| 100% | MAL | 3 | Firefly protagonist and captain of the spaceship Serenity |
| 42% | TONI | 4 | Tennille of the Captain and Tennille |
| 41% | ALYRAISMAN | 10 | Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams |
| 38% | MARIA | 5 | Protagonist of West Side Story and The Sound of Music |
| 37% | AHABS | 5 | Monomaniacal captain of the "Pequod" and the "sheik of the burning sands" that Ray Stevens sang of in 1962 |
| 37% | BAI | 3 | Actress ___ Ling of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" |
| 36% | QUEEG | 5 | Captain of the Caine |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod |
| 36% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of the Nautilus |
| 36% | JASON | 5 | Captain of the Argo |
| 36% | NEMO | 4 | Captain of the "Nautilus" |
| 36% | JACK | 4 | With 41-Across, co-creator of Captain America and the Hulk |
| 36% | DAGAMA | 6 | Captain of the Sáo Gabriel |
| 36% | HUDSON | 6 | Captain of the Half Moon |
| 36% | FRANCISDRAKE | 12 | Captain of the ''Golden Hind'' |
| 36% | DRAKE | 5 | Captain of the Golden Hind |
| 36% | KIDD | 4 | Captain of the Adventure Galley |
| 36% | ALPHANERD | 9 | Captain of the mathletes, stereotypically |
| 35% | SOLO | 4 | Captain of the Millenium Falcon, Han ___ |
| 35% | LEOPOLDBLOOM | 12 | Literary protagonist who “ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls” |
| 35% | MULDER | 6 | __ and Scully, the protagonists of The X-Files |
| 35% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, in "The Matrix" |
| 35% | HANSOLO | 7 | Captain of the "Millennium Falcon" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | AHAB | 4 | Captain of the Pequod, in "Moby-Dick" |
| 35% | BLIGH | 5 | Captain of the HMS Bounty in 1789 |
| 35% | PICARD | 6 | A captain of the Enterprise |
| 35% | AHAB | 4 | Obsessed captain of the Pequod |
| 35% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional captain of the Pequod |
| 35% | NEMO | 4 | Fictional captain of the Nautilus |
| 35% | GAZEBO | 6 | Where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss in "The Sound of Music" |