Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin

male, deceased (1739)
Richard (Dick) Turpin is a legendary English rogue and the most famous historical highwayman. In life Richard Turpin was a violent man who...
Claude Duval

Claude Duval

male, deceased (1670)
Claude Duval was a French-born gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain. Duval was born in Domfront, Normandy, France in 1643 to a poor...

Tom King

male, deceased (1737)
Tom King (d. circa 1737) was an English highwayman who operated in the Essex and London areas. King was a close associate of fellow highwayman Dick...
John Nevison

John Nevison

male, deceased (1684)
John Nevison (also known as William Nevison) was one of Britain's most notorious highwaymen, a gentleman-rogue supposedly nicknamed "Swift Nick" by...

James Allen

male
James Allen (aka George Walton, Jonas Pierce, James H. York, Burley Grove, &c.) was a Massachusetts resident and highwayman in the early 19th...
James Hind

James Hind

male
Captain James Hind (sometimes referred to as John Hind) (baptised 1616 - 1652) was a 17th century highwayman (who is said to have only robbed...

James MacLaine

male, deceased (1750)
"Captain" James MacLaine (1724 – 3 October, 1750) was a notorious highwayman with his accomplice William Plunkett. He was known as the "Gentleman Hi...
Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson

male
Captain Charles Johnson is the author of the 1724 book "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates", though his...

William Plunkett

male
William Plunkett was a highwayman and accomplice of the famed "Gentleman Highwayman," James MacLaine. Plunkett lived during the mid-eighteenth...
Louis Dominique Bourguignon

Louis Dominique Bourguignon

male, deceased (1721)
Louis Dominique Bourguignon, also known as Cartouche, was a highwayman who terrorized the roads around Paris during the Régence until the a...