| 100% | BLIGH | 5 | Captain of the HMS Bounty in 1789 |
| 64% | CHRISTIAN | 9 | Fletcher —, master’s mate on HMS Bounty; leader of the mutiny on the ship in 1789 |
| 64% | CHRISTIAN | 9 | Fletcher —, master's mate on HMS Bounty; leader of the mutiny on the ship in 1789 |
| 62% | BLIGH | 5 | William —, commander of the HMS Bounty who died in 1817 |
| 53% | BLIGH | 5 | William —, commander of the HMS Bounty |
| 50% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, in "The Matrix" |
| 50% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 49% | ROYKENT | 7 | Captain of the team in Ted Lasso's first season |
| 49% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in the novel "Moby-Dick" |
| 49% | HANSOLO | 7 | Captain of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars |
| 48% | BOROMIR | 7 | Captain of the White Tower in Tolkien's works |
| 47% | LARSEN | 6 | Captain of the Ghost, in Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" |
| 45% | TAHITI | 6 | Destination of the Bounty in "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
| 45% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of whaler the Pequod in 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick |
| 44% | MRSMEE | 6 | The boatswain of Captain Hook in Peter Pan |
| 44% | SIG | 3 | Hansen, captain of the only vessel to have appeared in every season of "Deadliest Catch" |
| 43% | VONTRAPP | 8 | The captain's family singers in The Sound of Music |
| 43% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| 43% | PHOEBUS | 7 | Archers' captain in The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 43% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Bernie Sanders was captain of the track team at James Madison H. S. in this NY borough |
| 43% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of submarine Nautilus in 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| 42% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of submarine the Nautilus in 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| 42% | VICTORY | 7 | HMS —, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 |
| 42% | AHABS | 5 | Monomaniacal captain of the "Pequod" and the "sheik of the burning sands" that Ray Stevens sang of in 1962 |
| 42% | NICK | 4 | ___ Sandow, actor who played Joe Caputo, Captain of the Guard in the TV series "Orange Is the New Black" |
| 42% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 41% | CALLIEHOUSE | 11 | Leader of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association, chartered in 1897 |
| 41% | QUEEG | 5 | Captain of the Caine |
| 41% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod |
| 41% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of the Nautilus |