain United States
Sort Name Nationality Born Active Died Selected 50
Vincenzo Gambi 1775 ca 1805
1819 1819/20
Catherine Hagerty unknown 1806 1806 1807, Apr Australian convicts. Among a group of convicts taken on board a shorthanded ship as crew. The con... Cheng I 1765 1790 1807 1807, Nov 16 a powerful Chinese pirate operating from Canton (Guangdong) and throughout the South China Sea in... Robert Jeffrey unknown 1807 1807 unknown Press-ganged privateer, marooned Charlotte Badger 1778 1806 1808 1816 ca widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate despite being from Bromsgrove, Worcest... Jorgen Jorgensen 1780, Mar 29 1807 1808 1841, Jan 20 a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was ... Stephen Decatur Sr. 1751, Jun 1770 1809 1808, Nov 11 an American naval captain in the Revolutionary War and later in the Quasi-War. He was the father ... Edward Jordan 1771 1794 1809 1809 an Irish rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia. He was typical of the violent but short-live... Robert Surcouf 1773, Dec 12 1798 1809 1827, Jul 8 a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and a... Ah Pak unknown 1800 1809 unknown the chieftain of the Cantonese pirates who defeated Portuguese pirates in Ningpo in Zhenjiang, Ch... Blackmann unknown 1800 1809 1810 ca Pirate of unknown origin in the service of France.
Cruised the English Channel and attacked any ... Cai Qian 1761 1800 1809 1809 a Chinese sea merchant, considered by some a pirate during the Qing Dynasty era. Facing starvatio... Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah 1760 1800 1809 1826 an Arab ruler in the Persian Gulf and was described by his contemporary, the English traveller an... Jean St. Faust unknown 1800 1809 unknown Frenchman who was the Commander of a fleet of Dutch eight privateer ships in 1803. The ships sail... Margaret Croke unknown 1809 1809 unknown Following a dispute with investors over his schooner The Three Sisters, Edward Jordan was on his ... George Lowther unknown 1720 181 1723 an 18th-century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Carib... Cheung Po Tsai 1783 1800 1810 1822 a 19th-century Chinese pirate. He was a son of a Tanka fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen ... Ching Shih 1775 1801 1810 1844 a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorized the South China Sea in the early 19th century. Sh... Grambo unknown 1800 1811 1811 Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana... Gaspard unknown 1812 1812 unknown Ex-Corsair Dominique You 1775 1802 1814 1830, Nov 14 a privateer, soldier, and politician. Jean Lafitte's most trusted lieutenant, and rumored to have... Joshua Barney unknown 1759 1818 unknown an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War. He late... Hezekiah Frith 1763 1790 1819 1848 an 18th-century British ship owner with the reputation of a "gentleman privateer", who engaged in... Ibrahim Ameer unknown 1810 1819 unknown An admiral of an Arabian fleet of Red Sea pirates. In 1816 he captured four British merchant vess... William Holmes unknown 1810 1819 unknown Edward Rosewain unknown 1810 1819 unknown Sao Cheng I unknown 1810 1819 unknown South China Sea, commanded either 5 or 6 squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 sma... Hippolyte Bouchard 1780, Jan 15 1817 1819 1843, Jan 4 a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first... Barthelemy Lafon 1769 1790 1820 1820, Sep 29 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap... Jose Gaspar 1756 1783 1821 1821 a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west ... Louis-Michel Aury 1788 ca 1802 1821 1821, Aug 30 a French privateer operating in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean during the early 19th century. A... Pierre Lafitte 1770 1803 1821 1821 a privateer in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmit... Luis Brion 1782, Jul 6 1806 1821 1821, Sep 27 a military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence. He rose to the rank of admir... Benito Bonito 1780 1818 1821 1821 Pirate who supposedly hid his treasures of Lima in the cliffs of Australia, or in Coco Island. William Howard Allen 1790, Jul 8 1808 1822 1822, Nov a Lieutenant in the United States navy, and a native of the city of Hudson. While a child, he w... Captain Baker unknown 1810 1822 unknown One of Gasparilla's gang up to 1822, when they were broken up by the United States Navy. His favo... Renato Beluche 1780, Dec 15 1803 1823 1860, Oct 4 a Venezuelan merchant and privateer who played many roles in the turbulent world of the 19th-cent... Captain Baltizar unknown 1810 1823 unknown A terror to all shipping in the Gulf of Mexico in the early part of the nineteenth century. Broug... Breti Gullimillit unknown 1810 1823 1823 Taken with other South American pirates by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1... Roberto Cofresi 1791, Jun 17 1818 1823 1825, Mar 29 a pirate from Puerto Rico. Despite his birth into a noble family, the political and economic diff... Jean Lafitte 1776 ca 1803 1826 1826 ca a French-American smuggler, privateer, pirate and slaver in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th ... Jacque Alexander Tardy 1767 1817 1827 1827, Jun 15 an unsuccessful and atypical pirate who usually poisoned his victims. Most known for his last act... Diabolito unknown 1810 1829 1823 a 19th-century Cuban pirate. One of the more violent of the era, he actively engaged the United S... Maria Lindsey 1700 ca 1720 183 1760+ a pirate in the early 18th century who with her husband, Eric Cobham, practiced piracy in the Gul... Henri Caesar 1791 ca 1791 1830 1830 allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of... Captain Charles Gibbs 1798, Nov 5 1816 1831 1831, Apr 25 an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century ... James Ford 1770? 1799? 1833 1833 an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois at the turn... Kazimierz Lux 1780 1795 1846 1846 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century.... Sam Hall Lord 1778 1800 1849 1844, Nov 5 one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Sam Lord as he was usually known, am... Bill Johnston 1782, Feb 1 1810 1860 1870, Feb 17 a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 American privateer. His most famous un... Juan Gomez 1781 1790 1889 1900, Jul 13 Brother-in-law of the famous pirate Gasparilla. Died, credited with the great age of 120 years, a...
