Calico Jack

The list of names of most famous pirates of all time would be incomplete without mentioning Calico Jack Rackham.

When he resisted the ship's captain's decision to launch an attack that appeared to be a mistake, the quartermaster eventually rose to the position of captain. This was the first indication of his future in both leadership and piracy. Later on, he turned his ship into one of the most well-known pirate ships in history. He was well-known for his iconic Jolly Roger Flag, which featured a skull and two crossed swords, as well as for having Mary Read and Anne Bonny, two female pirates, as members of his crew.

In 1719, he received forgiveness for his prior acts of piracy. He nevertheless proceeded to sea and took a 12-gun sloop from the Bahamas' port of Nassau. Only two of the woman pirates who have ever operated in the Caribbean were among his twelve followers. One of them was Mary Read, who assumed a man's identity and trained as a pirate, while the other was Anne Bonny, who left her husband to be with Captain Jack. They perished in 1720 after colliding with a ship carrying pirate hunters.