Commodore

Commodore generally refers to Commodore (rank), a naval rank. It may also refer to:

Aircraft

 * Consolidated Aircraft Commodore, a flying boat used for passenger travel in the 1930s

Animals

 * Several species of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Limenitidinae, in particular A. danava

Automobiles

 * Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Hudson Motor Car Company
 * Holden Commodore, an automobile produced by the Holden division of General Motors in Australia
 * Opel Commodore, an intermediate-sized car from Opel of Germany

Computers and software

 * Commodore International (also known as Commodore Business Machines), a computer company founded in 1954 and declared bankrupt in 1994, or several of its products and affiliates, including:
 * Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation
 * Commodore 64 (or C64 or C=64), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time
 * Commodore 128 (or C128, CBM 128, or C=128), a home/personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines
 * Commodore Plus/4, a home/personal computer featuring standard office software applications built-in, released in 1984
 * Commodore PET, Commodore's first full-featured computer, a home/personal computer first produced in 1977
 * Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer announced in 1980
 * Commodore Semiconductor Group, also known as MOS Technology, Inc., famous for its various designs for Commodore International's range of home computers
 * Commodore Gaming, a 2007 rebirth of Commodore International that manufactures gaming-oriented PCs
 * Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

Fiction

 * The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester
 * The Commodore (book), a novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
 * Commodore (Star Trek), a fictional Starfleet rank in Star Trek

Music and music venues

 * Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia
 * Commodore Records, a jazz and swing music record label
 * The Commodores, a soul/funk band in the 1970s

People

 * "The Commodore", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
 * Mike Commodore (born 1979), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the United States.

Places

 * Commodore, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated village in Pennsylvania in the United States
 * Commodore Island, an island in Hudson Bay in the territory of Nunavut in Canada

Ranks

 * Commodore (rank), a naval rank
 * Commodore (Royal Navy), in the Royal Navy
 * Commodore (United States), in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard
 * Commodore (Canada), in the Canadian Forces
 * Commodore (Finland), in the Finnish Navy
 * Commodore (Germany) or Kommodore, in German naval forces


 * Air Commodore, a rank in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces
 * Commodore (yacht club), an officer of a yacht club
 * Commodore (Sea Scouts), a position in the Boy Scouts of America's Sea Scout program
 * Convoy commodore, a civilian in charge of a shipping convoy during the Second World War

Ships

 * Commodore (shipwreck), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger
 * USS Commodore, the name of various United States Navy ships

Sports mascots and team names

 * Commodore, the mascot of Vanderbilt University intercollegiate athletics teams