Commodore

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Commodore may refer to:

Ranks

• Commodore (rank), a naval rank
  • Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom
  • Commodore (India), in India
  • Commodore (United States)
  • Commodore (Canada)
  • Commodore (Finland)
  • Commodore (Germany) or Kommodore
• 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

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

Music and music venues

• Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Commodore Records, a jazz and swing music record label
• Commodores, an American soul/funk band

People

• "The Commodore", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
• "Commodore Kuehnle", the nickname of American entrepreneur and politician Louis Kuehnle (1857–1934)
• Aaron Commodore (1819/20 – 1892), African American politician
• Mike Commodore (born 1979), a Canadian ice hockey player
• Commodore P. Vedder (1838–1910), New York politician

Places

• Commodore, Pennsylvania, United States
• Commodore Island, a Canadian island in Hudson Bay
• Phoenix Park Hotel, hotel built in Washington, D.C., in 1922, known originally as "The Commodore"

Vehicles

Automobiles

• Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced from 1941 to 1952 in the US by Hudson Motor Car Company
• Opel Commodore, an automobile produced from 1967 to 1982 in Germany by Adam Opel AG
• Holden Commodore, an automobile produced from 1978 to 2017 in Australia by the Holden division of General Motors

Ships and boats

• Commodore (shipwreck), an American steamboat shipwrecked off the coast of Florida
• Commodore 17, an American sailboat design
• USS Commodore, the name of various United States Navy ships

Aircraft

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

Computers

• Commodore International (also named Commodore Business Machines), a computer company that operated from 1954 to 1994
  • Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International
• Commodore USA, a computer company that operated from 2010 to 2013 after purchasing the classic brand name

Other uses

• Several genera or species of brush-footed butterflies, in particular:
  • Precis
  • Auzakia danava
  • Junonia artaxia
• Vanderbilt Commodores, intercollegiate athletics teams for Vanderbilt University

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