29, 2011, 08:08 AM / Re: Most successful pirate in history?   # 6   Ronin   Posts: 5,248 Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa, that is (Hayreddin) Barbarossa for you infidels. He became later the Kaputan-i Derya of Ottoman Navy. Born of a landed sipahi father and Greek mother at Agean island Lesbos,