16th-century pirates

Turkish admiral (1478–1546)

pirate Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan

Wokou (; ; Hepburn: ; ; literal Chinese translation: "dwarf bandits"), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century. The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.

Ottoman corsair, later Sultan of Algiers (c. 1474–1518)

16th-century Moroccan ruler of Tétouan and privateer

Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel

Basque Spanish conquistador

Barbary pirate of Dutch descent

Limahong, Lim Hong, or Lin Feng (Teochew , :, : ), well known as Ah Hong (Teochew , : , : ) or Lim-A-Hong or Limahon (Teochew , :, : ), was a Chinese pirate and warlord who invaded the northern Philippines in 1574. He built up a reputation for his constant raids to ports in Guangdong, Fujian and southern China. He is noted to have twice attempted, and failed, to invade the Spanish city of Manila in 1574. He succeeded in invading a portion of Pangasinan, but was later repelled by reinforcements.

Chinese pirate

Dutch pirate

French pirate

Scottish admiral

pirate

German pirate

Japanese pirate

Dutch nobleman (1529–1594)

Chinese pirate (died 1556)

Japanese pirate and samurai clan

Chinese tailor, merchant and fugitive

English pirate

Algerian corsair