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A pilot major or pilot-major is a chief navigator of a ship or fleet. This person is usually experienced in naval exploration and has distinguished himself as both a sailor and a voyager. This term is mostly used to describe persons from the early modern period.
Pilots major include:
- Sebastian Cabot (c. 1474–c. 1557), Venetian explorer
- John Davis (c. 1550–1605), English explorer, one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I
- Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470–1516), Portuguese or Spanish navigator and explorer
- Estêvão Gomes (c. 1483–1538), Portuguese explorer
- Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), Florentine explorer who served under Ferdinand Magellan on the Magellan expedition
- Frans Jacobszoon Visscher, 17th century Dutch explorer who served as pilot-major on the first voyage of Abel Tasman
- John Blackthorne, a fictional character in the James Clavell novel Shogun and its adaptations
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