Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo is the protagonist of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and its sequel, Mysterious Island (1874). He is prince Dakkar, the son of an Indian rajah and nephew of Tippu Sahib, having a deep hatred of the British conquest of India. After the Sepoy mutiny, he devotes himself to scientific research and develops an advanced electric submarine, the Nautilus. He and a crew of his loyals cruise the seas, battling injustice, especially slavery. The gold of Spanish ships sunk at the Bay of Vigo provided them with money.

The character appears in the comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where it is revealed that he was not really dead after the events of Mysterious Island and joins the League. However after the end of the tales, he withdraws again to that island. He also appears in its 2003 feature film adaptation, in which he was played by Naseeruddin Shah.

He has also been the subjects of a song by Sarah Brightman and another by the band Ace of Base. The song Nemo by Nightwish is also about him.

See Nemo for the origin of the name.