| 100% | CALICOJACK | 10 | English pirate captain born John Rackham executed in Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1720 |
| 29% | PORTROYAL | 9 | Pirate port in Jamaica |
| 28% | BYNG | 4 | John —, English admiral executed in 1757 after failing to relieve Minorca |
| 28% | BENBOW | 6 | John —, Royal Navy vice-admiral who died in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1702 |
| 26% | DAWES | 5 | John —, former Wales, British and Irish Lions and Barbarians rugby union captain born in 1940 |
| 26% | KIDD | 4 | English pirate captain |
| 25% | DALTON | 6 | John —, English scientist born in 1766 noted for his research into colour blindness |
| 24% | PICARD | 6 | Captain born in 2305 |
| 23% | HOOK | 4 | Pirate captain in "Peter Pan" |
| 23% | HESTON | 6 | Hollywood legend born John Charles Carter in 1923 |
| 23% | PICARD | 6 | Captain born in France in 2305 |
| 22% | JACKSPARROW | 11 | Pirate captain played by Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean": 2 wds. |
| 22% | KIDD | 4 | Pirate captain mentioned in Poe's "The Gold-Bug" |
| 22% | SILVER | 6 | Long John, pirate captain from Treasure Island |
| 22% | SHORT | 5 | Nigel —, English chess grandmaster born in 1965 |
| 22% | TENNIEL | 7 | John —, English caricaturist noted for his political cartoons in Punch who died in 1914 |
| 21% | MONTEGOBAY | 10 | Port and resort in northwest Jamaica housing Sangster International Airport |
| 21% | HOOK | 4 | Pirate captain in J.M. Barrie's children's book |
| 21% | PERKIN | 6 | Pretender to the English throne executed in 1499 |
| 21% | SKA | 3 | Genre born in Jamaica |
| 21% | WINDSOR | 7 | ___ Castle, royal residence in the English county of Berkshire |
| 21% | MAGI | 4 | Royal trio bearing gifts in the Bible |
| 21% | HOOK | 4 | 1991 film in which Dustin Hoffman plays a pirate captain |
| 20% | NOAKES | 6 | John —, former Blue Peter presenter born in 1934 |
| 20% | MAGI | 4 | Royal trio bearing gifts in a nativity scene |
| 20% | OSBORNE | 7 | John, English playwright of Look Back in Anger |
| 20% | FONTEYN | 7 | Margot —, English ballerina born in 1919 |
| 20% | DEXTER | 6 | E R —, former England Test cricket captain born in Milan, Italy, in 1935 |
| 20% | TEACH | 5 | Edward —, English pirate also known as Blackbeard who died in 1718 |