List of Known Women PiratesThis list was put together by Joan Druett and John Richard Stephens,
with some contributions from Christine Lampe, Ken Kinkor,
Richard Pennell, Sara Lorimer, Tony Malesic, and Andreas Schultz.
Ch'iao K'uo Fü Jën — Chinese legend from c. 600 B.C.
Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus (in Greece) — 480 B.C., Mediterranean.
Elissa ("Dido") — c. 470 B.C., Mediterranean, legendary founder of
Carthage.
Queen Teuta of Illyria — 232 B.C. to 228 B.C., Adriatic Sea.
Princess Sela — c. 420 A.D., Norwegian Viking.
Princess Rusla — Norwegian Viking.
Russila and her sister Stikla — Norwegian Viking.
Wigbiorg — 800s A.D., Viking.
Hetha — 800s A.D., Viking.
Wisna — 800s A.D., Viking.
Alfhild, a.k.a. Ælfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda — post-850 A.D. (some wrongly say c. 450 A.D.), Swedish Viking.
Ladgerda — c. 870 A.D., Viking.
Æthelflæd, "Lady of the Mercias."
Grace O’Malley, a.k.a. Granuaile, Grainne O'Malley —1500s, Atlantic, commanded three galleys and 200 men.
Anonymous — 1520-1810, there were hundreds of Chinese female pirates. Whole families of pirates lived at sea, including mothers, wives, daughters, and servant girls. Some were forced, some voluntarily joined and some were born into piracy.
Lady Killigrew — 1530-1570, Atlantic.
Mrs. Peter Lambert of Aldeburgh, Suffolk — late 1500s.
Elizabeth Shirland (fictional), alias "Cutlass Liz" — 1604, Atlantic.
Elizabetha Patrickson — 1634.
Jacquotte Delahaye — 1650s-1660s, Caribbean buccaneer.
Anne Dieu-le-veut — 1660s, Caribbean buccaneer.
Anonymous Indian Pirate Queen — 1680s, Arabian Sea.
La Marquise de Frèsne — late 1600s, Mediterranean.
Maria Lindsey (fictional?) — early 1700s, Canadian East Coast.
Anne Bonny, aliases Ann Bonn and Fulford, possibly also Sarah Bonny — 1719-1720, Caribbean.
Mary Read, alias Mark Read — 1718-1720, Caribbean.
Mary Harvey (or Harley), alias Mary Farlee — 1725-1726, Carolina.
Mary Crickett (or Crichett) — 1728.
Fanny Campbell (fictional).
Rachel Wall — 1780s, New England Coast.
Maria Cobham (fictional?) — Atlantic.
Sadie the Goat — 1800s, New York State.
Charlotte Badger.
Qi Sao (Seventh Elder Sister-in-law) — South China Sea, commanded a fleet of 20 ships.
Li (wife of Chen Acheng) — early 1800s, South China Sea, was involved in at least 10 robberies at sea with her husband before she was captured and made the slave of a military officer.
Shi Xainggu (better known as Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou, or Zheng Yi Sao) — 1801-1810, South China Sea, commanded either five or six squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 smaller vessels, and between 70,000 and 80,000 men and women.
Cai Quin Ma (Matron Cai Quin) — died 1804, South China Sea.
Catherine Hagerty —1806, Australia and New Zealand.
Anonymous — died 1809 in a sea battle after wounding soldiers, attacking them with cutlasses in both her hands.
Margaret Jordan — 1809, Canadian East Coast.
T'ang Ch'en Ch'iao — alias "Golden Grace".
Gertrude Imogene Stubbs — alias "Gunpowder Gertie, the Pirate Queen of the Kootenays", 1898-1903, Kootenay Lake and river system of British Columbia, Canada.
T'ang Ch'en Ch'iao — alias "Golden Grace".
Lo Hon-cho (Honcho Lo) — took over command on husband’s death in 1921, was a supporter of the Chinese revolution.
Wong — 1922, united her 50 ship fleet with Lo Hon-cho's 64 junks.
Lai Sho Sz'en (Lai Choi San) — 1922-1939, South China Sea, commanded 12
junks.
P'en Ch'ih Ch'iko — 1936, commanded 100 pirates.
Ki Ming (this may be another name for P'en Ch'ih Ch'iko).
Huang P'ei-mei — 1937-1950s, leader of 50,000 pirates.
Linda — 1980s, Philippines.
A Few Female Privateers
Jeanne de Montfort ("The Flame") — 1343, English Channel plundering French ships, fighting with the English for Brittany's independence. (Some list her, Jeanne de Clisson and Jane de Belleville as pirates — especially the French.)
Jeanne de Clisson (maiden name Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaigu; a.k.a. "The Lioness of Brittany") — 1343, English Channel plundering French ships.
Mary Read, alias Mark Read — 1719, Caribbean, before she became a pirate.
Flora Burn — 1741, American East Coast.
Sarah Bishop — 1778-1780, this New Yorker was forced to join the crew of a British privateer during the Revolutionary War.
Mary Anne Talbot, alias John Taylor, on a French privateer — 1793-1794.
Several black women (probably slaves) were cooks onboard the Duke, a British privateer — early 1800s, Pacific.
Anonymous female commander of French privateer La Baugourt — 1805, West Indies.
Anonymous French female privateer — 1811.
Mary Read