Medieval pirates

thumb|Depiction of Vikings sailing a longship from thumb|A Viking Age depiction from the [[Tjängvide image stone, on Gotland]]

King of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Kalmar Union

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.

Italian military adventurer and condottiere

14th century seafarers in the North and Baltic Seas

leader of privateers

The Narentines were a South Slavic tribe noted as pirates on the Adriatic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries. They occupied an area of southern Dalmatia centered at the river Neretva (). Named Narentani in Venetian sources, they were called Paganoi, "pagans", by the Greeks, as they were still pagan after the Christianization of the neighbouring tribes. They were fierce enemies of the Republic of Venice, attacking Venetian merchants and clergy traveling through the Adriatic, and even raiding close to Venice itself and defeating the doge several times. Venetian–Narentine peace treaties did not la

privateer (0900-1000)

Breton privateer

Sicilian admiral

Italian patrician and Archon of Lesbos

Andalusi conqueror of Crete (died 855)

mercenary and pirate from France

King of Ryūkyū

Muslim admiral

Italian privateer

thumb|Novgorodian ushkuyniks capturing Kostroma, miniature from the [[Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)]] The ushkuyniks (, ), also spelled ushkuiniks, were medieval Novgorodian pirates who operated in the north of European Russia as well as along the Volga River until the 15th century.

German pirate

Norwegian noble

Italian privateer

German pirate

Japanese pirate and samurai clan

pirate

genoese Merchant, Pirate, and Admiral