# Corsair

A corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially:
* Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber privateers operating from North Africa
* French corsairs, privateers operating on behalf of the French crown
Corsair may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Comic books

* Corsair, a Marvel Comics character, a “space pirate” and the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops and Havok

### Novels

* Corsair, a nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope, published in 1987
* Corsair (Bunch novel), a 2001 fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
* Corsair (Cussler novel), a 2009 adventure novel by Clive Cussler

### Music

* Il corsaro (The Corsair), an 1848 opera by Giuseppe Verdi
* Le Corsaire (overture), an 1844 overture by Hector Berlioz
* The Corsairs, a 1960s doo-wop group
* "Corsair", a song on the 2002 album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
* "Corsair", a 2007 song from the EP Voyage by In Fear and Faith

### Video games

* Corsairs: Conquest at Sea, a 1999 game by Microïds
* Corsairs (Freelancer), a fictional criminal organization in Freelancer
* Corsair, an evolution to the Gambler class in Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
* The Corsair, a persona in the Assassin's Creed: Revelations multiplayer game
* Corsair class in Black Desert Online
* Drake Corsair, a flyable star ship in Star Citizen

### Other arts and entertainment

* The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
* Le Corsaire, an 1856 ballet, still popular, based on Byron's poem
* Corsair (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
* Corsair (film), a 1931 American gangster film

## Companies

* Corsair Gaming (formerly Corsair Components), an American computer peripherals and hardware company
* Corsair International (formerly Corsairfly and Corsair), a French airline
* Corsair Marine, a builder of trimaran sailboats
* Corsair, an imprint of publisher Constable & Robinson#History

## Military

* Vought F4U Corsair, a US Navy World War II and Korean War fighter aircraft
* Vought SBU Corsair, a US Navy biplane dive bomber first flown in 1933
* Vought O4U Corsair, two different experimental biplane scout-observation aircraft, neither of which entered regular service
* LTV A-7 Corsair II, a US Navy and later US Air Force jet attack aircraft
* Vought O2U Corsair, a US Navy biplane scout and observation aircraft
* Corsair, a subclass of the Tench-class submarine, a US Navy World War II class
** USS Corsair (SS-435), a US Navy submarine
* USS Corsair (SP-159), a private steam yacht briefly chartered by the US Navy in World War I

## Transportation
### Air

* Cessna 425, a light aircraft originally known as Corsair
* Corsair International, a French airline subsidiary of the TUI Group
* Corsair (G-ADVB), a Short Empire flying boat flown by Imperial Airways and BOAC

### Land

* Edsel Corsair, an American automobile of the late fifties
* Ford Corsair, a British car model of the late 1960s, and an Australian model of the late 1980s
* Corsair motorcycle, built by Cotton
* Corsair, a GWR Bogie Class broad gauge locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1849 and 1873
* Corsair, locomotive No. 3037 of the GWR 3031 Class that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1894 and 1908
* Lincoln Corsair, a compact American crossover
* Phantom Corsair, a prototype two-door sedan built in 1938

### Sea

* Corsair I, a yacht built by William Cramp and Sons for Charles J. Osborn and bought by J. P. Morgan in 1882
* Corsair II, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan in 1891, which served as USS Gloucester during the Spanish–American War
* Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 for J. P. Morgan (the last he owned), that served the US Navy in World Wars I and II, in the latter as USS Oceanographer
* Corsair IV, a yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr. in 1930, the largest built in the United States
* Corsair (dinghy), a class of sixteen-foot three-handed sailing dinghies

## Other uses

* Corsair (Novell), a former operating system and user interface project for NetWare
* Onitsuka Tiger Corsair, a type of running shoe from Onitsuka Tiger
* Corsair Bay, a bay located in Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury New Zealand
* The Corsair (Santa Monica College newspaper), the student newspaper of Santa Monica College, California
* The Corsair (Pensacola State College newspaper), the student newspaper of Pensacola State College, Florida