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Commodore may refer to:


Ranks

* Commodore (rank), a naval rank ** Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom ** 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), ''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 * L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), Scientology founder


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), ''Commodore'' (shipwreck), an American steamboat shipwrecked off the coast of Florida * Commodore 17, an American sailboat design * USS Commodore, 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 (butterfly), Precis'' ** ''Auzakia danava'' ** ''Junonia artaxia'' * Vanderbilt Commodores, intercollegiate athletics teams for Vanderbilt University {{disambiguation, geo, surname